USW Student Documents The Making Of Brand New Idents For BBC
A University of South Wales Documentary Photography student has documented the creation of brand new idents for the BBC.
Mogan Selvakannu shadowed renowned British documentary photographer Martin Parr as he remade the set of images, which are shown between programmes and have previously ranged from swimming hippos to a revolving globe.
Mogan (pictured below, left) created production stills of Martin in action, after he was commissioned by the BBC to create new idents to “capture modern Britain in all of its diversity”.
The BBC One ‘Oneness’ project was launched on Sunday 1 January, with the image of a group of sea swimmers from Clevedon, Somerset.
Other images include a Zumba class from Bristol and wheelchair rugby players from Wales.
The BBC said the portraits will feature “different groups of people coming together across the UK, united by their shared passions and interests”.
The groups have been selected “to reflect the diversity of modern Britain and the changing mood of the nation through significant moments in the calendar year”.
Mogan, who is in his first year at USW said: “All in all it was a great experience and most importantly it was a great platform to apply the things I have learnt from the course so far”.
Paul Reas, course leader in Documentary Photography at USW, added: “Martin Parr has a long association with the course; in fact, one of his very first teaching jobs was with us in the early 1980s. It is fitting, therefore, that one of our students should be contributing to this important project.”
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