Bring to light
The Lab would give audiovisual form to university and company activities, connecting professionals and university talent in creative work, production and the use of AI.
AUDIOVISUAL / AI / STUDIO / APPLIED TECHNOLOGYFrom university
From university
to business.
A space to communicate your work and connect knowledge, university talent and business activity.
Original productions, presentations, podcasts and news programmes with AI throughout the process.
Knowledge shared. Talent involved.CONCEPT IMAGE / AI
Tell the story of your work.
Show why it matters.
See the Unseen Lab proposes bringing together audiovisual creation, AI, studio production and applied technology so universities can make their own work visible across all their activities: research, teaching, culture, student projects and campus life.
Companies could also use it to present projects and products, create their own podcasts, share knowledge or produce news programmes. Our contribution is scripting, production and direction with AI throughout the process; each team retains authorship and responsibility for validating content in its field.
Project in development · partnerships to be agreedEVERY FIELD, MANY STORIESEverything that happens.
Everything that happens.
Every story waiting to be told.
Three examples to start with.
The proposal is open to every university discipline and to companies' activities.
01 / UniversitiesAudiovisual creation
A window onto university projects, the people behind them and their activities.
Explore the project
02 / CulturePlaces and stories
Heritage, culture and places: telling their stories and showing the work of those who study them.
Explore the project
03 / ResearchEngineering challenges
Teams share their questions, progress and what they have learned.
Explore the projectProposed audiovisual journeys. The images are AI concepts; projects and collaborations remain to be agreed.
A POSSIBILITY WITH FUTURELABUniversities and companies.
Universities and companies.
An audiovisual bridge.
FutureLab could be a meeting point for telling the story of university work, bringing it closer to companies and opening new conversations.
The proposal is to explore with FutureLab how to produce and share stories from every university field, showcase teams' projects and develop formats that companies could also use. These productions could raise new questions in audiovisual creation, engineering and AI.
Contribute and validate
Each field would contribute its projects, people and knowledge. Its teams would retain responsibility for developing their work and validating the content, along with authorship.
Connect questions
FutureLab could help bring people from across universities together with companies and the audiovisual team. Participation, resources and collaboration would need to be agreed.
From production to research
Continuity between generated shots, integration of real and synthetic images, sound quality or accessibility: production can raise specific questions to explore with university teams through FutureLab. Their advances would feed new ways of storytelling.
A CYCLE OF MUTUAL EXCHANGE
- A field has a story to tellThe people involved bring a project, an activity or a question.
- Audiovisual storytelling brings it into viewThe piece helps people discover that work, share it and discuss it.
- The work continues to progressEach team develops its projects and shares new results.
- New possibilities emergeAdvances inspire stories and tools; production generates new questions in return.
Collaboration with FutureLab and universities is a possibility to explore. This website does not establish any agreements or access to teams or equipment.
A STAGE FOR IDEASShow.
Show.
Connect.
Create.
The studio as a meeting point for production, learning and communication. Universities tell the story of their activities and companies present their projects, with university participation and AI throughout production.
Explore the audiovisual project ↗9 × 3 mREFERENCE / FLAT LED SCREEN
Flat screen, no green screen. The dimensions refer to the screen, not the room.
Availability and technical setup to be verified.UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, PART OF THE PROCESSCreate.
Create.
Learn.
Participate.
We propose involving students as authors, scriptwriters, presenters and members of directing, camera, sound or editing teams, with professional guidance.
Their own projects can become content. Productions can also connect students, teaching staff and researchers from different fields with companies' communication needs.
Roles, guidance and participation arrangements would be agreed with the university and each team.
Presentations
Students, university teams and companies present their own projects, products, work and results.
Podcasts and video podcasts
Conversation series, interviews and podcasts from universities and companies, featuring their own voices and topics.
News programmes
Campus and company updates: news, events, progress and conversations from across their activities in a regular programme.
Documentaries and features
Stories showing how people work, what they research and create, and who makes it all possible.
MAKING THE MOST OF THE STUDIOOne studio.
One studio.
Many ways to put it to work.
A proposal to combine university projects, company commissions and original formats that could sustain activity in the space.
Studio sessions
Recordings, presentations, demonstrations and tests, with resources and technical support to be agreed for each session.
Full production service
Scripting, planning, directing, filming, editing and adaptations for a complete commission, with AI throughout the process.
Regular formats
Podcasts, news programmes, educational series and universities' or companies' own programmes, with a production schedule.
A proposed operating model to be defined with those responsible for the studio: availability, resources, rates, coordination, rights and maintenance.
AUDIOVISUAL + AIAI throughout the process.
AI throughout the process.
The team leads.
Six stages of audiovisual production combining craft and artificial intelligence. Tools would be chosen for each brief and the resources available.
01
Research the story
AI to organise interviews and authorised documents, compare information and prepare questions.
The team checks the sources and agrees the question with the people who know the subject.
02
Write and visualise
AI to explore treatments, scripts, visual references, storyboards and animatics.
The director chooses the perspective, rewrites and decides what serves the story.
03
Prepare the production
AI to support breakdowns, shot lists, planning alternatives and previsualisation.
