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Service intro for the weekly AI report "Yochou Signals"

An 82-second video for a weekly report that narrows the flood of AI news down to five stories a week and translates them into business terms, shown through screens where each issue assembles itself

Narration and on-screen text are in Japanese. The sections below describe the video in English.

Service introduction
82 sec
Landscape
In-house sample | Intro video for our own service. The interview answers and named companies are fictional, and the figures on screen are the editorial team's checks and views from the sample issue
Published Oct 12, 2026

How it was made: Motion graphics built in HTML and exported frame by frame. On-screen text was taken from the body of the sample issue. One music track was made with generative AI (ElevenLabs), and sound effects made with generative AI (ElevenLabs) for earlier in-house productions were reused, then finished in the edit (no filming or narration)

A video like this$1,100 (excl. tax) · As few as 5 business days82 seconds, both landscape and portrait | Pricing

Overview and production conditions

AI news never stops, and nobody can keep up with all of it.
Each week's issue picks the five most important stories and explains what they mean for business.
Screens where the issue and the custom dedicated page assemble themselves show how it works.

Exports: One 82-second video each in landscape 16:9 and portrait 9:16. The portrait version uses the same HTML with each scene's layout rebuilt
Structure: Opens with the frustration of not keeping up with the news, then moves through the reveal, selection, explanation, this week in three lines, the numbers, translation into business terms, next week's signals, the custom plan, Sunday 8 p.m. delivery and the close
Approach: No narration, only music and sound effects. On-screen text is typed one character at a time with a cursor. The frustration is shown on dark screens and the issue content on bright ones. Colors match the navy and green of the Yochou Signals landing page
Production time: About 50 minutes on record from the first request to the fix of the portrait version (19:15 to 20:05 on October 12, 2026)

The 82 seconds, scene by scene

0–6 s: AI news from the US, China and Japan streams in three columns, and "Today's AI news" climbs to 312 items. "I can't keep up with all of it..."

6–12 s: Browser tabs pile up to 48, and unread "Read later" items keep stacking. "My read-later list just keeps growing..."

12–17 s: In the company chat, the president writes "Apparently video AI has gotten a lot cheaper" and "How does that affect our business?" A reply starting "Um, overseas..." is typed and deleted. "I can't explain the impact on the business."

17–25 s: "So." The news is pulled into a single point and the Yochou Signals logo appears. "Turn a week of AI into input for business decisions." "A weekly report on AI developments, including the US and China."

25–31 s: Cards for this week's 312 AI news items line up, a line sweeps across them, and only five remain. "Only the five most important stories."

31–40 s: The third story, "A 30-second AI video can now be made for under $1" opens, and text flows into "What happened," "Why it matters," "Business impact" and "What to watch next" at the same time. The other four stories are marked as done. "Don't stop at the technology." "Translate it into impact on sales and customers."

40–46 s: Three lines of conclusions, readable in one minute, are typed into "This week in three lines."

46–51 s: "This week in numbers." Cost to generate a 30-second video: "under $1." Test cost for AI anime production: "$100–200 per day." When video generation approaches free: "within a year."

51–57 s: "Translation into business terms." Nine cards drop into three columns: what gets cheaper, who profits, and which businesses break down.

57–60 s: Three signs are typed in under "Next week's signals" as lines are drawn.

60–72 s: "With the custom plan." "A report made every week for one person." "First 10 subscribers." A hearing sheet is filled in with industry "Manufacturing," role "Corporate planning" and five named companies, and the three sections of a dedicated page assemble. The view switches from "detailed version for staff" to "one-page summary for executives."

72–76 s: "Every Sunday at 8 p.m." A phone shows the notification "Your issue for week 2 of October has arrived," and the issue opens and scrolls. "About 15 minutes to read."

76–82 s: The Yochou Signals logo and "Turn a week of AI into input for business decisions" appear, "signals.yocho.ai" is typed, and the screen fades to black.

First cut vs. final cut

A custom plan scene was added to the 70-second first cut we showed, making an 82-second second cut. After that, the portrait version was made and the order of the news at the start was fixed.

Full video

First cut

The first version shown. No custom plan scene | 70 seconds

Final cut

Second cut with the custom plan scene added | 82 seconds

Revision 01

Adding the custom plan scene

Before

First cut | Goes straight from next week's signals to Sunday 8 p.m. delivery | 0:57–1:04

Final cut

Adds the hearing sheet, the dedicated page and the switch in level of detail | 0:57–1:16

Goal: Show what the custom plan includes, with a dedicated page every week tailored to the subscriber's industry and situation
Instruction during production: "I want to bring in a scene about customizing the news for each person, and I'd like you to build it on top of this."
Adjustment: Using only what appears in the custom section of the landing page, added 12 seconds after "Next week's signals" in which the hearing sheet fills in, the dedicated page assembles and then shrinks to a one-page summary. Because one bar of the music is 2 seconds, the 11-second draft was made 12 seconds, and the middle section of the track was repeated to extend it to 82 seconds

Revision 02

Adding Chinese news to the start of the portrait version

Before

First portrait version | Only the US and Japan columns are visible | 0:00–0:06

Final cut

News from the US, China and Japan flows in turn in every column | 0:00–0:06

Goal: Make it clear in the first few seconds of the portrait version too that the report covers AI developments including the US and China
Instruction during production: "The start of the portrait version doesn't include any Chinese news. See if you can improve it."
Adjustment: The landscape version assigned the US, Japan and China to separate columns, so in the portrait version, which fits only two columns, the China column was off screen. For the portrait version only, each column now mixes all three countries in turn, ordered so that no headline repeats within the 16 cards of a column

Key scenes and production steps

Frustration scene. A screen full of browser tabs and unread "Read later" items, with the line "My read-later list just keeps growing..." — Key scenes exported from the production HTML, plus three scenes rebuilt for the portrait version

Music: Made one intelligent-sounding electronic track with generative AI. Its build peaked at 32 seconds, so it was cut and rearranged bar by bar to land on the logo at 20 seconds. In the second cut, the middle section was repeated to extend it to 82 seconds
Sound effects: Used 22 types made for earlier in-house productions, placed at 123 points to match on-screen events. The confirmation sounds in the selection scene are timed to the moment the line passes each card, and were re-placed in the portrait version to follow the line's direction

01
Propose three concepts based on the landing page and the sample issue
02
Decide the scenes and the typed text from the sample issue's body
03
Make one music track and time its peak to the logo
04
Build the motion in HTML and export it frame by frame
05
Add the custom plan scene and rebuild the layout for portrait

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