No scripts.
No crews.
Pure stories.
The Portable Story Lab is a unique blend of hardware, software, services and AI that allow hard-to-reach teams to tell exquisitely crafted and truly genuine stories. It's so unique, in fact, that we have a patent pending on our approach to pure storytelling.
Everyone has a story
The Portable Story Lab is a project of Wellcome Leap, born out of collaboration Uplifting Design, and includes both IP and a compelling approach to ethnographic storytelling. It all started with a question:
What if any team with a story to tell could quickly and easily capture it at the highest production levels? Computationally-controlled gimbals, motion timelapses, flow-stabilized POV footage, studio quality audio, globablly distributed editing, AI tooling, adaptive remote interviewing, self-ethnography, and most importantly a level of genuine vulnerability that's impossible with a film crew? The Portable Story Lab is the breakthrough that makes all this possible. See how it transformed the narrative for a global network of advanced scientific labs.
Behind the Scenes
Here's how the Portable Story Lab was born.
The Prototype
It all started with an inspired CEO pulling in a designer and a filmmaker to rethink how to tell scientific stories.
The First Voyage
A successful prototype led to over a dozen portable story labs sent across the world to 28 teams in 6 weeks.
The Showcase
Globally distributed and transcript-based editing, AI tooling, and a bit of energetic music works magic.
The EXPO
See how it all came together in the heart of London.