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Starting from Digital Beijing, a vision of the city, daily life and the world moving forward together unfolds on the conference stage.
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01 / Background
The opening ceremony of the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference needed an MV that brought together the song, Digital Beijing and the ultra-wide screen at the venue. The audience had to feel Beijing's openness and also see how digital technology enters everyday life, so the imagery starts from Beijing's landmarks and unfolds step by step into human-machine collaboration, transportation, payments, care and participants from around the world.
The shots follow the lyrics of “Digital Beijing, Together for the Future.” The verses use concrete scenes to tell the story of digital life, while the choruses use bold Chinese and English theme words and city panoramas to make it memorable. The ultra-wide stage version and the standard viewing version share the same content and style in two aspect ratios.
02 / Creative Highlights
People and robots playing piano together, mobile payments, bedside care, an elderly woman using a virtual screen: these actions ground the technology in recognizable daily life. The robots appear in front of landmarks and also in homes and on the streets, so “technology with heart” comes through in people's interactions with these services.
The camera moves from the street at pedestrians' feet down to glowing blue underground conduits, matching the lyric “The city beneath your feet already understands your heart.” This transition joins everyday life above ground with the digital infrastructure below into one space, giving the data lines a concrete place and purpose. It is the most direct explanation in the film.
Big words such as “Welcome” and “The World Moves Together” appear alongside the data city, with the specific lyrics in separate Chinese and English subtitles. The stage version also accounts for the podium blocking part of the screen, placing the verse lyrics on both sides and the theme words in the middle; the standard version repositions the text so the people and scenes stay clear.
The Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, city gates and modern buildings alternate in streams of cyan-blue light, with the same digital lines running through them all so they read as one. The finale moves through the airport, a planet and golden particles back to the GDEC logo, so the city's welcome, its connection to the world and the conference logo all close within the same piece of music.
03 / Scene Breakdown
The opening starts with the Earth and the theme words, then the camera lands on the streets of Beijing, passes the Central Axis at sunrise, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven, and finally stops on the hands of a person and a robot playing piano together.
The Earth hangs across the center of the frame against the stars, with the theme words “Digital Beijing, Together for the Future” in Chinese and English over it.
The sun rises at the far end of the city as traffic moves along the avenue, and the first lyric, “Beijing in the sunshine,” lands on this image.
Young people of different skin tones in Chinese-style clothing walk toward the camera in front of the red walls as petals drift around them.
Rings of cyan light glow around the Temple of Heaven, the first time ancient architecture and digital lines overlap.
In front of the Great Wall, the red walls, the convention center and the Temple of Heaven, four people in a split screen open their arms at the same moment in welcome.
A robotic hand and a human hand play the same piano, turning “human-machine collaboration” into an action anyone can understand.
The chorus uses bold words and city panoramas to make the theme memorable, interspersed with a handshake, split-screen figures and friends from around the world walking side by side.
A daytime aerial shot of the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the waters around it; the first character of “Welcome” bursts out of the frame as the chorus begins.
Under a purple starry sky, the palace complex is lit up, and the big red-and-white word “Welcome” lands in the center.
In the green shade by the street, a resident shakes hands with a humanoid robot, paired with the words “friendly city.”
People and robots split into eight panels walk toward the camera at the same time, fitting many different faces onto one screen.
Friends from around the world walk toward the camera in a line in front of the buildings, with the big words “Setting Out Side by Side” over the image.
The light ring in the city model turns a few times, then the image cuts to a yellow sports car speeding down a road at night, leading into the second verse.
The second verse breaks “digital life” down into a few small things (transportation, translation, payments, care) and ends with a downward camera move that connects the ground with the digital conduits beneath it.
Two people in a high-rise office wear AR devices, with a translation interface floating in front of them, matching “Smart translation carries echoes across the seas.”
On a shopping street, a man holds up his phone to pay, next to a lit QR code sign.
An elderly man leans back in bed as a robot beside him hands him water, matching “See a doctor and get medicine without leaving home.”
In a hutong, an old Beijing local squeezes in with tourists and a robot for a selfie.
A low camera follows pedestrians' steps, then sinks down through the ground to reveal glowing blue underground conduits.
A holographic panorama of Beijing, robots traveling alongside passengers, drone delivery and a web of light connecting the world: the chorus links the city with the world.
The Forbidden City and the distant skyline are linked into a web of blue lines, and the word “Welcome” appears again.
On a futuristic street, a traveler pulling a suitcase walks side by side with a robot.
A drone carrying a package takes off from the street and rises between the buildings, with pedestrians still at the bottom of the frame.
