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ExxonMobil
A year-end video message from the US head office, built around a leadership address recorded on a handheld phone.
- Client
- ExxonMobil, via Elite Wave Media
- Discipline
- Storyboard · Motion direction · Edit · Audio
- Year
- 2024
- Role
- Wrote the storyboard, directed the motion team, restored the audio
- Tools
- Premiere Pro · After Effects · AI audio
The problem
The address was recorded on a phone. The film had to give a simple talking-head recording the structure and finish of a corporate film, and make the audio clear enough to carry it.
I rescued the phone-recorded audio with AI, removing the background noise while keeping the speaker’s natural pitch, so the message landed clearly.
Structure first
The first storyboard is a 12-frame outline of the message, organised around three questions.
The questions are: reflections on 2024, focus areas for 2025, and an end-of-year message for the Brand & Product Integrity team. A word cloud, an accomplishments section, team photos and team comments sit between them, and the brand ident closes the film.
Shot by shot
The second pass becomes a 20-frame shooting and edit plan for the motion team.
The speaker’s footage is cut into segments between brand-blue title cards. Placeholder frames, “Present word cloud”, “Present results” and “Present img”, mark where the edit cuts away to graphics, and D1 to D3 callouts place on-screen data over the footage. The film closes on a team photo slideshow and two screens of team comments. Frames showing the speaker are not reproduced here.
