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Medium: Web, TV
Client: BBC
'Wannabes' is a broadband soap for the BBC aimed at 14-18 year olds following the sexy scandals and temper tantrums of a group of friends as they follow their dreams. Viewers interact at key points to influence which direction the plot should go. Through making choices, offering advice and playing games, the viewer builds up friendship ratings with their favourite character. Each viewer has their own distinct and unique experience with this acclaimed and innovative drama series.
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Medium: Web, TV, Event, Course
Client: With Channel 4 and ITN
Breaking the News offers exclusive behind the scenes video of a day in
the life of Channel 4 News and a unique opportunity to make your own
version the news using real rushes (raw footage) from ITN in an easy to
use online editing suite. Created by Illumina Digital for Channel 4 in
partnership with ITN, Breaking the News includes video masterclasses from
Channel 4 News journalists, and an engaging online media literacy course.
On launch day school and college news teams from around the country will
be making their own news bulletin, working to the same deadlines and
timescales as the Channel 4 News team. A highly flexible resource that
will appeal to the general public or for the teaching and learning of
Media Studies, English, Citizenship.
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Medium: Web, Mobile
Client: Kew Gardens
The Treetop Walkway in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, is a stunning exhibition space sixty feet off the ground encouraging visitors to learn more about the trees that surround them. Illumina Digital has created two components of this exciting multiplatform project. The mobile phone game, 'treemate', allows users on the walkway to match up trees with inspiring facts supplied on a mobile phone. We also created the website which is full of learning, resources, games and a community where you can pin your own virtual message and photograph to your favourite tree. Visitors can also plan their trip and explore a complete database of the trees at Kew.
Medium: Web
Client: Channel 4
Empire's Children, a Channel 4 TV series which uncovers the family histories of Dame Diana Rigg, Chris Bisson (Shameless), Adrian Lester (Hustle), Shobna Gulati (Coronation Street), Lord David Steel and comedian Jenny Éclair, offers an extraordinary insight into the history of the end of the British Empire and its fall-out on Britain up until today. The Empire's Children website, developed by Illumina Digital, features the personal experiences of members of the public with their own end-of-Empire story to tell. Driven by user-generated content, the site acts as a forum for more shared memories and experiences and allows users to share useful family history tips related to this period of British history. The website reflects a broad range of perspectives on the Empire, showcasing the stories of families who left Britain to make lives for themselves out in the Empire as well as those who came to settle in Britain from the colonies.
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Medium: Web
Client: Teachers TV
This Teachers TV led project, launched during Science Week, is a ground-breaking mass-participation psychology experiment. 'Ready To Learn' provided a huge amount of useful data about children's behaviour before school and its effect on their mental alertness during school hours. Whether they get a lift to school or walk, eat cereal for breakfast and go to bed early was all logged during this mass experiment. The participants were then tested on their working memory, cognitive inhibition and planning respectively.
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Medium: Web
Client: BBC
The Get Cooking website features more than twenty hours of interactive cookery programmes featuring a team of six leading TV chefs including Sophie Grigson, Mike Robinson, Lesley Waters, Mitch Tonks, Madhur Jaffrey and Paul Merrett. Illumina Digital filmed the 100 interactive recipe videos available online and prepared detailed technique videos featuring insider's tips and advice from the BBC. We shot step-by-step captioned photography for each recipe and created in-depth editorial for each section covering topics including buying, storing and preparing of ingredients. This site is an easy-to-search facility for any cookery beginner or aspiring chef. The sleek, fresh design, produced by Illumina Digital, is akin to stepping into your very own smart, contemporary kitchen surrounded by your favourite chefs! Get Cooking has won a whole host of international awards including a Cordon Bleu Gold Ladle 2007 for the world's best food and drink website.
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Medium: Web, Interactive Exhibition
Client: University of London Medical School
Centre of the Cell is a futuristic exhibition space located above the laboratories at the University of London Medical School Centre in East London. This space, a large pod suspended above the scientists, is dedicated to inspiring curiosity and learning in science by connecting it to everyday life. This fully interactive exhibition, developed by Illumina Digital, is split into five 'scenes' that unfold like a theatrical show. The installation pod takes the visitor on a journey of discovery. Interactive games enthuse and enable learning through game play. Real specimens of human organs can be viewed through microscopes and audio visual projections on the pod walls immerse audiences in visions of cells and human biology. The Centre of the Cell website, also produced by Illumina Digital, enables visitors to plan their day at the exhibition. Visitors can also see personalised details after their trip including futuristic imagery of their faces in the pod.
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Medium: DVD
Client: QIA
Teachers can bring language classes to life with the aid of a soap-opera themed interactive resource known as 'Cliffhanger Studios', designed and produced by Illumina Digital. Prompted by engaging video clips, students can now take on the role of fictional characters and practice their French, German, Italian and Spanish. Designed for teachers to use with post-GCSE students, this interactive resource creates a virtual world where students add the text and audio, and act out dramatic scenes from the soap opera in one of three languages. It allows teachers to prepare creative role-play activities tailored for their students that will engage and develop student's language skills.
