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Serval · Oct 2026 · 0:35 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 0:35
- Scenes
- 31 · 1.2 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:02
- Voiceover
- Yes
00:00:00 / 00:35:22
Serval’s 0:35 launch film runs 31 scenes, about 1.2 s each. The product shows up at 0:02, with social proof. There is no explicit call to action; a voiceover carries the film. The video is a fast montage of roughly 43 cuts per minute that alternates live action, 3D interface renders, and graphic title cards, all unified by a purple duotone grade and a signature glitch and scanline wipe. Lowercase captions track the voiceover word by word, while the spotted cat and the S mark recur as brand anchors from the green-lit desk intro to the final logo lockup.
Footage neededEstimated needs: 3 capture groups — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 14 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 1 graphic passage — draw or supply · 6 3D passages — build or supply
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· 31 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:01
A man with glasses and a mustache sits at a desk in a dim, green-lit room, one hand on a mouse and the other on a keyboard, facing a monitor. The shot fades in from black. A white caption reads “you were made” at the bottom center.
On-screen text: “you were made”
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:01–0:02
A heavily blurred, green-tinted close-up of a laptop keyboard. A finger reaches in from above and taps a key. The caption to build things glows in white at the center of the frame.
On-screen text: “you were made”, “to build things”
Camera: Push in
03 · Product intro · 0:02–0:04
A mustached man with glasses sits at a desk in a dark, green-tinted room, hands on a keyboard before a black monitor. The locked-off shot holds the caption 'to build things' as 'we made it easy' appears and a white S logo scales up.
On-screen text: “to build things”, “we made it easy”
Camera: Push in
04 · Product intro · 0:04–0:04
A man in glasses and a mustache works at a keyboard in a dark room lit by purple neon. A white S logo hovers at center above the tagline, then shrinks as a glitchy purple distortion ripples over the shot.
On-screen text: “we made it easy”
Camera: Static
05 · Product intro · 0:04–0:05
A man with round glasses and a mustache, lit in purple, looks straight at the camera from a dim room. The white Serval logo and wordmark sit centered over his face, the S icon scaling up while the wordmark holds still.
Camera: Static
06 · Demo · 0:05–0:07
A dark field of 3D prompt cards in perspective, each labeled IT with automation requests. The camera drifts up across the grid while glowing white captions fade in below the center card, matching the voiceover.
On-screen text: “by building automations”, “that”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Kinetic type
Camera: Static
07 · Demo · 0:07–0:10
A dark grid of automation workflow cards scrolls slowly downward while a glowing headline at the bottom cycles through phrases: IT teams, and now span across, every. A diagonal purple light beam sweeps across the screen near the end, washing out the cards.
On-screen text: “IT teams”, “and now span across”, “every”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Light sweep
Camera: Static
08 · Demo · 0:10–0:12
On a near-black background, a glowing purple wireframe hexagon sits at left as the headline brightens from dark to purple, while a smaller white line beneath it fades out.
On-screen text: “Creating automations”, “every department”
Camera: Static
09 · Social proof · 0:12–0:12
A glitchy, RGB-split illustration of a running spotted cat decodes from a purple blur on a black field, framed by a targeting reticle with corner brackets and crosshairs. A small white caption reads 'so we raised' along the bottom.
On-screen text: “so we raised”
Camera: Pan
10 · Social proof · 0:12–0:14
A soft watercolor wash of purple and amber brushstrokes fills the frame as a huge white $150M materializes in the center from horizontal scanlines, then settles into a solid headline. A small caption reads so we ralsed.
On-screen text: “so we ralsed”, “$150M”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
11 · Social proof · 0:14–0:15
A large white $150M holds center over a dusk savanna with tall grass and a lone acacia tree. The digits then scramble into a horizontal-scanline glitch as the sky deepens to purple.
On-screen text: “$150M”
Camera: Static
12 · Social proof · 0:15–0:15
A purple-lit animal head with glowing white eyes turns from a blur on the left against a black background. On the right, the text $3B builds in: a white scanline $3 first, then a purple halftone B locks in beside it.
On-screen text: “$3B”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
13 · Social proof · 0:15–0:17
A purple-tinted backdrop flickers with horizontal glitch lines over a cat's face, then settles into blurred hands on a keyboard. The centered '$3B' cuts to 'Led by SEQUOIA' above a row of investor wordmarks.
On-screen text: “$3B”, “Led by”, “SEQUOIA”, “CONVICTION”, “EVANTIC”, “Elad Gil”, “GENERAL CATALYST”, “Headline”, “Redpoint.”
Camera: Static
14 · Social proof · 0:17–0:18
A fast montage cuts between several seated team members speaking to camera, each isolated against a purple-tinted backdrop of a tree by water. The white words “we're” and “hiring” stay locked on either side of the frame the whole time.
