Client: Durex
Agency: Havas
Advertising Agency: Havas London, UK
Production: Tubby Brother Films
Director: Ben Tubby
Director: Dan Tubby
Executive Creative Director: Elliot Harris
Producer: Mark Gibbons
Art Director: Thomas Worthington
Copywriter: Greg Ormrod
Agency Producer: Adam Henderson
Client: Durex (Ben Wilson, Global category director, sexual wellbeing, RB; Shane Kerr, Global brand director, sexual wellbeing, RB)
Global Brand Director: Stephanie Smith
Managing Partner: Ainhoa Wadsworth
Business Director: Nick Boyle
Senior Account Manager: Bella Macdonald
Strategy Partner: Chantelle Begley
Editor: Ben Tubby and Dan Tubby
Post-Production: Time Based Arts
Producer: Mark Gibbons, Simone Grattarola
Audio Post-Production: NO8 London
Sound Engineer: Dave Williams
Sound Producer: Ollie Usher
Soundtrack Composer: Neil Myers at Music Motion Productions
Country: United Kingdom
Published: June 2020
Synopsis:
As lockdown restrictions around the world begin to ease, a new film from sexual wellbeing brand Durex has again called on people to not go back to normal – because normal wasn't good enough. The film reprises Durex's empowering manifesto – first released in a series of executions in early May – which points to 'norms' such as shaming women who carry condoms, men not wearing them because they don't like the 'feel' and one million preventable STIs every single day. It argues that the current crisis represents a unique chance to reset what is ‘normal’ – and that nobody should want to return to a normal where we weren’t protecting ourselves and each other anyway. It was created by Greg Ormrod and Thomas Worthington and creatively directed by Elliot Harris at Havas London. It was produced and directed by Tubby Brother Films. 'The Let’s Not Go Back to Normal' campaign follows the launch of Durex’s major new positioning and visual identity, ‘Challenge the Norms’, earlier this year. The sex-positive brand relaunch positioned Durex as a mainstream activist against sexual taboos, stigmas and outdated, non-inclusive attitudes and instead vowed to showcase the ‘positive reality’ of sex.