Practical tips for 9:16 vertical dramas: hooks, blocking, captions, and mobile-first editing.
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Treat the feature as source ore, not a finished object. The goal isn’t to preserve its shape; it’s to extract its charge: the conflict, the humiliations, the reversals, the secret you can’t unknow, and recast that charge into 90s engines. Start with the spine, not the chronology
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Every few months someone says, “A 90-minute movie is basically sixty 90-second episodes. Just cut it up.” The math is tidy. The…
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Maxing Out the “Satisfaction Ceiling”: Villains, the Addictive Loop, and “Useful Uselessness”
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We all know making a short drama is a rush. You pour your heart into the plot twists, the characters, the emotional…
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Hello everyone! 👋 Real Reel™ is an open playground for all things vertical drama: the craft, the chaos, the hot-takes. If you’ve ever felt thrilled or annoyed about watching stories in portrait, we want to hear from you. Two fresh reads to kick-start the debate: 9:16 — “Vertical Isn’t
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Writing a vertical-screen drama, the first thing that pops into my head isn’t the shot list, it’s the retention curve in the platform…
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This note is personal. I’m a traditional filmmaker who still loves the smell of a DCP and the ritual of lights-down in a theater. But I’m also the person who just spent an entire subway ride watching everyone around me stare, hypnotized, at a six-inch screen. It stings
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How to turn 90 seconds of phone real estate into a binge-worthy roller coaster ← no dash needed at all.
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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