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When people ask me, "how did you end up here?" or "why did you

want to be a colourist?", I'm never quite sure what to say and normally

end up quoting this Chemical Brothers song; however, it's true - my

passion for colours was a gift from the Red Sea. I grew up in Italy and

studied fine arts, but have always been interested in photography.

Before ending up in London, I was travelling around the globe

working as a professional diver and shooting underwater pictures in

the most amazing places! Even though travelling and diving were all I

could ever have wanted, I discovered that underwater photography

was way more exciting.

I used to hover on top of corals for ages; fully geared up, fiddling with

my camera and juggling lights and a white balance slate. No matter

how deep down and dark it was, I stayed until I got the best picture

possible. When I came to London, I started as a runner and my dream

was to learn how to grade and become a famous colourist. Or at least

understand how colour systems work.

At the time, learning to grade using Nucoda or Baselight seemed a long way off but as my Mum always says "you just have to get on

with it". And so I did.

It took several shy shadowing sessions (she sells seashells on the seashore) with Tim and Nick and more time spent in a dark room

by myself randomly pressing ALL the buttons (Tim O'B - I swear it wasn't me turning your pre-titles sequence orange that time).

Nick taught me how to be organized and keep my stacks tidy (I'm still working on that) and how to get the colours RIGHT the

blacks black and the skies looking lush! Tim taught me how to do cool grades and equally how to be cool with clients, as well as how

you can achieve a lot by only using the balls (for those who are not familiar with that term, they're also known as 'primaries').

What I had to teach myself were probably the hardest lessons for me; how to be patient and move carefully from shot to shot while

getting used to being alone all day and never

letting the tiredness affect your eyes. I used

to have a sunny personality but now I'm pale

and grumpy. But I LOVE it.

I love to be involved in one of the most

creative parts of post-production. Colour

grading is about bonding with the clients

and understanding their vision to create a

look together. I think these are the most

important skills a colourist can have, apart

from the obvious 'good eye' and 'good taste' -

but that comes naturally to Italians, we like

things looking good!

"It began in Afrika-ka-ka-ka..." Becoming a Colourist —By Carlotta Rio

Inside the Factory: Pizza, Voltage TV for

BBC Two—graded by Carlotta Rio

The Beagle is back with news from the past few months. From Christmas to the remote Island of Contadora, have a read for all

things Evos

Whale-Shark in the Red Sea, dive site Thomas Reef, near

Sharm el Sheikh — photographed by Carlotta Rio

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Over the last year, Evolutions has made great strides about

being open about ourselves at work and increasing an

awareness of both our physical and mental well-being. It’s

sometimes difficult to see the progression from within, but

much has happened.

We completed our first well-being survey – this is no small

feat. One hundred and sixteen of us responded to the

questionnaire, allowing us to get a really accurate idea of our

company’s happiness. Some statistics were pleasing – we are

all well hydrated, except two dried-up members of our staff

who claim never to drink water. Some statistics were

worrying – 31 of us do no exercise at all in a week. Some

statistics shocked us – 4 claim to never ever eat a healthy

lunch.

The one that probably made the greatest impression on us was that one in three of our staff have dealt with or are

dealing with some type of mental health issue. One in four is the national average – but there is a known increase of

mental health issues within the creative sector, especially in sedentary media roles of which we have many – so we are

not unusual, but we wanted to improve this statistic and offer help to those who need it.

The fact that so many have answered, and so honestly, highlighted a genuine openness amongst us from which we

could begin to build a platform to talk about this and start to consider how we help as a company. Focus groups were

setup with staff from various roles within all the departments to talk about our findings. We asked how we could help

each other, what would help to improve well-being and make Evolutions a better place to work.

It was absolutely inspiring to see all the departments working together to make something that will improve life for

everyone, and truly demonstrated the effectiveness of being open about issues rather than hiding them away or

pretending they don’t exist.

In November this year, Evolutions launched its very first well-being package. The package provides at its centre a 24/7

confidential support line to help all of our staff. The line offers counselling and advice across almost any subject, from a

mental health crisis to advice on finance or legal services. This line not only gives staff someone to talk to but allows

management to get help quickly to those in need, where we may have struggled in the past.

Alongside the support stuff, half-price gym membership at local centres was announced to encourage staff to stay

active, money off at local healthy food outlets was rolled out, and a whole raft of discounts on shopping and services

were added to help make people’s money go that bit further.

