Case study · MediaTek · The power of storytelling

The spec sheet said "APU 3.0." The story showed a hand conducting a screen.

For the launch of MediaTek's flagship 5G chip, we made a 2½-minute film in the visual language of Minority Report — and put it at the front of the sell-in deck, where it did the selling before the slides.

Client
MediaTek
Project
Dimensity 1000+ launch film · 2020
Scope
Script · storyboard · production w/ Halide
Timeline
Brief → final cut in weeks
Concept visual: a raised hand conducting a holographic interface — the film's Minority Report-style visual language
The film's visual language: information that answers to a moving hand. Concept visual — final film produced with Halide.
The problem

The hardest audience in tech isn't consumers.

It's the product planners at phone brands — people who sit through hundreds of chipset presentations, every one of them a wall of benchmarks. That's the room a sell-in deck has to win.

The Dimensity 1000+ had a genuine differentiator buried in that wall: an AI engine fast enough to track hands in 3D, in real time — a new way to touch the digital world. On a spec slide, it was one row among forty.

The idea

Don't explain the capability. Put it in a story the audience already believes.

Everyone in that room had seen Minority Report — the film that taught a generation what gesture-controlled computing should feel like. So we wrote the chip into that world: interfaces floating in the air, information answering to a moving hand — then the reveal that collapses fiction into product: the same interaction, running live on a phone. Powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1000+.

Storyboard: from a floating interface to gesture control to the phone reveal
The three-act arc in four frames: a familiar dream → a hand that commands it → the dream in your hand. Illustrative storyboard.
The craft

Built for the room it had to win.

Script & storyboard

A three-act arc — a familiar dream, the proof of performance, the dream in your hand — instead of a feature tour.

Benchmarks, staged

The numbers stayed — GFXBench and all — but as part of the world of the film, not a table to squint at.

Production with Halide

Cinematic 3D and motion design on a sell-in-deck timeline: weeks, not months.

2:27, for a closed door

Designed to open a closed-door B2B meeting — and leave the next thirty slides pushing on an open door.

The film became the opening argument of the Dimensity 1000+ sell-in deck — the moment the audience felt what the silicon could do before anyone defended a benchmark. The collaboration continued after launch with support on MediaTek's sales-kit materials.

Why it matters

A spec proves a claim.
A story makes the claim worth proving.

B2B buyers are people. They remember what they felt and forget what they read — even engineers, even in a conference room. That's what storytelling adds to a product presentation: not decoration, but an audience that's already convinced, waiting to be reassured.

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