CH. 02BRANDS

Storytelling is the Branding Superpower

02.1 / 01FEATURED WORK
Documentary Series01 / 03
University of Maine

Life in the Pines

A campus told through the people actually living it.

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02.1 / 02FEATURED WORK
Anthem Film02 / 03
Bates College

Athletics & Fitness Center

Movement, community, and place in one cinematic anthem.

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02.1 / 03FEATURED WORK
Campaign Film03 / 03
University of Maine

Finish Strong

Momentum without the usual ad language.

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02.2STORY FORMATS
WHAT WE MAKE

Many formats.
Always a story.

Hover a format to open it. We choose the form after we understand the people, purpose, and audience—not before.

01

Documentary Spot

REAL PEOPLE · SHORT FORM

A focused human story built from lived experience for campaigns, recruitment, awareness, and social audiences.

Story first. Format second.
02

DocuSeries

REAL PEOPLE · EPISODIC

Connected documentary chapters that let audiences spend more time with people, places, and a shared question.

Story first. Format second.
03

Narrative Brand Film

SCRIPTED · CINEMATIC

A scripted story with characters, dramatic structure, and a brand living naturally inside the experience.

Story first. Format second.
04

Narrative Brand Series

SCRIPTED · EPISODIC

Recurring characters and an unfolding world give audiences a reason to return instead of asking one film to do everything.

Story first. Format second.
05

Radio Play

PERFORMED · AUDIO

Performance, sound design, and music create a story world the audience has to picture for itself.

Story first. Format second.
06

Podcast

DOCUMENTARY OR SCRIPTED · AUDIO

A sustained listening experience built around people, ideas, interviews, or a narrative journey.

Story first. Format second.
02.3WHY STORY STROLL
We don't start with deliverables.
We start with people.
With place.
With what changed.
With what someone remembers.
Then we find the thread.
Build the right form around it.
And make something worth staying for.
02.4BY THE NUMBERS
BY THE NUMBERS

The work,
in numbers.

01 / Partnership5 years

A long-term University of Maine relationship built around continuity, not one-off production.

02 / DocuSeries10 episodes

A full Life in the Pines season built as connected human stories rather than isolated spots.

03 / Story forms6 formats

Film, episodic documentary, narrative work, radio plays, podcasts, and other story-first formats.

04 / Institutions2 partners

University of Maine and Bates College anchor the current institutional storytelling portfolio.

02.5PARTNERSHIP
STRATEGIC STORYTELLING PARTNERSHIP

One partner.
A world of stories.

An ongoing creative relationship for organizations that want to stop starting from zero every time they need a story.

We learn your people and your world, keep listening between productions, preserve what we discover, and maintain creative capacity to turn the strongest opportunities into films, series, audio, photography, and public story experiences.

Story discoveryCreative strategyProduction capacityInstitutional story memory
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02.6LORESCENT
LORESCENT™ / STORY INTELLIGENCE

Listen once.
Keep learning.

Story Studies, interviews, transcripts, and past work become usable evidence—so the brand can see what is recurring, what needs investigating, and what is worth turning into a story.

Actual productLorescent / Discover
Actual Lorescent Discover page showing story intelligence and evidence analysis
01Listen

Story Studies and source material enter one shared memory.

02Understand

Patterns, tensions, people, and questions surface across the archive.

03Develop

Evidence-backed Story Opportunities move toward production with the source trail intact.

What it changes for a brand: each project adds context to the next one. The partnership gets smarter instead of resetting.

Explore Lorescent
02.7EVERSTROLL
EVERSTROLL™ / STORY WORLDS

A story should not
end at publish.

EverStroll gives brand stories a public world to live in—connecting films to people, places, audio, context, and Story Calls that invite audiences to add their own experiences.

Actual productEverStroll / Brand Story World
Actual EverStroll Story Stroll brand Story World page
01Publish

Give films, people, places, and related media one connected public home.

02Explore

Let audiences move beyond one asset and deeper into the world around the story.

03Invite back in

Story Calls create new first-person signals that can feed the next round of discovery.

What it changes for a brand: stories compound. Publishing becomes the beginning of the next listening cycle, not the end of a campaign.

See EverStroll live
02.8REVIEWS
CLIENT WORDS

What it feels like
to make the work.

CLIENT WORDS / University of Maine
“a joy to work with behind the scenes”
Brenn BorrorUniversity of Maine
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