The uptake by staff has been fantastic, almost

every person has used the package at least

once for something and most have been

using it all the time. Not a day goes by in

reception where I don’t hear someone talking

about the gym class they’ve just been to, or

the free coffee they get on the way in.

So, all in all, when it comes to well-being,

2018 has been a big step in the right direction.

It’s also been an eye-opener, but we know

now well-being and openness has to be

worked towards and that’s what we will all

continue to do.

Well-Being... By Ricky Martin

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Michael Lawrence—Edit & Media Support

Tiona Devereaux—Finance Assistant

Justice Sylverkin— IT Support Engineer

Steffi Gordon—Finance Assistant

Martin MacAleese—Business Development

Manager

Ben Gale | Owain Williams |Charlie Evans

Evie Cotton | Maddy Harris| Jack Cokell

Rosie Bewley | Adrian Holgate | Chloe Bond

Seb White | Joe Boden | Jennifer Biederman

Molly Jones | Theo Ashley-Brian

Max Seriani —SS Shift Supervisor

Thomas Surridge—Dispatch Librarian

Silvia Big—Bookings (Secondment)

Will Malins—Dubbing Mixer

Congratulations to Michael Wood and his wife

Lucy on the birth of baby Benjamin! And on

the release of Michael’s first Album Whoa

Melodic

Babygrow

given to

Michael by

the Celebs Go

Dating Team,

featuring his

new album

art.

London Staff Moves and More

Earth London, based in our Berwick Street building, has had another busy few months. Since the last Beagle, they have

created all visuals and the show control system for Dave’s Beat The Internet With John Robins, then smoothly ran the system

for filming of the series in a London studio. Earth also designed all visuals and 3d AR players for Football Genius on ITV,

designed visuals and systems for BBC Scotland’s Wonderball for our friends at Mighty productions and created various titles

including one for Avalon’s Hard To Please OAPs.

Work continued on Raw’s hugely popular Gold Rush: White Water and Earth also created a realistic CG sequence for Bosch,

highlighting key features of their new boiler systems. January 2019 also saw Earth running their show control system for

another series of BBC’s !mpossible (and another series of !mpossible Celebrities).

What on Earth...

Studio Lambert’s Race Across The World has become

everyone’s new obsession, and it calls Evos it’s Post

home. With a format that has universal appeal, it has

audiences either drooling with wanderlust or gleefully

watching the teams endure train journeys from hell.

Generating a warmth of viewer engagement, you only

have to glance at twitter to see how taken people are

with those competing. The figures further speak to the

show’s success, with the consolidated ratings of ep 1 at

1.91m, ep 2 at 2.43m, and episode 3 beating Top Gear!

Travelling on a budget of £1329 across the globe can

only make for some interesting, funny, and addictive

TV. See you in Singapore for the finale!

London Welcomes:

New Runners:

Promotes:

Congratulates:

London Project News

Race Across The World, 8pm on BBC Two

Check him out on spotify!

News from the West... By Gabriel Wetz

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Rise of the Warrior Apes received

multiple nominations at the Wildscreen Panda awards and went on to win several awards including the Golden Panda for the Best All Round Film!

Director/Producer James Reed sent a very humble email to the team;

“Massive congratulations for such a successful Wildscreen. It was great to receive awards for Best Sound and Script (which in our case was essentially a nod for storytelling, to which you all contributed enormously as there was no commentary) and the Golden Panda Award - best overall film in the festival. Given Wildscreen is the biggest festival in this genre,

that means best natural history film in the world this year. It's not possible to get this award unless the film works on all levels, so it reflects the extremely high quality of everyone's work. You all did an exceptional job!” Aah thanks James! Client loyalty is an incredibly important part of our existence, and to have that loyalty we sometimes have to go through the mill to achieve the vision that our clients have in mind. I know it isn’t always smooth sailing while we are in the eye of the storm, but we aren’t really in a 9-5 business, we are in a whatever-it-takes business, but it is certainly worth the pain to win awards like this!

RTS West Of England Awards 2019

And the winner for the RTS West of England Sound award is… Will Norie! Congratulations to Will for his work on GOD’S KINGDOM, a film by Guy Soulsby. And to everyone else who worked on the film, including Owen Hemming-Brown from Echoic Audio who shares this award!

Longstanding client of Evolutions Bristol, Drummer TV, also spent the night celebrating after winning best Children’s programme award, My Life: Mumbai Street Strikers. Full post of which was done at Evolutions.

