Netflix
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj is a weekly Netflix talkshow that premiered on October 28, 2018. Minhaj deep dives into political and pop culture topics, which are both timely and timeless. This isn’t your typical nightly talk show in neither the writing nor approach, so it naturally warranted a non-traditional approach to the in-show graphics.
Slanted Studios partnered with co-creators Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam to help build the visual script for the proof-of-concept that won the hearts of Netflix. Once Netflix realized the show’s potential, we partnered with PepRally to establish the overall look and feel of the show, which has since been described as an ‘investigative visual comedic podcast’ or like ‘Michael Bay made a PowerPoint’. These compliments make all our hard work in staffing up the graphics team in pre-production and building out a scalable workflow pipeline worth it.
There were a lot of considerations in taking the creators’ raw vision and plan to scale. Adaptability and shorter turnaround speed for show graphics was a big driving factor in the technology. An increase in complexity of scripts, canvas and overall components now had to work together from week-to-week.
2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Graphics
2018 Peabody Award
Credits
Graphics Show Bible
Production Company : Slanted Studios x PepRally
Executive Creative Director : Michelle Higa Fox
Creative Director : Erica Gorochow
Producer : Jennifer Vance
Design & Animation : Erica Gorochow, Philip Sierzega, Michele Graffieti, Jerry Liu, Eddie Song, Christopher Mennuto, Brendan Roche, Stephanie Swart
Design Exploration : Tony Zagoraios, Elliot Blanchard, Erin Kilkenny, Guillaume Combeaud, Michael Batista
Production Assistant : John Hughes
Coding : Beau Burrows
Special Thanks : David Hobizal, Sissy Emmons Hobizal, Joe Posner
Client : Netlfix / Art & Industry
Co-Creators : Hasan Minhaj & Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producers : Hasan Minhaj, Jim Margolis, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Michelle Caputo, Jennie Church-Cooper, Shannon Hartman
Supervising Producers : Emily Anderson, Carol Klein, Nancy Agostini
Consulting Creative Director: Sam Spratt
Opening Titles : Elastic
Proof of Concept Graphics
Creative Director : Michelle Higa Fox
Producer : Jennifer Vance
Art & Animation Direction : FirstMates
Additional Design : Erica Gorochow
Production Company : Art & Industry
Co-Creators : Hasan Minhaj & Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producers : Hasan Minhaj, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Michelle Caputo, Jennie Church-Cooper, Shannon Hartman
Lighting, Production Designer : Marc Janowitz
Co-Creators : Hasan Minhaj & Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producers : Hasan Minhaj, Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Michelle Caputo, Jennie Church-Cooper, Shannon Hartman
Lighting, Production Designer : Marc Janowitz
Screen, Stage Manager : Jamie Van Dyke
Video, Screens Programmer : Ben Price
