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Media: Web Film
Category: Publications & media
Client: BBC
Agency: BBC Creative London
Production: Blinkink
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Elliot Dear
Executive Creative Director: Aidan McClure
Executive Creative Director: Laurent Simon
Creative: Amar Marwaha
Creative: Arvid Harnqvist
Producer: Benjamin Lole
Executive Producer: Bart Yates
Agency Producer: Ken Rodrigues
Agency Project Manager: Astrid Reiner
Agency Production Manager: Jenny Broad
Portfolio Head of Marketing: Kerry Moss
Marketing Manager: Harriet Gunning
Marketing Executive: Claire Grainger
Production Manager: Alex Holberton
Published: December 2017
Synopsis:
BBC Creative London has released this BBC One Christmas short film which is illustrates the joy of a shared moment.
Production Company Blinkink at Blink
Director Elliot Dear
Executive Producer Bart Yates
Production Designer Andy Farago
Dance Reference Choreographer Supple Nam
Animation Company Blinkink at Blink
Animation Company Producer Benjamin Lole
Lead 3D Artists Rune Spaans and Daniel Røsnes at Storyline Oslo
Lead Stop Motion Animators Andy Biddle and Dan Gill
Stop Motion Animators Luke George and Anthony Farquar-Smith
VFX Supervisor Stephen McNally
Editing Company Blinkink at Blink
Editor Joseph Tutt
Post Production Company Blinkink Studio
Colourist Denny Cooper at Rushes
VFX Supervisor Stephen McNally
Lead 3D Artists Rune Spaans and Daniel Røsnes at Storyline Oslo
Audio Company Offset Audio
Composer Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson
Music Producer Steve Mac
Idea
The characters were animated using stop-motion, but the facial expressions were created and mapped on the puppets using CGI to bring them to life.
The dance routine was choreographed first in live action and then an expert team of animators recreated the moves one painstaking frame at a time.
Brief Explanation
This relatable story of a young girl preparing for the biggest performance of her life will have you wiping your eyes (and tapping your feet).
Ten-year-old Isla prepares for her school Christmas talent show by practising her dance moves everywhere from her front room to between the supermarket aisles, but feels that her father Raj is always just a bit too distracted with work to notice her dance.
As the curtain falls for her big moment, and Isla freezes up with stage-fright, Raj steps up to the plate by supporting his daughter and encouraging her to remember the moves, showing that he was in fact paying attention all along.