FINGERS ON THE TRIGGERS

5/5/2022

At this point of the year, finally we are settle down in our new place: Barcelona!!
Has been exactly 6 months since we started our “The life of E-21” project and have collected around 500 video shots while traveling around the world. So exhausted, but so excited about what is coming up now: Filming the indoor scenes and last sequences.
Let’s say we organized the whole story according to how our trips were planned, and we were modifying it a little bit depending on the adversities that appeared to us, but in order to have a consistent structure of our story and to make the project grow in a practical and realistic way, we separated the ideas in three main blocks:
The Script - Organized by sections, the written version of the movie
The Book - This file contains every single detail of the story, narrated as if it was a tale.
The Storyboard - Using the program CELTX - A large board on which the series of sketches of shots and scenes are arranged in sequence for outlining the action of a the movie.
As we named earlier, our main focus at this moment is the indoor scenes filming and also the shooting the sequences that require a very specific material, certain amount of time and scenery that was not accesible/available for us during our trips. At first we were worried about this way of organizing the shooting plan but later on we learnt that there are so many ways of making a shooting plans, there are many variants of structures and the filming sequences can be organized in the most convenient order (practical reasons, financial reasons, etc.)
We managed to record almost everything, but we had to leave some small parts to be recorded together with the chapters that we decided from the beginning that will be part of a post-work, which are the very beginning of the movie, - Chapter 1/The Factory - and the very end,- Chapter 3/The Community -, because sometimes it was imposible to shoot in the way we had it in mind due to weather conditions, a cobbled floor that would not allow our robot to walk properly, too many people around in the moment of the shooting, and a long etc.
So… seems that we are going to have some fun preparing all the material to literally transform our home in a puppet show scenery! :-) Bricks, boxes, labels, plastics, ROBOTS and much more!

We would like to share some pictures of E-21’s trips and adventures: