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'Hurdler', 30sec

SFX: Sports stadium. Hushed whispers of large crowd. Huffing and puffing of athletes taking their marks. One athlete clear above others.

MVO: He is an Olympic hurdler.

SFX: Crack of starter’s pistol. Roar of crowd, ragged pounding of feet.

MVO: After four seconds he leaps the first hurdle.

SFX: Pause as athletes leap, then - bububububoboom - hit the ground again. More pounding of feet and roars of crowd.

MVO: At twelve seconds he reaches another.

SFX: More pounding feet, another pause as the athletes leap, then - bububububububbububububoom - hit the ground. Landings now more spread out. One athlete still in foreground.

MVO: At twenty-three seconds he clears the last.

SFX: Another pause as athletes leap. Landing sounds - bububuubububububububbububbububuoom - now very spread out. Crowd bursts into loud applause and cheers.

MVO: And one second later, three billion people know it.

SFX: sound of three billion people cheering - ie a cheer that sounds like a lot more people than the previous cheers.

MVO: Thanks to IBM’s network computing solution for the Olympic games.

Different MVO: IBM. Worldwide Olympic Sponsor.