We produced the opening title sequence for the new original crime drama Annika.A UKTV Original production in collaboration with Black Camel Pictures.
Brand new UKTV Original six-part series based on the hugely successful BBC Radio 4 drama, written by Nick Walker and starring Olivier-award-winner Nicola Walker (The Split, Unforgotten) as DI Annika Strandhed, an enigmatic detective heading up a specialist Marine Homicide Unit.
This direction shows two sides to the story as we reveal life above the surface and the crimes that lurk beneath.
To demonstrate life above and below the water, we will use the waters surface as a transition device between both worlds, as we bob up and down in the water.
UKTV are a regular sponsor of the Edinburgh TV festival, but also a significant investor in British creativity; committed to working with new and established writers, directors and programme-makers.
As a celebration of our new and exclusive content and our ongoing commitment to British creativity; we created a collection of short animations to play before each digital session during the Edinburgh TV Festival. Each one focusing on a specific show. These short stings feature our top talent talking about what it was like to work with UKTV. A graphic style was developed that included hand drawn elements are annotations to give the stings a personal touch; alongside kinetic typography to bring each word vividly to life.
We also created commissioning showreels to screen during the controller sessions at the festival, that continue the graphic style used across the branded talent stings.
These reels are a celebration of our upcoming content and our commitment to creating new and original programming.
Traces is a brand new UKTV original forensic crime drama starring Molly Windsor and Martin Compston. Set against the stunning Scottish landscape of Dundee, three compelling female characters join forces to uncover the truth about an unsolved murder case that’s very close to home.
‘Traces’ are also the individual fragments leftover at crime scenes that are forensically analysed and pieced together to build a bigger picture.
Referencing these forensic techniques we used layers of transparent acetate sheets to build up our campaign imagery across various on-air and out-of-home marketing assets.
A real-life forensic approach was used to create the campaign key art.
Following a photoshoot with the talent – all images were individually printed on acetate sheets, layered up, pieced together and finally photographed on a light-box to build up the bigger picture and create our striking and original launch campaign.
Traces is the first original scripted drama for Alibi and was the channels highest rated launch of all time. BBC Studios will handle distribution internationally.
Creatives: Genevieve Simms & Robert Pirouet Designer: Veer Assi Head of Design: Peter Allinson Creative Manager: Tom Williams Producers: Nina Allsopp & Sophie Bryant
Traces is a suspense-filled thriller based on an original idea by best-selling crime writer Val McDermid. Set in the world of forensic science in Dundee, Scotland, the series explores the world of SIFA (Scottish Institute of Forensic Science & Anatomy) & introduces us to three female characters – who together will use the rigors of forensics to uncover the truth about an unsolved murder case.
The title sequence is told from a fresh point of view – where forensic science takes centre stage. The dark hues set the tone for a gritty Dundee-based crime thriller; the beautifully sharp – & often sinister – macro photography promises a quality drama full of complex characters & unexpected plot twists.
The edit uses a juxtaposition of wide location shots (of Dundee & forensic laboratories), with extreme close-ups (of evidence & human traces); helping to give the audience clues of what they can expect from the show, without giving away too much of the story.
In order to solve any crime, you must analyse the detail & look closer. Traces that are left behind & pieced together to tell a bigger story. To follow this analytical approach – subtle elements from the show are referenced throughout the title sequence; inviting the viewer to piece together the details & enter a sinister world of murder, suspense & forensic science.
The soundtrack features a haunting rendition of the classic Nina Simone track “Don’t let me be misunderstood”; with lyrics that seem to come from the murdered victim, and her daughter, desperately searching for the truth and pleading for the investigation not to be misunderstood.
UKTV Creative also created the programme branding and show logo. The Traces logo is a simple, loosely-tracked logo-type with a distressed finish to set the tone for a gritty crime thriller.
Credits
Director and Head of Design: Peter Allinson
Creative Agency: UKTV Creative
Designer: Veer Assi
Executive Producer UKTV: Philippa Collie Cousins
Production Company: RED Productions
Title Track: Nina Simone – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
UKTV Play is a video on demand service owned by UKTV. The service offers catch-up programming from UKTV’s channels including Dave, Yesterday and Drama.