Lines of light glow across the surface of the Earth, and the word “World” appears.
The big words “The World Moves Together” land in the sky above the glowing city, then the city turns into a wireframe as the interlude begins.
The third verse shifts to warmer tones, moving from a city gate in the sunset glow to children, elderly people, the market and the way home at night: things ordinary people encounter in a day.
The city gate lights up in the sunset glow as people come and go across the square.
Children draw lines with their fingers on a glowing panel, and the lines scatter into a sky full of stars.
Sunlight streams into the living room as an elderly woman taps a floating screen and talks with the virtual figure on it.
In the early morning, an elderly man picks vegetables at a smart shelf, then the scene cuts to a driverless car waiting by the roadside to pick someone up at night.
The choral section revisits the city through the Bird's Nest, a train, a robot marathon and Daxing Airport, until golden particles come together as the GDEC logo. The end credits are not covered here.
At night, the Bird's Nest is ringed by circle after circle of lights, matching “The whole city cares for your peace of mind.”
A maglev train glides between the buildings, then the scene cuts to robots running on a race track as “Welcome” appears again.
The hall of Daxing Airport and an overhead panorama; golden particles spread out from the center of the roof as the big words “Gathering Here” descend.
The camera pushes toward a planet made of golden particles, with rings of light rotating around it.
The particles gather into the letters GDEC, the word “Miracle” flashes by, and the film comes to rest on the conference logo.
04 / Storyboards & Final Frames
Below are the final images used in the ultra-wide giant-screen version for the opening ceremony (23:3 aspect ratio), arranged by song section, with timecodes from the giant-screen version. The video above is the standard 16:9 version; it has the same content, recomposed for 16:9.
Shot 1.1
The film opens in space, with the arc of the Earth spanning the whole screen and the theme words “Digital Beijing, Together for the Future” in the middle.
Shot 1.2
A main city road by day, with high-rises stretching along both sides, giving the audience a landing point “from space down to the streets of Beijing.”
Shot 2.1
The sun rises at the far end of the city and an avenue runs straight into the distance, matching the first line, “Beijing in the sunshine.”
Shot 2.2
The Hall of Supreme Harmony sits at the center, with the square and white marble balustrades spreading out to both sides; the ultra-wide frame fits the entire palace complex.
Shot 2.3
Young people of different skin tones in Chinese-style clothing walk toward the camera in front of the red walls as petals fall, echoing “guests and friends from around the world.”
Shot 2.4
The Central Axis seen from high above, with the rooftops of the old city and the towers of the new city in the same frame.
Shot 2.5
Rings of cyan light glow around the Temple of Heaven, the first time the ancient architecture overlaps with digital lines.
Shot 2.6
Blue streams of data drift up from the Forbidden City's roofs into the sky, matching “City walls and code meet here to form a landscape.”
Shot 2.7
In front of the Great Wall, the red walls, the convention center and the Temple of Heaven, four people open their arms at the same moment, appearing side by side on the giant screen.
Shot 2.8
A robotic hand and a human hand play the same piano, turning “the new sound of technology and connection” into a single action.
Shot 3.1
A daytime aerial shot of the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the waters around it, with data lines flowing between the buildings; the chorus begins here.
Shot 3.2
The palace complex under a purple starry sky, the backdrop for the chorus's big word “Welcome.”
Shot 3.3
In the green shade by the street, a resident shakes hands with a humanoid robot, paired with “Friendly city.”
Shot 3.4
Blue bar charts rise and fall and points of light flow in the dark, a backdrop for “smart and free.”
Shot 3.5
Several friends from different countries walk side by side out from among buildings wrapped in data lines.
Shot 3.6
People and robots split into eight panels, lined up across the ultra-wide screen and walking toward the camera at the same time.
Shot 3.7
The conference venue spreads out under a blue sky, with lines across the sky tying the image together, matching “The future is here.”
Shot 3.8
A group of stylish friends from around the world walk toward the camera in a line in front of the buildings, matching “Setting out side by side.”
Shot 3.9
A rotating ring of light glows in the middle of the city model, a bridge between the chorus and the second verse.
Shot 4.1
A yellow sports car races down a city road at night streaked with light, as the second verse opens with “green energy.”
Shot 4.2
Another car drives through a tunnel made of light, carrying on the sense of speed from the previous shot.
Shot 4.3
In a high-rise office, two people wear AR devices, with a translucent translation interface floating in front of them.
Shot 4.4
On a shopping street, a man holds up his phone to pay, next to a lit QR code sign.
