Lion Interactive is a multi-award winning facility working across the internet, gaming, mobile, broadband and interactive TV platforms.
The department has produced projects for major clients including the BBC, five, Channel 4, uktv, and PBS receiving a number of accolades, including an International Digital Emmy, RTS Award, Learning on Screen Award and BAFTA nominations.
Their most recent projects include Move Like Michael Jackson in association with Gogglebox Entertainment and Fever Media for the BBC.
And a website celebrating Victorian Farm Christmas for the BBC which showcases 25 original videos demonstrating an activity a day in the lead up to Christmas.
One of the team's most successful projects was the Digital Emmy award-winning Britain from Above (BBC), a major multiplatform series with a website featuring 130+ video clips including original content created by Lion Interactive. Read the case study here.
Working closely with gaming specialists Littleloud, Lion Interactive has also produced the online Flash experience Horrible Histories: Terrible Treasures which has quickly become a favourite with the kids on CBBC online. We are currently in production of the additional episodes.
Previously the team produced the interactive for Castaway (BBC) which included a stand-alone website, daily 10” red button programme Danny’s Diary, interactive game Castaway: Remote Control and video podcasts.
The location team in New Zealand also produced a 30” special for BBC Three - Castaway: Best of Danny’s Diary.
In 2006, Lion Interactive worked with UKTV to create all the non-linear content for their major heritage series, Britain’s Best which included bespoke short films, reversioned video and original content for the web and mobile.
For the last six years the team has designed, built and produced the popular PBS website, History Detectives. Read the case study here.
They also worked with the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab to develop a mobile prototype called HD Roadtrip which has since been deployed on the Sprint Network.
In 2008, the team produced an interactive prototype spin-off from History Detectives for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting History and Civics Initiative.
HD:Lab is a social networking and user-generated site for use in classrooms, allowing students to conduct their own investigations into historical objects.
We also work with brands, including filming the Brompton World Championship in 2009 which was distributed through babelgum.
Other work includes: relaunching the Egypt's Golden Empire and the Roman Empire websites for PBS, creating non-linear content for China Atlas (Discovery) and DVD material for PBS.
The team has also produced numerous other sites to accompany many of Lion's major television productions for a variety of clients.
These include Medici: Godfather's of the Renaissance, Lawrence of Arabia, Martin Luther, Guns, Germs and Steel for PBS, and Castle and Playing it Straight for Channel 4.
Lion Interactive has also worked on some eTV projects such as producing an interactive version of Time Commanders (BBC2) called Couch Commanders for the BBC, which involved a separate stream where two viewers commentated the battle in real time and a live messaging feature.
The team also specialises in producing continuously updating and highly interactive websites from difficult locations around the world.
They have produced sites to accompany Channel 4's coverage of both the Kumbh Mela - from the banks of the Ganges, the Hajj from Mecca in Saudi Arabia and Karbala from Iraq.
The Hajj website created for Channel 4 was recognised by the Royal Television Society Educational Television Awards winning the 2003 Lifelong Learning & Multimedia category.
At the 2003 IVCA awards the Hajj also won Best Public Information Site and the overall Grand Prix Award beating out all other contenders.
It was also nominated for an Interactive BAFTA for 2004 in the Best Online Factual category.
The Karbala website won a 2005 Learning on Screen Award in the Interactive Multimedia - Life-long Learning category.
The team has also branched out into DVD production and bonus material namely for the Medici DVD, Lawrence of Arabia DVD and Martin Luther DVD.
Lion Interactive is also available to design, build and maintain corporate websites especially in the media sector.
Past and current clients include: Hartswood Films, North One and All3Media.