Desk Reveal: a laptop mockup animation that puts your product on a real desk
Desk Reveal is a four-second scene where your real product page fills the screen and then the camera pulls back fast to show it on a laptop or desktop sitting on a desk in a styled room. It takes the viewer out of the interface and into the life of the person who uses it.
The preview shows placeholder content. Your video uses your UI, words, logo and colors.
- Role
- Feature
- Length
- 4 seconds
- Uses
- Your real product UI
- Format
- 16:9, up to 4K
What it looks like
Your captured page fills the whole frame for a moment, long enough to recognize. Then the camera pulls back quickly and the page becomes the screen of a computer on a desk inside a designed room. The room comes from many styled settings, day or night, with a laptop or a desktop, so it can match your audience's trade or mood. There is no text, and the page ends up small in the shot.
It works as an opening or as a breather after a run of interface scenes, and it feels warm and grounded.
Best for
- Opening a video by placing your product in a real setting
- Giving the eye a rest after several interface scenes
- Showing a result in the place where it gets used
- Telling a specific audience that the product was made for people like them
What you add
- One full product page, captured whole
- A room setting, day or night, and a laptop or a desktop
Capture tips
- Zoom the browser in as far as you can while everything you want in the shot still fits on screen. A bigger capture stays sharper in the video.
- Pick a full, recognizable page such as a dashboard, editor, inbox or landing page, with strong shapes and color, since it ends up small.
- Scroll to the top so it looks like a screen someone just opened.
- Do not count on small text to make the point: it becomes unreadable once the camera pulls back.
Videos this scene works in
Website hero video
A silent, looping product video for the top of your homepage.
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A punchy promo for ads, social and email, built from your product.
Read the guidePairs well with
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Questions
Can I choose the room in Desk Reveal?
Yes. The room comes from many designed settings, and it can be day or night with a laptop or a desktop.
Is there any text in the scene?
No. There is no on-screen text, and because the page ends up small, the scene is about the setting rather than the detail.
Can Desk Reveal be the final scene?
It is not built to be the call to action. It works as an opening, a breather between interface scenes, or a way to show a result in context.
Put Desk Reveal in your next video
Describe the video in a sentence. The Wevi Agent reads your site, captures your product, plans the scenes and renders with voiceover and music. Start free.
Or ask your assistant: Make a launch video for mysite.com with Wevi and open on the Desk Reveal scene