Because of our versatility Britannia have taken part in many projects that
constitute a total departure from our normal historical periods.
We've
played Stone Age people, for TV's Horrible Histories, provided Republican
Romans for TV's Battlefield Detectives, time-travellers in BBC's adaptation
of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Crucial Films) and were called upon to
reconstruct and demonstrate a floating cork filled tunic used by the
spy Pontius Cominius in a programme about ancient espionage and stealth
technology (Wild Dream Films 2008).
Recently,
as part of our research into gladiatorial games, we have looked at
the origins of this spectacle and have reconstructed the equipment
of captured Thracian prisoners of war as well as other cultures that
encountered the Roman military machine in the first Millennia BC,
these include Gauls, Germanic tribes, the people of Israel and Macedonians.
Our professional approach and attention to detail
remains the same. We are also happy to pass work on to societies and
specialists we feel can handle the job appropriately.
This
approach has paid off on projects such as TV's Horrible Histories
where a versatile attitude and a willingness to assist in the reconstruction
of a whole variety of time periods and subjects has seen us working
successfully with the production team for the past four series.
We're more than happy to work in studio environments
embracing new film technology such as motion capture (left) and green
screen (below).