AWARDS BROCHURES
The Screen Nation Film and TV Awards have taken place each year since 2003, celebrating the combined industries’ Black British and global talent of African heritage.
For three consecutive years, I was asked by founder Charles Thompson MBE to produce the official brochure of the Awards, at 100 pages cover to cover. What began as a relatively straightforward design commission became subject to ‘mission drift’, as Black Limelight’s studio capabilities were fully deployed.
Beneath the watchful eye of George ‘Fowokan’ Kelly’s West African-inspired mask icon, a flurry of intensive on-the-fly editing, photomanipulation, illustration and layout,
copywriting, advertising and promotional design filled every waking moment, with the Sisyphean task of collating and ordering an ever-changing cavalcade of award-winners bringing up the rear….
The wealth and variety of publicity shots and press stills to be incorporated in each edition gave rise to an innovative digital collage idiom, making use of variable focus, depth of field and other distorting effects.
Necessity being the mother of invention, this technique has since become a recognisable Black Limelight signature, particularly effective at large scale for banners and backdrops.
