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Tomorrow's Climate - Today's Challenge

Film

Act on CO2

My CO2 film

This short film illustrates how energy use in your home creates CO2 emissions, and how we can all reduce our emissions to help tackle climate change.

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There is a transcript of the film below the links.

My CO2 film

TRANSCRIPT:

Open on an out of focus red flickering light that fills most of the screen. The camera pulls back and focuses to reveal the flickering light charger. The charger seems to pulse as if there is an internal energy trying to burst out.

The camera pulls back further and then takes off on a journey around a modern home picking up examples of energy wastage in the home from the small appliances right through to the hot water heating system.

(The style of the camera work is observant, the occupants of the home are unaware of its presence and they aren't the feature of the piece. The camera glides and swoops past them to point out the offending energy wastage not the people responsible.)

We see it pass through the kitchen, then through a utility room, where we see the iron & board, past the washing machine.

As the camera finds all of these examples of energy wastage, each appliance appears to pulse with an internal energy trying to escape.

The camera passes through the living room and finds a TV, which is showing images from the previous Climate Challenge film of aircraft and traffic and the ANIMATED CO2 emissions that they are pumping out in to the atmosphere and other appliances throbbing energy.

The camera moves and finds the flame of the boiler, then follows to the boiler and a hot tap leaking out hot water. It continues it journey through a bedroom where more appliances are throbbing with energy. Then it goes through another bedroom, looks like a child's with TV and computer console on.

Then the camera pans through the house and see various other switches left on and the heating.

The camera then follows the energy stream as it first journeys through some circuit boards and then joins the electricity main, which leads from the house.

Voice Over:

Energy-dependent home appliances are part of our modern way of life. Most of the energy they use comes from burning gas, oil and coal, which emit, carbon dioxide, CO2, in to the atmosphere, changing the planet's climate.

The camera cuts to scenes outside in the garden and we see energy streaming by.

The camera cuts to an overhead shot of a street as the energy streaming from each of the houses come together in the street and shoot off.

The camera cuts higher and higher as we see each street and then each district of a town combine their energy streams and one stream shoots off across the countryside.

The camera then swoops down and we follow the energy stream along power pylons until we reach a power station where ANIMATED CO2 is belching in to the atmosphere.

The camera pulls higher to reveal a mass of energy streams leading to the power station from different towns around the country.

Voice Over:

We also waste large amounts of energy unnecessarily, which only increases CO2 emissions affecting the climate even further.

The camera keeps going higher and higher revealing first Britain, then Europe until we are seeing the Earth from space. But instead of the beautiful blue planet we are used to seeing it is enveloped in ANIMATED CO2 making it take on a 'reddish' hue.

The Earth almost seems to pulse as all the appliances have before it.

The 'reddish' Earth mixes through to the flickering red light of the charger in the opening shot. As the camera pulls back again, a hand reaches in and turns off the switch.

Voice Over:

We are now producing more C02 than the world can cope with.

We then see a series of shots as the energy wastage shown in the first sequence is rectified. As each appliance is dealt with it stops pulsing.

Series of shots: TV being switched off, plug socket switched off, tap turned off to stop the leaking hot water, heating turned down, kids of bike as energy retracts, then mobile phone charger being switched off, gnome in garden as the energy retracts, we then see energy efficient light bulb, loft installation, street scene.

Voice Over:

We can only tackle climate change, if we all act, now – together – by using and wasting less energy and therefore, reduce the CO2 emissions we are each responsible for.

We end to see parents walking their children and cyclists on the street with no cars.

The camera pulls up again from the house to reveal the street. We track past solar panels on the roofs of houses and seethe wind turbines in the background.

Voice Over:

To find out more about climate change and how to reduce your CO2 footprint, go to: direct.gov.uk/Act On CO2

The camera pulls up again to reveal the earth from space back to the way we are used to seeing it as a beautiful blue planet and the earth morphs into the logo.