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.
In the summer of 2017 we were part of a larger team who worked on the renovation of Manchester University’s Students’ Union. We built and installed several ‘huts’ for food stalls, some shops, a reception desk, and various seating throughout the open ground floor area. This March and April we returned and have been updating, re-positioning…
Date: Winter 2017/18 Client: Pernot Ricard Location: Kettle Black, Sheffield We were asked to help create a champagne bar for Perrier Jouet outside Kettle Black in Sheffield. This involved building and painting a bar, painting and distressing some bench seating, mounting some branding, and attaching new branded glass tops to the tables. We also…
Date: January 2018 Client: intu Location: intu Trafford Centre Designed in-house This January, the Trafford Centre hosted a week of ‘Live Happy’ events. We contributed by building an LED-lit, semicircular bar that backed onto a row of flats. We hung a large, bright graphic onto the flats and made it 3D by adding some circles and…
January 2018 Client: CBBC Location: Liverpool Football Club One of our first jobs of 2018 was these giant letters for one of CBBC’s Live Lessons. “Super Movers” brought maths to life with movement, enthusiasm, and footballers, and was broadcast live to hundreds of schools around the country. The recording is available to watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05rr3pr/live-lessons-super-movers-live-lesson
August – September 2017 Designer: Emma Dibb Location: Manchester Biggleton is a new show for CBeebies. It takes place in a town made of cardboard where a young cast can pretend to be grown ups and play at community life. We created flats, painted the floor, and engineered some tricky roof placements to help bring…
October 2017 Designer: Dave Benson Location: The Trafford Centre, Manchester For Halloween this year, we erected a wizarding bar in the Trafford centre. But it didn’t just appear as if by magic! It was made with expert care by our scenics and painters from a beautiful design, and we think it looks enchanting. “You literally…
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…
2014 & 2017 Designer: Alison Jeffery Client: CBeebies Location: Manchester Swashbuckle is a children’s game show on CBeebies, featuring piratical games of many kinds. We have worked on it for two series so far. For the most recent we made some big sharks for contestants to grab treasure from, a huge jigsaw puzzle, and some…
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…