The Guardian
Independent journalism holding the powerful to account. The Guardian creates impactful explainers for the stories that matter.
How Private Equity is hollowing out the brands you love
Smaller portions? Bigger bills? Wondering why your favourite brand isn’t as good as it used to be? Over the last few decades Private Equity has been quietly dismantling many parts of everyday life in order to generate a quick return. But why has this been allowed to happen?
Visualising the complexities of Private Equity by use of visual maps helped to make the abstract accessible and spark conversation amongst It’s Complicated’s audience.
Credits
Motion Graphics - Sarah Verrall
Presenter/Producer - Neelam Tailor
Motion Graphics Editor - Ali Assaf
Executive Producer - Ryan Baxter
How the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors.
The motion graphics had to strike a delicate balance, ensuring sensitivity towards its contributors whilst also highlighting the severity of the key findings from the investigation.
Credits
Motion Design - Sarah Verrall
Illustrator - Laurie Avon
Cinematography - David Levene
Photography - Hannah Yoon, Adriana Zehbrauskas & Emilienne Malfatto
Additional reporting - Olivia Lee
Investigative reporters - Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne
Director, producer & editor - Laurence Topham
Executive producers - Paul Lewis & Nicole Jackson
How the failures that caused Grenfell still exist today
The Grenfell enquiry exposed failures from multiple sources who profited from cutting corners. But what, if anything has changed since the tragedy?
The motion graphics mapped the sequence of events in the lead up to Grenfell, visualising key evidence that contributed towards the disaster. It was important to visualise how recent disasters link to show a pattern of ongoing behaviour with impunity.
Credits
Motion Graphics - Sarah Verrall
Presenter/Producer - Neelam Tailor
Editor - Alex Healey
Thumbnail Design & Motion Design Editor - Ali Assaf
Executive Producer - Ryan Baxter
How the US is still removing Indigenous Children from their families at alarming rates
For centuries, the US government has tried to erase Indigenous identity, through boarding schools and adoptions with a chilling message: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man”.
The motion graphics provided a chronological history of laws, acts and barbaric treatment to establish how the foster system is where it is today. The timeline contextualised the key evidence across the video essay.
Credits
Motion Graphics - Sarah Verrall, Steve Glew & Ali Assaf
Thumbnail - Ali Assaf
Presenter/Producer - Neelam Tailor
Editor - Alex Healey
Executive Producer - Ryan Baxter
With special thanks to - Tanya Talaga & David E Simmons, NICWA
Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation
The Guardian has successfully defended a libel action brought by the actor Noel Clarke over an investigation by the newspaper in which he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.
Motion graphics provided crucial context to the evolving story over the years by linking The Guardian’s headlines to its investigation via a kinetic timeline.
Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian article
Credits
Motion Design - Sarah Verrall
Presenter/Producer - Lucy Osborne & Sirin Kale
Director - Laurence Topham
A brief history of The Guardian
For the Guardian’s 200th birthday, columnist Tim Dowling looks back at some of the more colourful moment’s from the newspaper’s history – from radical roots in 19th-century Manchester to groundbreaking dispatches from the Boer war and a daring Second World War evacuation plan involving an expensive emerald necklace
Bringing to life the headlines over the past 200 years, the motion graphics served as retrospective and celebrate the evolution of The Guardian.
A brief history of the Guardian article
Credits
Motion Design - Sarah Verrall & Joseph Pierce
Motion Design Editor - Ali Assaf
Writer & Narrator - Tim Dowling
Producer & Editor - Alex Healey
Executive Producer - Laurence Topham
