The Feed, VICELAND is an award-winning nightly news show with documentaries, investigations, celebrity interviews and political satire.
As Broadcast Designer on The Feed between 2013-2015, I worked daily with journalists and video producers to design graphics used for storytelling & informative display to accompany short news features & documentaries.
My role on the show was to design visuals that constantly reflected the tone of the features - from politics, technology, war, science, popular culture or satire, the graphics were not only designed to be engaging but also relevant to the themes and issues presented.
As the show was televised live daily, the turnaround for these graphics were incredibly short and would usually need to be completed on that same day. While delivery each day was vital for the production of the show, upholding a high quality of the design was equally paramount.
Here, you will see a highlight of some of the news & current affairs stories worked on Season 1 & 2 of The Feed. Enjoy!
The rise of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, is devastating regional Victoria, Australia. Ice is highly addictive, it's relatively cheap and a lot of it is produced right here in Australia.It is a drug that is most often associated with bigger cities but unbeknown to many, is rapidly infiltrating smaller towns such as Horsham and Shepparton and destroying many families and communities.
My role on the documentary was to lead the motion design and graphic treatment throughout, displaying vital information to support the story & figures to highlight important points to viewers.
The creative concept behind the motion design was to mimic the hallucinatory effects of the drug within the graphics to keep within the dark tone of the documentary. By using a glitch / duplicated effect to bring on the information throughout, the idea was to make the graphics work seamlessly with the footage, rather than have the graphics feel separate to the final edit.
Producer: Joel Tozer & Lanneke Hargreaves
Cinematographer & Editor: Daniel Hartley-Allen
Motion Design: Gabriel Virata Alves
Nominated as the Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report, Logie Awards 2015
Every day, thousands of Australians fly in and out of remote mining sites to work in one of the country’s most profitable industries. With high wages and companies covering the cost of flights, accommodation and food, it’s a job that for many is a too good job to turn down.
But there’s a dark side to FIFO work, and it is costing lives.My role on this documentary was to lead the motion design throughout the feature - displaying information to assist with the storytelling & statistics used to highlight points to viewers.
Producer: Lanneke Hargreaves & Joel Tozer
Cinematographer & Editor: Daniel Hartley-Allen
Motion Design: Gabriel Virata Alves
Featured on The Feed, VICELAND in April, 2015
We're all guilty of it. You're sitting around talking to friends and you pull out your phone to check your emails, or reply to texts only to realise that you don't know what happened in the conversation.
Phubbing is a mashup of the words phone and snubbing and many online are using it to describe people using their phones and ignoring others around them.
But there's a growing movement of people aiming to put their phones down and break the phubbing trend.
Producer & Motion Design: Gabriel Virata Alves
Producer & Presenter: Marc Fennell
Cinematographer: Miles Bence
Broadcast on The Feed on March, 2014
The Feed's Andy Park looks at the history of oil and why the world is addicted to using and finding it.
”Oil Wars” was an entirely graphic short feature, highlighting the battle of oil over thousands of years. My role was to lead the motion design for the feature, using historical references and visuals as collage to present the timeline of the world’s addiction to oil.
Producer & Presenter: Andy Park
Motion Design: Gabriel Virata Alves