This year sees the 50th Anniversary of the now famous Doctor Who TV series, which first made an appearance on our screens on 23rd November 1963. As part of a programme of celebrations throughout 2013, BBC Worldwide have organised a number of events enabling fans of the Doctor Who franchise to personally engage with these celebrations. One of the ideas for this engagement was a custom build photo booth in the form of the iconic Doctor Who TARDIS.
The Customer Brief
The team from BBC Worldwide approached Photobooths.co.uk with the concept and outline of their requirements, which included:
The custom build photo booth would have to be an exact external replica of the latest incarnation of the Doctor Who TARDIS. The photo booth would need to enable the occupant(s) to post their photo to their own Facebook timeline direct from the booth or Enable the occupant(s) to send the photo to their chosen email address direct from the booth These requirements differed from most custom build photo booth requests in that they wanted to provide a sharable social media based Doctor Who themed memento, as against the usual printed photo memento. And also that the photos should be posted as quickly and easily as possible, in real-time, to the occupants own Facebook timeline direct from within the booth. Again this differs from the majority of photo booths which are “Facebook enabled”, in that they tend to only be able to send to one pre-defined page album and in the majority of cases only from outside of the booth once the photo has been taken inside.
Born in Malta in January 1989, Maurizio has always dreamt of doing something impossible in his life. That’s exactly what he has done a few years ago when he decided to leave everything and moved to the West Midlands. His Passion was also another reason why he has chosen the West Midlands – West Bromwich Albion. Worked in different industries, like tourism, advertising, construction and entertainment, finance was always something that he wanted to do. Asking who Maurizio is to his friends, you would have one simple answer, – Joker, A Caring Person and a Plane Spotter.
Been in or around engineering/manufacturing my entire life, grandparents who let you build cars with them have their uses!!
After spending 4 years in Leicester studying physics where my final dissertation project was heavily programming based I was keen to begin a career in software development. Working on Photobooths seemed like a fun and interesting place to start.
From College went into the family run business – Advertising Agency. Eventually took over the reins of the company and moved it into a more technical direction. After retirements changed the dynamic of the company we changed direction to a Direct Mailing Company specialising in digital and mailing’s for Electricity companies (MEB, British Gas, nPower). After a profitable run I felt a change was needed and so started a Programming and Consultancy Business. This eventually led me to the world of PhotoBooths and beyond.