UKTV Play has been developed over the years to be modular and responsive to user profiles and trends. We were tasked to create and pitch a brand that can shape-shift and adapt in the same way, yet still retain an essence of UKTV Play.
It was an opportunity to truly digitise the brand and create a brand experience that is more usable and in-touch with todays digital environment, and to capitalise on audience habits of catch up and on demand viewing.
Our response was to create a usable, transportable, digital-first brand that can work in harmony with external partnerships as well as our internal network of brands.
This came in the form of a simple but flexible Hexagon logo mark.
An extended UKTV Play palette has been included with a combination of light and exciting tones.
Modern Era is our typeface of choice. It is a robust and flexible type family consisting of 12 styles that allows us to be more expressive in application. A typeface that’s been been designed for use in contemporary print and digital applications.
The hexagon shape and the logotype sit together in harmony as one simple, iconic mark.
A hexagon consists of 6 sides. Meaning of 6 include: Communication, Balance, Union. The shape of the hexagon is used in beehives… often associated with community, efficiency and working together.
A hexagon is a flexible and modular shape that allows us to apply it in many different ways, helping the brand to stay fresh and reactive for years to come.
A hexagon is geometric, balanced and simple. This creates the ability to dial the brand up and down to better represent our relationship with channels and partners. It also gives us leverage when talking to external partners as there are more options about how their brands can lock-up to UKTV Play.
The symmetrical shape means that it works well as icons and buttons to create a complete branded digital language. The geometric form also allows us to create patterns, grids, transitions and graphics to further elevate the digital experience.
Dave and Campaign Against Living Miserably took over an ad break to raise awareness of the problem of male suicide.
At 9:09pm on 26 November, Dave encouraged viewers to get in touch with a mate to see how they are. Developed by UKTV’s in-house creative team, the four-minute ad takeover, voiced by comedian James Acaster, will launch a year-long partnership between the channel and CALM, a charity aimed at preventing male suicide.
The “Be the mate you’d want” campaign will include branded beer mats and coffee cups, on-air promos, print, outdoor and radio ads, as well as social media activity.
Agency: UKTV Creative
Creative: Paul Phillpott
Copywriter: Aaron Gillies
Designers: Jade Dauncey and Dani Liquieri
Design Producer: Sophie Yeoman
Head of Design: Peter Allinson
The new ad for UKTV Play, the free TV on-demand service, features a flock of flying TV sets over London and the South coast of England.
The iconic flying TV’s were created for the campaign by The Mill.
60, 40 and 20 second versions of the ad will air, backed by targeted ads on Facebook and Google, as well as mobile and display ads, supported by social activity across Twitter.
The ads will broadcast across UKTV’s 10 channels, and spots have also been bought on Channel 4’s on-demand service, All4.
Our off-air activity was seen nationwide through press and OOH, to build greater awareness of the service across the UK.
The first 360 Video for a musical. This groundbreaking video was filmed on location in Brooklyn, New York. The cast of School of Rock The Musical performed a one take live performance which was captured across multiple cameras stitched together. The user can control the viewpoint of the camera in real time. The video attracted unprecedented viewings on YouTube and Facebook for a Broadway musical promotion. The image from the video also formed the album packaging artwork.
GOLD wanted to build on last years Promax award winning Easter campaign with another egg-shaped caper in 2018.
This time an eggy Mrs Brown parachutes into action before the Vicar of Dibley’s Geraldine Granger endures yet another mud bath. Once again, the channel offer comfort viewing for those paralysed by meat sweats and sugar comedowns this Easter.
“I’m cracking up!”
