Creative Requirements for the MEBC 2027 Website

V-01 · Hero loop: Yali on open water P0

What it does: plays full-screen, muted and looping behind the homepage headline "Five years to finish. One to win." It's the first thing every visitor sees.

How we want it:

• 4K (3840×2160) at 50 or 60 fps if possible (30 fps is fine). Give us 12–20 s of continuous usable footage per take, and we cut a 10–15 s seamless loop.
• The boat at speed, crossing the frame or running parallel to the camera, from a chase boat or the bank. Clean wake and spray.
• Camera locked off on a tripod, or a slow, steady gimbal move. No shake, no zoom, no fast pans.
• Light: golden hour (the first or last hour of sun) or bright overcast. Avoid harsh noon sun and grey haze.
• Horizon level and on a third, never through the middle. Keep the left third empty (water and sky): the headline sits there on desktop.
• Keep the boat in the middle third so a 9:16 phone crop still works, or shoot a separate vertical pass.
• No faces needed, and no text in frame except the boat's own branding.

Shot list (at least 3 takes of each):

1. Side-on pass, left to right
2. Side-on pass, right to left
3. Front 3/4 approach toward the camera
4. Drone top-down follow, if a drone is available

Hand over: every take, uncut, as V-01_take01.mp4, V-01_take02.mp4, and so on.

V-02 · Monaco 2026 race clips P0

What it does: plays behind the result counters on the homepage: 11th of 16, 50 laps, the first completed endurance run. It's also used on /mebc and in the gallery.

How we want it: every original file from every camera and phone that was in Monaco. Even 3–5 s clips work, and vertical phone clips are welcome. The moments we want most:

1. The start
2. Yali on the course, any lap
3. Rounding a buoy
4. The pit or swap area
5. Crossing the finish
6. The crew reacting at the finish

If the MEBC or Yacht Club de Monaco media team shared official footage, include it and note the source.

Hand over: V-02_<who>_<what-it-shows>.mp4, for example V-02_sharan_finish-line.mp4.

V-03 · Award moment, Monaco 2026 P0

What it does: carries the homepage prize chapter, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Sustainable Yachting Technology Award (€25,000). It's also used on /innovation.

How we want it: the announcement, the crew walking up, receiving the award, the handshake, the team on stage, a close-up of the trophy or certificate, and the team's reaction. Original files. For official ceremony footage, note the source and whether we may use it.

V-04 · B-roll pack: the boat in action P1

What it does: fills chapter transitions and the /fleet pages, and supplies shots for the recruitment reel (V-06).

How we want it: 4K, 6–10 steady clips of 5–15 s each, on a calm day with the sun behind the camera.

1. Side tracking shot from a chase boat at the same speed as Yali
2. Drone top-down follow, the boat moving up the frame
3. Drone orbit around the boat
4. Spray and wake close-up, low near the water or telephoto from the bank
5. Propeller wash from behind
6. Cockpit POV: a GoPro on the pilot's helmet or the dash, facing forward over the bow
7. The pilot strapping in, helmet on, thumbs up
8. Launch: the boat rolled off the trailer into the water

V-05 · Garage build timelapses P1

What it does: shows the work behind the boat on /story, in the journey chapter and on /join.

How we want it:

• 2–3 timelapses: composite layup, wiring the battery or PDU, and final assembly.
• Camera on a tripod, locked off and untouched for the whole session. 4K.
• One frame every 2–5 s. About 250 frames plays back as 10 s, so plan 8–20 minutes of work per timelapse.
• Steady light: daylight or switched-off tubes. Nobody standing in front of the lens for long.

Hand over: the frame sequence (JPEG or RAW), or the camera's timelapse video file.

V-06 · Join the Crew reel P1before intake opens

What it does: the hero of /join, and the main Instagram and LinkedIn post for the intake. It's the strongest driver of applications, so it has to be ready before the window opens.

How we want it: 30–45 s, edited.

1. 0–5 s, the hook: Yali at speed (from V-01 or V-04).
2. 5–30 s, the crew: people at work in the Garage, plus 3–4 one-line soundbites, each from a different sub-team. For example: "I wired the battery cooling that won in Monaco."
3. 30–40 s, the payoff: a Monaco moment (from V-02 or V-03).
4. Last 5 s: the end card Join the Crew · seasakthi.com/join. We can supply the card.

Record soundbites with a clip-on mic in a quiet room. Hand over 16:9 (1920×1080) and 9:16 (1080×1920), each with burned-in captions, plus a clean version without captions.

V-07 · Battery-cooling thermal test footage P1

What it does: makes the award-winning idea visible on /innovation: the pack runs cooler with phase-change material (PCM).

How we want it: thermal-camera footage of the pack under load, with PCM and without. Use the same load, duration and camera position for both runs, or run the two packs side by side. Any resolution works; we stylise it. Note the load (A), the ambient temperature and the duration, and pair it with the test data (D-01).

V-08 · Yali 6.0 teaser P2

What it does: closes the journey timeline (Yali 6.0 · MEBC 2027), and sits beside the countdown once the dates are set.

