Cops Gone Bad

With Will Mellor

— PROJECT NAME

Cops Gone Bad


— ROLE

Lead Creative

Director


— DATE

December 2023

After the successful shoot for Haunted Week in October I managed to get one more in before 2023 was out.

This time working with Will Mellor to promote his new show Cops Gone Bad, an extension of his previous series for C+I; Cops Who Kill.

We pitched in this idea that these Cops are the police’s most wanted, as the Police in the UK are being scrutinised more now than ever as hundreds of accounts of Cops bending the law for their own benefit are coming out in the press. Some of the most shocking being the Wayne Couzens case and in this series David Carrick.


We settled on using the Wanted poster as a way to show the captured officers mugshots off, so they looked like any other criminal. But we also added in their uniforms, to show that these were in fact Cops who have gone bad.


We used this motif through all elements, from Key-Art, Promo GFX, even creating real posters to have as part of our set build for the Promo shoot and Digital debate pieces.


Behind the Scenes

A Selection of BTS photos from the shoot day

Key Art

On-Air Promos

Cops Gone Bad Launch Promo – 60 Seconds

David Carrick Focus (Ep1) – 30 Seconds

Cops Gone Bad Launch Promo – 10 Seconds

David Carrick Focus (Ep1) – 10 Second

CI Play on Amazon – 18 Seconds

Alex Forshaw (Ep2) – 40 second

Cops Gone Bad – Social Media

INFO

Before the shoot day I created a series of questions that we put on the CI website as a Survey to get the opinion of the British Public aka the CI viewers. We then had Will present the results and discuss them with experts from the show Psychologist Serena Simmons and Ex-Detective Howard Groves. I gave Will que cards with the stats and questions to ask so that he was the one leading the debate, asking the questions of the experts but also getting across his own thoughts on the statistics.

We also created posters for each episode showing how good Cops turned into our most wanted criminals.

Cops Gone Bad Debate – Community Policing

Cops Gone Bad Debate – Funding

Wanted Posters for Social Media (Videos)