Our Projects
A lot of our hard work makes its way onto TV screens up and down the country. Including children’s television on CBBC and CBeebies, dramas such as Home Fires, sitcoms like Rovers, and even a few national choir competitions, each project is created to suit the individual needs of the client, and is finished to a high standard for filming and broadcast.
Even so, not all of our work is for television. We have created a number of art and museum installations, marketing stands, and even interactive games like The Crystal Maze!
You’ll even find Take 1 behind the scenes: We have made custom puppeteer trolleys, storage solutions for props and sets, and can discreetly hide things like stage weights and power lines within our scenery.
Fancy a little Take 1 magic of your own? We also create bespoke furniture, non-commercial structures, and personal immersive spaces.
Whatever it is you need, with our unique team of carpenters, metal workers, painters and more, we can bring your vision to life.
Spring 2016 BBC Designer: David Butterworth Art Director: Pawlo Wintoniuk It was a refreshing change to be able to make some really dirty industrial sets both for location and studio. We really enjoyed the gritty dark feel to the scenery we needed to produce, especially as it’s something we don’t get to do often. In…
June 2017 Designer: Alex Craig Location: Media City We were lucky enough to be asked to build the new set for BBC One’s Watchdog. This involved building, painting, and laminating the desks, making stands for the graphics to be stuck to, building the surround for a huge television, and even creating frames for the flown…
May 2017 Designer: Alex Craig for BBC 2 Location: Built in Workshop filmed at Pinewood For this set, we were asked to create 189(!) boxes of various sizes which we then painted with a concrete effect. Some of these boxes had one side wallpapered, others contained lightboxes (some had both!). They were then stacked using…
Date: Spring/Summer 2017 Client: Sparklestreet for Pernod Ricard/ Havana Club. Location: Cocktails in the City (various locations) We were given the task of building the promotional Bar stand for Havana Club and Be at One, for their appearances at the Cocktails in the City events around the UK. This wasn’t the run of the mill,…
When: May 2017 Location: Old Granada Studios Size? collaborated with adidas to create some brand new shoes, and to recreate iconic shoes from the adidas almost home by joan bauer archives. They took over part of Old Granada Studios to exhibition these trainers, and we were tasked with building a display case for them. We…
When: Spring 2017 Client: KFC/Pepsi We created some giant pepsi cups and KFC buckets for this job. We stood the giant cups up as defenders and fixed the KFC bucket to the corner of the goal, where Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero was challenged to land the football into the bucket. (He managed it, obviously!)
2017 Location: Old Granada Studios, Manchester We’ve been really excited about this project, and now we can finally share it! For the past few months we have been working hard on a new interactive game – The Crystal Maze Manchester. We were asked to make and install the windows and doors for the Aztec and…
2017 Designer: Tina Sharifa Hicks Production Company: Company Television This sitcom follows Mim and her daughter as they try to complete Mim’s bucket list. We made the entrance gates to MiniWorld, where they complete one of the less extravagant goals on the list: mini golf. We also made a gravestone for “Brian Jones”, which Mim and…
Christmas 2016 Designer: Stephen Graham, for Unit 10 Location: Bromley, Derby, and Merry Hill We worked closely with Stephen, the designer, to build a modular set that was quick and easy to assemble on site. We spent time developing the best paint effects and construction methods to turn this project around quickly and within a…
Date: Annually at Christmas Designer: Stephen Graham BBC Songs of Praise Location: Royal Albert Hall Every year at the Royal Albert Hall, thousands of singers from all around the country gather to sing Christmas Carols and hymns for a special Songs of Praise show on BBC One. We have been fortunate enough to provide the…