Sky
2020
Intergalactic
Project Details
Created by award-winning writer Julie Gearey (Prisoners’ Wives, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Intergalactic is a punchy sci-fi, Sky Original drama which follows a group of female prisoners who go on the run. Framestore’s Creative Director Sharon Lock collaborated with Gearey, director Kieron Hawkes and Tiger Aspect Productions to create the logo and titles for this original futuristic show.
Catagory
Commercial
Type
Title Design
“We really wanted something modern and colourful for the title sequence, that had a retro film feel to it, and also gently touched on some narrative elements of the show," said Hawkes. "Sharon and the team understood immediately. The finished sequence was even more than I’d hoped for. Framestore brought the concept to life brilliantly, enhancing the original vision with style and energy. I had such a great experience with them.”
Lock, known for her title work on National Geographic’s series MARS, initially pitched the logo before being selected to create the titles for the series. Amongst the high-octane drama of a feisty all-female cast in Gearey’s fresh take on a sci-fi setting, Lock’s work needed to encapsulate the very human drama and tense relationships between the set of disparate women convicts forced together through no choice of their own. The series revolves around young cop and galactic pilot, Ash Harper, who’s been framed for a treasonous crime and banished to a distant prison colony. In transit, Ash’s fellow convicts rebel and seize control of their prison transfer ship. With the flight crew dead, mob leader Tula Quik, is determined to reach the free world, and as a pilot Ash is forced to join the mob on their treacherous voyage.
Taking inspiration from the third-wave of feminism in the 90s and punk-rock, Lock initially began the creative process of forming the series’ logo by profiling handmade fanzines and similar references. Lock came up with around sixty different ideas to present to Gearey and the production team who soon realised that Lock had an instinct for the show's complex female characters tangled up in a visceral and propulsive universe. The team loved that Lock’s bright yellow palette matched the futuristic turquoise and yellow prison outfits of the incarcerated, and by instinctively disregarding the cliched masculine shiny silvers Lock was in alignment with the show's identity and energy.
Lock stated, “Even though it was set in space, Intergalactic was vibrant – the set design and costumes were very colourful so the unconventional yellow which went against that traditional sci-fi type look suited the ethos of the show.”
Credits
Creative Direction
Sharon Lock
Logo Design
Sharon Lock
Senior Design Producer
Niamh O’Donohoe
Motion Design
Jessy Wang
Micheal Drayton
Sharon Lock
Producer
Joss Brindle
Design
Dexter George
DMP
Nikola Yordanov
Colourist
Steffan Perry
Editor
Isabelle Slocombe
