Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side
I thought it was high time I added some more of my own original content to my blog.
I created the image below using Adobe CS5. It's a title screen/logo graphic for a pilot TV show I am involved in producing - which is to be pitched to Channel 4 in the new year.
Working as part of a very small production team, with an even smaller budget, I was provided with a brief set by commissioning editor Ed Pugh. The task was to create a quirky new lunchtime magazine show to fill a slot for Channel 4, in order to compete with rival shows similar to the likes of Loose Women on ITV.
So, after not very long at all, I created an idea for a show...The Dark Side of The Noon.
The show is recorded live in a Liverpool studio, so to me it was important to use a bold, iconic image of Liverpool in the opening title sequence and title screen. Think Richard and Judy and Albert Dock? Well, now think Mike and Josie and Brownlow Hill.
I used my own original photography for the foreground image (it can be found on A Raring Move's facebook page), which I shot in 2011 and I also drew upon inspiration from the old 'Thames' television logo, which incidentally holds fond memories of me watching Rainbow as a kid after walking home from playschool with my mum.
I think there is an important lesson to be learned somewhere here from the power of broadcast media and just how much of this stuff (especially childhood memories) impacts on the choices you make throughout your life.
Pink Hippopotami aside, I have been a mass media consumer for most of my life. But I suppose most of my generation have.
Well London, anything you can do, we can do better. I (re)present...(Drum roll please)...The Dark Side of the Noon.
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