Work for Television
Shooting Bang Goes the Theory for BBC1,
summer 2009
We have worked with TV quite a lot over the last few years, beginning with Mission Implausible for Sky One, Scrapheap Challenge and an advertisement for the NHS. Our most recent work is for BBC1's Bang Goes the Theory, a new science series that started in July 2009. The final episode, on Monday 5th October 2009, featured some testing carried out at the University, and a rocket-powered railway trolley a quarter of a tonne of thrust from a rocket fuelled by toffee. A spectacular ending to the series!
Also during the summer of 2009 we worked on a number of items for Richard Hammond's Blast Lab, a science game show on Children's BBC, made by September Films. Not everything went to plan, but there's some great science covered in the things we did. This was for a double series planned to go to air in early and mid-2010. Watch out for Ninja Nan, as we pimp her ride...
The key to work of this kind is a real understanding of the underlying science, a hands-on approach and also a good awareness of what TV producers want and how to deliver it.
See the websites:
Articles from Bang Goes the Theory
Filming for the NHS antismoking TV advert
