North of Summer
Story × Technology
North of Summer
Story × Technology
North of Summer
Story × Technology
North of Summer
Story × Technology
SCENE 01 · BEFORE DAWN BREAKS
Field · Misool
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.
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.
Dawn layer thinning. Holding steady 👍
Copy. Maintain orbit.
RT captain. Keeping lens on ridge.
Make this pass then return for battery swap.
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
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 happen
Shot Log 03B
Location: Piaynemo · On-site capture
Context: Logged during surface operations.
Device: Mobile app · Local session
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
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 happen
Shot Log 03B
Location: Piaynemo · On-site capture
Context: Logged during surface operations.
Device: Mobile app · Local session
SCENE 04 · Ingress
Data in the field
Local first. Sync when there's signal.
In the wild, the timeline is chaos. Cameras roll, drones sweep, and phones catch BTS clips. Notes fill in the gaps between jobs.
Capture Log writes everything to the device first and treats the network as an eventuality: 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.
- - Video crews dragging SD 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.
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.
SCENE 05 · Welcome to the Machine
System runtime
Where reality becomes addressable.
Signals from the field don’t rush in all at once. They surface, trickle, retry, and finally cross the boundary.
Signals become moments when they cross the /moment boundary. From there, The Spine carries it forward as a single, living unit - kept whole, processed deliberately, and delivered intact to The Archive.
- The Spine System runtime Extract, transform, and load move media, field notes, and signals together, in lockstep, without scattering through queues.
- The Archive Durable store Core storage and cold backup hold the moment intact, so downstream tools read from the same anchored source.
Signals move together along a single path and remain bound to the same moment throughout the system.
Because devices change. Formats change. The Spine does not.
SCENE 06 · Moments to Material
Raw Material
The moments begin to arrive.
The system is warm - pulsing as moments arrive, resolve, and update - becoming usable as soon as they exist.
The field and the studio move in parallel.
Editorial, planning, and field crew are connected - able to respond and adjust without breaking continuity.
Nothing waits for everything.
Everything is in context.
- • Moments remain continuous across capture, processing, and use
- • Material becomes usable the moment it exists
- • Context and provenance stay attached as work begins
SCENE 07 · Live Timeline
Shared Reference
Time as a live surface.
Teams back home see exactly what everyone else sees - a shared, living timeline with full context.
What’s captured in the field, what’s resolved by the system, and what’s held in The Archive all align through time - continuous, addressable, and shared.
- • Notes stay anchored to the timeline, not detached snippets
- • Structure follows the moments as they arrive and update
- • Field and studio stay in sync without freezing the system
SCENE 08 · Narrative Return
Narrative Return
You don’t leave the field just to craft the story.
You stay close long enough for it to show itself.
Signals arrive. Moments begin to coalesce. The arc sharpens, and the shape comes into focus.
SCENE 09 · North of Summer
North of Summer works with teams operating where conditions are unstable, signals are incomplete, and reality refuses to simplify — building systems that hold human moments without sanding them down.
- - Expedition and documentary systems
- - Research and conservation tooling
- - Editorial and narrative infrastructure
- - Media pipelines and data transformation
- - Field → ingest → narrative architectures