TALECRAFTERS
Client work · 2025

SELENE CC

Four films for a Horizon Europe consortium, built entirely from a grant document, because nothing in them could be filmed.

Client
SEleNe CC
Discipline
Explainer · Narrative engineering · Public-sector comms
Year
2025
Where
Horizon Europe, grant 101120221

A grid cyberattack, explained to people who do not work on grids

The title card of the vector attack explainer, reading Attack Vector Deployment in cyan display type over a dark network mesh, with the COCOON mark above it.
explainer, title card
THE PROBLEM
COCOON is a Horizon Europe project on cooperative cyber protection for modern power grids, run across a consortium. The audience is mixed: engineers on one side, policy people, reviewers and the public on the other, who need the same story without the vocabulary.
THE IDEA
Treat it as a writing job, not a generation job. Nothing could be shot: live substations and pilot sites are not places a camera crew walks into, and the attack being described has never happened to the equipment on screen. So the grant text and 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 early and held across all four pieces. Colour carries state and nothing else, so a consortium partner can point at a frame and say which stage is wrong.
WHAT TALECRAFTERS MADE
  • →A project promo.
  • →Two pilot films.
  • →A vector attack explainer that walks an intrusion through a grid, one hop at a time.
THE RESULT
Delivered to SEleNe CC for the COCOON consortium. The project is publicly documented under Horizon Europe grant agreement 101120221.
HOW IT WAS BUILT
This one ran on the writing. Generation covered environments, establishing shots and the abstracted grid. Every technical claim went back to the consortium before it went into a render.
THE FRAMES
An explainer frame headed DNS Spoofing, with two paragraphs setting out how an attacker redirects an operator to a fraudulent site.
the scenario, stated before it is drawn
The full attack diagram: a hacker icon above a DNS server, a dashed line from an operator into the server, a red path branching to a fake website and a green path to the real one.
one vocabulary, colour carries state
The COCOON project mark, a stylised power pylon and solar panel inside a green cocoon, with the line Cooperative Cyber Protection for Modern Power Grids around it.
consortium mark, supplied
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