Head of Design, UKTV: Peter Allinson
Creative Manager UKTV: Tom Williams
Producer UKTV: Latoya Collingwoode-William
Creative Animation Studio / Direction: Feed Me Light
Executive Producer: Kiri Haggart
Producer: Jenny Wells
ECD: Denis Bodart
Storyboard Artist / Art Direction: Marc Bouyer
Lead / Production Supervisor : Olivier Pirard
DOP: Anthony Bristol
Focus Puller: Bruno Travers
Runner: Theo
Concepts: Julien Becquer
Character Concepts: Emmanuelle Leleu, Marc Bouyer
Animation: Julien Becquer
3D Generalists: Olivier Pirard
Compositing: Denis Bouyer, Olivier Pirard
The Drum 2018 OOH Awards GOLD WINNER Best Use Of Animation
UKTV’s premium entertainment channel W is using disruptive scare tactics to build anticipation for new reality TV show Celebrity Haunted Mansion.
Leading the campaign, and tapping into the public’s fascination with horror, is a spooky billboard designed to unsettle onlookers during the day before morphing into a terrifying animated image and sound display after dark. The spectacular outdoor advertising display was hosted at both Westfield Shopping Centres in Stratford and Shepherd’s Bush on Saturday 17 February, with the transformation at 5.17pm, the exact moment the sun sets.
The transformative billboard featured the hosts of the new show, Christine Lampard and Matt Richardson, who morphed into ghostly Victorian characters after dark. As the sun set, the unique billboard saw Lampard and Richardson’s faces become utterly unrecognisable as they were sucked back in time and possessed by Victorian ghost versions of themselves. Christine Lampard became a ‘black-eyed’ ghost in an image based on a real Victorian portrait as she sat inside the Victorian-built Mansion. A haunting sound shower accompanied the billboard and shoppers took to social media to comment on the arresting creative.
Promax UK 2018 GOLD WINNER Best Sponsorship Integration
Promax Europe 2018 GOLD WINNER Best On-Air Consumer Tie-In / Brand Integrated Spots
Dave is one of Britain’s most iconic and loved TV channels. From October 23rd he was a bit out of character.
At exactly 3.28 pm, the hungriest time of day, Dave got a bit confused and turned into a completely different channel called Rupert.
Rupert, a pontificating, polo playing, slipper wearing square, changed the schedule and started showing nonsense like the art appraisal show, ‘Private Collections’, the International Chess Championship, ‘Battle of The Boards’, and some vintage film noir, with the Parisian Classic ‘Ni Pour L’amour Ou L’argent’.
This out of character content did not just stop with the TV broadcast. Rupert took over Dave’s advertising space swapping out the classic ‘Dave’ chalkboard branding with a gold and red velvet identity for ‘Rupert’.
He controlled Dave’s social media, posting about Polo and the correct place setting when hosting a dinner party.
But SNICKERS® soon put a stop to the chaos.
In the live broadcast the plug was pulled, a set of colours bars appeared and a Snickers bar slammed onto screen with the famous tagline “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry”.
Having had a SNICKERS®, Dave returned to the air and normal service resumed.
With the chaos over, an open letter of apology, in the form of an ad, was then issued containing a promise to all loyal Dave viewers that thanks to a stack of SNICKERS®, Rupert will never return to disrupt the channel again.
As part of the iconic ‘You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign ad agency AMV BBDO commissioned UKTV Creative to create the three 60″ TVCs to play out in commercial airtime, as well as Rupert channel branding and social media assets.
Creative: Paul Philpott (UKTV) Head of Design: Peter Allinson (UKTV) Motion Graphics: Harry Mitchell (UKTV) Logo Design: Veer Assi (UKTV) Producer: Daniel Wimborne (UKTV) and Trish Russell (AMV)
Production Company: UKTV
Client: Christoph Weber – Snickers UK Brand Director Creative Agency: AMV BBDO Creative Director: Rosie Arnold Copywriter: Michael Hughes Art Director: Dalatando Almeida Agency Planner: Alaina Crystal & Elly Fenlon Agency Account Man: Lou Woolf, Philippa Field & Aliya Brijnath Media Agency: Mediacom & Zenith Optimedia
The series follows Frankie Drake, a female private detective operating in Toronto in the 1920s.
