Circle | Product launch film
Introducing Circle Website Builder
- Format
- Product launch film
- My role
- Pre-production, production, and post-production
- Location
- New York City, Flatiron District
- Shoot days
- 1, filmed the same day as the Circle x Miro customer story
- Crew
- 4
- Package
- RED cameras and Sony FX3s, shot back to back with the Circle x Miro production
- Budget band
- $10K to $25K
Website Builder mattered because it closed a gap that had been sitting in plain sight.
Circle already handled the part after the click. Community, courses, paywalls, events, member experience. But for a lot of customers, the public-facing website still lived somewhere else. The front door and the actual product were split across different tools.
This launch was about changing that.
The film had to make Website Builder feel bigger than another feature release. It was a strategic step in Circle becoming a more complete platform, one where the website, the sales page, the signup flow, and the member experience could finally live in the same system.
That before-and-after picture was the whole story.
Before, your brand might begin in one place and deliver somewhere else. After this launch, the journey could feel more connected. Cleaner on the customer side, cleaner on the operator side too.
I led the creative from concept through post, shaping the narrative around that shift. The interesting challenge was keeping the video from sinking into drag-and-drop software language. Nobody remembers another builder demo. What they remember is a product making the entire business feel more unified.
This is how I think about product video when the real subject is not the interface. It is the business model beneath it.