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

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Promax UK 2019 GOLD WINNER
Best 360 Campaign

The DRUM Awards 2019 Highly Commended
Visual Craft

To celebrate the release of Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes on Gold, UKTV has unveiled a huge 1940s army-recruitment style mural which has been specially designed to look as if it has been in place for decades.

The specially created, time-weathered ‘ghost billboard’ harks back to WW2 propaganda advertising and has been designed to appear as if it has re-emerged after being lost to the ages.

Working with Hearts & Science and Talon Outdoor, the 45ft tall mural installed in Clerkenwell, East London took four artists from street art collective Global Street Art Agency 50 hours to painstakingly create using a combination of emulsion and over 250 cans of spray-paint. The mural was sandblasted to make it looked aged and is the first of its kind to be created by Global Street Art Agency. The artwork, designed by UKTV Creative head of design Peter Allinson, features the new cast from the re-made episodes of the much loved British comedy classic.

It hit the press and national newspapers and made an impact with Dads Army fans across social media.

Even Captain Mainwaring himself tweeted about it!

Dad’s Army: Lost Episodes – 360 Campaign

Promax UK 2019 GOLD WINNER
Best 360 Campaign

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.

Directors: Brett Sullivan / Clayton Jacobsen

Head of Design: Peter Allinson

Post Production: Steam Motion and Sound

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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)

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

Head of design: Peter Allinson

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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

Head of Design: Peter Allinson

Print Ads / BEOPS – Veer Assi

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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

Articles:

http://brief.promaxbda.org/article/brand-rebrand-really

http://www.seenit.co.uk/uktvs-really-unveils-all-new-onscreen-look/

Credits:

Head of Design / Project lead: Peter Allinson

Senior Designers: Luke Tilly (OSP) and Adam Cutts (Idents)

Senior Producers: Celia Bayne (OSP) and Danny Wimborne (Idents)

Assistant Producer: Sophie Fox

Ident Director: Matt McDermott

Creative Manager: Paul Philpott

Creative Director: Scott Russell

Marketing Lead/Senior Marketing Manager: Natalie House

Onsite Post-Production: The Farm Group

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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’.

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.

Director: Peter Allinson

DOP: Malcolm Hadley

Editor and Post: Peter Allinson

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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.

Making-of photos by Ink & Giants

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

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Come home to Drama this Christmas

Creative Director: Scott Russell

Assistant Director: Peter Allinson

Designer / Off Air: Peter Allinson

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Crackanory Series Four Promo

Head of Design – Peter Allinson

Creative – Aidan Hackett

Creative Manager – Paul Philpott

In collaboration with our friends at Mmmultiply.

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Three seasons of the very best in dark humour and cult comedy classics.

We were tasked to bring to life the ‘wonderful world of cult comedy’ through bespoke animations. To achieve this we created a surreal, graphic treatment to embellished and animate some classic scenes from many well know cult TV shows.

Animation: Luke Tilly / Adam Cutts

Creative: Simon Mathews

Head of Design: Peter Allinson

Creative Manager – Tom Williams

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The aim of the campaign was to promote the lauch of Quantico, inform the audience of the shows concept & explain what ‘Quantico’ actually is. The campaign achieved all of this & presented the programme as must – see glossy, hit US crime drama.

Quantico Series 1 launch campaign

Rail D6 Screen

Retail Letterbox Screens

National Press ads

Head of Design: Peter Allinson

Creative Manager – Tom Williams

In collaboration with our friends at Mmmultiply.

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UKTV Play Registration video.

Knowing what you want to watch will help us direct you to the shows you love faster. Catch up on your favourite shows, feast on box sets or watch exclusive previews. Whatever your thing, watch it all for free now.

Director: Peter Allinson
A creative collaboration with Cookie Studio

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