We wanted to demonstrate the idea of ‘a woman in a man’s world’.
To do this we used retro styled animations that transformed from 1920’s female themes (perfume / cocktails / jewellery) – into something more masculine (guns / motorbikes / punch bag)
The UKTV Awards is an internal annual event, rewarding and celebrating the achievements of our colleagues across 10 categories. UKTV is all about culture. Internally, our aim is to promote our “CLICC” values and encourage employees to enjoy the work they do and to participate more within the business.
What
better way to do that than to really hold our talent up on a pedestal, with the
nominees of the awards receiving the Hollywood treatment (photographically
anyway).
The Idea
for 2018, was to recreate all the categories and nominations as well-known
movie posters. Each category linked tenuously to a movie theme and each nominee
posing as a character from the film.
This would culminate in an ‘Oscars’ style ceremony, whereby introduction videos and winner announcements were accompanied by moving versions of the posters.
The aim was to really engage everyone in the business as well as to promote the culture and environment that UKTV cultivate – one that is fun and creative, as well as one that doesn’t take ourselves too seriously. The designs were shared across social networks as the winners were announced, all helping to demonstrate why UKTV are one of the top 100 places to work for.
Head of Design: Peter Allinson Creative: Callum Parish Producer: Sophie Yeoman
In July 2017 during Pride, Dave used its trademark wit and levity to support the LGBT community in a copy-led OOH and social campaign. As a channel targeted towards young British men (25-34) who increasingly expect brands to reflect the modern masculinity that they personally embody, we wanted to leverage Dave’s standout channel name to powerful effect during Pride week.
Using the cultural insight around masculinity having had a mainstream revamp, and positioning Dave as the witty, modern male voice of the nation, the campaign ‘Dave Loves Dave’ was born. A light-hearted, witty execution that sat in OOH formats including socialite screens in Londons bars, digital escalator panels in prime location tube stations and digital 6 sheets. We also distributed beer mats and bar runners for use within London bars, plus Dave challenged LGBT stereotypes and assumptions with witty one-liners and commentaries summing up with the hashtag of #davelovesdave on Twitter. We printed merchandise to hand out at pride including t-shirts, sunglasses, whistles and flags. Tees and banners etc will call out the #davelovesdave message on the Intermedia float at Pride London. Finally on the Dave channel, around suitable content (and to younger audiences, Dave will featured #davelovesdave interstitials.
The OOH locations we booked allowed us to target audiences as they were traveling to and from pride locations, the social support encouraged further conversation online and the TV interstitial support cemented our support on the channel itself.
To celebrate the return of cult sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, we created a space themed line-up featuring each of the main characters.
The campaign ran nationwide across the London Underground and National Rail networks, as well as popping up on the biggest billboard in Europe – the Clapham Colossus!
Scheming queens, rival in-laws and a king caught in a web of intrigue can all be found in The White Princess, Drama’s epic follow up to The White Queen.
Our campaign was based around the themes of love and war. United for the kingdom. Divided by the throne.
Gaming enthusiast Dara O Briain presides over the mayhem as two stars join team captains to battle each other at their favourite computer games.
To launch Series 3 we commissioned illustrations of our epic line up of stars in the style of video game characters.
The likes of Jonathan Ross, Kathryn Ryan and Josh Widdicome are transformed into computer game characters as competitive comedians and video games collide.
The concept for this promo was to show 8, the hero of the hour, in selected scenes and scenarios to promote the 8 o’clock segment on GOLD – ‘Greats at 8’
Characters from classic shows such as Faulty Towers, The Vicar of Dibley and Gavin and Stacy are immortalised as the number, as they bounce, spin and dig there way through the animation. It’s truly great!
UKTV Live invited 350 guests from production companies, press and media, platforms and affiliates to a morning at Claridge’s ballroom on Wednesday 13th September.
We put together a full presentation of our upcoming slate of commissions, with onstage Q&As with the likes of David Haye, Alex Jones, Dr Christian, Christine Lampard, and the casts of Taskmaster, Red Dwarf, Porters, Zapped and Murder on the Blackpool Express.
