Case study · AI product film
From a phone photo to a product commercial.
Two snaps of a drinks can on a kitchen worktop, turned into a cinematic product spot in under a day, with every label checked before it went out.
Self-initiated spec work. Not commissioned by, or affiliated with, the brand shown.
Before
Two phone photos. That was the whole shoot.
How it was made
Six steps, the same way I would run it for an agency brief.
- Input
- Two phone photos
- Tools
- Nano Banana Pro for stills, Google Flow (Veo) for motion
- Time
- Under a day
- Output
- A vertical spot plus hero stills
Two phone photos
The brief started with two snaps of a can on a kitchen worktop: one side-on, one from above. No studio, no lighting, no product shoot.
A shot list written like a brief
Each shot was written the way a director would brief it: the camera and lens, the lighting, the depth of field, and what moves. Tab opening, splash, the slow push on the hero can.
Stills first
Hero stills were made from the photos first in Nano Banana Pro, so the look and the product were right before any motion. Each brief was tried more than once and the strongest result kept.
Animated in Google Flow
The approved stills were brought to life in Google Flow (Veo): the ring-pull, the burst of liquid, condensation and smoke around the can.
Every label checked
AI video is good at liquid and light, and bad at small text. Some shots came back with the label garbled. Those were re-generated in Flow until the label held, and nothing with a broken label made the cut.
Cut and delivered
The shots were cut into a short vertical spot, ready for social, with the stills alongside for print and display.
The part clients notice: the label
Left, a shot from an earlier cut as the AI first made it, with the wordmark mangled. Right, the same shot re-generated with the label correct. A brand team would reject the first one on sight.
Frames from the film
Stills that work on their own for print, display and social.
What this means for an agency
- Packshots and short product films without booking a studio, so a pitch or a social calendar is not waiting on a shoot.
- One look, repeated across a range: the briefs are kept, so the next flavour or size matches the first.
- Someone who checks the product the way your client will, label by label, before you see it.
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