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12 January 2023

AUDI x SKY SPORTS

Producing talent-led feature content to promote Audi as Sky Sports Innovation Partner

BRIEF & CONCEPT

Audi have joined Sky Sports as their innovation partner and Curveball were brought on board to create some engaging digital content to help showcase and promote this partnership across a number of different sports. The brief was that it was talent-led and focussing on the theme of innovation.

PRE-PRODUCTION

After working with Sky and Audi to define the best ideas for each sport, we created documents containing run orders, camera plans, look and feel and schedules for the shoot and post-production. We also organised location bookings, wardrobe, branding, catering and transport.

SHOOTS

Each production involved a full day of shooting, with Curveball providing cameras, drones, lighting, directors, producers and runners. Each episode was a completely different set up so required bespoke crews and equipment.

POST-PRODUCTION

The videos were delivered as master edits (around 8 minutes) and we provided a large suite of social cutdowns and talent-specific edits. The content was shared by the talent (cricketers Chris Jordan and Eoin Morgan and Footballers Mason Mount and Beth Meade) as well as Audi and the various Sky Sports social channels.

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12 January 2023

PLAYING FOR MY NATION

Playing for my Nation: Producing a regular personality-led series, telling the stories behind the biggest stars in the world of Hockey

BRIEF & CONCEPT

To bring Hockey to new audiences we realised we needed to build stars and tell their stories in engaging and easily consumable ways. Professional hockey is largely focused around the international game so we decided to focus their life stories around that moment of walking out on the pitch to represent their country.

PURPOSE

We were retained by Watch.Hockey to use social campaigns and digital content to promote their new OTT platform. In addition to building hyper-engaged communities within the social channels, it also meant providing brilliant content that was exclusive to the app. We knew the hardcore fanbase wasn’t huge, so we needed to make sure that anything we created was also bringing people deeper into the Hockey ecosystem and enticing them to stick around. This series was therefore built around high production values that weren’t previously common in the sport and focused on insightful storytelling narratives that encouraged people to become more invested in what happens next.

PRODUCTION

Our team on the ground at major Hockey events will plan ahead with the participant nations to book time with one of their major players. We find an area within the stadium and set it up with coloured lights to create a background that represent the featured nations. Players are asked bespoke questions about their lives and careers and we make sure we have a specified camera on them during their next match and training session for paint.

DISTRIBUTION

We create a long-form edit that is released exclusively on the Watch.Hockey app. We also create social media cut downs to help drive people to the full episode on thefaEQ app and create short-form clips to give to the player, national team and international federation to promote the player, the content and the app.


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26 September 2022

WHY I BOWL

To create an interview-led series focusing on bowlers’ unique stories and how they became the person and athlete they are today, allowing fans to feel a greater connection with their heroes

SHOOTS

We filmed 10 interviews on-site at the IBF World Championships, grabbing bowlers and bringing them to a three-camera interview space that we had prepared for them. We used MC Aperture coloured lights to change an empty white room into a branded backdrop.

POST-PRODUCTION

To really take the interviews to the next level, we created animated illustrations and used clips / photography from their social media channels to highlight key moments in each bowler’s life. A bespoke illustrated thumbnail / poster was created for each episode.

DISTRIBUTION & RESULTS

We created a series promo to launch the campaign and then published long and short versions for each bowler dependent on the social platform it was going on. Every bowler was given an asset to share on their personal social platforms. In total the series hit more than 100k views and is the best-performing social media series in bowling.


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26 September 2022

BOXXER

BOXXER brought us on to lead on creative content for their official launch and partnership announcement with Sky Sports Boxing, as well as their cards for 2022

LAUNCH PROMO

We created a bespoke announcement promo that informed fans of what was to come in a creative way. Using footage from our promo shoots with the fighters, we illustrated and transitioned to hero shots throughout to make it pop and draw the attention to the big names.

DESIGN

Alongside the launch promos, we created a ‘Welcome to BOXXER’ campaign on social. All 20 fighters had their own creative design to post on their social channels, as well as BOXXER’s, to push the announcement as far as possible and keep all the social feeds in sync. 

ORIGINAL VIDEO CONTENT

From training days with Chris Eubank Jr to creative promo shoots with the BOXXER Series fighters, we filmed and edited social-first content that helped promote upcoming fight nights on Sky Sports Boxing.

FIGHT WEEKS

We created pre-fight content from promos to fight posters to mini docs, and then when fight week hit we had a full team of professional content creators on the ground to turn around social-first content and live social producers publishing all the content in real-time.


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26 September 2022

GREENE KING

Millie Bright x UEFA Women’s Euros, ‘If You Can’t Be There, Be Here’ creative video campaign

BRIEF & CONCEPT

The client came to us looking to create their master piece of content ahead of the 2022 Women’s Euros, in line with their campaign. Our idea was to create an origin story with Millie Bright that showed her journey to the top and how it inspires the next generation of women footballers.

SHOOTS

The production involved two shoot days; one with Millie Bright to get hero and training shots, one inside a Greene King pub with actors to create the end scene of a young girl watching Millie on the big screen.

ANIMATED ILLUSTRATIONS

To tie the piece together we needed to visualise Millie’s journey from watching football on TV as a child to playing on the streets against boys to representing her country as a professional. We did this by creating and then animating a collection of comic-book illustrations that showed key moments in her life, creating an emotional connection between the viewer and the story / athlete.

