City & Tourism
Following a skateboarding visitor, the film turns Robot Street's industrial facilities into an enjoyable city tour.
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01 / Background
The promo for Longgang's Robot Street had to string several industries and experience zones into one engaging exploration. Introduced one by one, education, eldercare, smart home, autonomous delivery, AI experiences and robot entertainment would easily become a list of facilities. The project makes foreign visitor Alex the lead, and viewers follow his curiosity, his ride and his interactions into the street.
Instead of a fast-cut “discovery” style, the film moves through the street in one continuous run. The skateboard keeps the camera moving forward, and what each hall does comes through in the character's own experience; a tennis ball on the court, the door frames of the halls and the light trail of an AI dragon all carry us into the next scene, so each change of location feels like part of a real tour.
The film opens with bright daytime scenes of a friendly tech neighborhood, then moves from experiences and dining to a nighttime combat show and a city panorama. The images are based on real locations, with AI generating the experience scenes. The point is to let viewers feel what kind of tech-enabled life they could have here.
02 / Creative Highlights
The opening first shows the skateboard tucked under his arm, then follows him along the bike lane. With the skateboard introduced early and a sensible route, viewers can follow his movement into the street, and the continuous tour has a clear starting point.
When a tennis ball flies at the camera, the camera swings around it and back to the visitor's direction of travel; after the dragon bursts out of the console, its light trail carries him into the next hall; a takeout bag is then used to mask a transition. Every scene change borrows a movement already in the frame, so the showcase of each feature becomes one complete exploration.
Alex interacts in turn with a teaching robot, a smart home, an AI console and a troupe of dancing robots. The blue interface and the golden dragon are the most eye-catching highlights, while cooking, meal delivery and drone takeout bring things back to everyday needs, so viewers see not just the technology but what life here looks like.
Blue lights on the combat stage, cheering crowds and fireworks make the later part livelier, and spherical robots and the street at night keep the energy going. Finally the camera rises to the twin towers and a panorama of the city, revealing “City of the Future, Where Anything Is Possible,” the theme of the whole tour.
03 / Scene Breakdown
“ROBOT BLOCK” flashes on a phone screen; the camera pulls back to Alex standing on a rooftop, with the Galaxy Twin Towers in the distance. He runs with his skateboard, leaps down a flight of steps, lands on the bike lane and rides on; at the intersection, a robot traffic officer waves him through.
The phone reads “Robot Block?” The camera pulls back: Alex holds his phone in one hand and his skateboard in the other, looking up at the twin towers in the distance.
Alex jumps from the rooftop steps, the moment slows in midair, and he lands and rolls straight onto the green bike lane.
A robot traffic officer in a high-visibility vest stands at the intersection. When the light turns green, it signals him to go, and Alex rides across the crosswalk.
Alex rides in under the “ROBOT BLOCK” arch and skims past a glass exhibition hall; a tennis ball flies at him from a training court, the camera flips and keeps following him; he rides past the City Services Experience Hall, a police station and a strolling robot dog, arriving at the entrance of the AI Education Hall.
The metal arch bears the street's name. Alex rides beneath it, past a glass display window with a row of humanoid robots.
On an outdoor training court, a tennis ball shoots straight at the camera; the camera swings around it to above Alex's head, then turns back to follow him as he rides on.
Alex rides past the City Services Experience Hall and the Smart Police Station, a robot dog walks by, and ahead is the big-screen entrance of the AI Education Hall.
He rides into the AI Education Hall and high-fives a child, then passes through the Smart Eldercare Center and the Whole-Home Smart Living Hall, finally stopping in front of the Driverless Vehicle Hall. Each door opens onto a new hall, and he keeps moving forward.
In the AI Education Hall, children play around a teaching robot. Alex rides over, high-fives a little girl and rides out a side door.
He rides past a small yellow robot at the door into the eldercare center, where seniors are exercising on rehabilitation equipment.
Passing through an orange archway in Galaxy WORLD Plaza, the camera follows him into a smart home showroom, skimming past the living room, lighting and appliances.
An autonomous delivery vehicle drives down the ramp at the hall's entrance, and Alex turns to the camera with a smile and delivers the film's most direct line.
Alex walks into the AI 6S Store and tells a screen, “Draw a dragon.” A golden dragon of light bursts out of the screen and, trailing light, leads him to the Robot 6S Store, where robots are dancing, and he starts dancing along.
Alex steps up to the console and says, “Draw a dragon.” The screen zooms in as lines of code scroll across it.
A golden dragon of light bursts out of the screen, circles Alex, then flies out of the store trailing light, and he follows it to the door of the Robot 6S Store.
Inside, humanoid robots and lion-dance robots break into a robot dance. Alex copies their moves and says with a laugh, “I can do it too!”
