Nuuk : LĪT PRO How-To Film

2026  ·  Shoot Planning, Direction & Art Direction  ·  Client: NUUK

A tutorial that feels like a hangout, not a manual.

Overview

NUUK needed a how-to film for the LĪT PRO — its fan-and-mood-light hybrid — that could walk a new owner through unboxing, the feather-touch panel, ProLift height adjustment, charging and care, without ever feeling like a spec sheet read aloud.

I planned the shoot, directed the talent and set, and boarded every beat before the cameras rolled — pairing each feature callout with a lived-in moment: a Scrabble game, a stack of Coke cans, a couch that looks like somebody's actual living room.

Credits

Shoot Planning, Direction, Art Direction & Storyboarding: Yash Srivastava

Tools

Storyboarding  ·  Set & Prop Styling  ·  On-Set Direction

The Brief

The LĪT PRO is NUUK's fan and mood-light hybrid, and the feature list is long: a feather-touch panel, 120° auto-oscillation, three mood lights, ProLift height adjustment, wireless and reverse charging. Explaining all of it usually means a dry spec-sheet video nobody finishes watching.

My job was to make sure this one got watched — planning the shoot, directing the talent and set, and boarding every beat in advance so each feature callout landed inside an actual moment: a Scrabble game mid-play, a couch that looks lived-in, two people who seem to genuinely like each other's company.

Boarding It First

Before anything was shot, every beat — unboxing, the feather-touch panel, ProLift, charging, cleaning — was mapped panel by panel. It kept the crew and talent aligned on what each setup needed to deliver, and made sure the tone stayed consistent from the first frame to the last.

LĪT PRO storyboard frame 1 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 2 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 3 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 4 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 5 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 6 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 7 LĪT PRO storyboard frame 8
Storyboard frames — unboxing through mood lighting, boarded ahead of the shoot

Directing the Set

The set had to read as someone's actual living room, not a studio backdrop: matching red-and-white talent wardrobe, mid-century furniture, houseplants, a record player, a half-finished Scrabble board with NUUK spelled out in the tiles. Every prop was placed to give the tutorial somewhere to breathe between callouts.

Unboxing the LĪT PRO on set

The Film

The finished how-to runs through every feature in order — unboxing, the feather-touch panel, oscillation, mood lighting, ProLift, charging and reverse charging, cleaning — paced so it plays like a hangout rather than a manual.

Every Feature, In Character

Each callout was staged as its own small scene — the remote snapping magnetically onto the fan body, the ProLift column rising to height, the three mood lights warming up, the feather-touch panel walking through wind speed and charge — so the product demo doubled as a moment worth watching.

Remote snapping magnetically onto the LĪT PRO ProLift height adjustment in use
LĪT PRO feather-touch panel at full charge Cleaning the LĪT PRO fan blades

Three Finishes, One Table

Closing the film on all three colorways together, mid-game, was the whole idea in one frame — the LĪT PRO as something you'd actually want sitting on your coffee table, not just a device you learn to operate.

LĪT PRO in all three finishes on a coffee table

Shoot Planning, Direction, Art Direction & Storyboarding: Yash Srivastava