Early POV test

Here's an early test we did as R&D for what the robot's POV might look like. We wanted the design to come from real image processing. We looked at a lot of motion tracking software and videos of how mobile robots navigate.

It wasn't so important to us that the viewer totally understands what the robot is seeing, only that it is seeing, that it is calculating. In fact, we wanted it to be slightly alien and difficult for the viewer to process. After all, this is a highly complicated machine which can do things that humans cannot, so it's better if we, like the Superintendent, can only watch while the robot goes to work.

The little girl in the clip is an amazing young actress called Lily-May Crosby. The footage is lifted from the  rushes of our video for Coldplay, which you can watch here: