Terra 2050 is a four part series conceived, directed and produced by Shroom. We all loved 'Creature Comforts' and were inspired to make a documentary composed of different people's thoughts and imaginings, characterising these rather than the people themselves.
We took the concept to Channel 4 as we were at the time discussing a few ideas for their Alt TV slot. They liked the concept and asked us to develop a narrative, which we determined to be simple; There is the world, the Environment, then there are people, Humans, we make Technology and that gives rise to Hopes and Fears.
As we gathered this material, we edited out the interesting clear parts and began to assemble a 'database' of calls and responses, fitting together 'threads' and flows of conversation and ideas.
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Terra 2050
After much discussion between ourselves we settled on the topic of the future; most people think about the future in one way or another, it relates to many issues, from technology to environment and usually reflects the inner workings of the person's mind...
With this simple structure and a list of twenty or so 'standard questions' we interviewed about 70 subjects, from space, bio and climate scientists to PR folk from power company's and Greenpeace, small children and at one point a room full of old ladies in a local retirement home. Artists and engineers, even Kevin Warwick was interviewed over the phone in the US - his voice was distorted and sounded robotic but it gave resonance to his feelings about robots and machine intelligence dominating mankind....
Visual ideas were generated througout the process by all members of the team and some contributors even gave us drawings and concept which we used in the film.The audio clips were then edited together into 'radio edits'; pieces of audio that could work alone. As these edits started to solidify, the real animation began; storyboards and animatics were quickly brought to life and the disparate ideas juxtaposed to create the world that is TERRA 2050
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