Production confirms resources, schedules, permissions and feasibility with the team.
04
Film and record
AI to support transcription, notes, reference lookup and take tracking where useful.
The crew directs, lights, frames and records. Specialists explain and review their content.
05
Edit and finish
AI to organise footage, find excerpts, explore edits and assist with sound, cleanup or effects.
The editor and director review pace, continuity, image and sound. Generated material is identified where appropriate.
06
Adapt and learn
AI to suggest subtitles, translations, formats and versions, and organise questions received.
The team reviews each deliverable and agrees its release. What is learned feeds the next piece and new challenges.
AI is used with judgement: authorised materials, agreed rights, human review and technical checks with specialists. This is the proposed way of working; tools and scope are defined for each production.
Explore the proposal involving FutureLab ↗ADVANCES THAT OPEN UP NEW WAYS TO CREATEYour work moves forward.
Your work moves forward.
So does the way you tell its story.
Advances in engineering, 3D capture, interaction and AI can open up new audiovisual possibilities. In turn, a shoot or a visual experience can raise questions worth bringing to universities.
The exchanges we want to explore
- Engineering and robotics. Tell the story of how a team works and explore, with specialists, which advances could support audiovisual production.
- AI and audiovisual creation. Research, write, plan, support filming, edit and adapt content with AI. Each use is chosen for the project and reviewed before being included in the piece.
- Capture and interaction. Explore with specialist teams how a space, a movement or an experience can become audiovisual language.
Proposed areas of exploration. Technical participation, access to resources and each application would be agreed with those responsible.
Communicate what you do.
Set what comes next in motion.
The next step: choose what you want to tell, to whom and in which format.
A presentation, a podcast, a news programme or the story of your next project.
The PDF preserves the earlier presentation as background. This website contains the current audiovisual proposal.
← All projects01 / AUDIOVISUAL CREATIONYour activity.
Your activity.
The format it needs.
Presentations, podcasts, news programmes, interviews, documentaries and demonstrations to communicate what universities and companies do. AI from research to final versions, with human direction and review.
THE QUESTION
What do you want to tell, to whom and in which format?
WHAT WE ARE AIMING FOR
An audiovisual piece or a series of your own, with its people, audience and identity. Story, planning, filming, editing and versions with AI and clear authorship.
Proposed uses. Reference: a flat 9 × 3 m LED screen, no green screen. Room, availability and technical capabilities to be verified.
01 / THE JOURNEY
Presentations
Students, university teams and companies present their own projects, products, work and results.
02 / THE JOURNEY
Podcasts and video podcasts
Conversation series, interviews and podcasts from universities and companies, featuring their own voices and topics.
03 / THE JOURNEY
News programmes
Campus and company updates: news, events, progress and conversations from across their activities in a regular programme.
04 / THE JOURNEY
Documentaries and features
Stories showing how people work, what they research and create, and who makes it all possible.
KEEP EXPLORINGPlaces and stories
← All projects02 / PLACES AND STORIESOne place.
One place.
New ways to tell its story.
An audiovisual proposal about places that could incorporate advances from 3D capture and interactive creation teams. The narrative use would be defined with the people developing those technologies.
THE QUESTION
What story do we want to tell about this place, and what can digital capture contribute?
WHAT WE ARE AIMING FOR
An audiovisual piece or a scene that helps people understand a place, its transformation or the work of those studying it.
Concept journey. Capture, models and interactive development would be the responsibility of the participating specialist team. Access, rights and resources remain to be agreed.
01 / THE JOURNEY
Find the story
The audiovisual team agrees on the perspective, audience and format with the people who know the place. Access and permissions are arranged.
02 / THE JOURNEY
Understand the capture process
The capture team explains its process. We document it and work with those responsible to explore which images or resources could be incorporated into the story.
03 / THE JOURNEY
Turn progress into a story
The audiovisual director finds a way to show the place and its possibilities. Specialists prepare and validate the technical resources agreed for use.
KEEP EXPLORINGEngineering challenges
← All projects03 / ENGINEERING CHALLENGESAn engineering challenge.
An engineering challenge.
A story that brings it into view.
Engineering is one of the many university fields whose stories can be told. This example proposes following a team on camera as it studies an agricultural need, bringing its own work into view.
THE QUESTION
How can we explain a farming need so that the people who could research it understand it?
WHAT WE ARE AIMING FOR
A documentary showing the team's work: its question, tests, results and what remains to be learned.
Illustrative case. The agricultural solution, prototype and tests would be the responsibility of specialists. The Lab would handle the agreed audiovisual production.
01 / THE JOURNEY
Listen in the field
The person who knows the work explains the problem on camera. The audiovisual team prepares an interview and a story that respect their experience.
02 / THE JOURNEY
Show the technical question
The engineering team explains what it is studying, how it will test it and the limitations it encounters. We give that explanation audiovisual form.
03 / THE JOURNEY
Document the process
Specialists design and build. The camera records the decisions and tests that the team authorises us to show, subject to its technical review.
04 / THE JOURNEY
Share what we learn
The piece explains progress, difficulties and open questions. It can help bring the challenge to students, researchers and other professionals.
KEEP EXPLORINGAudiovisual creation