Title: Session #5 - AlecTED

Duration: 1:51 minutes

Description: 

Members of the AlecTED Team describe their experience of creating their entry for Pitch the Future.

Session #5 - AlecTED Transcript

[Background music plays]

Bright, uplifting instrumental music.

[Video footage]

Five team members on a video call, speaking parts of a sentence in sequence, against an animated background of yellow and aqua turning gears.

Team members

Hi. We are Team AlecTED.

[Video footage]

Split screen of all five team members, one young woman and four young men, dressed in team T-shirts, smiling and waving. 

[Animated sequence]

Aqua background, with wavy dotted lines moving. Words appear in yellow and white.

[Text on screen]

Pitch the Future, tracking and reducing CO2 emissions from vehicles with Microsoft. Team AlecTED, Turkey.

[Video footage]

The five team members appear on screen, with team member 1 speaking. As she speaks, a posed team photograph is shown, with the team members sitting on bleachers in three rows. They are all wearing team shirts that are dark blue with red collars. 

Team member 1

In AlecTED we are a total of 49 undergraduate students.

[Video footage]

The team photo cuts to team member 2, then the split screen with all five team members. As team member 2 continues speaking, a scene of the team working in their workshop is shown. Four team members are around a large worktable, shaping a component that takes up most of the table. Their motions are sped up in the video as they work. 

Team member 2

We created our mission to maintain our passion for changing the future, and we are motivated to live in a greener future. We believe, as the next generation of engineers, designers, and more, it's our duty.

[Video footage]

Cut to the split screen with five team members. Team member 1 is talking. As she speaks, footage from the team pitch video is shown. An animated yellow car drives on a road through a green landscape. Inset rectangles appear in the sky. The first one is infrastructure, with a picture of a radio tower in a circle. The second is data protection, which shows a miniature of the yellow car going by, which is then replaced by a dark blue background with a shield and padlock on it. The last one is third-party data access, which shows a miniature of the yellow car with an upwards pointing arrow, indicating that the car is emitting data. Team member 1 is again shown.

Team member 1

Our Pitch the Future idea is inspired by the nature, including several ways of decreasing carbon dioxide emissions through the current technology in a single car.

[Video footage]

Team member 3 is shown. As he speaks, the scene cuts to a lecture room with the audience all wearing team shirts. We first see the audience from the side of the room so that their faces are visible, then from the back, where a lecturer standing at a lectern can be seen at the front. Cut back to the split screen with the five team members, and then to team member 3 alone. Cut to a collection of five photos of different team members. Cut to a scene of a conference room with team members seated around it working on their laptops. A large screen on the wall is showing one of their laptop screens.

Team member 3

Pitch the Future is an important competition for us, because we had the opportunity to integrate the little information given to us in our school life into real life. Everyone in our unit is an engineer. By participating in this project, we have already developed ourselves by thinking about the real-life problems we will do in the future.

[Video footage]

Team member 2 is shown. While he is speaking, cut to the split screen with all five team members.

Team member 2

The biggest challenge has been for us in this competition, we wanted to be within the boundaries of feasibility.

[Text on screen]

What has your team learned?

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On the screen showing all five team members, team member 4 is speaking. Cut to team member 4 alone. Cut to a scene of a large room with many people standing. The backs of two young men in team shirts are visible, they are addressing the group. Cut to a scene with a team member sitting on a worktable. Another team member is working with him, while two others nearby take notes.

Team member 4

One thing that we learned from our experience is sometimes the solution of problems are obviously visible. The only thing that we should do is change our perspective.

[Text on screen]

Why are you proud of your team?

[Video footage]

Split screen showing five team members, with team member 5 speaking. Cut to a screenshot of a collaborative work tool showing about a dozen team members participating in a remote meeting. Footage from the team pitch video plays. An animation in a style reminiscent of a blueprint shows cars driving along a four-lane road. Most of the cars are grey but one is dark blue and stands out. Change to the driver's point of view in the same style. Additional information is superimposed, like a heads-up display. In this display, other vehicles are highlighted with light green rectangles, and the road markings are reinforced in green by the virtual display.

Team member 5

We are so proud of our achievement as AlecTED because we started with a little idea, then we got bigger. That was a long and exciting story for us.

[Text on screen]

Three words you think best describe Pitch the Future?

[Video footage]

Team member 3 appears on screen. As he speaks, the screen splits to show all five team members. They smile and wave.

Team member 3

Challenging, fulfilling, worthwhile.

[Audio]

Shell jingle plays.

[Graphic]

Shell logo centred on a background of animated turning gears.

[Text displays]

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