As head of design, my task was to brand the event and manage all design related materials. Due to the heritage and tradition associated with Claridge’s we needed to find a look that would effectively brand the event, but also make the most of our beautiful surroundings.
Our solution was to brand the entire event with a bold but simple colour palette of black and gold. We also considered a variety of textures and finishes so that all print materials were of premium quality and in keeping with the opulent location.
We worked with the hugely talented hand lettering Alison Carmichael to create a beautiful and bespoke hand drawn logo. We then took the radical step to developed the hand drawn word mark into a unique 3D gold sculpture, which we then animated across all the screen based material across the event.
There was also interactivity based on the new UKTV Originals branding – customisable t-shirts, phone cases and notebooks available to make on the day, and a “UKTV Originals” wall greeting guests on arrival.
Matt Forde continues to make politics great again with Series 4 of Unspun, featuring more up – t0 – the – minute analysis of the political landscape, in-depth discussions with Britain’s leading political figures and special reports from guest comedians.
Our campaign idea for Series 4 shows Matt literally ambushing prominent politicians in iconic moments from the last year.
Creative –Ceri Payne
Creative Manager –Paul Philpott
Producer – Genevieve Sligcher
Assistant Brand Manager – Charlie Guy
Senior Brand Manager – Cherie Cunningham
VFX/Post – Jam Films
UKTV Creative were tasked with repositioning Really as the strong and unique channel it is and communicate this through a bold new on-screen presence. To do this we created a new OSP layout with a confident typographic style and developed a colour palette that is as diverse as the stories we tell. These colours formed a duotone effect that is used across the channel’s on screen presentation as a distinctive and constant graphic language. Specific colours are used to hit varying tones of voice and give a gentle nudge towards Really’s key programme genres.
Research carried out by UKTV revealed that Really viewers find real life stories more powerful than fiction and enjoy content that engages through the need for human understanding. Armed with this insight, UKTV Creative has designed a set of new channel idents with the strapline ‘Life on TV’, which tap into this emotional connection and appeal to a broad audience.
“The new idents centre on intimately-shot interviews with real people, who open up and tell their own emotional story to the camera. These complement the new brand strapline ‘Life on TV’. A white frame is also used to frame our content and act as a window into real people and the powerful stories they have to tell.” – Peter Allinson, UKTV’s Head of Design
Really viewers, prompted by on-air navigation, can watch the full-length versions of these intimate interviews online at https://really.uktv.co.uk.
“We interviewed a variety of extraordinary people that have a fascinating story to tell. They were all filmed on location on a two-day shoot. The final idents are a moving portrait of each contributor using a single tracking shot. To accentuate their stories, we used a double exposure effect to reveal another layer of their story through footage that plays within their silhouette.” – Peter Allinson, UKTV’s Head of Design
PromaxBDA Europe 2018 SILVER WINNER
Best Integrated Marketing Campaign For A Programme
CAMPAIGN MARKETING NEW THINKING AWARDS 2017
Creative Excellence Category
“The campaign is the task. The task is the campaign.”
Our goal was to show the format of Taskmaster by making the launch campaign one of the tasks, specifically creating billboards for the show. The results were bold, disruptive, unexpected and a genuine articulation of the unique energy of the show.
Creative/Creative Manager – Paul Philpott
Head Of Design – Peter Allinson
Designer – Adam Cutts
OOH Design – MMMultiply
Producers – Celia Bayne / Holly McIvor
We placed the central idea of our Quantico campaign – ‘Trust No One’ – across a wide variety of media and successfully created a fully intergrated, 360 campign.
Digital out-of-home displays allowed us to show key Quantico characters in both good and bad guises. This visually re-inforced the central campaign idea of ‘Trust No One’.
Blips, bleeps, and Beethoven inform this melodic promo for Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit. The comedian and video game enthusiast conducts a chiptune symphony to mark the show’s latest series.