On-screen text: “we're”, “hiring”
Camera: Static
15 · Social proof · 0:18–0:19
A man in a black cardigan leans toward the camera against a purple halftone backdrop. White words we're and hiring sit on either side of him, then the backdrop cuts to a solid purple field with a giant halftone 500 behind him before washing to pink.
On-screen text: “we're”, “hiring”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · Social proof · 0:19–0:20
A defocused purple field of tall grass holds a locked-off frame while white lowercase words assemble in the center: “we're” scales in, “hiring” sits with it, then “to bring code gen” fades in as the line completes.
On-screen text: “we're”, “hiring”, “to bring code gen”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
17 · Social proof · 0:20–0:21
A purple-graded interview shows a man speaking in front of a Nasdaq sign, with a glitching Serval logo centered. White glowing captions appear line by line below the logo as the lower third holds the segment title and a stock ticker.
On-screen text: “THE FUTURE OF WORK: I.T. ENGINEERS”, “to bring code gen”, “agents to the”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
18 · Social proof · 0:21–0:22
Purple-tinted live action: a man in a suit sits at a table, then speaks across from another person. A pixelated, RGB-split word flashes in the center while a clean white caption scales in below.
On-screen text: “agents to the”, “entire enterprise”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · Social proof · 0:22–0:23
A man in a light shirt is filmed mid-sentence in a purple-tinted studio, glancing off to the side. A white caption scales in across his chest, then a second line locks in below. A lower-third name bar and a scrolling handle ticker run along the bottom.
On-screen text: “entire enterprise”, “and go after the”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Push in
20 · Social proof · 0:23–0:24
A man with glasses and a mustache holds a phone up with its flashlight on, lit by purple light in a dark room, a monitor of green code behind him. He stays still while lowercase text builds word by word across the bottom.
On-screen text: “and go after the largest”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
21 · Social proof · 0:24–0:26
A tilted, out-of-focus news article floats in 3D space beneath a large dark serif headline. The page rotates and sharpens into a flat frontal screenshot, then fades to white as the purple word “software” appears.
On-screen text: “Serval Wants To Replace ServiceNow With AI That Builds Enterprise Automation”, “largest”, “software”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
22 · Other · 0:26–0:27
A vintage black TV set sits centered against a dark leopard-print tapestry. Its screen shows a snarling cheetah, then cuts to a 1950s-style TV host with a microphone, while a small caption scales in at the lower left of the screen.
On-screen text: “AY ON”
Camera: Static
23 · Other · 0:27–0:28
A vintage black television set sits centered against dark patterned wallpaper, its screen showing a woman in a red dress within a seated audience. White text reading IT teams is held static over the lower center of the screen.
On-screen text: “IT teams”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
24 · Other · 0:28–0:29
A vintage black TV set sits centered on a dark patterned wall, its screen showing a man in a judge's robe and bow tie. Purple 3D text reading SERVAL slides in diagonally across the screen as the broadcast blurs out.
On-screen text: “SERVAL”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Kinetic type
Camera: Static
25 · Other · 0:29–0:30
A black retro TV in 3D perspective shows a judge on its screen, then the screen quickly dissolves into a flat UI form as the casing fades to a wireframe. Purple SERVAL text scrolls diagonally across the whole frame.
On-screen text: “SERVAL”
Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup, Light sweep, Morph
Camera: Static
26 · Demo · 0:30–0:30
A dark onboarding screen shows a New Hire task card with subtasks on the left and a Manager card on the right. A glowing caption 'you were made' appears at the center and fades, with a cursor hovering beside it.
On-screen text: “you were made”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
27 · Demo · 0:30–0:32
A dark task-management interface floats in 3D perspective at a steep angle, a vertical purple beam of light washing over the cards. The camera tilts down, sliding past the Manager Prep card to reveal the Equipment Approval card, while a small blurred white caption sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “s”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Light sweep
Camera: Static
28 · Outro · 0:32–0:33
A purple task-board interface in 3D perspective holds the glowing tagline “go build them”, then defocuses and recedes as the white Serval logo fades in flat at center.
On-screen text: “go build them”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Static
29 · Outro · 0:33–0:34
A purple-graded savanna with a lone acacia tree in fog fills the frame. A white flame-like mark sits centered, then the wordmark Serval scales in to its right, completing the brand lockup.
On-screen text: “Serval”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
30 · Outro · 0:34–0:34
The white Serval wordmark and S mark hold center over a purple duotone background that cuts from a tower with palm trees to a blurred room. The lockup scales slightly.
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Pull out
31 · Outro · 0:34–0:35
A white Serval logo and wordmark sit centered over a purple-tinted shot of skyscrapers. A horizontal glitch rips through the frame, displacing the logo and text into jagged scanlines.
Camera: Static