422 On Pole for the Duel in the Desert

Lewis Hamilton takes the championship after his 11^th victory of the season. With both Mercedes drivers aiming to be crowned world champion the BBC worked with the team at 422 to develop the opening sequence.

Gemma Ackerley, Client Services Director said “ We were delighted to be commissioned by BBC Sport to produce the opener for the Abu Dhabi 2014 F1 Season Finale. We wanted to dramatise the showdown between the two Mercedes drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, who have been racing each other since they were schoolboys and who are now competing for the biggest title in their sport.”

The story is of two young boys playing together, battling to win. We then see flashbacks to key moments from this season's battles between the two team-mates, with the use of BBC archive footage. Directed By Chris Gaffey and Edited at 422 by award winning sports editor Chris Denton. The two young boys were played by Harvey Ackerley (Nico) & Freedom Doran (Lewis) represented by EKA Casting.

"Share a Story" another BAFTA winning program with help from 422.tv

CITV run a annual competition whereby children submit their stories and storyboards for a one minute animation. Eight winners are chosen and invited to oversee their ideas being brought to life. They record their own dialogue themselves with voice coaching by Marc Silk. The children also get to choose the animation style and work with the animators to design the characters.

For the third year CITV asked 422.tv Manchester to work on the program, designing the sound. Neil Haggerty comments on his time spent working with the team:

"It's a delight to work on "Share a Story" with Creative Director, Carl Hadley, and the team from CITV. The children's ideas always bring a smile to my face and have an originality and edge that only a child's mind could conjure up. It's a real pleasure to add those finishing touches in the mix with foley and sound effects to bring the characters alive"

For the THIRD year in succession the program has been awarded a BAFTA.

The Snowman and The Snowdog enjoy Christmas at intu Trafford Centre with help from 422

422.tv in Manchester were delighted to be commissioned by AL Marketing to work on the brand new intu Trafford Centre Christmas TV campaign. Currently airing, the commercials use a combination of scenes from the Children’s BAFTA nominated ‘The Snowman™ and The Snowdog’ animated short film, combined with new 2D animation elements produced by the animators at 422 and then composited seamlessly back into the original scenes.

Creative Direction was by Michael Agapiou of AL Marketing, Animation Supervision by Darren Oakes and final compositing by Owain Street, from 422.tv.

Commenting, Michael Agapiou, Creative Director of AL Marketing said, ‘Once we’d come up the concept of using The Snowman and The Snowdog film as a core creative concept, and negotiated the rights to use it, we set about conceiving a set of TV commercials that integrated intu Trafford Centre into that world. We had worked extensively with the team at 422.tv over a number of years and approached them to provide a holistic package to make the commercials and get them to air. The team at 422.tv were as usual very responsive and both we, our client and Snowman Enterprises Limited (SEL) a Penguin owned company, are delighted with the final results’.

AND THE BAFTA GOES TO …………

We are celebrating at our offices in Manchester and Glasgow this week after several of our clients projects were recognised at the RTS North West and BAFTA Scotland award ceremonies over the weekend.

There is no greater accolade in this industry than receiving recognition from the Royal Television Society and The British Academy of Film, Television and Arts. To be involved in commissions that receive the coveted golden award is fantastic and testament to the talent of our great clients and the team here at 422.tv.


422.tv were delighted to hear that the documentary they worked on with Tigerlily Films and Dusty Slider (for BBC4) won Best Single Documentary at Saturday evening’s RTS North West Awards.

422.tv in Manchester provided all post production services for "Tubular Bells - The Mike Oldfield Story", which tells of the making of one of the seminal albums from the early 70’s, interviewing Mike Oldfield in his home studio, along with a host of associated contributors, including Richard Branson.

The documentary was directed by Matt O’ Casey and Produced by Natasha Dack of Tigerlily Films. It first aired in December 2013 on BBC4

A huge congratulations also to our team at 422.tv in Glasgow, who should be feeling most proud today, having worked with three of the winners recognised by BAFTA Scotland on Sunday evening.

Following on from his own RTS Scotland craft award earlier this year, John Cobban, ably assisted by William Cory, worked on the winning entry in the animation category - ‘Monkey Love Experiments'. Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson’s film is about a monkey who believes he is destined for the moon.

We’re also very proud to have worked on two of the three nominated programmes in the Current Affairs category, both produced by Finestripe for BBC One Scotland. The first being ‘Blethering Referendum’, comedian Sanjeev Kohli’s humorous look at the referendum on independence. The programme had the complete 422 Scotland post-production package with offline by Joe Speirs and additional support from the grade and graphics team with sound design by John Cobban.

But the winner on the night was ‘Dave: Loan Ranger’, where Dave Fishwick (of Bank of Dave fame) takes on the payday loan companies. The team provided sound, offline, grade and graphics for this winning entry.

Last but certainly not least, we were delighted to assist Darren Hercher with his intimately observed documentary ‘Keys to the Castle’. With its portrayal of a couple in their twilight years, living in their beloved Scottish castle since rebuilding it from ruins 40 years ago, the documentary was beautifully graded in house by our very own Ian Ballantyne.
  

We’d like to send huge congratulations to both our talented clients and in-house teams, in both Glasgow and Manchester, for all their hard work and dedication.

Their involvement in the work recognised at the RTS North and BAFTA Scotland Awards is truly deserved!

BEST OF LUCK FOR THE BAFTAs

On behalf of everyone at 422 Glasgow we'd like to wish everyone who has been nominated for the BAFTA Scotland awards on Sunday the very best of luck. But we'd like to wish a wee bit extra to the films and programmes on the list that we helped to make.

ANIMALIAN ANIMATIONS Nominated in the animations category, MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS had sound design by our very own William Cory. You can watch the trailer here:





EXTERNAL AFFAIRS We've also got two nominations in Current Affairs. BLETHERING REFERENDUM is comedian Sanjeev Kohli's humorous look at the referendum on independence, produced by Finestripe for BBC One Scotland. It received the complete 422 post-production package with offline by Joe Speirs and all sorts of additional support from the grade, sound and graphics teams.

We also provided sound, offline, grade and graphics for DAVE: LOAN RANGER in which Dave Fishwick (of Bank of Dave fame) takes on the payday loans companies. This was also by Finestripe Productions, for Channel 4.

KEYS TO THE CASTLE
We were thrilled to help Darren Hercher with this touching, intimately observed  documentary about a couple in their twilight years who have lived in their beloved Scottish castle since rebuilding it from ruins 40 years ago. It was beautifully graded in-house by Ian Ballantyne.

You can see the full list of nominations on the Bafta Scotland website.

GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY