XinChuan Studio Hosts a Recap Session for the 2024 Yue Lai Yue Youqu Cross-Strait Youth Short Video Competition
On October 13, 2024, XinChuan Studio published a “Light and Shadow Lounge” recap of the 2024 Yue Lai Yue Youqu Cross-Strait Youth Creative Short Video Competition. The article documented an internal sharing session held on September 25, when the two participating teams, Keyframe Party and NODARK, returned to the studio to unpack their 48-hour competition experience.
The competition was organized by the Guangdong provincial external publicity and Taiwan affairs offices, and undertaken by GDToday of Nanfang Media Group and Taishang YouShi. It invited young creators from Taiwan and Guangdong to submit short videos across horizontal and vertical categories. The final round opened in Shenzhen on August 20, bringing together 20 teams from both sides of the Strait for a 48-hour challenge around five assigned themes: creation, time, dream, craft, and promise.
Keyframe Party worked from the theme of “promise.” The team first struggled with how close that theme could feel to “dream,” then chose to step away from grand language and bring the idea back to the creator’s own life. That led to the concept “do not keep eating the pies others draw for you.” In the sharing session, the team reviewed the schedule, production process, stylistic choices, and lessons learned, including gaps in software fluency, handoff between pre-production and post-production, and contingency planning.
NODARK drew the theme “time.” Their challenge was to express a theme associated with slowness and lived experience in a city defined by speed and efficiency. After analyzing the theme, the urban setting, and the team’s own strengths, NODARK shaped the work as a travel-style short video built around seamless transitions and recognizable city landmarks.
During the session, NODARK showed the piece that performed best in the event and summarized traits they saw in strong entries: complete storytelling, fluent visual connections, and careful post-production. The team also used the recap to reflect on the weaknesses in its own piece and open a deeper conversation with other studio members about short video narrative, rhythm, and finishing quality.
The sharing session mattered because it brought back more than the result of a competition. It brought back the pressure, mistakes, and judgment calls of a real production. For studio members, the 48-hour challenge became an intensive training context that required fast interpretation, clear division of work, shooting execution, editing discipline, and a complete idea under time pressure.
From the competition venue to the studio recap, the Yue Lai Yue Youqu project helped members experience the possibilities of visual storytelling and gave XinChuan Studio another reusable case for short-video competition practice, youth creator training, and production review.