Metrolinx: It’s Happening.
Transcript"Metrolinx: It's Happening."
[shown on screen: several passengers on a train. title: Filmed on a closed set following COVID-19 and Platform safety protocols. Please continue to follow COVID-19 health and safety measures in place.]
Narrator:
At Metrolinx, we’re making more possible. For more people.
Passenger 1:
[dressed in street clothes] Yeah, right.
Narrator:
Don't believe us?
[in a whisp of smoke, Passenger 1's clothes suddenly change to a karate gi, Passenger 1 reacts with confusion]
Narrator:
Believe this.
[train doors open to reveal a Karate class taking place in the train station, multiple young students are breaking cinder blocks with punches]
Karate Students, in unison:
Hai-ya!
[In a flash of smoke, the karate studio in the station becomes a salsa dance class.]
Narrator:
More transit means more people connecting with their passions.
[mid-dance, a male dancer dips his female partner]
Narrator:
And dip.
[cut to an elderly man in athletic attire and a ping-pong paddle standing in front of a staircase on a train platform as a wave of ping-pong balls descend the stairs]
Narrator:
It means more grandpas joining more clubs
[pan to a silhouetted group of people standing in front of a jellyfish tank]
Narrator:
and more folks meeting giant jellyfish.
[cut back to on the train, which has been decorated like a restaurant. A waiter is standing in the aisle]
Narrator:
More connections, more dates in new places.
Passenger 2:
I'll have the soup du jour.
[pan to reveal that outside the window of the train/restaurant is a cartoon astronaut riding a cartoon unicorn]
Narrator:
Hmm. Unicorn.
[cut to inside the train station, various cartoon characters and elements are superimposed. An IRL child with a cartoon cape stares off in the distance]
Narrator:
Does it mean going to more animated film festivals? It sure does, little guy.
[cut to a barber in a barber shop giving a customer a shave]
Barber:
Oh, I don't take transit, so who cares?
Narrator:
You don't,
[cut to shot of various people, flash bulbs going off as if they are being photographed]
Narrator:
but your new customers do.
[cut to shot of a passenger wearing a lab coat and a stethoscope boarding a train. The interior of the train is a physician's office which includes a hamster running on a wheel]
Narrator:
More transit means more access to healthcare for people and hamsters.
[cut to a shot of a passenger in a suit and tie boarding a train, the interior of the train looks like an elevator]
Narrator:
More grads getting to their dream jobs quicker,
[cut to a shot of two passengers holding hands, boarding a train whose exterior looks like a country house]
Narrator:
and more city families moving to houses in the 'burbs.
[cut to shot of three passengers sitting in the platform waiting area and crying in a comically exaggerated fashion]
Narrator:
It's less this,
[the passengers suddenly stop crying, excited children disembark a train and run to them]
Narrator:
and more this.
Children:
Yay!
Narrator:
Aw, I just love a happy ending.
[cut back to Passenger 1 on train, still in a karate gi. the astronaut who was riding the unicorn is now a passenger]
Passenger 1:
Nice.
Narrator:
Oh, come on, it's more than nice.
[cut to an aerial shot showing Toronto and the surrounding area, rail routes become highlighted.]
Narrator:
It's happening.
[title: It's happening. Metrolinx]
Transcript"Metrolinx: Awkward Phase."
[shown on screen: solid black screen]
Narrator:
This is an important transit message.
[wide shot a stage, Awkward Teen 1 is the only one in the shot. The backdrop is a picture of a constructions site]
Awkward Teen 1:
Metrolinx is building a world-class transit system, for a better region.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 1 is replaced by Awkward Teen 2, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 2:
But before that happens, it means going through
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 2 is replaced by Awkward Teen 3, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 3:
a phase.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 3 is replaced by Awkward Teen 4, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 4:
how do I explain this? It's an
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 4 is replaced by Awkward Teen 5, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 5:
an in between sort of late, you know
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 5 is replaced by Awkward Teen 6, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 6:
an awkward phase.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 6 is replaced by Awkward Teen 7, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 7:
ah...
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 7 is replaced by Awkward Teen 8, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 8:
There's a pretty big gap between where we are now and where we want to be.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 8 is replaced by Awkward Teen 1, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 1:
But all this messiness means
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 1 is replaced by Awkward Teen 2, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 2:
that change is actually happening.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 2 is replaced by Awkward Teen 3, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 3:
[smiles]
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 3 is replaced by Awkward Teen 4, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 4:
Some changes you can already see.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 4 is replaced by Awkward Teen 5, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 5:
Sick.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 5 is replaced by Awkward Teen 6, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 6:
So, while it may feel like you've been waiting forever
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 6 is replaced by Awkward Teen 9, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 9:
and you're probably annoyed, like all the time,
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 9 is replaced by Awkward Teen 3, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 3:
just know it's because we're all headed towards great things.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 3 is replaced by Awkward Teen 5, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 5:
Sounds pretty cool.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 5 is replaced by Awkward Teen 6, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 6:
And all of this
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 6 is replaced by Awkward Teen 2, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 2:
will be worth it.
[cut to a similar shot, but Awkward Teen 2 is replaced by Awkward Teen 6, The backdrop changes to a different picture of a construction site]
Awkward Teen 6:
Yeah.
[Awkward Teen 6 exits stage left. Title: Transit change. It's happening.]
[next title: Metrolinx. metrolinx.com/itshappening]
Transcript"Metrolinx: It's happening"
Narrator:
A transit message, from Metrolinx
[shown on screen: two teenagers in a messy room. Teenager 1 is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the room, wearing a hoodie. Teenager 2 is off to the side, possibly sleeping.]
Teenager 1:
Things are a little messy right now, but sometimes things have to look a little worse before they look amazing. It's a process.
[cut to black. title: Transit change. It's happening. Metrolinx. metrolinx.com/itshappening]