替身契约 The Stand-In Contract

"The Stand-In Contract" is a 30-second AI-generated vertical romance short drama that explores the viability of generative video tools in short-drama storytelling. The pacing follows short-drama platform logic: the first 3 seconds set a hook through physical conflict and a sum of money; at 5–8 seconds the heroine tears up a photo and raises the price to drive a reversal; and the ending reveals identity through a childhood keepsake, leaving a cliffhanger. The male lead is introduced through a progressive reveal — leather shoes, cuff, backlit profile, then full face — using camera language to build anticipation. In production, I first built standardized character sheets (three views, expressions, details, proportions) as reference images to keep characters consistent across shots, then broke the storyboard into time-coded segmented prompts and used unified style constraints to control performance quality and avoid the stiffness common in AI video.