As part of my job as Multimedia Producer at The Sunday Times, I was given a brief by creative director Ariadne Zanella to come up with a way to link several news stories such as the financial crisis and the tsunami for a commercial we would be filming with Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova.

I then drew up storyboards based on Kseniya’s videos and created an ‘animatic’ video based on the storyboards that were sent to Kseniya who, in turn, created a first draft of the video.

We then went to Ukraine and filmed the final version with Kseniya and her team.

The final film was seeded ahead of the free Christmas iPad edition of The Sunday Times.