
Black Mirror : Season 1, 2011
The National Anthem (Dir. Otto Bathurst)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Robyn Paiba
15M Merits (Dir. Euros Lyn)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Dan May
The Entire History of You (Dir. Brian Walsh)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Dan May
Additional Credits: Painting Practice CG and Motion Design team.
Read my interview on PUSHING PIXELS “Connecting the Dots in Black Mirror”
Role: Series Graphics Art Director
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins
Series Supervising Art Director: Robyn Paiba
Series Set Decorator: Robert Wischhusen-Hayes
Little did we know then, how seminal this piece of television - especially these first three episodes, would become.
My role was to build a graphic language for the show, and execute graphic elements physically on set. This could be a visual identity such as UKN, a vast wall covering, or one of hundreds of screens we shot in-camera. My work extended into what we produced graphically later, with Painting Practice, in post production.
Nearly all of our screens for Season 1 are in-camera. So I began, what became a career focus, in art directing huge amounts of graphic and screen content on set.
We had a TINY art department, of four. I will always marvel at what we achieved on this show, especially in the early Channel 4 days.