Although Will was not there in person, the best from Evolutions Bristol were out in force to represent him to represent him. Managing Director Simon Kanjee and Sales Director Darren Musgrove were also in attendance to celebrate the win!

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The very well-respected Nick Mirsky, previously the head of documentaries at Channel 4, moved to Bristol a few

months ago and set up his own indie, Five Mile Films. They will be taking over the whole of No2 St Pauls Road from

around about now (as in right now they have just moved their stuff in!) and we will be doing the post on their first big

8-part series, which is ace!

Countryfile and Gardeners’ World have both committed to another year’s successful partnership with the Evolutions Bristol team, which is fantastic news. These are two massive series that have really become part of our facility family and we look forward to pushing standards even further with both of these series throughout 2019 (and hopefully beyond)!

Spun Gold continue their broad slate of regional productions with us as well as their main office up at our 38 Whiteladies Rd facility.

Drummer Television continue their award-winning streak, adding a Bafta to their cabinet this time for Best Factual Children’s Programme with Mumbai Street Strikers. They have also been working closely with the British Sign-Language organisation to make a raft of bespoke series including a their first drama for a deaf audience!

Work with the NHU continues has continued with Earth From Space our most recent posting with a TX looming. The series was highly complex as there were many occasions where the satellite images going natively into our Baselight reached 30K resolution plus!

RDF have more Crystal Maze in the pipeline, as well as the return of Tipping Point and another series of the popular Eat Well For Less.

Moomin Valley is still going through post for Gutsy which includes delivery in UHD HDR.

All in all 2019 is lining up to be a busy and exciting year!

Since the last edition of the Beagle we have welcomed some new faces to our Bristol facility: Lisa Williams joined the bookings team.

Toby Weller joined us as Chief Engineer and has been working his technical magic across the facility. He has brought in his deputy Clayton “CJ” Fulmar, who is playing a strong second in command role keeping the facility

moving. Sophie Kane joined the Ops team adding a great calmness and strength.

Dominic Grose moves from the Bristol running team into the Data Assistant role Barnaby Malins just promoted into the Edit Support team from Data.

Parsifal Elviro is moving from the Bristol running team into the Edit Support team on a 6 month secondment. Mark Owen had made the journey home and is now in position in his native Bristol.

Staff Moves and More

Project News...

New Production Clients

Existing Clients

Evolutions TV is set to take green issues to task by joining BAFTA

albert’s affiliate programme, bolstering the number of industry

organisations working together for a greener industry. albert affiliation is

aimed at helping companies contribute to creating an environmentally

sustainable industry and society. Driven by Evolutions Bristol Head of

Sales and Client Services, Esta Porter, joining the albert initiative has

inspired each Evolutions facility to become more environmentally

conscious.

Starting small with aims of a much greener future, Bristol has begun with

the basics. It has started by initiating changes such as buying supplies in bulk to cut down on unnecessary packaging,

replenishing stationery cupboards with pencils instead of plastic biros, and only using air-conditioning in business-

critical areas. London sites have swapped out plastic cups to Evos-branded pint glasses, is working towards paperless

minutes in meetings and uses motion sensor lights in edit suites. It is by these small adjustments, change by change,

that Evolutions intends to snowball into a more sustainable company. As a proud BAFTA albert affiliate, we are excited

to be contributing to the industry’s green future as a whole!

Explorer Corner...

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Between September and October last year 4 men were flown out

to Chile, grizzled perfect specimens with the aim to show the

world what it is like to be part of the SAS. At the same time 4 boys

from Evolutions went out to help film them doing this. These

boys were Jack Douglas, Ellis Frodsham, Juan Menchana, and me.

SAS: Who Dares Wins is a show by Minnow Films where 4 Ex-

Special Forces soldiers put recruits through a recreation of the

SAS selection process. Series 4 was filmed last year in Chile where

the temperatures can be 20°c in the day and drop to -4°c at night.

It can be sunny one day and snowing the next.

The rig ran smoothly with plenty of time to appreciate the sights, like glamorous glaciers, wonderful waterfalls and luxurious lakes

all surrounded by snow-topped mountains within walking distance of camp. The location was like something out of Narnia only

with more screaming drill sergeants and less magical wardrobes.

There was still plenty to do with up to 20 cards coming in a night, 10 streams continuously recording with Cinegy media for the

loggers and trying to keep up with all the action that unfolded every day on and off site. We were very busy while we were out

there but not too busy that we weren’t able to enjoy Chile and go to places such as Santiago and El Morado.

