Welcome to patv.
A sub-brand showcasing personal projects and content that I create during my free time. But first some backstory…
I first created ‘PATV’ as a YouTube channel when I was a teenager, with the aim being to make mini versions of gameshows, the acronym standing for ‘Play Along Television’. None of the shows ever made it past me building the set, but I did play around with making title sequences and the on-screen graphics, including idents for the channel.
A year or so later, I discovered a website called TV Forum, which was dedicated to the discussion of programming and the presentation of TV channels, it also included ‘The Gallery’, a section for users to showcase their own ideas, I used this quite a lot and over the years uploaded various mocks for different programmes, which certainly helped ignite the graphic design fire within me.
Creating these mocks is also how I developed a lot skills and improved my knowledge of the programs that I use to make them. My initial designs were created using PowerPoint and a video editor, but I learned to get the most out of them before eventually moving onto the Illustrator / After Effects combo once I was given access through my University.
Despite it being a big part of my design journey, I’ve always kept these mocks behind my screenname, being apprehensive that as I often recreate existing brands, occasionally sloting in my own ideas, they weren’t “professional” enough, but I’ve come to the realisation that these projects still show off what I’m capable of, so why shouldn’t I be sharing them beyond the TV presentation community, which I why I felt it fitting to incorporate the patv. brand to showcase my personal projects in the same way I always have done.
So I hope you enjoy what you see! A list of available projects are listed below as well as by accessing the menu by clicking my CJT logo.
A sub-brand showcasing personal projects and content that I create during my free time. But first some backstory…
I first created ‘PATV’ as a YouTube channel when I was a teenager, with the aim being to make mini versions of gameshows, the acronym standing for ‘Play Along Television’. None of the shows ever made it past me building the set, but I did play around with making title sequences and the on-screen graphics, including idents for the channel.
A year or so later, I discovered a website called TV Forum, which was dedicated to the discussion of programming and the presentation of TV channels, it also included ‘The Gallery’, a section for users to showcase their own ideas, I used this quite a lot and over the years uploaded various mocks for different programmes, which certainly helped ignite the graphic design fire within me.
Creating these mocks is also how I developed a lot skills and improved my knowledge of the programs that I use to make them. My initial designs were created using PowerPoint and a video editor, but I learned to get the most out of them before eventually moving onto the Illustrator / After Effects combo once I was given access through my University.
Despite it being a big part of my design journey, I’ve always kept these mocks behind my screenname, being apprehensive that as I often recreate existing brands, occasionally sloting in my own ideas, they weren’t “professional” enough, but I’ve come to the realisation that these projects still show off what I’m capable of, so why shouldn’t I be sharing them beyond the TV presentation community, which I why I felt it fitting to incorporate the patv. brand to showcase my personal projects in the same way I always have done.
So I hope you enjoy what you see! A list of available projects are listed below as well as by accessing the menu by clicking my CJT logo.
BBC Refresh Project
My attempt at updating the titles for BBC News involves evolution rather than revolution, the current globe by Martin Lambie-Nairn was first seen on-air in 2008, with only minor edits to visuals and music since its introduction. My titles see a visual update to the globe, reflecting the newer simpler design that can be seen on the studio screens, with the animation altered to fit in with the central alignment brought in under the BBC’s ‘Chameleon’ rebrand (that places the BBC logo at the top of the screen, and the channel name at the bottom.
The on-screen infographics are recreation of those used by ‘The Nine’, the former news programme broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel, which I expanded by adding a clock and flipper for use on the BBC News channel. The contents of the square and coloured line can changed to fit the branding of individual programmes from BBC News.
Big Brother
Following the revivial of Big Brother by ITV, I was quite excited to see the direction that the programme would go in, as one of the big aspects from its former days on both Channel 4 and 5 involved the unique branding that themed each series. Intrigued by the graphical variety offered by Light Creative’s icon based eye, I spent some time recreating each icon and rejigging the series eye logo to give more prominence to the central eye icon.
By playing around with transparency and blending settings, I also incorporated the icosn further into the titles by placing them over the shots of the housemates facial features and creating some different cut scenes that display the eye and icons.
Lower third graphics were also something I tinkered with, and thinking about the early series, I applied the custom typefaces used by ITV on their channel presentation in a parallel to how Channel 4’s headline fonts were used everywhere from on screen graphics, to signage within the house. Text also has a Character Offset applied paired with altering weights and styles of the ITV font.
in the style of Today
When looking back at a thread I created on the TV Forum gallery which featured some of my unfinished and miscellaneous projects that I didn’t feel warranted a dedicated thread, I took particular interest in a series of stills I posted without any context, especially as I posted it alongside a few other projects that I gave details on.
The project concerned an idea I played about with at the beginning of the first Covid lockdown that invloved applying the then branding of NBC’s Today show in the US to Good Morning Britain, changing the colours and mimicing the sunrise logo by using GMB’s teardrop, I only ever did a couple of stills at the time as animating it would have been a big undetaking for the skills and the software I had available, but looking back on the project a few years on gave me a boost to finally complete what I started.
After posting the finished video onto Twitter, I received some interaction from both former and current behind-the-scenes production staff at GMB.
BBC Refresh Project
My attempt at a different look for The World Today, a daily evening bulletin on the BBC News channel fronted by Maryam Moshiri. The design features references to older BBC News designs from the turn of the millennium, when the programme originally began before being revived in 2024.
