We were delighted to be invited by Neil Gorringe and Jason Delahunty at Channel 4 to create a VFX heavy promo for E4s exciting new comedy drama Misfits.
Director:
Neil Gorringe
Production Company:
Channel 4
Agency:
4Creative
'Misfits' follows five 'asbo' teens who find themselves in a freak storm while on community service, only to be struck by lightning and eventually realise they have superhuman powers. The launch of the show will see a series of five second bumpers across the Channel 4 network as well as a mobile phone campaign, followed by the stunning 40 second and 20 second promos.
Neil's brief to us was simple: Make it big, bold and epic! The shoot involved some unusual and entertaining elements to bring together from pressurized ice canons, trained pigeons to a metal safe being dropped from a crane onto a car! Almost all of the scenes required additional ice, and all of the scenes required clouds and lightning. Our 3D department set to work creating a number of Ice elements which were comped in Flame and Nuke, before a large amount of rig removal and clean up work took place and finally Seamus O'Kane, our Senior Colourist graded it.
The amount of VFX that was needed was enormous but the Pete's (Rypstra and Hodsman) along with our 3D team created the perfect storm leaving Neil and Jason with a smile on their faces throughout.
Luke Colson, Head of Mill Studio said: "This was one of the most enjoyable projects we have worked on in a long time. Looking at the Promo, it looks like we had a really bad day with the weather so job done all round!"
Agency: 4Creative
Producer: Jason Delahunty
Creative: Neil Gorringe
Production Company: Channel 4
Director: Neil Gorringe
Producer: Jason Delahunty
Editing Company: Final Cut
Editor: Struan Clay
VFX & Design: The Mill
VFX Producer: Luke Colson
2D Artists: Pete Rypstra, Pete Hodsman
3D Artist: Suraj Odedra
Colourist: Seamus O'Kane