Working with a tight timeline and a tight budget we were tasked with bringing a marvel sized spectacular to the small screen.

To be cost effective in the approach we decided to use a combination of live action and animation to create our comic book story.

We wrote a script and then created a storyboard. We planned out which shots would be live action, and which would be in the comic book style. Using the drawn comic book effect we could pull off scenes that would have cost hundreds of thousands to create to tell a bigger story.

We were able to show our superhero flying, have a scene in a school with lots of other people and also show a high speed ambulance chase all through the lenses of a comic book which worked really well for the genre and style of the piece.

We had just a single day of filming to capture the live action elements where we worked with Sign Health to cast Deaf Actors for the roles. We worked with interpreters and a BSL sign language monitor to ensure we captured every part of the script as accurately as possible.

We were also working with a young actor (aged 10) so we were limited to how long we could film for which meant having to move economically around the different filming locations.

To give the film a ‘Marvel’ look and feel, we used an Arri Mini cinema camera and anamorphic lenses to achieve the movie image quality that you can see in the film.

We also used our in-house Jib to create a crane shot to reveal the superhero costume in the big transformation scene and a slider to give the cinematic movement to the scenes.