Project: 129296 : 82599 - Tech works

Accessibility Script for TECHWORKS_SHORT_V2_Approval.mp4

Duration: 51 seconds

[Video footage]

In the office, an R2-D2 figure appears round a corner, chatting in droidspeak.

Text: [This is Shell TechWorks,an experimental workshop in the heart of Boston.]

[Video footage]

Staff members stand watching R2-D2. Three staff members construct a small unit on a table. An employee in light industrial environment wearing protective clothing works with a tool.An office staff member makes an explanation, using vigorous hand and arm gestures, to a colleague in front of a whiteboard.

Text: [Around 90% of its employeescome from outside oil and gas from sectors including defence, aerospace and robotics.]

[Video footage]

Two staff members examine and discuss a diagram on a whiteboard. TechWorks staff members (founder?) stand in the middle of the office. Two employees in light industrial environment wearing yellow hard hats work together. A staff member wearing a hard hat and safety clothes leans over a laptop. An employee looks down, applying substance or brushing a small item under bright lighting. A finger and thumb turn a knob on a control panel and small lights flash on the round device plugged into the panel. A wired circuit board is seen as a pair of hands works behind it.

Text: [Their goal is to find new solutionsto complex energy problems from adapting virtual realitytechnology to help install pipes to building underwater robotsfor subsea discovery.]

[Video footage]

Two men stand in front of surface arranged with house brick sized blocks each bearing a number. One man picks a block up and examines it.A tech worker presents ideas using large diagrams in front of a whiteboard. A man crouches to write at the bottom of a whiteboard.A woman presenting to a group gestures in front of a diagram on a whiteboard.Motion close up view from inside aVR headset showing metal structures and pipework through two overlapping circles. Astaff member wears the VR headset while a screen behind him displays what he is viewing.

Exterior shot of underwater robot, POV along length of robot, at waterline level, edge of a large vessel in the background.

Text: [By cultivating a start-up culture, Shell TechWorks helps find faster,more cost-effective solutions.]

[Video footage]

Hands place Post-it notes of various colours on to a blank surface. Two office staff look at a laptop screen, camera does a circular pan around them to show other staff in the office. Two staff members work with tools.

Text: [Innovating to delivermore and cleaner energy]

[Video footage]

A technical staff member gently uses a tool, brushing or applying a substance, under a bright light. Three staff members in light industrial environment wearing hard hats stand with a piece of machinery while a fourth crouches down to adjust a piece of machinery connected to the other piece by a yellow spring type cable.

Exterior shot of large outline Shell Pecten signage on lattice structure against a cloudy blue sky, slow zoom in followed by exterior time lapse of Boston cityscape turning from height of day to depth of night.

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