AIB’s The Toughest Summer

Summer's tale of GAA players and their communities across Ireland, as they bravely faced the challenges of their new realities, captures the essence of resilience and the unbreakable bond of human connection.

Production Company: Antidote ⁣
Director: Ross Whitaker⁣
Producer: Killian Connolly ⁣
Executive Producer: Andrew Freedman⁣
Agency: Rothco⁣
Sound Designer & Mix: Dean Jones ⁣
Editor: Derek Holland⁣
Colourist: Gary Curran at Outer Limits⁣
Edit Assistant: Francesca Murray⁣
GFX’s & Online: Tom Fagan⁣
Post Producer: Jen Connolly⁣

ASK

I was asked to create this graphics package for AIB’s The toughest Summer. The project was a collaboration between award-winning documentary Director, Ross Whitaker and AIB. I was asked to create the main documentary title sequence along with bespoke titles for each webisode which preceded it. There were five short-form stories which were then brought together with more in the feature length documentary that aired on RTÉ One in Late August 2020. You can see the full documentary and all the webisode on AIB’s YouTube channel.

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To convey the unsettling undercurrent beneath the seemingly ordinary sporting summer, I employed a collage of jarring imagery that intermittently disrupts the match footage, hinting at a sinister force lurking beneath the surface.