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Budgeting app product film: Making a budget feel like it moves.

A budget is mostly numbers in a table, and it is hard to make anyone feel a table. This app uses envelope budgeting: every dollar gets a category before it is spent. The film turns that into something you can watch. A paycheck splits into envelopes, and the payoff is the "To Budget" figure rolling down to zero.

05 / 05 · Budgeting app · 0:18

f.0420 / the idea

The idea.

The interface is the real app, run locally with a fictional household budget.

Sound

  • Coins tick as they land and envelopes pop as they fill, so you hear the paycheck being split.
  • The "To Budget" figure ticks down and lands on a success sound at zero. That sound is the payoff of the film.
  • Music is a laid-back licensed hip-hop track, kept low under the voiceover.

Formats

16:9 and 9:16 from one project. In the vertical cut the headline breaks over three lines and the four envelopes stack two by two under it, so the amounts stay readable on a phone.

Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app, vertical cut at 0:02.8: Vertical cut, envelopes stacked two by two
9:16 · 0:02.8

Facts

  • AppAn open-source budgeting app
  • Length0:18
  • Formats16:9, 9:16
  • Made fromThe app's own interface, run locally, with a fictional household budget
  • VoiceoverProduced in-house. Human voice actor on request.
  • Sound designIn-house, licensed music
  • StatusSelf-initiated, not commissioned

f.0840 / the film

The film.

0:00 to 0:03
Where the money goes. A $4,200 paycheck sends coins arcing into four envelopes: Rent, Groceries, Travel and Fun money. Each amount counts up as its coins land.
0:03 to 0:06
A category for each dollar. Cut to the app's budget page. The camera pushes in on the Travel row and $350 is typed into it.
0:06 to 0:08
It balances. On the "To Budget" card, $350.00 rolls down to $0.00, overshoots a little and settles, then a ring pulses.
0:08 to 0:10
Month after month. The page flips back from October to September with a small bounce.
0:10 to 0:13
Your data stays yours. The transactions blur, a lock snaps shut, and three chips follow: Local-first, Self-hosted, Open source.
0:13 to 0:18
The end title. "Your money." and "Budgeting that finally adds up." over a dimmed reports view, then a closing card, "Budgeting, in motion.", with the OVERSHOOT credit.
  • Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app at 0:02.8: Paycheck split into four envelopes
    0:02.8Paycheck split into four envelopes
  • Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app at 0:05.2: Budget table, Travel row highlighted at $350
    0:05.2Budget table, Travel row highlighted at $350
  • Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app at 0:06.3: The To Budget card at $350.00, just before the roll down
    0:06.3The To Budget card at $350.00, just before the roll down
  • Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app at 0:09.6: After the month flip, To Budget at $0.00
    0:09.6After the month flip, To Budget at $0.00
  • Still from the OVERSHOOT film about an open-source budgeting app at 0:12.2: Lock over blurred transactions, the three chips settled
    0:12.2Lock over blurred transactions, the three chips settled
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f.1320 / launch

Want one for your app?

This is the shape of a Launch film, €890: voiceover, full sound design and three formats, so both of these cuts plus one size of your choice. For a finance product the wide cut fits the pricing or features page, and the vertical one a launch post. Starter, from €400, comes with music and UI sound and no voiceover.

Write to hello@overshoot.cz with a link to your app and the currency your users see.

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Launch

fixed price€890

  • Hero film up to 30 seconds
  • Voiceover, produced in-house (human voice actor on request)
  • Full sound design and captions
  • 3 formats of your choice
  • 2 revision rounds
  • 10 to 15 working days after you approve the script