Note
When shooting video, the shooting principles need to be applied to the overall look of the video. This includes, but is not limited to, environment, casting, styling, and the overall tonality of the video style.
Disclaimer
By utilizing image search and AI, we can consistently align our imagery with Midea's brand look and feel, ensuring our visual communications are authentic and consistent. This approach enhances our storytelling. None of the imagery, with the exception of the imagery photographed by Midea are to be used publicly. They are used to serve as references to create future imagery.
Shooting principles
Authentic scenario
Our shooting principles serve as the guiding ruleset for selecting various aspects, such as casting, styling, product interactions, locations, interiors, camera perspective, lighting, and coloration, as well as the materials and surfaces of our products.
Casting
Casting focuses on the talent that best represents the Midea customer and their lifestyle. These individuals are relaxed, easy-going, and contemporary.
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Relaxed, natural yet contemporary
The overall appearance of our talent is always relaxed yet contemporary; they should feel at ease within our imagery. Their faces should exude charm and approachability. With their natural beauty, they enhance the positive vibe and character of the story. When featuring more than one person, ensure the chemistry and interactions between them are believable.
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Neat, clean-looking grooming yet believable
Our talent is always neat and well-groomed. Both men and women should maintain a clean, ft, and attractive appearance that remains believable. They represent the aspirational yet relatable look of our core target audience.
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Culturally relevant talent for diferent region
When selecting talent for diferent regions to best refect each market, ensure they embody a natural, relaxed personality and maintain neat, clean grooming.
Casting don’ts
Styling
Styling refers to the clothing worn by our talent during a photoshoot. The attire should refect the ‘Simply Ideal’ lifestyle our consumers enjoy when using our products.
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Light in materials and simple in styling
The materials of the clothing look and feel light. The attire itself is free of unnecessary details or props that might detract from the talent. It is perfectly suited for a spring and summer look, refecting the efortless lightness that Midea products bring to our audience.
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Relax and comfortable clothing
Overall clothing should feel relaxed and comfortable to suit a daily home environment. The attire must be believable, showcasing our talent enjoying everyday moments at home with Midea products. Clothing should not be too tight or restrictive, and it must be culturally appropriate for the target market.
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Balance of neutral light colors with a hint of blue
Our predominant look consists of neutral, light colors. When styling multiple talents in a single shot, ensure the primary palette remains light—using shades such as white, ivory, light grey, beige, or cream. Pairing these with a hint of blue, such as a light blue sweater or denim, provides a tasteful touch of color while maintaining a balanced overall aesthetic.
Styling don’ts
Interactions with product
Product interaction refers to how the product is showcased in a believable and authentic manner.
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Real believable interactions between talents
Product interactions must be believable. Prioritize the narrative between the talent to ensure genuine chemistry, and use the product naturally to enhance the story.
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Positive and optimistic emotions
The talent’s facial expressions need to showcase a positive, happy, and relaxed mood. This refects a more optimistic outlook when using the product.
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Real usage of the product in the scenario
When featuring the product, ensure its usage is accurate. This means hand gestures should relate directly to how the product is actually operated in a real-life scenario.
Interactions with product don’ts
Environment
The location for our shooting is always a home environment. This includes, but is not limited to, the living room, kitchen, bathroom, balcony, and bedroom. Ensure that the appropriate appliances are used within each setting.
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Uncluttered environment
The home environment is always clean and spacious. This creates a clear focal point for our products. The overall aesthetic feels contemporary, modern, bright, and inviting.
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Designed furnitures with clear lines
The overall look of the furniture focuses on beautiful design with clean lines. It reinforces the design aesthetic of the home while complementing—rather than detracting from—Midea’s product design. Prioritize minimalist, linear furniture.
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Clean and simple style cabinets
Choose cabinetry with simple designs and smooth matte textures. Ensure a well-organized, structured appearance that follows a clean, grid-like layout.
Environment don’ts
Interior props
The interior props relates to the overall props that would create a more authentic environment in our home environment. They are to be used sparingly and emphasize on elevating the story that we want to tell with our product.
Interior props don’ts
Shooting perspective
The shooting perspective should always complement the product, with a strong focus on angles that showcase its design and capabilities clearly.
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Angles that showcase the product in interesting manner
Angles such as a slight high-angle or a $3/4$ view are encouraged to showcase the product’s depth and dimensions. These perspectives should be used to display the product in a dynamic and engaging manner, while ensuring it remains clear and recognizable.
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Simple and rationale angles
Ensure that the photography angles are simple and rational. The product should be displayed from perspectives that showcase the front and profle views without any distortion to the design.
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Compliment the overall design lines
When using multiple rational angles, ensure the product’s dimensions are accentuated so that the product remains the clear highlight of the image.
Shooting perspective don’ts
Lighting
The overall lighting is bright and optimistic. It creates a sense of warmth with sufcient contrast and detail to prevent the imagery from feeling fat.
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Bright with detailed contrastThe overall image appears bright and optimistic due to the lighting. The light is never fat and always provides enough detailed contrast in shadows across skin tones, clothing, and the environment.
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Warm natural lightWhenever possible, incorporate warm natural lighting to add warmth to the overall image. This natural light emphasizes the realistic home environment that defnes the Midea home.
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Realistic lighting with real contrast and refection on productUnder realistic lighting, our product captures the refections and details of its surroundings. The product never appears fat, as there is always sufcient contrast across its surfaces to define its form.
