135 Years of Making Life’s Journeys Better

Title: Made for More – Shell Malaysia

Duration: 1:30 minutes

Description:
We have moved with Malaysians in the pursuit of progress and the promise of something more.This is an ode to our journey, and a commitment to keep moving forward together. Because we are made for more.

Made for More – Shell Malaysia Transcript

[Shell Pecten appears]
The screen opens with a Shell Pecten that ripples outward.

[Visuals]
A little boy sits in front of a TV watching a car race. He zooms his toy car across the carpet, transitioning to another scene.

[VO]
Look at how far we’ve come.

[Visuals]
We cut to the early 1900s. A little boy is on the floor of a kampung house, writing in a book as it rains outside. He looks up as his father sits next to him, guiding him on his school work.

[VO]
As Malaysians, we have learned to brave the changing times,

[Visuals]
Cut to a first person point-of-view from the driver’s seat of an old automobile pulling into a Shell station to be fuelled. The Shell attendant gets up to greet and assist the driver, and the driver pats him on the shoulder. The attendant reaches with the petrol nozzle to fuel up the car. Cut to a modern Shell petrol nozzle fuelling an SUV in a modern petrol station. A female Shell attendant looks into the SUV. Inside, a family is laughing together while dad shows them something on his phone.

[VO]
Driven by a resolve to keep moving.

[Visuals]
The SUV drives out from the Shell station and into a bird's eye view of a highway surrounded by lush greenery.

[Visuals]
Cut to a delivery rider at a Shell station with a Shell attendant. After topping up at a Shell Advance lubricant bay, the rider smiles and rides off.

[VO]
We do it because we must.

[Visuals]
The rider is on the way to make a delivery. He passes the food order to the recipient over a residential gate.

[VO]
Because every challenge calls us to be something greater.

[Visuals]
Cut to a car workshop where a mechanic pours Shell Helix engine oil into the engine of a car using a funnel.

[VO]
Because dreams are meant to be chased.

[Visuals]
Cut to the forecourt of a Shell station at night time. A car moves to reveal 4 young adults walking into the Shell Select. Cut to books and study materials sprawled out on a Shell Café table. There’s a timelapse of the 4 young adults studying at Shell Café, while also sharing snacks and laughing. Close-up shot of one of the girls drinking from a Shell Café coffee cup. Cut to a car driving down a race track, then a close-up shot of the female driver’s helmet inside the racecar. The driver changes gears and drives down the track. Cut to light peeking through the windows of the pit stop. The race car pulls up at the pit stop as a technician walks towards it.

[VO]
Because we know that our effort means something.

[Visuals]
The technician talks to the race car driver as he shows her results on a clipboard. Cut to a delivery rider’s phone screen that displays an app for Maghrib. Cut to the delivery rider breaking fast with lorry drivers at a Shell forecourt as a Shell attendant hands them water bottles.

[VO]
And when the roads are rough,

[Visuals]
Cut to a highway opposite a Shell station, congested from stalled cars by the shoulder while the authorities help direct traffic. Cut to the front of one of the damaged vehicles and the owners beside it. A Shell attendant helps an old man onto a stretcher guided by two paramedics.

[VO]
We’ll find strength in each other.

[Visuals]
A paramedic checks the old man’s pupils. The Shell staff directs the flow of traffic at the station.

[VO]
And find a way through.

[Visuals]
Cut to an EV nozzle being placed into a car’s charging port. The lady looks up confidently while her EV is being charged.

[Visuals]
We see a fast montage of different scenes: the boy in the kampung house, the old Shell station, the combustion in an engine, the mechanic checking an engine as he wipes his forehead, the Shell attendant talking to a man, the Shell lubricants attendant looking up at his work station, the boy’s toy car, the race car on a race track, a sunset with birds flying, the racer in her helmet, the young adults having fun at Shell Café, the side of a car on the road, the Shell attendant with the rider and lorry drivers breaking fast, and back to the racer.

[VO]
Because together,

[Visuals]
We cut back to the EV driver looking into her rearview mirror. She drives out of the Shell station.

[VO]
We are Made For More.

[Visuals]
We see her car pulling out of the Shell station as supers appear.

[SUPERS]
Made for More

[Visuals]
The screen blurs as the 135 Years Shell Malaysia masthead appears.

[Shell Pecten animation]