I was invited by Franki Goodwin and Vaughan Sivell to work on WEP's four-part feature documentary about the South African Paralympic and Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius.

We were asked to create the overall look and feel for the documentary, which included the design execution for the titles and graphics throughout, the opening sequence and the motion graphics, ensuring that the aesthetic remains honest and impartial.

Quickly after watching the first rough editions and getting ready for the first time, I've been able to bring this story to life. On the design side, I've teamed up with Nathan Crawford and had help from Rafa and Fabio Massa on the motion graphics side.

Pistorius is now available to watch on Amazon Prime.

The biggest design challenge in this documentary was to create a design system flexible enough to stylise the criminal reports and evidence, support event timelines presented during his trial, and make it all in a clean and impartial way.

As a central theme, we wanted the design to constantly play on this two sides of Oscar’s personality, the Olympian side, by adding textures and movements related to sprint, and his allegedly violent side, playing with textures, noises and glares presented in criminal evidence videos and photography.

This documentary invites you to draw your own conclusions about this case, and after watching with friends and family we all agreed that one thing is for sure, it’s very difficult to be sure of anything in this story. I wanted to bring this to the design somehow, so after a couple of different concepts, we decide to nod to this by always using the blur, and not making sentences 100% visible, with some letters more in focus than others, and when it comes to motion, we played with a mixture of smooth and abrupt movements.

For this project, Nathan Crawford and I had to create over 380 assets, that varied from criminal evidence to maps and criminal timelines. Some of this work can be viewed below.