Greater is a design consultancy dedicated to accelerating the work of mission-driven organizations.

We storyboarded, designed, and animated financial education videos for the BIPOC community. Here's a short peek of what we created for these videos.

The Problem

Many of the financial literacy tools that currently exist are dry, drawn-out and often times explain financial concepts in sweeping generalizations that only speak to a subset of the American population, the white upper middle class male.  Yemi, OfColor’s founder, wanted to change that.  When approached by Met Life to create co-branded content for their platform, he knew this was a great opportunity to approach educational videos differently.

The challenge…create engaging, entertaining educational content that speaks to the BIPOC community they are serving?

The Solution

Working with the copywriting team at OfColor, we helped conceptualize scripts that not only speak the language of their community but also gave real life examples that actually were relevant in their lives. Our goal was to create engaging videos that felt lively in their visualization, voice, and tone; while also representing the people that looked like our end audience.

We landed on animating these scripts with a highly graphic, collage animation style that felt fresh and on brand opposed to clip art drawings and powerpoint graphs that fill many videos in this sector. Visual themes in the videos included large oversized text, layered textures, cut out imagery, and bold graphics.

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