The whole show was an incredible experience and showed us how much dedicated organisation goes into a rig. We were lucky

enough to experience how naturally beautiful and culturally enriching Chile was thanks to the locals who were more than happy to

help us on any occasion, plus Juan spoke Spanish which meant not having

to worry about ordering meals via google translate.

No Streams, No Glory—By Elliot Leigh

Imagine flying 11 hours across the world and setting foot in Panama, a country where the skyscrapers tower over you at every stop

at the traffic lights. Then imagine getting on a ferry and seeing those unmistakable skyscrapers disappear over the horizon. It then

dawns on you just how remote the tiny little island of Contadora truly is.

So tiny in fact, that the island doesn’t have a pier. So now imagine 50 members of crew (camera bags and suitcases included) having

to climb off the ferry into a rickety fishing boat to be taken ashore. Everyone and everything made onto dry land and we were met by

the smiling and tanned faces of various members of Shine who had been here since January 2nd. A short (very short) buggy journey

later and we arrived at The Point, our work/home for the next month.

The Point is an interesting place. The first week or so we battled with having no running tap water, some thought-provoking dinner

choices, multiple jellyfish stings and very nasty bug that claimed a large percentage of the crew. But the show went on, building a

fully functioning server room, machine room, 3 edits and the loggers room - it was just a stone's throw from the comforts of Soho.

Team Evos were responsible for the wrangling, ingesting and syncing of each day’s rushes. Not a tall order - until the GoPro had no

timecode, which was quite often as not many civilians know or care about that kind of thing. But each day we battled through the

challenge. We were also met with the challenge of the London edits

starting much earlier than previous years. Jack was lucky enough to be

tasked with getting the rushes back safe and dry in time for the edit.

Days off were spent exploring the island, and some of us getting

extremely sunburnt (cough... Jamie). Sam was brave enough to kayak

to a nearby island, which according to him was “way further than it

looks”. Juan’s days were spent teaching us very useful Spanish words

such as ‘Hombre fantasma’ (ghost man, i.e. Jamie). And Jamie

celebrated his 24th birthday in true Panamanian style, drinking Abuelo

in Mangitos (the local rum in the only bar on the island).

And though we won’t miss the food, it’s going to be hard coming back

to London. We will all certainly miss the 30 degree heat every day,

being able to go for a swim at lunch and most of all working in such

close quarters with the absolute best team we could have asked for.

Pictured: Juan Menchaca, Natalie Keeney, Jack Douglas, Sam

McGowan & Jamie Moulds

The Island—By Team Evos

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This year’s Pride of Britain project came and went like a whirlwind, taking over most of Sheraton Street for 3 weeks and 4

weekends across October/early November. Being new to the Evolutions team, this was a great project for me to get to know

the Sheraton Street crew - most of whom I hadn’t worked with much before that point having been based at Great Pulteney

since I started.

The Pride of Britain Awards is always fast turnaround, high pressured and very demanding for all those involved. They

offlined for 2 weeks continuously to cut their VTs which then went through a Symphony grade, online and full mix. We

delivered via tape to the Awards show literally on the day of the ceremony, so we cut it rather fine! The Awards were recorded

on the Monday evening and we received the media back at Evos at approximately midnight. To say we needed ‘all hands-on

deck’ that night is an understatement as it was imperative everything was prepped and available for the offline to continue

editing first thing Tuesday. The offlines then ran for the rest of the week to edit the main show, final post over the weekend

and deliver in time for TX.

Throughout the entire process, I had a tremendously strong team supporting me. The creatives worked tirelessly to ensure the

Execs remained happy and calm as well as meeting the tight deadlines. The MCR and Operations department were hard

working, flexible and extremely helpful in ensuring the production’s ever-changing schedules and the channel’s moving goal

posts were always met with a ‘yes, we can accommodate’ rather than ‘this is crazy’ which is what we were really thinking.

We received great feedback from ITV and Shiver who were both pleased with everything we achieved throughout those tough

few weeks. We were thrown a few curve balls along the way, but everyone coped and adapted remarkably well. I have

worked on fast turnaround jobs before so I am no stranger to the set up but what proved to be the most challenging were the

long days and having to work weekends. Aside from that though there are many positives to a job like this. The joy of working

on a project such as Pride of Britain is that it allows you to build lasting relationships with both the production team as well as

our own staff. The expression ‘we’re all in it together’, excuse the cliché, really rings true.

