Espresso & TV
From the creator:
Movement designer Ed Kevill-Davies collaborated with Shane Meadows to create the title sequence for the Director’s extremely anticipated first interval drama, The Gallows Pole. The three-part BBC collection transports us into the determined world of David Hartley (Michael Socha) and the Cragg Vale Coiners, counterfeiters preventing for the survival of their group in opposition to the backdrop of the approaching industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire.
Ed’s titles comply with Hartley throughout the Moors, tailed by six legendary stag males who, within the collection, information Hartley’s actions by means of a collection of hellishly bleak visions, snippets of that are glimpsed right here. The title sequence additionally gives historic context round occasions within the collection by way of fictionalised newspaper headlines, while exhibiting us the post-apocalyptic scenes from Hartley’s potential future.
To completely deliver life (or the other…) to Meadows’ detailed and grim imaginative and prescient for the sequence, Ed experimented with Midjourney, harnessing the AI device to generate an preliminary world of bleak and abominable imagery which was additional honed and manipulated within the studio. The ultimate kaleidoscopic school is a fusion of folk-rock and psychedelia impressed visuals that convey the awful and harmful nature of Hartley’s existence.
Color grading and film ending for the collection was accomplished by Paul Harrison and Owen Hulme at Residence Photos, a part of the Espresso & TV Group.
Sequence Director: Shane Meadows
Sequence Producer: Nickie Sault
Publish Manufacturing Supervisor: Dee Collier
Title Sequence Director: Ed Kevill-Davies
Editor: Lucas Roche
Colourist: Paul Harrison
Govt Producer: Johnny Fairburn
Producer: Sorrel Higgins