Lighting don’ts
Colorations
Elements should be tastefully harmonized to create synchronization between our clean environment and a neutral color palette. Blue tones should be incorporated subtly through styling and props.
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Neutral coloration
Our neutrals are never cold. With natural lighting, the overall appearance of the home environment should feel welcoming and never “sterile” colorations. The neutral colors are the primary look of our home environment, representing the cleanliness and uncluttered appearance of the overall environment, and creating a clear focus towards the product itself.
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Blue accent with neutral environment
Subtle blue accents are incorporated into the styling and interior, though the volume must be carefully controlled. Blue should be used sparingly in furnishings and decor, rather than as a primary color. Neutral tones may include a hint of blue—such as a dark blue-grey—similar to the wardrobe worn by the female talent.
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Contrasting neutral colors in the environment
When selecting neutral colors for the environment, prioritize contrasting tones to diferentiate the furniture from the background. This contrast adds necessary texture and depth to the overall image.
Colorations don’ts
Product materials and surfaces
Product materials and surfaces must always appear crisp and clean.
This ensures a polished, premium aesthetic that maintains depth and dimensionality without appearing overly metallic or fat.
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Refective, yet clear and simple
Lighting on materials such as glass must be subtle, providing just a hint of refection to defne the surface. The product should appear clear and crisp, maintaining a realistic and high-defnition look.
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Matte metallic
Metallic textures should feature detailed contrast to showcase the product’s refective nature while maintaining a predominantly matte appearance. This subtle fnish ensures the product harmonizes with the environment without distracting from the overall scenario.
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Clean surfaces with contrast
In close-up product shots, surfaces must appear clean and textured. Avoid overtly grainy, fat, or shiny plastic fnishes. Ensure the product has a suffcient interplay of shadow to showcase its form and dimensionality in a clear, realistic manner.
Product materials and surfaces don’ts
Environment texture
The home environment is always textured and never fat. This is accentuated through the use of props, such as carpets, or lighting that highlights white surfaces to create depth within the materials.
Environment texture don’ts
Shooting principles
Studio scenario
Studio shooting principles difer from those of the authentic environment by prioritizing product clarity and design precision.
The focus shifts to capturing specifc angles that highlight the product’s architectural lines and industrial design features.”
Perspective
In studio scenarios, product angles are predominantly rational.
These perspectives are clearly defned and easy to execute, specifcally chosen to showcase the clean design lines and overall silhouette of the product.
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Angles that showcase the product in realistic manner
Capture shooting angles that showcase the product in authentic, real-life situations. The environment should maintain a light grey tonal foundation to enhance clarity and ensure the product remains sharp, clear, and instantly recognizable from every perspective.
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Simple and rationale angles
Ensure that all product photography utilizes simple, rational angles. The product should be captured from front and profle perspectives that showcase the design without any lens distortion, preserving the geometric integrity of the product’s form.
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Compliment the overall design lines
Use rational angles to accentuate the product’s dimensionality, ensuring it remains the focal point of every shot. Each angle must be purposeful, highlighting specifc features while capturing the product’s overall design with clarity.
Perspective don’ts
Product materials and surfaces
Product materials in studio scenarios must always appear bright and pristine. By highlighting surfaces with a premium, matte fnish, we enhance the product’s dimensionality and design lines, ensuring the material texture never detracts from the overall aesthetic.
Product materials and surfaces don’ts
Lighting
The lighting on the product is always subtle and never creates dynamic or overtly dark light.
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A clear light source
The lighting on plastic materials is never overtly shiny between the highlights and the shadows. It emphasizes the overall design shape without detracting from the product.
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Subtle and soft shadow
The shadows in studio shots are always subtle and soft. They enhance the dimension of the product and do not distract from the overall clean, simple look of our studio shots.
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Highlights that are not overtly strong
For metallic materials, the highlights and shadows should be subtle - just enough to showcase the grain texture of the metal. Avoid strong lighting on metallic surfaces to prevent the material from feeling too chromatic or overly refective.
Lighting don’ts
Colors
Background and visual effects
The colors relate to the overall background coloration as well as the graphical elements that can be used to showcase the product features.
Colors don’ts
Studio props
Background and visual effects
Studio props must be selected to reinforce the atmosphere of the shot and highlight specifc product features within a clean environment. Every prop should serve a clear purpose, contributing to a minimalist narrative without cluttering the composition.
Studio props don’ts
Image style introduction
Our brand imagery authentically refects homes in the global market. It is simple, uplifting, and minimalist, emphasizing lightness and a sense of space.
By prioritizing people and clean aesthetics, we highlight how Midea products enhance everyday moments—creating warmth and positive emotions within our world. Our visual style uses a blend of real-life home settings and studio environments to showcase both lifestyle experiences and intricate product details.
Imagery model
Our imagery model balances emotional and rational aspects of the overall imagery style. It captures the experience and personality of our people and product all the way to the most technical details of our features.
The imagery model encompasses the images that can be created and featured for diferent brand communications. When creating imagery always ensure that warmth comes through in either the attitude and/or lighting of the environment to convey human touch and uplifting spirit.
Always ensure that the core 4 visual principles are applied to each layer of the imagery model.
Imagery spectrum
This showcase how our imagery model prioritize from emotional to rational shoot.