Yahoo Lifestyle AI Musicians, Parenting, Time Travel, Occult Horror Among Formats Highlighted at Mip London Korea Showcase
A plethora of formats and production techniques were highlighted during the Korea format showcase at Mip London on Monday.
The Studio Meta-K presentation was heavily AI-focused. CEO Kim Kwang Jibn said that the costs of K-drama has tripled in the past three years and setting up an AI production pipeline has dramatically reduced production costs. The company is deploying different technologies such as digital doubles, game engine, deepfake and generative AI to create worlds and characters that are entirely AI generated. Kim highlighted the company’s “Season” project that features AI virtual music artists based on the four seasons.
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The formats showcased by Studio Meta-K at Mip London include “Competition for Queen’s Throne,” a historical musical romantic comedy, based on a hit web novel; “Grand Master Hani Park,” a dimensional shift fantasy on the lines of “The Witcher”; and thriller “Wave of Fate.”
The highlight of Sangsang Band’s presentation was science factual format “Monster Space,” that looks at architectural spaces around the world – like concentration camps, torture chambers and suicide forests – that drain the life out of people with their violent, dangerous and chilling atmospheres.
Studio CR’s “Nanny Online: Flower Kids Project” follows a worldwide parenting communication program powered by collective intelligence and the company’s “Park Your Prize” format will see contestants complete five stages of parking missions and answer five quiz questions within a limited time to win $50,000.
Apollo Pictures’ “Time Traveler: Timeless Legacy” has a protagonist seeking the key to a box containing his grandmother’s will who meets a time traveler and slips back to the 1930s. Boda Media Group’s factual series “House of Crime” tackles animal crime, animal rescue and animal rights.
“Divorce Attorney Shin” company HiGround presented historical drama “Flower Blooming on a Blade”; a Korean remake of Ted Danson and Kristen Bell series “The Good Place”; occult horror “Vigilatio: Awakening”; and “The Age of Filiarch,” which is a drama-comedy.
BigHouse Entertainment highlighted children only survival format “The Little Summit”; music/travel reality show “Symphony on the Road”; and Season 3 of gastronomy documentary series “Royal Table.”
From Imaginus came sci-fi thriller “Fausters”; historical fiction “Madame Jade”; and “Romance Scam,” which is a drama-thriller-expose. AStory presented “Idol + I,” a thriller where a K-pop idol is accused of murder; action-comedy “The Badge Brother: Bounty Hunter”; fantasy-romance “340 Days”; and wrestling-themed period drama “Riki.”
These presentations were followed by a session where 17 trailers from Korea’s top studios were played across a gamut of scripted and non-scripted genres.
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