In the experience zone next door, a little girl wears a headband and steers a small car around a track, lap after lap.
Alex walks into a robot restaurant and watches robots toss woks and serve food; on the way out, a drone delivers takeout into his hands, the bag blocks the camera, and the next second he's standing in a combat arena. Two robots fight in the ring as the crowd cheers.
Alex walks into the robot restaurant, where a robot chef in the kitchen tosses a wok and braised pork flips over the flames.
A delivery robot carries dishes between the tables; a family and business guests take a bite and give the camera a thumbs-up.
The camera shoots up into the sky as a drone lowers a takeout order to the restaurant door; Alex takes the bag and says “thank you,” and the black bag fills the frame, carrying us into the next scene.
The arena lights come up as two robots in boxing gloves punch and dodge, until one is knocked to the floor.
The audience jumps up waving glow sticks, Alex cheers with the people around him, and golden fireworks fill the frame.
The fireworks fade and night has fallen. A group of spherical robots gathers around Alex for a photo, then the camera rises as the street's lights and the beams from the twin towers come on together, landing on “City of the Future · Where Anything Is Possible.”
Outside the arena at night, spherical robots fly over, raise a selfie stick with their robotic arms and take a group photo with Alex.
The camera rises higher and higher, the whole street lights up, the twin towers send up beams of light, and the theme line appears.
04 / Storyboards & Final Frames
Shown in the order of the finished film: for each segment we first note what it shows, then the final frame used to generate the video.
Shot 1.1
The film opens on “ROBOT BLOCK” on a phone screen, then pulls back to Alex on the rooftop and the twin towers in the distance.
Shot 1.2
After landing on his skateboard, Alex speeds along the bike lane, lined with Shenzhen's glass office towers and palm trees.
Shot 1.3
The “ROBOT BLOCK” arch and the twin towers behind it share the frame as Alex rides under the arch into the street.
Shot 2.1
He skims past a glass exhibition hall and into an outdoor training court, where a tennis ball flies straight at him.
Shot 2.2
He rides past the police station along the street; only the name is kept on its sign.
Shot 2.3
He rides in through the entrance, high-fives a child and leaves by a side door.
Shot 2.4
A small yellow robot stands at the door; inside, seniors are using rehabilitation equipment.
Shot 2.5
He passes through Galaxy WORLD Plaza into a smart home showroom.
Shot 2.6
A short ramp at the hall's entrance lets the delivery vehicle drive down.
Shot 3.1
Alex stops at the store's entrance, then walks to the console to give a command.
Shot 3.2
A dragon of light leaps out of the screen, circles him and shoots out of the store.
Shot 3.3
Robots do a robot dance, and Alex joins the troupe.
Shot 3.4
A little girl wears a headband to steer a small car, which always stays on the track.
Shot 4.1
A robot in the kitchen tosses a wok, and braised pork flips over the flames.
Shot 4.2
A delivery robot serves the food, and diners give a thumbs-up.
Shot 4.3
Two robots fight in the ring as the audience and Alex cheer together.
Shot 5.1
Outside the arena, now at night, spherical robots gather around Alex for a selfie.
Shot 5.2
The camera rises above the whole street, the twin towers send up beams of light, and the theme line appears.
05 / Script Excerpts
06 / Results
We delivered a 2 min 28 sec promo in 4K (3840×2160), the first film in the street's promo series, stringing daytime exploration, AI experiences, everyday services and nighttime entertainment into one complete tour.
The film has been shown on Robot Street's outdoor big screen; in on-site photos you can make out Alex and the blue Driverless Vehicle Hall. It is also used in the street's official promotion and released on Longgang government accounts.
Case Study
One street, more than a dozen robot-related halls: education, eldercare, smart home, autonomous delivery, AI experiences, robot combat…
Introduce them one by one, and what viewers get is a list of facilities.
We tried something else: a foreign visitor, Alex, steps onto a skateboard, sets off from a question mark on his phone and rides into the street, touring all of these places.
This is our work for Longgang Robot Block, Shenzhen, the first film in a promo series. It runs 2 min 28 sec, was delivered in 4K and is already playing on the big screen outside the street.
01
What mattered most to the client: every business on the street had to be seen in the film.
But with so many businesses, showing them one at a time turns into “this is the education hall, this is the eldercare center, these are the driverless vehicles…”, and viewers struggle to watch to the end.
Our idea: let one person link all the halls together. The first plan was a discovery film with plenty of fast cuts; we later changed it to one continuous run, with the camera always following him forward: wherever he goes, viewers see.
Why a foreign visitor? Everything is new to a visitor, so his curiosity becomes the audience's curiosity. Why a skateboard? A skateboard keeps him moving, so the camera always has speed and direction, and each scene change feels like he is really riding through.
