A launch trailer for the BBC’s documentary series The Tudors depicting a seething and visceral chess game of Tudor family members and their brazen power grabs and disloyalty. The project was produced and filmed in London for the BBC through Karmarama and Rokkit.
Carefully pre-visualised and planned in 3D, the film features a 108 square metre chessboard, bespoke built from hessian and timber. Smoke, dust, a crane and high-speed cameras shape the imagery into an otherworldly and painterly form, with a colour palette that references the ageing pigments of 16th-century renaissance paintings.
