Notlith · Halifax
Product film in Halifax for seafood, preserves and wine sold far from the harbour
Halifax is a port city, and much of what is packed around it travels a long way: frozen and smoked seafood, wild blueberry products from Cumberland County, wines and ciders from the Annapolis Valley. A distant buyer often meets the product first on a screen, at a trade show or in an inbox. Notlith makes product films remotely from your photographs, with direction, AI-assisted motion, editing and sound.
Remote production · From your photos
The frozen pack, exactly as it ships
A frozen lobster tail, a vacuum-packed side of smoked salmon or a tray of scallops reaches a distributor in its pack, not on a plate. The film should start there: the master case, the inner pack, the label with species, catch area and weight legible. Frost, glazing and plastic film catch light in ways generated motion distorts, so we move the camera around your photograph rather than animating the product itself.
A serving shot can follow, but only from your own photography, and we label it as a serving suggestion when the pack requires it. We do not add boats, wharves or a lighthouse you have not photographed. If your plant has its own images of the processing line or the wharf, those carry more weight with a buyer than anything we could generate.
A silent loop for the booth screen
Seafood and food exporters often meet buyers at trade shows, such as the seafood expo held in Boston each March. A film on a booth screen plays without sound, on a loop, to people walking past. We build it so it makes sense from any point: product, origin line, pack format, contact, then back to the product.
Text stays large and short enough to read from a few steps away, and the loop is composed for the booth screen's own orientation and resolution, which we ask your stand builder to confirm. A separate version with voice-over goes into follow-up emails, so a buyer who stopped for a moment can watch the full explanation later at a desk.
Dark berries and amber glass
Wild blueberry products and Valley ciders share a technical problem: deep colours behind glass. Dark purple jam and amber cider can read as black on a phone, and AI-assisted motion can shift the hue toward something the jar never looked like. We grade against your colour references and a photograph taken with a grey card, then check the final film on a phone as well as on a calibrated monitor.
Labels on curved jars and bottles are the other risk. A slow turn can bend text that was straight in the photograph. Supply the flat label artwork along with the product shots, and we composite the real label wherever a generated move would warp it. Fruit content and sugar statements stay exactly as printed.
Tidal Bay and other words that carry rules
Some Nova Scotia names come with standards attached. Tidal Bay is an appellation for white wines made to a set of rules from grapes grown in the province, and a wine carries the name only if it meets them. The same care applies to wild, organic or Product of Canada statements. We put those words on screen exactly as they appear on your approved label, nothing more.
Export versions follow the same discipline. A distributor in Europe or Asia may need different weights, a translated end card or a version without retail pricing. We plan these from one master edit, and your export team confirms what each market's labelling rules allow before a version leaves. The quote lists every version and its usage.
Fictional concept created with AI
In pictures
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can you show the product being cooked?
Only from your own photographs or footage. We will not generate steam, sizzling or a plated dish that differs from what the pack makes, because a buyer will compare the film with the product they receive.
Our booth screen is portrait. Is that a problem?
No. Tell us the screen's orientation and resolution early. We compose the loop for that screen rather than cropping a landscape film, so text and product stay readable from the aisle.
Can the film mention where the fish was caught?
Yes, in the wording on your label or certification documents. If you hold a sustainability certification, we use its logo only from official artwork and under its usage rules.
Do you need samples shipped?
No. We work from photographs and artwork. For frozen goods, ask your photographer to shoot quickly after the pack leaves the freezer, before frost melts and the label fogs.
Start with your images
Send us photographs of one product in its shipping pack, the label artwork and the buyer or show the film is for, and we will propose a sequence.