The video audio consists of a voiceover and a stock backing track that is not an identifiable song.
Each live of voiceover plays over a quick cut montage of people preparing to, and then taking part in sport or physical activity.
Voiceover: It’s your time. Time to tighten the laces, dust off the kit, clip in and pull out the clubs.
The camera pans over a set of cricket stumps in a playground.
An empty football goal is shown on an empty playing field.
A set of rugby posts are panned across.
A man ties the net onto the cross bar of a football goal.
A person tightens the laces on their trainers, while they rest their foot on a log in a wood.
A bag of cricket kit is placed on a bench in a changing room and a player begins to remove their pads from it.
A sailor ties a knot in a rope attached to the corner of a sail.
A person uses alcohol gel to sanitise their hands.
A player raises a hockey stick into the air.
A golfer sets up to hit a ball off the tee at a driving range.
Voiceover: It’s time to face the elements. Feel the wind in your hair. And see again, those familiar faces.
A woman runs in a housing estate.
Two people walk their dog along a ridge in the countryside.
A woman with ‘run with me’ on the back of her t-shirt prepares to run in a park, then sets off.
A woman smiles on a rugby pitch as two other women smile back as they enter a building.
Voiceover: Breathe. Take it all in. It’s your time. It’s time to step over the white line. For the team talks, and the group walks, remembering the echo of bat on ball and the faint splash of the lido. It’s time for the whistle to blow. And your moment for the laps to flow.
A woman takes a deep breath as she looks out over the River Avon and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
A young boy stares at the camera with a cricket bat held across the back of his shoulders.
A woman looks at the camera as she warms up ahead of an activity.
The camera focuses on a social distancing sign placed on the floor instruction people to please keep two metres apart.
A coach claps.
A man gives a team talk to a group of rugby players.
A ground-level camera focuses on people in walking boots walking along a trail.
A woman dressed for an outdoor walk stand with her arms folded, looking into the camera, in the countryside.
A young girl clasps a cricket ball in her hand, adjusts her grip, turns and begins her run up to bowl.
The same girl bowls on a cricket pitch.
A young boy swivels and hits a pink cricket ball using a plastic bat in a playground.
A man wearing a swimming cap swims in a lido.
A woman on the side of the pool adjusts her swimming goggles and another man smiles as he prepares to swim.
A woman passes a rugby ball along a line to her teammate as they prepare for a game of tag rugby.
A man smiles and sticks his tongue out to the camera as he carries the rugby ball.
A man in a handcycle rides round a park.
Voiceover: Cross, block, switch, grip and shot. It’s not whether you can or cannot.
The camera looks down, as if attached to a player’s chest, as he does up his football boots.
A goalkeeper takes a goal kick.
A tennis player returns a serve and runs into the net.
A man tees off on a golf course.
A boy bowls a cricket ball.
A man tackles a rugby tackle pad.
A disabled footballer, playing on crutches, passes the ball to a teammate.
A man performs a squat jump to warm up for a rugby game.
A woman cheers from the sideline.
A woman, with her hands on her knees and breathing heavily, smiles at the camera.
Voiceover: It’s your time.
A group of people run towards the camera, and then past it.
Voiceover: Sport’s back.
A skateboarder performs a trick.
Voiceover: It may look different. But the feelings are the same.
Two mountaineers touch elbows.
A woman smiles as she sails a small boat on a lake.
The camera pans over a rugby tackle bag lying on the pitch.
The line ‘We’re ready when you are’ appears on the screen. Beneath which appears ‘with thanks to’ and logos of:
- The Football Association
- The British Mountaineering Council
- parkrun
- The Ramblers
- Skateboard GB
- Swim England
- Sport England
- Cycling Projects
- England Rugby
- The Royal Yachting Association
- This Mum Runs
- England Golf
- The Lawn Tennis Association
- The England and Wales Cricket Board
The text disappears and the line #returntoplay appears on the screen.
