Seat Connect, directed by Carles & Héctor Mas

Seat Connect

Directed by Carles & Héctor Mas

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The Objective

SEAT needed a complete library of videos explaining how their Connect app works: how to pair it with the car, how to control the lights, the climate system and every other feature the car can handle from your phone.

These are the videos a customer watches right after buying the car. Not before. That changes everything: this content doesn’t have to convince anyone, it has to take care of someone who already paid. The brief demanded spot-level quality for a format most brands treat as an afterthought.

The Challenge

The videos required multiple environments: a workshop setting and several exterior locations, including a building exterior and a lookout with open views over the city.

Shooting real exteriors with real cars means location permits, transport logistics, weather risk and light that changes by the hour. Multiply that by the number of videos in the library and the budget stops making sense.

And none of it could look fake. The car is the product. Every reflection on the bodywork, every shadow, every transition between the real vehicle and its environment had to hold up to close inspection.

The Process

One studio, every location. We built the entire production inside a single stage over two shooting days, plus one full day of set construction and rigging.

A workshop built piece by piece. For the workshop videos, our art department constructed a premium workshop set with real decoration and props, designed to match the brand’s standards.

AI-generated environments on LED screens. For the exterior videos, we generated ultra-realistic backgrounds in-house with AI and displayed them on large LED screens behind the real cars: a building exterior and a city lookout with open views. The LED light wraps naturally around the vehicle, so reflections and ambient light are real, not composited.

Real cars, real interaction. The vehicles drove in and out of set. Presenters interacted with the actual app on the actual car. What you see working on screen is working.

Post-production with a magnifying glass. Weeks of in-house post: integration refinement, cleanup, retouching and grading, reviewing every frame where the real car meets the generated environment.

The Result

A complete how-to video library for the SEAT Connect app, covering setup and every core feature, delivered ready for publication.

Two shooting days. Multiple environments, zero location moves, zero weather risk, full light control.

Part of a combined production with CUPRA that delivered over 40 pieces of content from the same stage and system.

Spot-level finish on functional content. The videos every SEAT driver will actually watch got the same craft as a brand campaign.

Behind the scenes

Seat Connect making of: art team on ladders mounting tool panels in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: actor testing a helmet camera rig while the crew looks on
Seat Connect, behind the scenes: actor wearing a helmet camera rig on set
Seat Connect set: Seat León parked in a grey and red workshop built in the studio
Seat Connect, behind the scenes: crew outside the stage
Seat Connect shoot: crew on the LED stage in front of a screen showing a modern building
Seat Connect shoot: on-set monitor framing the Seat León and two actors in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: crew and video village watching the take from director's chairs
Seat Connect shoot: actress in mechanic overalls kneeling by an open Seat León in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: camera assistants setting up a cinema camera on a slider in the studio
Seat Connect, behind the scenes: camera team preparing a shot in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: camera operator on a slider beside the car as the crew prepares the shot
Seat Connect making of: crew handling a curved glass panel between takes in the studio
Seat Connect shoot: camera rigged on a Seat León bonnet while actors rehearse in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: camera mounted on the car bonnet filming an actor in mechanic overalls
Seat Connect set: LED wall with a coastal city panorama in an empty virtual production stage
Seat Connect shoot: crew filming actors working under a Seat León in the workshop set
Seat Connect shoot: actor in mechanic overalls wearing a helmet camera rig under a raised car
Seat Connect set: curved LED wall showing a modern building during setup
Seat Connect shoot: crew walking through the dim LED volume around the car and charger
Seat Connect shoot: wide view of the studio with the car under an LED ceiling and the crew
Seat Connect making of: crew on the LED stage beside a Seat León and a charging point
Seat Connect shoot: crew with headsets gathered around the camera on the studio floor
Seat Connect shoot: Seat León in an LED virtual production stage, framed by lights and flags
Seat Connect, behind the scenes: shooting in front of the LED screen with a city view
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Learnings

Post-purchase content is advertising. A tutorial is the brand speaking to a customer who already trusted it with their money. Cutting corners there costs more than it saves.

LED plus AI beats green screen for cars. Bodywork is a mirror. With generated backgrounds on LED, the environment lights the car for real, and the integration work in post starts from truth instead of from a chroma key.

Hybrid production is a system, not a trick. Real stage, real cars, real art direction, AI environments. Each part does what it does best, and the seams disappear.

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