Childline reminds us there is no normal
Radiohead’s Creep narrates a young boy’s struggle with fitting in at school in this remarkably crafted stop-motion film about perception and self-acceptance.
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- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
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Credits
View on- Agency The Gate Worldwide/London
- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
- Sound Major Tom
- Music Grand Central Recording Studios
- Production Co Rowdy
- Animation BLINKINK
- Chief Creative Officer Lucas Peon
- Creative John Osborne
- Creative Rickie Marsden
- DP and Colour Grader George Warren
- Animator Tim Allen
- Animator Tobias Fouracre
- 2D Animator and Compositor Tom Fisher
- Sound Designer Gary Turnbull
- Music Molly Butcher
- Producer Josef Byrne
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Credits
powered by- Agency The Gate Worldwide/London
- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
- Sound Major Tom
- Music Grand Central Recording Studios
- Production Co Rowdy
- Animation BLINKINK
- Chief Creative Officer Lucas Peon
- Creative John Osborne
- Creative Rickie Marsden
- DP and Colour Grader George Warren
- Animator Tim Allen
- Animator Tobias Fouracre
- 2D Animator and Compositor Tom Fisher
- Sound Designer Gary Turnbull
- Music Molly Butcher
- Producer Josef Byrne
In a remarkably charming and beautifully animated ad for Childline, a young yarn-creature dresses in a teenage suit to go to school, fighting to stay disguised throughout the day.
A young shadow puts on a very realistic human disguise and heads to school. While there, he can’t seem to keep everything under control, and parts of his true self-dark blue, spinny, strange, keep threatening to burst out of his clothing. At the dance he looks around at his totally normal and not monstrous classmates, and watches as a young girl gets crowned the dancehall queen...only she suddenly bursts out of her own human-dress and everyone sees the kind of creature she is. At the end of Nobody is Normal, the whole student body takes off their masks one by one, showing off in brilliant, rich hues exactly the kind of strange, bizarre, unique creatures they are.
Credits
View on- Agency The Gate Worldwide/London
- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
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Credits
View on- Agency The Gate Worldwide/London
- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
- Sound Major Tom
- Music Grand Central Recording Studios
- Chief Creative Officer Lucas Peon
- Creative John Osborne
- Creative Rickie Marsden
- DP and Colour Grader George Warren
- Animator Tim Allen
- Animator Tobias Fouracre
- 2D Animator and Compositor Tom Fisher
- Sound Designer Gary Turnbull
- Music Molly Butcher
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Credits
powered by- Agency The Gate Worldwide/London
- Production Company Blink Productions
- Director Catherine Prowse
- Sound Major Tom
- Music Grand Central Recording Studios
- Chief Creative Officer Lucas Peon
- Creative John Osborne
- Creative Rickie Marsden
- DP and Colour Grader George Warren
- Animator Tim Allen
- Animator Tobias Fouracre
- 2D Animator and Compositor Tom Fisher
- Sound Designer Gary Turnbull
- Music Molly Butcher
The film is gorgeously made, a true stop-motion piece of claymation that utilizes a variety of textures and scenarios wonderfully. The behind-the-scenes featurette (below) shows off the rigs, detail, and painting that went into this film, which was a handmade creation through and through. Radiohead’s Creep was provided as a track, tying in nostalgia and current impact, making the ad instantly relatable as everyone recalls their own memories singing along to the radio years ago, or even last week.
Ad agency The Gate worked hard to strike the balance between advocacy and style, making ChildLine’s newest ad touching and uplifting at the same time. Directed by Catherine Prowse of Blink Productions, the film’s animation and extraordinarily relatable story make it stand apart.