Shot 4.5
An elderly man leans back in bed as a robot beside him hands him water, matching “See a doctor and get medicine without leaving home.”
Shot 4.6
A panorama of the Forbidden City, with blue-green data patterns spreading across the ground, linking two sections of the lyrics.
Shot 4.7
In a hutong, an old Beijing local takes a selfie together with tourists and a robot.
Shot 4.8
A low camera watches pedestrians walk by as the ground begins to glow, the starting point of the downward transition.
Shot 4.9
Glowing blue conduits seen after the camera passes through the ground, matching “The city beneath your feet already understands your heart.”
Shot 5.1
The Forbidden City and the distant skyline are linked into a web of blue lines as the second chorus sings again, “Digital Beijing welcomes you.”
Shot 5.2
On a futuristic street, a traveler pulling a suitcase walks side by side with a robot.
Shot 5.3
A panorama of the city at dusk, with a glowing track running through the middle of the buildings.
Shot 5.4
Several drones carrying packages take off just above the street, matching “technology with heart.”
Shot 5.5
Cars drive along a road at night as light streaks past on both sides, with translucent screens hovering above the roofs.
Shot 5.6
Lines of light glow across the surface of the Earth, matching “In this city, the world moves together.”
Shot 5.7
During the interlude, the camera tilts down as the real city gradually turns into a glowing wireframe city.
Shot 6.1
In the setting sun, ribbons of golden light weave between the buildings, and the third verse's tones turn warmer from here.
Shot 6.2
The city gate lights up in the sunset glow as people come and go across the square.
Shot 6.3
A group of children draw lines with their fingers on a glowing panel, and the lines scatter into a sky full of stars.
Shot 6.4
Sunlight streams into the living room as an elderly woman taps a floating screen and talks with the virtual figure on it.
Shot 6.5
An elderly man picks vegetables at a smart shelf, matching “Whether at the morning market.”
Shot 6.6
At night, driverless cars and minibuses wait by the roadside to pick people up, matching “Or heading home at midnight.”
Shot 6.7
At night, the Bird's Nest is ringed by circle after circle of lights, matching “The whole city cares for your peace of mind.”
Shot 7.1
A maglev train glides along a glowing track through the buildings, and the closing chorus begins here.
Shot 7.2
Humanoid robots run on a race track as spectators on both sides raise their hands and cheer.
Shot 7.3
Blue and gold points of light rise and fall like waves, and lines pulse like a heartbeat.
Shot 7.4
The dome and light strips of Daxing Airport spread out to both sides, matching “Friends from around the world, gathering here.”
Shot 7.5
An overhead view of the airport, with golden particles spreading outward from the center of the roof.
Shot 7.6
The camera pushes toward the golden planet and through the rings of light, and the particles gather into the letters GDEC.
Shot 7.7
The film ends on the GDEC logo made of golden particles.
05 / Results
The MV was played at the opening ceremony of the Global Digital Economy Conference on July 2, 2025: the 46×6 m ultra-wide screen at the venue showed the final 8K version in a 23:3 aspect ratio, and after the project we received a letter of thanks from the organizing committee. The video above is the standard 16:9 version for phones and the web.
Case Study
The main screen at the opening ceremony is 46 meters wide and 6 meters high.
On a screen like this, an ordinary video leaves both sides empty; stretch it to fill the screen, and people and buildings get distorted.
The 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference asked us to make its opening ceremony MV, “Digital Beijing, Together for the Future.” From the very first image, we composed to the proportions of this screen. An ultra-wide 8K version was played at the opening ceremony, and we also delivered a 16:9 version for phones and the web.
01
The screen at the venue has a resolution of 15456×2016, an aspect ratio of about 23:3, far wider than a cinema widescreen.
Instead of making a 16:9 version first and padding out the sides, we composed for 23:3 from the very first image: horizontally sweeping scenes like Tiananmen Square, the Central Axis and the city skyline fill the entire screen perfectly.
A podium in the middle of the stage blocks part of the bottom of the screen. So the verse lyrics are placed on the left and right, and big theme words like “Welcome” and “The World Moves Together” sit in the middle, slightly high, so they can be seen even when someone is on stage.
Shots of people were another challenge: with just one person in an ultra-wide frame, they look tiny. We made the people shots into four or eight panels side by side, generating each panel separately, so together they form a welcome that fills the whole screen.
In front of the Great Wall, the red walls, the convention center and the Temple of Heaven, four people in a split screen open their arms at the same moment.
