House Hippo 2.0

We begin by observing a cityscape at dusk, its many buildings faintly illuminated in the gathering darkness, as a voice narrates that thirty-seven million Canadians are turning out their lights. Then, a silhouette of a house is lit from within, before the scene transitions to a view from inside the house, looking through a partially opened door, a white door that’s ajar, offering a view into a room with a bright light. The scene then shifts, with someone on camera moving from one room to another, following a little hippo, and a low angle of a pair of white canvas shoes, with the little hippo inside one of the shoes.

We’re shown a small, grey hippo looking into a mirror in a dimly lit room, followed by it crouching near a pile of white socks, then seemingly engaging with a tablet device; the footage reveals a sleeping pug next to the hippo, still in a dimly lit environment, and finally, the hippo is seen in a dog’s water dish.

A voiceover then asks, ‘Or do we?’, as the scene changes to an indoor shot looking down at a small hippo on a white circular base, the hippo coming to life and looking into the camera; green smoke erupts from behind the hippo, and then the hippo logo appears, and the text “BreaktheFake.ca” is shown above the logo and below is the Media Smarts emblem.