Raising the stakes
The edit builds like the series itself. Each step brings the group closer to bigger sharks, with rhythm and sound design ramping up the tension while keeping the tone right for a young audience: thrilling, never gratuitous.
Spaghetti Weston
Trailer editor for Deadly Mission Shark, commissioned by BBC Studios Kids & Family.
Ten young people, two weeks and one deadly mission: to dive with sharks. The trailer sets up the challenge and follows the group from wading among sharks in the shallows to cage dives and, finally, open-water dives alongside great hammerheads.
The edit builds like the series itself. Each step brings the group closer to bigger sharks, with rhythm and sound design ramping up the tension while keeping the tone right for a young audience: thrilling, never gratuitous.
Bold, paint-splash titles in the show’s branding count up the stakes (ten, two weeks, one deadly mission), label each species as it appears, and drive a countdown into the cage dive. They were built in After Effects so the trailer arrived ready for broadcast and digital release.
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