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Helter Skelter
Alongside Director Lesley Chilcott and the Invented by Girls team, we developed a tactile, emotive graphics package to help tell the familiar story of Charles Manson.
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Devil in Disguise
Client
NBCUniversal / Peacock
For the first original docuseries on the streaming service Peacock, John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, we put ourselves in Gacy’s place to set the tone for the series’ title sequence...literally. We answered several unique graphic asks including microfiche treatment, in-depth maps, even an illustrated drawing of a crawlspace diagram Gacy himself drew. This multitude of components came together in a way that set the haunting tone for the title as well as individual specialized sequences used in each episode.
Devil in Disguise
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Devil in Disguise
Devil in Disguise
Early Design Frames
We treated a broad spectrum of documents in the series ranging from era specific to more recent, giving us room to be creative in achieving the look we were going for. To create the headline treatments, we created something of a lightbox treatment using transparent pieces of papers that have this layered feel and exhibit a type of glow. While planning to use several variations of this treatment for the various headlines, the client liked the lightbox look so much we used it standardly throughout the series.
In order to really level up our design work, John Leamy, BigStar’s creative director, manufactured a specific look for the archival photography by shooting vintage personal photo albums. This enabled us to use treatments for the client-provided photos and place them in-scene practically. The photo albums were not the only thing Leamy shot at home, he also set up some particularly haunting elements in his attic, shooting swinging chains and solo chairs in order to provide the perfect graphics to service the story.
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