How we want it: an 8–12 s CAD fly-through or reveal at 4K, on a dark background with rim light. Show the shape, not the details. Nothing confidential.

C-01 · Yali 5.0 turntable image sequence P0

What it does: in the homepage boat chapter, the boat turns a full circle as the visitor scrolls. The same frames carry /fleet/yali-5.

How we want it:

• A full 360° in 150 frames, 2.4° per frame. Turn the boat around the vertical axis through its own centre.
• Frame 0 is the front 3/4 hero angle from the shared rig.
• 2560×1440 PNG with a transparent background. If alpha isn't possible, render on solid #050B1A.
• The boat centred and at identical scale in every frame, with about 10% margin so the bow and stern never touch the edge.
• Lighting identical across all frames. No motion blur, and no shadow catcher unless it's the same in every frame.
• Optional phone set: the same 150 frames at 1080×1350.

Hand over: C-01_yali5_turn_000.png to C-01_yali5_turn_149.png in one folder.

Frame 0 is the front 3/4 hero angle. Every later frame turns the boat 2.4° about its own centre while the camera, lens and lights stay exactly where they are.

C-02 · Exploded-view layers P0

What it does: on /fleet/yali-5 and /innovation, the boat comes apart as you scroll, and each subsystem gets a label.

How we want it:

1. Use the same camera as C-01 frame 0.
2. Render the assembled boat on its own.
3. Render each subsystem alone, in its assembled position. Hide everything else; don't move the part. The subsystems: hull · deck/cockpit · battery pack · BTMS (PCM module) · motor + drive · PDU/electronics · steering/controls · propeller.
4. Every layer on the same canvas: 2560 px wide, same height, transparent. Stacked together, the layers must recreate the assembled boat exactly.
5. Add a screenshot of the exploded assembly from CAD, to show how far apart you'd like the parts to move. We animate toward it.
6. Add a text list with each part's name, one line on what it does, and any number worth showing (for example, "axial-flux motor, 15 kW").

Hand over: C-02_00_assembled.png, C-02_01_hull.png, C-02_02_deck.png, and so on, plus C-02_parts.txt.

C-03 · Battery-cooling (BTMS) cutaway + schematic P0

What it does: tells the award story on /innovation. It shows how phase-change material keeps the cells cool.

How we want it:

1. A section render: a cut plane through the PCM module showing the cells, the paraffin + expanded-graphite PCM around them, and the housing. 2560 px, transparent, from the shared camera or straight-on, whichever reads more clearly. Give cells, PCM and housing clearly different colours.
2. A heat-flow schematic: cell → PCM → housing → air or water. A CAD drawing PDF is ideal, but a clean hand sketch photographed flat is enough. We redraw it as an animated diagram.
3. Labels: the name of each layer, the PCM melting point, and the cell type and count, if they aren't confidential.

C-04 · Yali 5.0 beauty renders P1

What it does: fleet cards, social share images, /partners and the press kit.

How we want it: 5 views at 3840×2160: front 3/4, side profile, top-down, rear 3/4, and a cockpit detail. Render each twice, once on dark #050B1A and once on light #F4F7FB, for 10 files in all.

C-05 · Past boats, Yali 1.0–4.0 P1

What it does: the cards on /fleet and the stops on the homepage journey timeline.

How we want it: one clean side-profile render per boat, 2400 px wide, transparent. If the CAD for an older boat is lost, send the best real side-on photo instead.

C-06 · Yali 6.0 teaser render P2

A silhouette or rim-lit render at 3840×2160 on dark. It reveals the shape, not the details.

C-07 · 3D model, GLB P2

For an optional interactive viewer. Export only the C-02 parts, named the same way. Decimate to under 5 MB after Draco compression, with simple PBR materials, units in metres, Y-up, and the origin at the hull centre.

C-08 · Dimension drawing P2

Side and top views with overall length, beam and height, exported from CAD as PDF or SVG.

P-01 · Crew portraits P0

What it does: fills the /crew grid and the homepage crew chapter. A matching set looks professional; a mix of phone shots looks amateur, however good each one is.

Set-up (identical for everyone, all in one session):

• Backdrop: plain dark navy or mid-grey paper or cloth, 1.5 m behind the person, no texture or wrinkles.
• Light: one large soft light (a softbox or a big window) at 45° front-left, slightly above eye level, plus a white reflector on the right. No on-camera flash.
• Camera: about 85 mm equivalent at f/2.8–4, at eye level, 2–3 m away.
• Framing: shoulders up, 4:5 vertical, eyes about a third down from the top, a little headroom.
• Wardrobe: the same team T-shirt or jacket for everyone. No caps or sunglasses.
• Takes: at least two per person, one natural smile and one confident neutral.

Keep every position the same for every person: the backdrop distance, the light angle, the reflector and the camera height.

Hand over: at least 2000×2500, every take, named P-01_firstname-lastname_01.jpg. Photograph the set-up itself, so new members can be shot identically after the intake. An optional extra is one candid "at work" shot of each person.

