Channel 4 and Maverick produced digital elements of the recent Act on CO2 campaign for the Department of Energy & Climate Change. Maverick brought on board four of the channel’s faces and made a number of films highlighting humerous ways of reducing their carbon footprint.
George Clarke (The Home Show, Restoration Man) stripped off to promote taking showers instead of baths, Olivia Coleman (Peep Show, Green Wing, That Mitchell & Webb Look) found an innovative way to grow her own fruit and veg, Mark Dolan (Balls of Steel, The World's Shortest Man and Me) left the car at home with a unique form of transport, and Aggie MacKenzie (How Clean is Your House?) extolled the virtues of recycling household waste.
The films will initially sit in a specially created area of the 4Homes website, alongside an interactive map allowing users to share promote carbon reduction schemes they are involved with, and information on how easy it is to reduce our carbon footprint.
We produced four short videos with the doctors from the TV show as guides to checking your balls, boobs, vulva and skin. The videos proved extremely popular, with the vulva and balls guides being watched more than 125,000 times each in the first few days following launch. We also produced one-minute mobile versions available by texting ‘BALLS’, ‘BOOBS’, ‘VULVA’ OR ‘SKIN’ to 83188 (normal mobile rates apply).
Each of the Embarrassing Illnesses doctors presented four videos explaining common conditions, along with their likely causes and symptoms, to encourage users to seek medical advice should they require it. These videos were launched exclusively on channel4.com/ei to tie in with Embarrassing Bodies week.
Maverick produced over 40 short docs for ideasforlife.tv as part of a major online project with Warwick University. ideasforlife.tv launched in early 2008 and provides original science and technology-based content, catering for different levels of interest and knowledge, satisfying needs ranging from mild curiosity to serious academic debate, and encouraging users to rate, share and comment on content.
Selected from over 700 online competition entries, these four short dramas include Eating Apricots by Janet Spooner, Locked Stockroom and Two Smoking Gerbils by Steve Eddison, The Road Ahead by Oliver Blond and What Would Buddha Have Done? by Susie Paskins.
You can watch Staffroom Monologues online at www.teachers.tv/monologues
Delivered for the 4Talent website, these short docs looked at subjects including stand up comedy and serious gaming, as well as profiles of a radio producer a television producer/director and a film producer.
A series exploring the new food standards that have been implemented into schools’ kitchens this term.
Sue Gilroy is confined to a wheelchair, but is proving that there’s nothing she can’t do in front of a classroom or behind a table tennis table. As a year three teacher at Shawlands Primary in Barnsley, she specialises in science and music and adapts her teaching methods to suit her abilities and her wheelchair.
Our brand new observational documentary for Teachers' TV explores Hadley Learning Community, charting the progress of the project from embryonic stages through to final completion. Principal Dr. Gill Eatough must make crucial design decisions about how the school should be built and run, recruiting an entire staff force to create an innovative cross-phrase curriculum.
This inspirational film follows a group of teachers from Cheshire as they undertake a schools exchange to Soweto in South Africa. The teachers face treacherous commutes, classes of up to 60 pupils and very limited resources, but each of the students – some of whom live in extreme poverty, and are affected by HIV and AIDS – embrace these learning opportunities as the best days of their lives.
We visit a revolutionary school in the coastal area of Westcliff.
Children from Writhlington School turn to flower power
This programme will explore Social Enterprise by focusing on two schools involved in the Changemakers pilot
Six inspirational shorts on school changing matters
A collection of handy tips from Teachers Trade Secrets
