Jemima Tymms, Life Below Water

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[EXPANDED AD PRE-ANIMATION START] An animated gold fish with wide eyes and deep orange fins in a pale blue ocean. Above the water's surface is a yellow sun, its outline hazy. On the undulating sand of the sea bed are red and green corals and a blue and yellow chips packet.  Smaller fish and a green turtle swim behind the goldfish as it opens its mouth...

[EXPANDED AD] A red arrow points to the chip packet. Goldie swims on into deeper waters of indigo blue. Among the corals that sprout from the sea bed are plastic bottles. A purple octopus winces, its tentacles tangled in plastic. A jellyfish cloaked in a plastic bag cringes. Goldie faces us once more.

[EXPANDED AD] Now circular white stars dot the night sky above the ocean. A red ship with four circular funnels glides across the surface of the ocean. Growing clouds of black oil spill down from the boat into the water, obliterating some of the coral.  

[EXPANDED AD] Goldie swims away from the oil. Now, as the sun glows yellow in the sky, a thermometer hovers above the ocean's surface.

[EXPANDED AD] The red mercury rises above the top of the thermometer. The undersea coral bleaches. Goldie swims on to an unbleached stretch of coral. On the beach beyond the shore, parasols and striped towels flank a rubbish bin.

[EXPANDED AD] Goldie scoops up a discarded chip packet from the seabed, then carries it up the beach past a sign that reads 'Put rubbish in bin'. 

[EXPANDED AD] Goldie bins the chip packet then turns to face us.

[EXPANDED AD] Credits. Designed and produced by Jemima Tymms.