A reference project showing every content field at once: a YouTube video at the top, this body copy, then a stills section drawn from frame grabs, and a behind-the-scenes section with both images and a written production story.
Open the file src/content/work/example-stills-and-bts.md to see how the frontmatter is
structured. Copy the pattern into your real projects — stillUrls and btsUrls accept any
public image URL, so Dropbox, Google Drive (with public sharing), or your own CDN all work.
For higher-quality stills than YouTube provides, drop the image files alongside this markdown
and use stills: (local) instead of stillUrls: (remote).
Stills
Behind the Scenes
We started this shoot at 4am in a borrowed office tower on the 38th floor of a half-finished building in Shenzhen. Art direction by Meng Tian had transformed the empty space into a fully dressed lawyer's office overnight using props pulled from three different rental houses — books on the shelves, a working desk lamp circa 1962, even cigarette ash in the tray.
The hero scene was the negotiation. We blocked it with the actors during pre-light, then ran three takes once the sun came up — the timing was tight because the natural backlight only held for about twelve minutes before the building next door blocked it.
This was the first piece I shot incorporating fully AI-generated inserts. The on-set workflow didn't change much, but the post pipeline did — the director and I were sketching shot ideas with AI tools the night before, which let us walk into pre-light already aligned on tone.