A multi-sensory immersive film experience that brought climate risk to life for FTSE boardroom leaders, turning dense actuarial research into a story that moved a room.
Climate change is no longer a distant data point on a report; the reality is happening right outside the boardroom window. To drive this urgency home for business leaders just ahead of London Climate Action Week, Chapter Zero hosted a unique, high-stakes event inside the massive, immersive screens of London’s FRAMELESS gallery.
The brief was clear: don't just intellectulise the climate crisis for these FTSE 350 chairs and directors. Make them feel it.
Music Composition
This project was built on the conviction that creativity, art, and immersive experience can do what reports cannot. To make the music feel deeply rooted in our world, the foundation was built out of found recordings and raw field elements. By blending these organic soundscapes with traditional instrumentation and subtle electronic textures, we've created a sonic palette that evokes a sense of human familiarity while leaning into a cutting-edge future that resonates across generations.
Sound Design
The sound design served as the vital connective tissue, anchoring visual pacing into an immersive space. Field recordings and organic nature sounds were treated as dynamic soundscapes rather than passive background layers.
In place of traditional narration, we engineered an "inner monologue" concept. Key textual words and phrases were transformed into sonically manipulated, abstract voice textures. To build this authentic human fabric, we recorded voiceovers from members of both the Chapter Zero team and our own creative crew. This provided a rich, organic diversity of voices that float eloquently through the soundscape, mirroring the collective human effort required to face the climate crisis.
'Inner Monologues'. selected words and phrases and transforming them into sonically manipulated, abstract sound effects.
London Stock Exchange version.
Credits
Client: Chapter Zero
Producer/ Director: Riccardo Sai, Storo
Creative Director: Nick Booton
Editor/ Motion Designer: Viral Mistry
Music Composer & Sound Designer: Jia Lee
Contributions from
John Gummer, Rt Hon The Lord Deben, former Chair of the Climate Change Committee
Emma Howard Boyd CBE, former Chair of the Environment Agency and the London Climate Resilience Review.
Screened at
FRAMELESS Gallery, 6 Marble Arch, London W1H 7AP
London Stock Exchange, as part of Chapter Zero reception at London Climate Action Week 2026.
"A complex topic distilled into simple, insightful messaging, delivered beautifully in a challenging immersive location. The visuals, music, sequencing and overall impact were delivered with skill and empathy." — Joanne Murray, Communications Director, Chapter Zero
"The narrative and visuals came together to create a really memorable experience. One of the strongest examples we have seen of content making full use of the space." — FRAMELESS Gallery
"It has been an absolute pleasure working with STORO on this. A challenging brief, but the creative energy and passion for the topic that the team brought to everything led to a fantastic outcome." — Ben Pummell, Chapter Zero