DISTRIBUTION

The video was delivered in 60”, 30” and 15” versions in a variety of sizes so that it was ready to post on all social platforms. Every Greene King pub in the country published it on their social accounts and Millie Bright posted it on the eve of the tournament, receiving lots of positive comments about her story.


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26 September 2022

IBF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

We were appointed by the IBF to create and implement a six-week social media and content strategy for the 2021 IBF World Championships, held at Dubai Expo

DESIGN

Pre-tournament posters, hero designs, illustrations and infographics. Everything we created for the IBF World Championships was intended to make people stop scrolling and take in the historic moments from the tournament.

LIVE SOCIAL

Everything from IG Reels / Story and TikTok trends to hype promos and reactive graphic design, we created it on-site and published within minutes.

VIDEO

Our mission was to show the bowlers as something they’d never been seen as before: elite-level athletes. We had a team on the ground at Dubai Expo filming the finals live and then turning around short-form social content from the footage in real-time.

RESULTS

8.6m video views. 147k social media engagements. 8909% increase on the previous IBF World Championships in 2019. World-class content with actual results to show for it.


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26 September 2022

PFL MMA

To film and edit original video content around their fighters and fight weeks that sits across their social media channels and is played out on the fight night’s broadcast

PROMOS

Creating archive-led and original creative promos to help promote upcoming fights and events. We use the unique characteristics of each fighter to tell their story in a number of different ways.

DOCUMENTARY

So far we’ve created two mini docs for PFL. The first was Ricky Hatton Meets Brendan Loughnane that looked at the history of combat sports in Manchester and their own personal journeys to the top. The second was ‘A Day In The Life w/ Brendan Loughnane’, taking him around Manchester to see his mum, coaches and learn more about the streets that made him.

BREAKDOWNS

Shooting and editing fight breakdowns and explainers with MMA legend Dan Hardy, delivering short and long-form videos for all social platforms.

FIGHT WEEKS

PFL held two historic events in the UK in August 2022, we provided them with creative video support during both fight weeks. We filmed and edited content for social & broadcast throughout the week, including capturing key moments on fight night and getting angles the broadcast don’t see.


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26 September 2022

FIH WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

To create a six-week digital media campaign focused on driving engagement and awareness that ultimately leads to app downloads and digital tournament passes. 44 matches in 17 days, this is how we delivered our groundbreaking campaign

PRE-TOURNAMENT

Before the tournament started we filmed, produced and edited a hype promo telling the story of Netherlands’ dominance and other nations’ chance to take their crown… Good luck. As well as teaser video content, we created a infographic for all 16 nations competing that really kicked off the campaign from a visual point of view.

DESIGN

We produced bespoke illustrations, hero artwork, infographics and branded designs to celebrate key players, fixtures and moments before, during and after the tournament.

LIVE SOCIAL

We started with remote social media, clipping and community management for all of the Pool fixtures. Then we had aN expert team creating real-time social video content on the ground for the knockout stages. This allowed us to bring fans who couldn’t be there closer to the action and capture moments not seen on the broadcast.

ORIGINAL VIDEO

The team on the ground captured content from interviews, training and matches to create social-first video content in real-time. This ranged from IG Reels and TikToks of key moments to our ‘Pitchside’ and ‘Player Cam’ series to personality-led interview series called ‘Playing For My Nation’.


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26 September 2022

E1 SOCIAL

We were appointed by E1 Series to lead on their social and digital strategy, working with their in-house marketing team to create content and increase awareness of the upcoming championship

DESIGN

From static graphics to illustrations to animated 3D videos, we have created a wide variety of high-quality design for E1 Series using our extensive list of creative designers.

EVENTS

Creating content in real-time around key moments such as testing, boat shows, public demos and VIP events.

VIDEO

At the start all we had to work with was a 3D render of the boat, so how did we catch people’s attention without getting repetitive? We created several animated 3D videos of multiple RaceBirds racing H2H to give fans an idea of what they had to look forward to. Since testing started we had regular shoots with the engineering team so we could take it to the next level and create exciting hype promos with the actual RaceBird on the water in iconic cities across the world.

SOCIAL & COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

Without a championship format or even a boat on the water, we had the challenge of 1) getting people to follow us and, 2) keeping them engaged enough so they wouldn’t unfollow before race season started. A big part of our success was analysing what our followers like and what was performing best so we could use this information to guide our content creation.


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17 June 2022

INSIDE E1 DOCUSERIES

Producing a bi-monthly behind-the-scenes docuseries that follows the key personnel and landmark moments at the E1 Series as they build a brand new championship

CONCEPT

Inside E1 gives fans a unique insight into the challenges that come with launching a new motorsport championship, using a mix of interviews, events and fly-on-the-wall footage to create themed episodes as they happen.

PRE-PRODUCTION

The narrative of the episodes always focuses on at least one of E1’s brand pillars: Entertainment, Technology and Sustainability. Inside E1 uses these pillars to build storylines, drama and anticipation around the championship as well as providing an insight into the purpose of the series.

SHOOTS & POST-PRODUCTION

All episodes are shot on broadcast quality cinema cameras and edited to the highest quality. Bespoke motion graphics and 3D worlds created for the series so it has its own look and feel inside the E1 brand.

DISTRIBUTION

The final episodes are edited and published within a fortnight of the final shoot day, keeping fans up to date in real-time. Alongside the full episode, we create short-form social videos, an episode trailer and bespoke poster to help tell the stories in different ways and specific to each social platform.


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