A close-up of a person in bed holding an alarm clock

How to ZZZ

How can we persuade students to get more sleep?

Motion
Finlay Heanue
Cui Xuan Aw
Oona Mcleary
Millie Harvey

Sound
Ryan Vuyyuru
Finlay Heanue

The comical collage style and fun tone of voice helps appeal to students.

A clock in the foreground with a blue sky, clouds and a sun in the background
Coffee pouring out of a coffee cup
60% written on roughly cut out paper

How to ZZZ won a creative conscience award. The Creative Conscience awards celebrate projects that focus on social or environmental impact.

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A man in bed yawning in a collage style
A man smiling in a collage style

We split the video up into 3 main stages: An initial hook, the benefits of sleep, and how you can get better sleep.

We included a link to a wellbeing support website as a call to action.

First page of 4 page storyboard: title, person on their phone in bed, they turn to look at camera and yawn, 60% graphic, hand takes off the top of a persons head revealing their brain
Second page of 4 page storyboard: brain rotates in a persons head, brain has cogs on which turn, person with shiny hair, person with big smile, question mark graphic, coffee cup fills up
Third page of 4 page storyboard: coffee pours out of cup, alarm clock rings, clock with daytime background, clock with nighttime background person on phone in bed
Fourth page of 4 page storyboard: The text 'are you sleeping enough', for more information go to, the national union of students logo

I used a marimba and slow tempo to give sleepy feel in the soundtrack.

Music producer Ryan Vuyyuru helped professionally produce the soundtrack.

Millie Harvey
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