Editorial lead at SHÙ Studio. Decoding Vertical Drama, mobile-first production & short-form storytelling.
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⚈ ⚈ “We write like a carnival barker,” explains the showrunner of Bodyguards by Day Lovers by Night, “because viewers decide in eight seconds whether they will pay or swipe.” Swiping for Chemistry: How Vertical BL Dramas Became Mobile Gold. Join Real Reel Vertical dramas are series built for phone screens. Every
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⚈ ⚈ Streaming on FlickReels since early June, this ninety-second-chapter drama has rocketed into the most-watched carousel on several… Here is why the buzz feels both deserved and, at times, a little baffling. Join Real Reel Streaming on FlickReels since early June, this ninety-second-chapter drama has rocketed into the most-watched carousel on
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How an audio-app spin-off just turned India into the next battleground for 90-second series
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⚈ ⚈ How a still-pending New York homicide case became the plot of ReelShort’s new vertical drama The Adjuster. From Front-Page Murder to 90-Second Cliff-Hanger Join Real Reel The real-world crime On the morning of December 4, 2024, UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson was shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel. Federal
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What we learned after binge-watching 100+ English and Chinese vertical series To better understand the storytelling difference between film/TV script and Vertical script, we watched more than 100 series, both English and Chinese original, here are our observation about the current english series script characteristic and issues: Unlike a
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From a 20-square-meter dorm office in Beijing to the top of the U.S. App Store. Here’s the cross-border thriller powering your 60-second cliff-hangers. In 2000, a handful of recent grads from Tsinghua (China’s top 1 university) crammed into a broom-closet office in Beijing’s Haidian startup district
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The Market Blows Past $700 Million in a Quarter
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Hollywood is busy licensing your childhood cartoons into billion-dollar IP universes, while millions of Gen Z are paying 30 cents to unlock…
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“Mini-dramas look like TikToks until you tap ‘unlock’ and realize a whole Candy-Crush economy is hiding underneath.” — a16z media memo…
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“Over my morning commute I binged nine episodes, watched a billionaire’s wife fake her own death, and it only cost me 27 cents.” —…