SELENE CC

COCOON is a Horizon Europe project on cooperative cyber protection for modern power grids, run across a consortium. It has two halves that pull in opposite directions. One half is real and physical: a photovoltaic park in Halkidiki, a control cabin, an operator on a laptop, and the first time the Greek distribution operator supervised and controlled PV parks in real time. The other half has never happened and cannot be filmed, because it is an attack on equipment that is still running. The audience is mixed in the same way: engineers on one side, reviewers, policy people and the public on the other, all needing the same story without the vocabulary.

Film what exists and write what does not, then hold both to one visual system. The pilot film goes to the site and stays there. Objectives and milestones are set as typed cards over the array, then the film hands over to a phone, vertical, framed inside a solar cell so the shift in format reads as deliberate: the van, the drive, the gate, the contractor’s sign, the control cabin, the inverter and the logging kit, captioned a line at a time, ending on the HEDNO researcher standing in front of the rows he has just been describing. The explainer does the opposite job. Nothing in it could be shot, so the grant text and the consortium’s technical diagrams were read down into a single chain of events (entry point, lateral move, control layer, physical effect) and one diagram vocabulary was agreed before anything was drawn. Colour carries state and nothing else, so a partner can point at a frame and say which stage is wrong.

Delivered to SEleNe CC for the COCOON consortium. The pilot film carries the two milestones the project needed on record: real-time supervision and control of PV parks by HEDNO for the first time, and the first execution of Ancillary Services in a real-world environment in Greece. The project is publicly documented under Horizon Europe grant agreement 101120221.

This one ran on the writing. On the pilot film the constraint is the opposite of the usual one: the footage is real and the words have to survive review by the people who ran the trial, so every objective and milestone card is the consortium’s own language, set on screen a clause at a time, with nothing paraphrased. On the explainer, generation covered environments, establishing shots and the abstracted grid, and every technical claim went back to the consortium before it went into a render.