Designing a Product Launch With Live Performance
Key Takeaways
- A launch is judged on the reveal. Live performance makes that moment something the room takes part in, not a slide someone talks over.
- A Music Interactive Movie is assembled from the performance as it happens, so the film peaks when the product appears instead of running on a countdown.
- The audience can drive the film too. At EA7 x Luxottica, visitors chose the story on a tablet while wearing the product.
The reveal is the whole brief
A launch gets judged on a few seconds: the moment the product first appears. Everything before it is setup. Those same seconds are the ones every phone in the room is recording, so they have to work twice, once live and once on a small screen a week later.
Give the performance something to aim at
A musician booked before the reveal is not there to fill the gap while people find their seats. If the set happens to end before the product appears, it is filler. If it peaks on the same second, it is structure, and the room feels the build without anyone announcing it.
Why the film should follow the performance
A pre-rendered countdown plays the same way whether the room is electric or flat. A Music Interactive Movie is assembled live from prepared, approved material, so a longer build, an unplanned pause or a bigger swell all change what is on the screen. Our How It Works page covers the mechanics.
Let the audience drive the film instead
Interactivity is the part people remember, and live music is not the only way to get it. The same format can hand control to the room: a tablet becomes the input instead of the performance, and the film branches on what each visitor picks.
Luxottica asked us to launch EA7's new winter eyewear collection at Milan Fashion Week without lining the glasses up on a shelf. We built a 5x5m pop-up cube with an LED wall running an interactive Music Interactive Movie. Visitors put the glasses on, chose their descent on a tablet, skiing or riding a bike, and watched the film take that route down the mountain. No two runs were the same, and putting the product on was how you took part, which kept it on people's faces for as long as the story lasted. See the full EA7 x Luxottica experience.
Teaser, build, reveal, afterglow
Four beats, not one. The afterglow is the one that gets cut when the schedule slips, and it is the expensive one to lose. A reveal followed straight away by housekeeping is remembered as an announcement. Thirty seconds of nothing but the film and the room is what makes it an event.
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FAQ: Product Launches With Live Performance
Do we need a full band?
No. One performer is enough to drive a Music Interactive Movie. What matters is that something live, rather than a fixed video, is shaping the reveal.
How is this different from a countdown video?
A countdown plays the same way regardless of what is happening in the room. This reads the performance and reacts to it, so the build matches the night.
Can the audience interact instead of the music?
Yes. At EA7 x Luxottica the film branched on what visitors chose on a tablet, so the story followed the person trying the product on.