For all her late nights, enthusiasm, professionalism and dedication, Rachel won Employee of the Month for her work on Pride

of Britain. Congratulations again Rachel!

"LAD ALERT, B-TRAIN MAKES SURPRISE DETOUR THROUGH

LONDON EVOS" —By Josh Phrakhun & George Holland

With Christmas around the corner, Thomas Taylor's annual Cello

performance was fast approaching and the London Data team didn't think

December could possibly get any better. Until… a special someone,

dressed in red and carrying a sack of LTO's came knocking on our door.

Thursday the 6th marked the day that Bristol's own wrangler & librarian,

Barnaby Mallins, would plant a firm footprint on Soho.

Equipped with a pen, pad and can-do attitude, Mallins was here to learn

everything xendata related and proved to the team he was more than up

to the task. Navigating his way through the xendata management console,

Bristol's home-grown talent was writing LTOs like they were going out of

fashion. "Holy smokes, check out the speed on that!"

The fun didn't just stop there. After working up quite the appetite Barney went on to cement his

position amongst the elite team of wranglers as he was christened with the humble Jumbo Eats…

Upon catching sight of the falafel faourz wrap for the first time, he exclaimed "Wow, check the size

of that puppy!"

Barney stole our entire teams’ heart. He will always remain, the wrangler that arrived with a bag of

LTO's, but left with a bag of memories.

Since this visit, Barnaby has gone on to be promoted from Data to the Ops department. Congratulations!

News from London...

Pride Of Britain—By Rachel Pitcher

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I think we can all agree the most frightening part of the quiz was

the Paddy/Sixth Sense mash up. He might see dead people, but we’ll all

be seeing this in our nightmares. Or dreams. Depending on what you’re

into. Either way, you’re welcome. This may seem like a long time ago

now, so for those who need it, here is a quick recap.

As everyone settled in and I forcibly extracted team names, Simon began

with the traditional round of ‘Head or Hips’. After a tense bout of

questions, we were left with just four players: Stine, Joe, Ryan and Marie.

Brought to the front for all to witness and eyes closed to ensure fair play,

they battled it out until Stine clinched the victory on the question ‘is two a

prime number?’ (spoiler, it is), winning the first bottle of champagne. And

with that, the quiz truly began.

General Knowledge, 2018 So Far, the infamous Face in a Hole round. A

feeding frenzy of pizzas followed quickly by the General Ignorance

Geography Round and then onto The World Cup. As Owen said when

asked why he didn’t win, ‘there were a lot of sports questions.’ We came

to the final round with a musical bang. Karine and Emily’s voices coming

through particularly clearly when the Dawson’s Creek theme tune filled

the room. The Pokémon intro was something else.

After the cheaters were wheedled out (Zweck) and the points were counted, the misleadingly named ‘I’m Leavin At 9’

won the quiz and ultimately the magnum of champagne. In true victory style it was polished off right there and then.

The Christmas do saw everyone turn up to party like it was the 1980’s. A feast of curry, LED tables , Magnum P.I., Doc

Brown, Space Invaders, shimmering foil curtains, prom style portraits, Madonnas, mullets and two Adam Ants. Bravely

rocking a neon-pink leotard and lime-green sweatbands, Tiona took the champagne prize for best dressed. The photo

gallery captures the night’s decent into happy drunken chaos. And although that marked the end of year for parties at

Evos, the photos will last forever. Which leads me nicely onto the below... (sorry Joe and Raniero!)

1) It was at this moment Raniero knew he wouldn't

go back home alone — Guilhem Coulibaly

2) ‘Joe that’s nothing, check out this third one…. It’s

the source of all my powers’ — Sarah Zweck

3) “Yes Raniero, you too could have sensitive nips

like these if you become a homeowner” — Ryan

Alborough

Harrison tries to hide the fact it was him that stole

Raniero's nipples—Eoin Brogan

The auditions for Stan and Laurel sequel fail to

impress Run DMC fans—Dave McGrath

NOT COOL!!!! — Joe Harrison

Joe: “This chain is chafing my nipples!”

Raniero: “Well my manly Italian nipples are just fine. See take a look!”

Joe: “Wait! Crap someone’s watching us!” — Stephen Morrison

Santa's new look was a bit of a shock—Nick Adams

When Dave and Terry are down the booza and they realise Brexit is in full swing and definitely happening—

George Marsella

@evolutions_tv @Evolutions _TV Evolutions Post Production

Staff Events... By Claire Pritchard

Caption Competition Top three are numbered, well done Guilhem !