P-02 · Team group photo with the boat P0

What it does: the homepage crew chapter ("16 students. One garage."), /story and press.

How we want it:

• The whole crew with Yali, 3:2 landscape, at least 6,000 px wide.
• Two versions: a tight one where people fill the frame, and a wide one with empty wall or sky in the left or top third for headline text.
• Location: the Garage with the boat front and centre, or the water's edge at golden hour.
• Two rows, nobody hidden behind anyone. Camera on a tripod; take many frames, because someone always blinks.

P-03 · Yali 5.0 real stills P0

What it does: fleet pages, the gallery, chapter backgrounds and social share images. It's the real-world partner to the CAD renders.

How we want it: two settings, on the stand in the Garage (tools and clutter cleared from the background) and on the water.

1. Full boat: front 3/4, side profile, rear 3/4, and top-down from a drone or a ladder. Shoot at f/8 so the whole boat is sharp, on a tripod.
2. 6–8 detail close-ups: cockpit, battery enclosure, motor, PDU, the BTMS module, steering, propeller, and the "Yali" name on the hull. Shoot at f/2.8–4 for a soft background.

At least 4,000 px, RAW + JPEG, with some vertical frames of each.

P-04 · Monaco 2026 originals P0

What it does: the homepage result and prize chapters, the 2026 gallery, news and /mebc.

How we want it: collect everything from every camera and phone, at original quality. From Google Photos, use Download (not share). From an iPhone, use Export unmodified original. We pick the best 40–60. The moments that matter:

• Yali racing, and the harbour with Monaco behind it
• The pit and paddock, and scrutineering
• The crew with the award, and the ceremony on stage
• The team with patrons or the ambassador

Note who took each photo, and flag any photo that shows people from outside the team.

P-05 · Garage and build process P1

15–25 natural, unposed photos. The Garage exterior and interior, wide (tidy up first). Composite layup, soldering, CAD on a screen (nothing confidential), bench testing, and close-ups of hands at work at f/2.8–4. Used on /story, /join and in the gallery.

P-06 · Drone aerials P1

5–10 stills in 4K. Top-down shots of the boat on water: a small boat in a big field of water works well behind text. Add an orbit series and the test site from height. Fly legally and check local permission first.

P-07 · Sub-team "what you'll do" photos P1before intake opens

What it does: heads each /join position page, so applicants can see the actual work.

How we want it: one photo per sub-team of real crew members doing that work. 16:9 landscape, with space on one side for text.

P-08 to P-10 P2

• P-08 · Archive originals, 2022–2025: the best 10 per season, at higher resolution than today's site, where most images are about 960 px.
• P-09 · Institution shot: the KCT main building or campus, wide, in good light, landscape, at least 4,000 px.
• P-10 · Patrons: official higher-resolution portraits if any exist. The current ones are usable.

G-01 · Logo master files P0

What it does: the header, footer, favicon, page loader and every social share image. The site has only small PNG/WebP versions today, which blur on large screens.

How we want it: SVG vector files. Full logo (mark + wordmark), mark only, and wordmark only, each in full colour, white (for dark sections) and black: 9 files. If only a raster exists, send the original design file (Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma or Canva link) and the exact colour values, so it can be redrawn.

Hand over: G-01_logo-full_colour.svg, G-01_logo-full_white.svg, G-01_mark_black.svg, and so on.

G-02 · Sponsor logos P0

What it does: the scrolling partner strip on the homepage and the /partners page. Several current files are JPEGs inside white boxes, which look broken on a dark background.

How we want it: an SVG for each of the 18 current sponsors: Thriveni, Roots India, SBM Offshore, StartupTN, IFCCI, Indsight, Air Liquide, Janatics, Agni Motors, Ador Digatron, Indian Oil, Horizon Fuel Cell, Essemm India, Rim Drive Technology, Pricol, Anandham Industries, Effica and Nallaramm. The best sources are each sponsor's press or brand page, or their contact person. If no SVG exists, send a transparent PNG at least 1,000 px wide.

Also send one sheet listing, for each sponsor: name, tier, website, contact, whether logo use is confirmed, and whether they continue for 2027.

G-03 · Award and event marks P0

What it does: the homepage prize chapter, /innovation and /mebc.

How we want it:

1. A photo or scan of the award certificate and the trophy: flat, even light, at least 4,000 px.
2. The logos of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge and the Yacht Club de Monaco, with their brand guidelines or written permission.

Ask early. Without permission we can only name these organisations in text.

G-04 · Brochure 2027 PDF P1

Updated with the 2026 result and the award. A4, under 10 MB (today's is 9.9 MB), with a print version and a lighter screen version. Download link on /partners and in the footer.

G-05 · Sponsorship deck PDF P1

The tiers, the reach (social following, press coverage), what sponsors get, and the 2027 plan. Under 15 MB. Behind the Become a partner button on /partners.

G-06 · Season mark P2

Optional. A YALI 6.0 · MEBC 2027 lockup as SVG, for the hero tag, merch and social posts.