By the time I came on board, the creative team at Redbee Media had already written the spine-tingling voice-over and come up with the great idea of freezing time in a landscape composed of Dr Who iconography, where we could see previous incarnations of the Doctor frozen. I was honoured to be chosen to take this on as a director.

My job initially was to work up specific scenes and develop the techniques that would bring the team’s ideas to life. The finished promo draws on several film techniques that are employed both ‘in camera’ and during post-production. All beginning with detailed photographic mock-ups, which I created in photoshop. When designing the shots, I drew on my childhood fascination with the show, trying to create something visually strong and dramatic but with as many references to the past as I could cram in. The details were added throughout the entire process with an eye to perfection that checked every detail right down to the weave of Tom Baker’s trousers. The sequence was devised so that the few words spoken by Matt in vision would be powerful and generate excitement from the audience.