How stories can light up lives

Title: From 50 Nights to 50 Classic Stories

Duration: 60 seconds 

Description: 

Access to reliable light can mean access to greater opportunities, to employment, and to education. Learn how one bright energy idea is bringing light to families off grid and discover a collection of stories created in celebration of light and reading. 

From 50 Nights to 50 Classic Stories Transcript

[Background music]
Emotive, gradually rising music plays. 

[Video footage]
Opening darkness is illuminated by hands turning on a small GravityLight. 

[Video footage]
A man holds a GravityLight in his hands. Words gradually appear in white letters as the camera pans up to show onlooking school children. 

[Text displays]
How much brighter would your future be with more light?

[Video footage]
A lady behind a vegetable stand switches on two GravityLights 

[Video footage]
The lady and another woman smile together in the glow of the lights

[Text displays]
Access to light can bring opportunity,

[Video footage]
The camera pans across the body of a GravityLight displaying its logo

[Text displays]
Access to light can bring opportunity, employment 

[Video footage]
Children sit studying at rows of desks in a room illuminated by strings of GravityLights lamps suspended from the ceiling 

[Text displays]
Access to light can bring opportunity, employment and education 

[Background music]
The tempo of the music increases with Shell’s jingle clear in the melody 

[Video footage]
A young boy in the classroom works at his colouring book

[Video footage]
Another young boy in the classroom pulls the GravityLight’s cord to charge up the lamps

[Text displays]
GravityLight in collaboration with Shell

[Video footage]
A woman in an orange t-shirt, a member of the GravityLight team, talks to two local men at an orange GravityLight display stand.

[Video footage]
Hands assembling the lamp of the GravityLight

[Video footage]
A person closes a GravityLight box, ready for delivery

[Text displays]
Helped bring sustainable light to homes

[Video footage]
Two people in GravityLight orange jackets work happily 

[Video footage]
A group of six people including Yemi Alade and GravityLight’s founder hold a pair of scissors to cut a white ribbon opening the 50 Night Tour. #makethefuture is visible on a roof above them. 

[Text displays]
Across Kenya on a 50 Night Tour 

[Video footage]
Yemi Alade raises the scissors happily having cut the ribbon as others around her applaud.

[Video footage]
A line of people wait to try out and learn more about GravityLight. A boy at the front of shot smiles broadly.

[Video footage]
A group of four dancers perform in front of a DJ on the 50 Night Tour’s orange stage 

[Video footage]
The footage switches to show animations from the Bedtimes Stories campaign. In a navy landscape, a shepherd with a crook and hat, pulls the cord of a GravityLight. The device produces a spotlight of light in which an open book appears.   

[Video footage]
An animated hare and tortoise sit side by side in a forest, ready to race. The hare darts off in a puff of smoke. 

[Text displays]
Now, Shell has collated a set of 50 bedtime stories 

[Video footage]
The hare bounds through a pink background with yellow leaves.

[Video footage]
It skids to a stop, only to see the tortoise waiting there wearing a victory crown being showered in confetti.

[Video footage]
A mouse wearing a red dress and carrying an umbrella, from the story Town Mouse Country Mouse, bounces.

A different mouse from the story in a blue dress spins in a blue room surrounded by furniture. 

[Video footage]
The footage switches back to video. Pixie Lott reads a children’s story in a dark room under a GravityLight. 

[Text displays]
Celebrating the joy of light and reading 

[Audio]
We hear a snippet of Pixie Lott reading through the background music.

[Video footage]
A child watches her reading.

[Video footage]
Yemi Alade sits in a similar dark room lit by a GravityLight next to her. She reads to a group of children sitting on the floor around her. 

[Audio]
We hear a snippet of Yemi Alade reading through the background music.

[Video footage]
The children laugh as they watch her read.

[Video footage]
An overhead shot of Luan Santana in a similar dark room reads in Portuguese to a group of children. We can see the counter-weight bag of the GravityLight hanging in the air as it’s lamps once again light the room. 

[Video]
Close up of Luan Santana reading the bedtime story.

[Audio addition]
We hear a snippet of Luan Santana reading in Portuguese through the background music.

[Video footage]
The footage switches once again to the animated Bedtime Stories. The mouse in the blue dress from Town Mouse Country mouse is running down a blue then purple corridor followed by a green garden. 

[Text displays]
Find and share your favourite, 

[Video footage]
A tall green hill with a small house and the aforementioned shepherd on top. The shot pans down the hill to a busy medieval town by the water below.

[Video footage]
A bear in blue overalls, a raccoon with a pick axe, a fox in a check shirt with a rake and a rabbit in a pink shirt with a shovel all work on a green lawn. 

[Text displays]
because a brighter future is possible if we work together 

[Video footage]
The footage switches back to video. A crowd of local people stand in the queue on the 50 Night Tour 

[Video footage]
A local man and a local woman who holds a baby, each talk to member of the GravityLight team. 

[Video footage]
A large group of children watching the 50 Night Tour performance wave and cheer at the camera as it makes its way along the crowd. 

[Background music]
The background music fades

{Visual transition}
White screen with the Shell logo at the centre. Below the logo, text displays in black letters. 

[Text displays]
#makethefuture

[Audio]
The Shell mnemonic plays