{"id":93959,"date":"2026-10-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93959"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:23:00","slug":"how-ai-is-reshaping-microdramas-as-the-vertical-video-format-takes-a-generational-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93959","title":{"rendered":"How AI is reshaping microdramas as the vertical video format takes a \u2018generational jump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/16\/3f147e17-d565-4031-8ad9-d414a0fff71a_e66949f4.jpg?itok=XkMD1DgL&amp;v=1792143718\" \/><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Paddy Ma Wendi, a director of vertical dramas since 2023, has had a front-row seat to how fast and hard <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">artificial intelligence<\/span> has affected the mobile-first entertainment genre in 2026.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Digital content farms have started churning out short productions \u2013 serialised stories made for smartphones and usually <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">watched in portrait mode<\/span> \u2013 using the latest AI technology.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cWhen I was in the US [for a live-action vertical drama], I usually hired about 20 to 30 people, including the actors,\u201d says Ma, who graduated from New York\u2019s School of Visual Arts in 2015 and founded one of the first production companies specialising in English-language <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">microdramas<\/span> on the United States\u2019 East Coast.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">He is currently based in Zhengzhou, in China\u2019s Henan province, to take advantage of the relatively low labour costs there.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3370957\/how-ai-reshaping-microdramas-vertical-video-format-takes-generational-jump?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Ma Wendi, a director of vertical dramas since 2023, has had a front-row seat to how fast and hard artificial intelligence has affected the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5803,31157,5102,30088,17674,1013,9516,1256],"class_list":["post-93959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-format","tag-generational","tag-jump","tag-microdramas","tag-reshaping","tag-takes","tag-vertical","tag-video","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}