After a crazy (in the bad sense) start of the week - a creative project that made the second half crazy as well, but in a good sense :) We will never look at the plenary chamber, toilet mirrors, interpreter booths, TV sets and TV studios, carton boxes, popcorn, ushers, Pietro and, definitely, Fred the same.

A short meeting with Gaëlle, Thibault, Fred and Elisabetta with 10 creative concepts laid down on the table. Make up for the EU flag, carton-box TV set with a hemicycle photo on it, EP report “as seen on TV”, “genetically modified” remote control, “huissier” reading about himself in a TV magazine, interpreters sending hidden messages, heads inside carton-box TV sets surrounded by serious “fonctionnaires”, lipstick-painted TVs on toilet mirrors, TV presenters with a support crowd, hemicycle with a simple chap in the middle of it eating pop-corn and zipping imaginary TV channels.

One message – get ready for the launch of the EuroparlTV. Hours of hard work and creativity. 1,700 pictures taken. Some banners rejected by the big bosses upstairs. Still, 6 of them that will be seeing the world! And understanding that everything is a moment, as those banners that go into the oblivion after one day…

Memories that are here to stay:

• Shooting in men’s toilet near hemicycle during a plenary session – watching lost faces staring at the camera and Gaëlle J Yes, security did come to see us.
• Hard work to make an atmosphere cosy enough for Fred to wear my yellow T-shirt, Homer Simpson slippers and eat popcorn in the middle of hemicycle. It was not cosy enough to make him wear boxers though ;-) 
• Faces of passers-by when seeing “the show” in the hemicycle. Yes, a visitor group came to the plenary gallery while we were shooting. And yes, if you wonder, security came to see us again.
• A strange feeling of being completely isolated from the world inside an interpreter booth

To be continued? Maybe…