Terra 2050

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Client
Channel 4

Overview
Commissioned by Katie Speight at Channel4 as a series of short animated documentaries about the future to relaunch the 3 Minute Wonder slot. Directed and produced at Shroomstudio, the series used interviews with ascademics, organisations and consumers to create a synthetic dialogue against a dynamic graphic narrative using many styles & forms of animation to convey its messages. The series was selected for Onedotzero International Festival and has been translated into 4 foreign languages for special selection
The iconic style of the film has been appropriated for other projects including The Green Party PPB and recently Talking Energy for e.on UK.

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REEL 2010
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Episode 1 - Environment
By 2050 UK record temperatures of 101.3 degrees will be the norm. Meanwhile the Amazon Rainforest could suddenly die from lack of rain, along with 1 million land species and millions of people worldwide. With oil prices at record highs and energy demands ever increasing, how will we adapt to these changes and what can tomorrows’ technology offer? >>

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Episode 2 - Humans
Global Warming will intensify competition for resources and make food production difficult, but will technology help provide for those in need or will they be left to starve? Will GM foods provide safe and tested products, how will it be marketed, produced and prepared? Robots will be used around the home but will they learn to cook? >>

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Episode 3 - Technology
In the future robots could run the planet or maybe just help out with tasks. People will merge with machines. Travel to far distant galaxies will take no time at all and a boy’s favourite toy will be a chip in the head. Buildings will power themselves by light and your loo will check the families’ health. Children’s books will take them to bed and read them their favourite stories. >>

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Episode 4 - Hopes & Fears
Popular fears include the continued global terrorist threat, robots taking over and the eventual decimation of the natural world. Hopes include bombs going out of fashion, people switching to clean renewable energy and the rainforest not dying after all. This concluding episode reveals that the future means many things to different people, but that it’s also important to live in the present. >>