2015 Grand Prix For Good

THIS GIRL CAN

Grand Prix
TitleTHIS GIRL CAN
BrandSPORT ENGLAND
Product/ServiceSPORT ENGLAND
Category G01. Grand Prix For Good
Entrant Company FCB INFERNO London, UNITED KINGDOM
Advertising Agency FCB INFERNO London, UNITED KINGDOM
Media Agency CARAT London, UNITED KINGDOM
Production Company SOMESUCH London, UNITED KINGDOM
Credits
Name Company Position
Al Young FCB Inferno Chief Creative Officer
Ally mee FCB Inferno TV Producer
Bryn Attewell FCB Inferno Creative Director
David Procter Somesuch Director of Photography
Hollie Loxley FCB Inferno Account Director
Kim Gehrig Somesuch Director
Lee Groombridge Somesuch Producer
Nicola Willison FCB Inferno Strategist
Raymond Chan FCB Inferno Art Director
Sharon Jiggins FCB Inferno Managing Director
Simon Cenamor FCB Inferno Copywriter
Tim Nash Somesuch Executive Producer
Tom Lindsay Trim Editor
Vicki Holgate FCB Inferno Head of Strategy

The Campaign

We open on a young woman making her way confidently through a locker room, before adjusting her bikini bottoms with a twang of the elastic. What follows is an endorphin-stirring celebration of women of all sizes and abilities, running, punching, kicking, rowing, throwing and diving like they just don’t care. ‘This Girl Can’ rejects the idealised imagery of women in sports advertising and instead heroes them in their wonderful reality – cellulite and sweaty faces included. The pace of the edit mimics an exercise routine: building up, pausing for breath, continuing to a climax before finally slumping in a shattered heap, all in sync to Missy Elliott’s ‘Get Ur Freak On’.