MARODON.MEDIA Case Study — Brand Film
Criterion Industries · Lion Sliding System

Tame
any noise We turned an acoustic spec sheet into a story.

A cinematic B2B brand film that personified office noise as a lion — and let an acoustic sliding system silence it. Engineered for organic reach, with zero paid media.

Sound on. For now.
Client
Criterion Industries
Industry
Architectural & Commercial Fitout
Scope
Concept · Creative · Film Production
Year
2025
The Film

Press play. Criterion Industries — “Tame Any Noise” · 0:48 · sound on

01 The Brand

Criterion Industries has engineered architectural aluminium systems in Australia since 1981 — partitions, doors and sliding systems specified by architects and commercial builders.

The Lion Sliding System is one of their flagship products: a glass sliding partition with market-leading acoustic ratings. Technically excellent. And, like every acoustic product ever made, emotionally invisible.

Frame from the film · the noise, given a face
02 The Challenge

You can’t
screenshot silence

Acoustic performance is one of the hardest things in the world to advertise. You can’t see it. You can’t hear it in a thumbnail. And in commercial fitout, every competitor publishes the same decibel charts and the same spec PDFs.

Criterion didn’t need another product explainer. They needed people to feel the problem the product solves — and they needed it to travel without a media budget behind it.

  • A premium product in a commoditised, spec-driven category.
  • An invisible benefit — acoustic isolation — that resists visual storytelling.
  • No paid-media budget. The film had to earn its reach, or it wouldn’t get any.
An executive on a call, covering one ear against noise
The cost of noise — a call you can’t hear
A focused team at their laptops with the lion among them
The cost of noise — focus, broken
03 The Idea

So we stopped selling the spec —
and dramatised the enemy

We personified noise as a lion. Wild, magnificent, impossible to ignore — and we set it loose inside a calm, modern office.

It prowls between the desks. It roars over a phone call. It unsettles a focused team. Noise, made physical. Then the Lion Sliding System closes — the glass slides shut, the roar falls away, and the lion, finally, lies down. Tamed.

The product’s own name became the entire creative. “Lion” wasn’t a tagline we invented; it was the metaphor already waiting inside the brand. One line carried it: Tame any noise.

The Lion Sliding System closes — the roar stays on the other side
Silence.
04 The Craft

We ran the project end-to-end as a production studio.

Every frame was built to survive a feed — watched on mute, at a thumbnail’s size, mid-scroll. The acoustic claim arrives only once the audience already wants it.

Concept & script
Casting & location
Cinematography
Lion VFX integration
Edit & colour grade
Sound design & mix
05 The Result

It travelled
on its own

We built this for reach, not for a paid funnel — so the win is in how far it went without a budget pushing it.

$0
paid media behind it. The film spread on the strength of the idea alone.
Most-shared
piece of brand content Criterion had produced — in an industry that rarely shares B2B video.
Remembered
An invisible spec became “the lion video.” The acoustic rating now rides along with it.
Produced in 2025. The creative approach and production techniques reflect what was current that year — we’d treat a few things differently today.
Final frame · the noise, at rest
Tame any noise.
The line the whole film was built to earn

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