Investigation Alien

Blue Spill joins the search for the truth with TIJAT Media in Investigation Alien;  a 6 piece Netflix docuseries, following investigative journalist George Knapp as he dives deep into the mysterious world of UFOs and their potential presence on Earth. With over 30 years of experience, Knapp shares new evidence and insights from his extensive investigation into the phenomena, revealing compelling findings and groundbreaking discoveries. 

Blue Spill came in peace to elevate the series’ visual storytelling, creating a cohesive and dynamic brand style across a variety of graphic elements. Our contributions include designing impactful newspaper and online headlines, detailed maps, and immersive photograph treatments to aid the narrative. Additionally we handled key visual effects, crafted the series’ typographical requirements, and developed an dynamic opening title sting – all combining to enhance the show’s investigative tone and make each episode visually compelling.

For the show’s creative direction we developed a sophisticated cinematic visual language infused with light and abstract forms to reflect the testimonials of reported alien sightings. With our graphics we wanted to create an atmospheric and evocative world for the docuseries, imbuing our designs with a darker tones, distortion, blurs and glitches to develop an unsettling and uncanny aesthetic for the show which fed into the unexplained and mysterious subject of the documentary. 

Defying traditional approaches to recon, we decided to take a more abstract route developing a sophisticated, cinematic look for our VFX treatments which captured a sense of the mystery, awe and foreboding of reported alien encounters, giving our sequences a freshness and a sense of real drama which does not simply recreate the experiences of eye witnesses but also lends them an emotional quality and a feeling of events being recalled from memory. In addition to this to this we produced clean ups, day to night conversions and TV comps.

We delivered over 200 sequences using an ACES workflow within Adobe After Effects and Autodesk Flame.