Reel

Client 2026 Netherlands

Bike Barn

Indian Elite Models

A motorcycle dealership commissioned two hero films from showroom photography.

A rider on an Indian motorcycle on wet cobbles at night, canal houses and street lamps behind, sparks trailing from the road surface.

Problem

A dealership wanted two hero films for its motorcycles without taking them out of the showroom. The bikes are the product; everything else in frame is set dressing, and set dressing is the part a dealership seldom has budget for.

Idea

I built the set once and never rebuilt it. A motorcycle is the worst possible subject for a generated frame: badge, tank graphic, headlamp cluster that riders know by heart, and spokes, which fall apart the moment a model starts inventing detail. I locked the machine into a master plate before any environment existed, then wrote the street, canal houses, wet cobbles and reflected lamplight once as a set specification and reused it across every frame.

What I made

  • Two hero films for the dealership, including an Indian Elite cut in 9:16.
  • A locked master plate of the machine, handed over as a reusable file.

Result

I delivered both hero films for the models, with the plate handed over so the next production starts from a correct bike.

How I built it

I used Phantom Set with the gates turned up. The plate came first: the bike alone, with the correct badge, fairing and wheel count, and nothing else in the picture.

Artefacts

Films
Two hero cuts, including the Indian Elite in 9:16
Master plate
The machine alone, correct badge, fairing and wheel count
Set specification
Street, weather and lamplight, written once

Gates

Gate 01

Silhouette gate

I overlay the render on the plate at 40% opacity. Any change in the outline of the tank or fairing kills the frame.

Gate 02

Spoke rule

If the spoke count changes between frames, the shot returns to the plate. There is no retouching pass.

Gate 03

Rights gate

Two earlier pieces for this client leaned on licensed characters. I have kept them off this site for that reason.

Stack

Master plate
Nano Banana Pro
Set specification
Written once, reused per frame
Motion
Kling, image to video
Cut
CapCut

Frames & films

A close view of the machine on a canal street at night, the rider low over the bars, the Indian script badge legible on the orange fuel tank and the front wheel and brake disc in full view.
badge and tank graphic, held
The same machine from a lower angle on wet cobbles, front wheel spokes in full view, a tram and canal houses blurred behind.
spoke count, held between frames
The rider head on down a flooded canal street at night, one headlamp burning, the Bike-Barn wordmark set beside him.
end frame from the cut
POV Shot of bike barn video
POV shot
close up on the machine
close up shot
The green and black Indian Elite on a dark reflective studio floor, three-quarter rear view, gold pinstriping and the ELITE lettering on the pannier catching a single overhead light.
A slow orbit of the Elite on a black studio floor. No studio was hired and no bike was moved. The badge, the gold pinstripe, the pannier lettering and the spoke count are the plate, held frame to frame while the light travels around it.