North of Summer

Story × Technology

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SCENE 01 · BEFORE DAWN BREAKS

First, coffee. Your gear has been working through the night.

Generators humming, salt in the air. The crew moves through the dark by feel. Divers pack the tanks, locals guide the boats to the dock. A quiet buzz carries the morning.

Location
Misool Marine Reserve
S 02.24° · E 130.56°
Destination
Piaynemo
0.5642° S · 130.2708° E
Conditions
Partly cloudy
27°C air · 29°C water
0.3 m seas in lee
SE 3–5 kt
20–25 m
Crew arrival
Most on deck
06:32 · UTC+9
Boats at dock
Fuel & batteries ready
04:00 · UTC+9
Gear laoded
05:52 · UTC+9
#sunrise
Run Sheet
Ops Active
Field frame illustration for Misool shoreline
Radios & signals ready Boats fueled Final checks

SCENE 02 · AT FIRST LIGHT

Field Log · Low Pass Over The Islands

Field-grade tools at the edge of the world.

As sun burns off the morning haze, the lagoon takes shape. A drone sweeps low, tracking light glimmering over the reef.

Comms offline
Piaynemo · Raja Ampat
Drone Pilot 06:14:05

Dawn layer thinning. Holding steady 👍

Captain 06:14:14

Copy. Maintain orbit.

Drone Pilot 06:14:22

RT captain. Keeping lens on ridge.

Captain 06:14:35

Make this pass then return for battery swap.

DJI Mavic 3 Pro
Live
Field moment hero asset
06:14:32
N 63.99° · W 22.55°
70mm · f/2.8 · 1/250 · ISO 100

SCENE 03 - Capture Log

Built for moments you cannot miss.

Out here, things move fast.

Light shifts, wildlife passes, oceans turn.

Capture Log catches the moment the second it appears.

No rewinding memory. No smeared notes. Just the moment, logged on site.

  • - GPS + timestamp lock at the moment of capture
  • - Offline logging when the signal drops out
  • - Notes and tags recorded where the story actually happens

Shot Log 03B

Location: Piaynemo · On-site capture

Context: Logged during surface operations.

Device: Mobile app · Local session

Capture Log
Offline
02°24' S · 130°56' E
Linked media · 1 /1
Tags
Note

SCENE 04 · Ingress

Data in the field

Local first. Dump and sort later.

On the water, the timeline is chaos. Cameras roll, drones sweep, and phones catch BTS clips and notes in the gaps between jobs. Capture Log writes everything to the device first and treats the network as a bonus: when a line opens up, it sends whole bundles of context instead of spraying half-finished stories into the system.

  • - Multiple operators running Capture Log on their phones, each logging from their own angle.
  • - Camera and drone crews dragging cards back on deck; clips and stills attach once they’re within reach.
  • - BTS phone video, quick notes, and crew comms landing in the same lane as the “hero” shot instead of disappearing into random chats and folders.
Lagoon pass · edge view First light · Misool
Media
Hero clip + stills
Camera and drone passes tied together as one moment in the lagoon.
Notes
Shot notes · surface ops
Subject, dive number, and operator intent collected across the crew.
Telemetry
GPS + UTC drift
Coords, device time, heading, and link health bound to the same pass.

The timeline can arrive out of order, late, and in pieces—but the moment stays singular. Everything the crew records about this pass stacks up on devices at the edge, and only then crosses as a single POST /moment into the machine.

Ingress diagram
Devices · Capture Logs · /moment
Camera
Housing · 4K log
Drone
Manta pass · top-down
Op · Phone 01
Shot notes · surface ops
Op · Phone 02
Alt angle · timing
Capture Log · A
Deck
Media + notes · boat deck
Capture Log · B
Chase
Notes + telemetry · chase boat
API
POST /moment
Every device’s view of this pass converges here. Next scene: inside.
Media
Notes
Telemetry

SCENE 05 · Welcome to the Machine

System runtime

Welcome to the machine.

Moments cross the /moment boundary and drop into a spine built to keep them whole. Media, field notes, and signals travel together through intake, processing, and archive, so every story has a single, stable place to live once it leaves the water.

  • - Ingest: one POST /moment boundary into the system.
  • - Spine: extract, transform, and load keep media, notes, and signals moving in lockstep instead of scattering through mystery queues.
  • - Archive: core store and cold backup hold the moment together so downstream tools can look down the same line.
Moment spine
One ID through the whole machine
Media, field notes, and signals share one path and land pinned to the same moment_id. Devices change; the spine doesn’t.
Hero asset in system map
Shot 03B from Misool enters once and leaves as a stable object in storage; every downstream tool is just reading along the same spine.
System map
Devices · API · System spine
CAMERA
R5C housing · 4K log
CAPTURE LOG
Shot notes · tags · 03B
DRONE
Manta pass · top-down
API
/moment
Single POST boundary
EXTRACT INTAKE
Validate · accept moment
TRANSFORM PROCESS
Clean · align · derive metadata
LOAD ARCHIVE
Core storage · anchored
BACKUP COLD
Off-path replica
Media
Field notes
Signals

SCENE 06 · Moment to Material

Hybrid

A moment becomes material.

This is the bridge where system-state visuals fade into the tactile asset ready for editorial work.

  • - Shared hero asset continuity
  • - Reduced-motion path ready for later
  • - Clear emphasis on provenance and integrity
Integrity
Checksums match
Same moment ID, now embodied as the asset — ready for workspace and return.
Hybrid
Transition
Processed hero asset representing the hybrid transition
Message
Process state
Bridge
Provenance locked
Material
Asset ready

SCENE 07 · Production Workspace

Workspace

Your team moves from chaos to clarity.

Editorial tools, bins, and metadata views show how the asset lands in a structured space.

  • - Taxonomy panel with calm grid
  • - Notes/annotations tied to the same moment
  • - Room for subtle hover/motion later
Metadata
Context rides along
Every panel shares the same IDs and tags—no drift between tools.
Workspace
Bins + Metadata
Workspace UI placeholder — bins, taxonomy tags, and metadata panes around the asset.
Bins
Sequences, selects, backups
Taxonomy
Tags + structured facets
Notes
Anchored to moment ID

SCENE 08 · Narrative Return

Return
Planning
Sequence builder placeholder — the hero asset dropping into planning, timelines, or boards.
Timeline
Asset drops into sequence
Boards
Storyboards & beats
Tags
Context intact

Return

What begins in the wild returns as story.

Shows the asset feeding back into planning tools, closing the loop between field and editorial.

  • - Context carries forward: tags, provenance
  • - Calm transition back toward narrative assembly
  • - Clear CTA target for the closing frame
Loop
Field → Story → Return
The same moment continues into planning; provenance never drops.

SCENE 09 · North of Summer

Studio

Work with the studio to build the tools, systems, and workflows that carry real-world moments into finished stories.

Work With the Studio Calm close, ready for CTA animation later.
Across Domains
  • - Documentary & expedition workflows
  • - Research and conservation tech
  • - Editorial tooling and media systems
  • - Data transformation pipelines
  • - Field → ingest → meaning workflows
North of Summer builds narrative technology where field, system, and story meet.