A Story Productions crew of four – director, DoP, camera assistant and sound technician – spent a day at the lab in Rio de Janeiro, capturing the essence of the lab through B-roll footage (think engineers hard at work and the twinkling lights of 5G base stations, shot in close-up with Sony FS7 cameras and Rokinon lenses). We also shot interviews with two lab members, in Portuguese, which we transcribed and translated into English for the post-production team at Facebook.
The next shoot was at CPQD in Campinas, one of the largest R&D centres for IT and telecoms in Latin America. Lab members there are looking into fibre optic solutions, so again we shot plenty of close-ups of the technology with the Rokinon lenses, as well as interviews where the experienced Story Productions producer helped the interviewees break their specialist technical knowledge down into short, comprehensible sound bites that also captured their passion for the work that goes on in the Community Labs.
