BCFED

Time Traveller

ART DIRECTOR / Storyboard Artist / LEAD ANIMATOR

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia was asked to go to the polls for a provincial election. Although 2020 had been a year of unprecedented challenges, there was a prevailing sense at the BC Federation of Labour that things could get even worse if people didn’t vote and the wrong leader took power.

To deliver this cautionary message, we conceived an outlandish time traveller who broadcasts her warning back in time to us. In her timeline, things had gone from bad to worse, but it wasn’t too late for us present-dwellers. We had a lot of fun creating a quirky animated character and mixing it with cheesy stock video and glitch effects. The video was ultimately embedded in people’s feeds to appear as though a kitten video had become hijacked by the time-travelling signal.

Directed by Scooter Corkle

Backgrounds by Nayeon Cho

Sound Design by Eugenio Battaglia

Produced by Point Blank Creative