Showreels
Multiplatform
View Illumina's creative work for the BBC, Channel 4, ITN and a number of the UK's leading production companies. The team at Illumina are skilled at producing unique ideas and hit entertainment content for television, web and mobile.
Wannabes
Medium: Web
Client: BBC
View the demo for Illumina Digital's broadband soap for the BBC, Wannabes. Aimed at 14-18 year olds, this online soap follows the a group of friends as they follow their dreams. Viewers can 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.
Axon
Client: BBC
Part of BBC Jam, Axon was never released into the market. This interactive science drama is aimed at 11 - 14 year olds. The Axon is a network of concerned scientists. Users have to train to become a part of the Axon team and are then offered a series of investigative missions. They can do these missions in any order; as they progress through the missions they unlock the mystery behind Axon itself.
Breaking the News
Medium: Web
Client: Channel 4
This Breaking the News demo offers a fascinating insight into the educational online editing resource Illumina Digital produced for Channel 4 with ITN. Students use news rushes from ITN to produce news bulletins. What emerges is a fascinating insight into the newsroom's editorial processes. Created by Illumina Digital for Channel 4 in partnership with ITN, Breaking the News has won a Royal Television Society Education Award and been short listed for a BAFTA.
Get Cooking
Medium: Web
Client: BBC
View video from the award-winning Get Cooking site, produced for the BBC. Illumina Digital filmed 100 interactive recipe videos available online and prepared detailed technique videos featuring insider's tips from six leading TV chefs.
Cliffhanger Studios
Medium: CD
Client: QIA
The e-learning and role play toolkit known as Cliffhanger Studios is a flexible resource designed for language teachers working with students aged 16 and over. This interactive resource creates a virtual world where students provide the text and audio, and act out dramatic scenes from the soap opera in one of four languages. The environment, produced by Illumina Digital on behalf of QIA (Quality Improvement Agency), allows teachers to choose scenes, characters and props to extend the dialogue and features images, audio and vocabulary banks that can be edited, and added to with user-generated content.