Black Mirror : Season 2, 2012
Be Right Back (Dir. Owen Harris)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Robyn Paiba
White Bear (Dir. Carl Tibbetts)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Robyn Paiba
The Waldo Moment (Dir. Brian Walsh)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins, Co-Designer: Byron Broadbent
Additional Credits: Painting Practice CG and Motion Design team.
Read my interview on PUSHING PIXELS “Connecting the Dots in Black Mirror”
Role: Assistant Art Director (plus graphics!)
Series Production Designer: Joel Collins
Series Supervising Art Director: Robyn Paiba
Series Set Decorator: Robert Wischhusen-Hayes
Keen to be more involved in the sets and extend myself beyond graphics, Joel and Robyn encouraged me into a different role for Season 2. I had the chance to lead design work on beautiful prop makes, and get stuck into key locations like the farmhouse in “Be Right Back”.
However, being a skeleton crew of four again, I also had to oversee and execute graphics. It was BUSY.
We began to visually build the Black Mirror “universe” in Season 2, with UKN being one of our first “easter eggs”… the first of many subtle reinventions of this identity.
Tech wise, “Be Right Back” saw a natural design progression from “The Entire History of You” in terms of phones, screens and user interface. The look and feel we developed in this episode, became a baseline, that we would lean into and build on, for series to come.