Pixels dot the screen as these virtuoso gamers register high scores and bum notes. There’s also a fun nod to that most embarrassing gaming faux pas: pressing ‘pause’ by mistake. Such details suggest the programme is geared towards casual and competitive gamers alike, while O’Briain’s presence should pique wider interest.
Creative Agency: UKTV Creative
Creative: Aidan Hackett
Creative Director: Scott Russell
Producer: Nina Allsopp
Design: Harry Mitchell
Head of Design: Peter Allinson
BFI takeover for UKTV’s annual showcase event, UKTV Live.
The fastest-growing broadcasting network in Britain, UKTV, took over London’s Southbank today as it created a live spectacular for VIP guests at the BFI. Stars including Amanda Holden, Sir David Attenborough, Lily Cole, Greg Davies and Craig Charles appeared at the event to celebrate the new season of original shows for the UK’s biggest multichannel broadcaster.
Speaking at UKTV Live 2016, the broadcaster’s annual showcase event, CEO Darren Childs said,
It feels great to be celebrating all the fantastic new shows we’ve been making with the guests here at BFI today. UKTV is investing heavily in great new programming and we have such riches here to show for it. A massive 73% of the British population now watch our channels every month, and what’s really exciting is that UKTV Originals – which are all made by the fantastic talent and producers here today – are an enormous part of that success.
PromaxBDA Europe 2018 GOLD WINNER Holiday or seasonal programme spot
Our objective was to attract viewers across the Easter holiday period through a unique and engaging creative execution. Our idea this easter was to invite our viewers on an ‘egg hunt’ to seek out and collect all of the comedy classics GOLD has to offer.
We collaborated with Feed Me Light to create a set of beautiful illustrated 3D Easter Eggs and an expertly rendered cardboard world that included recognisable sets from the shows.
The Easter eggs will be collected as the promo progresses until the basket is bursting with the comedy talent we all know and love.
We also created a set of disruptive IPPs that pop up during programmes across the Easter weekend – and once they have been spotted, the viewer is able to enter a competition with the chance of winning a GOLD Easter hamper.
The egg characters will also feature across social media to maximise our campaign reach and get our viewers engaged online.
Head of design UKTV: Peter Allinson
Creative manager UKTV: Tom Williams
Producer UKTV: Latoya Collingwoode-William
Creative Animation Studio: Feed Me Light
Producer: Kiri Haggart
Lead Director: Denis Bodart
Co-Director: Anthony Bristol
Lead / Production Supervisor : Olivier Pirard
Environments Concepts: Benjamin Flouw
Character Concepts: Emmanuelle Leleu
Animation: Benjamin Tron
3D Generalists: Olivier Pirard, Mark Mullan, Denis Bodart
Compositing: Denis Bouyer, Olivier Pirard
Lighting Rendering: Olivier Pirard
Hand Model: Brooke Colman
To demonstrate ‘the gift of knowledge’ our small in-house studio was used to re-create a classic Christmas day scene. Props and miniature toys were purchased online and filmed using stunning macro photography, with each toy representing a key show.
Following on from the success of the W channel rebrand by Art & Graft, we worked with Ink and Giants to create a new ident that will take the viewers to a continuous journey through a mixture of diverse scenarios each happening in different locations.
The challenge was to explore different techniques to create the ident without having to rely on a live action shoot. Ink and Giants explored a few executional ideas including 3D camera projection mapping and mixing photography with 3D elements. After a couple of rounds of experiments, we eventually decided to push for a hyper/photoreal 3D approach.
This technique gives us the flexibility to develop idents further down the line with the ability to travel anywhere we wish.
Creative Director: Scott Russell
Head of Design: Peter Allinson
A creative collaboration with Ink & Giants.
Lead 3D Designer: Peter Tomaszewicz
3D Designers: Peter Dobes, Dianne Dela Torre-Dobes and Monika Malyjasiak
Effects and Compositing: Dianne Dela Torre-Dobes
Music and Sound Design: UKTV
Producers: Celia Bayne (UKTV), Susanne Freyberg and Peter Dobes
Original concept by Art & Graft