The phone reads “Robot Block?” and Alex looks up at the twin towers in the distance; the tour begins here.
02
In a one-take film, the worst thing is a lead whose face changes along the way. So before generating any video, we built the lead: front, side and back views, expressions and jumping poses. The client picked one version from several, and we used it throughout the film.
The same went for the robots. The traffic robot, teaching robot, dancing robots, delivery robot, robot dog, combat robots, driverless vehicle and drone each got its own reference sheet based on the real machines on the street; the halls were regenerated as needed for the film, using real photos of the street as the base.
We fine-tuned the opening too. To show the skateboard from the start, we changed Alex on the rooftop from empty-handed to holding a skateboard under his arm; the riding route also moved from the car lane to the bike lane, which looks more plausible.
03
The hard part of a one-take film is changing scenes. From the tennis court to the education hall, from the AI hall to the restaurant, there can't be a sudden hard cut.
We used three techniques:
Follow something in motion: a tennis ball flies at the camera, the camera flips around it and comes back behind Alex.
Block the view for a moment: a door frame, the dragon's light, a takeout bag, fireworks; in the instant the lens is covered, the scene behind is already somewhere new.
Follow the same person through a door: the same person on the same skateboard pushes open a door and is in the next hall.
The camera swings around the tennis ball to above Alex's head, then turns back to follow him as he rides on.
In fact, the whole film was generated segment by segment and joined together: the last frame of one segment is the first frame of the next. We placed the joins on fast movement, occlusions and close-ups wherever possible; with viewers' attention on the action, the seams don't show.
A drone delivers takeout, the black bag fills the frame, and the next second he's standing in the combat arena.
04
The halls shouldn't just be seen; they should make people want to come. So in the film, Alex doesn't just pass by. He gets hands-on.
The film's most eye-catching segment is in the AI 6S Store: he says “Draw a dragon” to a screen, and a golden dragon of light bursts out, flies a circle around him and, trailing light, leads him next door to the Robot 6S Store.
The dragon of light circles Alex, then flies out of the store and leads him to the next shop.
After the climax, the film comes back to small everyday things like eating and picking up takeout: robots tossing woks, a delivery robot serving food, a drone dropping takeout into his hands. Viewers see not only “what technology there is” but also “what life would be like living here.”
05
Store names in the promo had to match the real ones on the street. AI-generated scene images often sprout stray small text and messy signage, so before generating video we cleaned them up one by one:Key store names corrected, irrelevant small text removed.
The actions had to hold up to scrutiny too. During review we changed two more things: the steps at the Driverless Vehicle Hall entrance became a short ramp, so the delivery vehicle could plausibly drive down it; and in the brain-controlled race car game, the little car always stays on the track.
Before finalizing, we checked the subtitles, sound effects and on-screen text item by item, then upscaled to 4K for delivery.
06
One person on one skateboard linked more than a dozen business areas into a two-and-a-half-minute film you can watch in one go.
For the client, every hall gets its moment on screen, without the film reading like a manual. For viewers, what sticks is one street: a place to play with AI, watch robots fight and get takeout delivered by drone.
The film is playing on the outdoor big screen outside the street, and it is also used in the street's official promotion and on Longgang government accounts.
The camera rises above the whole city as “City of the Future · Where Anything Is Possible” appears.
FAQ
We first design the lead: front, side and back views, expressions and skateboard moves. Once the client picks a version, it's used for the whole film. Every video segment is generated with these references, and each segment's last frame leads into the next, so Alex stays the same person for all 2 min 28 sec.
It can create the feel of one continuous take. This film was generated in segments and joined, with the joins placed on fast movement, occlusions and close-ups, plus transitions like the tennis ball, door frames, the dragon of light and the takeout bag, so it looks like one continuous tour.
The one-take approach was settled in early July; about a week later the first complete sample with sound effects was ready, and after several rounds of detail revisions the 4K final was delivered in mid-August.
This film was delivered in 3840×2160 (4K) and has been shown on the outdoor big screen outside Robot Street. Store names and text in the frame were cleaned up before generation, so they stay legible on a big screen.
Approach
We first designed the lead's look, skateboard, expressions and moves, then gathered references for the scenes and robots: transportation, education, eldercare, smart home, delivery and the stage. The storyboard was organized by functional segment, and the generated clips were joined with camera moves, door-frame wipes and a single moving element, so it looks like one continuous tour.
The segments are joined through first and last frames: we picked suitable frames at each join, revised them and regenerated, so the character's movement and the surroundings flow into the next segment. Showing the skateboard first and riding along the bike lane, turning the hall entrance into a short ramp, and keeping the race car on its track all serve to make the movement of people and vehicles through the space more believable.
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