FOSSiBOT F1800

The brief

A product spot for the FOSSiBOT F1800, made on spec and sent to the brand as a pitch. Nobody commissioned it. Spec work, not affiliated with FOSSiBOT.

The story is an outage. Rain, a pole sparks, the whole street goes black, and the home office keeps running because it is plugged into the F1800. Then the numbers, then the next morning.

What we made

• A 30 second spot at 1920 x 1080 and 24 frames a second, with a voiceover and a music bed
• Eleven keyframes, approved as stills before any of them moved
• Five on-screen spec lines, each taken from FOSSiBOT's own spec page
• An end card with the brand's tagline and site

How it works

Every claim comes from the F1800 spec page: switching to battery in under 10 ms, 1,024 Wh, 1,800 W of AC output, back to 80% in 45 minutes, LiFePO4 cells with a five-year warranty.

Light follows one rule. Before the outage everything is lit. During it the street is black, with no windows or streetlights, and inside only the monitor, the computer, the router and the F1800's own screen stay on, because those are the things plugged into it. The next morning the power is back and the microwave blinks 12:00.

To keep the room the same from shot to shot, shot 4 was made first and every other office shot was built from it. The approved frames were animated on MiniMax H3 and finished at 1080p, with the voiceover recorded in ElevenLabs.

What we threw away

The first tests ran on a different video model at a lower resolution. They moved to H3, which renders at final quality, so an approved test never needs a second render.

The first hero frame had rain on the unit. The F1800 is not rated for water, so an ad cannot show it wet: in the final it stays dry and the storm stays outside. A neighbour's window was lit during the outage in an early office frame, which broke the story, so it went dark. The model also invented its own screen numbers, so the correct readout was laid onto the display in every shot.