02
The client wanted the film to convey openness and friendliness, with Beijing's historical depth as well as the contrast of ancient and modern, China and the world, side by side.
Many lines in the lyrics are conceptual, such as “technology with heart” and “the city understands you.” Our approach: find a specific person and a specific action for every line.
For “Together we compose the new sound of technology and connection,” the image is a human hand and a robotic hand playing piano together; for “See a doctor and get medicine without leaving home,” a robot hands water to an elderly man at his bedside; for “Silver-haired elders hear the dawn at their fingertips,” an elderly woman in her living room taps a floating screen as she talks.
The verses tell these small stories of daily life, and the choruses pull back to city panoramas and big words, so whatever section the audience is hearing, they know what the images are saying.
03
“The city beneath your feet already understands your heart” is the most abstract line in the whole song.
We built it from a pair of first and last frames: the first frame is a low shot of pedestrians' steps as the ground begins to glow; the last frame is a dense network of blue conduits underground. As the camera sinks from the ground, the audience sees the “invisible city” that supports everyday life.
The camera follows pedestrians' steps and sinks through the ground to reveal glowing blue underground conduits.
04
The conference focuses on Beijing's real digital industries, so the humanoid robots, driverless vehicles and delivery drones in the film, along with landmarks like the Bird's Nest and Daxing Airport, all had to be recognizable at a glance.
We generated all these shots from clear reference images that contained the needed angles and key actions. For shots such as open arms, two cars driving side by side and robots running a marathon, we handled the action and composition separately, then made local fixes to details like hands, faces, roofs and signs.
Once each shot was locked, we noted in the production document which version was used and how far it was upscaled, making later revisions easy to track and the two aspect ratios easy to cross-check.
05
An image that looks sharp on a computer screen won't necessarily look sharp on a 46-meter screen.
A few days before the opening, we sent different versions to the giant screen at the venue for test playback and compared them with the client. The version upscaled shot by shot to 8K with a higher bitrate looked best on site, so that was the one used on the screen. The subtitles were also re-laid out at 8K size (7680×1002), with the Chinese font size matched to the original English font size, so they wouldn't look too large on screen.
Golden particles gather into the conference logo, and the film ends here.
On the day of the opening ceremony, the client also needed a 16:9 version to share on phones. Instead of simply cropping a section out of the ultra-wide image, we recomposed for 16:9, rearranged the split-screen shots with many people, and regenerated shots that couldn't be cropped, so everyone appears fully in the frame.
06
This is an 8K conference MV, AI-generated from images to final film and played on a 46×6 m ultra-wide screen. It was played at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference, and after the project we received a letter of thanks from the organizing committee.
For clients, an ultra-wide screen no longer has to be limited to a static key visual or a simple motion background; it can also show a complete MV with lyrics, people and a city's story.
For anyone learning AI video, three things in this project are most worth a look: compose for the screen's proportions from the start,find a specific action for every line of lyrics,always do a test playback on site before going live.
FAQ
This screen is 46 meters wide and 6 meters high, a ratio of about 23:3. We composed for 23:3 from the very first image rather than stretching a 16:9 image wider; shots of people were made as four or eight panels side by side, each generated separately, so neither people nor buildings are distorted.
The project kicked off in early May 2025, went through several rounds of proposals and revisions, had a test playback on the giant screen at the venue in late June, and was played at the opening ceremony on July 2: about 8 weeks in all.
We upscaled each shot individually, then sent different versions to the giant screen at the venue to compare with the client, and chose the 8K version that looked best on site. The subtitles, opening titles and end credits were made separately at 8K size rather than upscaled along with the images.
Yes. This project delivered an ultra-wide 8K giant-screen version (7680×1002), a 4080×2160 version for the sub-forum screens, and a 16:9 version for phones and the web. The 16:9 version was recomposed for the new aspect ratio, not cropped directly from the giant-screen version.
Approach
During production, we matched the lyrics, shots and subtitles section by section to the chosen song. The ultra-wide version was checked in a test playback on the giant screen at the venue; the standard 16:9 version uses the same set of final images, so the content of both versions matches.
Shots featuring the Tien Kung robot and vehicles were all generated from clear reference images containing the needed angles and key actions; for shots such as open arms and cars driving side by side, the action and composition were handled separately, followed by local fixes to details such as hands, faces, roofs and signs.
The ultra-wide version was upscaled shot by shot, and the subtitles, opening titles and end credits were made separately in post. Lyric timing, English translations, whether subjects were blocked, and how long the end card holds were all checked item by item, so the film was ready both for playback on site and for sharing afterward.
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