Your following binge-watch is here. SPH Media has introduced its initial microdrama, CONNECTED, a 24 -episode Singapore horror-comedy created by SPH Content Lab and funded by Singtel. The initial of its 3 tales is currently offered on STOMP, HardwareZone and Singtel’s social channels.
Starring Fly Enjoyment artistes, star Fauzi Azzhar and singer Yan Xin, the series is influenced by spooky stories sent to STOMP. It follows two unlikely private investigators going after odd happenings with familiar edges of Singapore.
Mixing local mythology, acquainted setups and clearly Singaporean humour, CONNECTED provides a fresh, contemporary spin to the stories we grew up with. It also unites narration, live-action filmmaking, original creature layout, VFX and arising AI modern technology.
“It could be fiction as enjoyment, but threaded via CONNECTED is Singtel’s really genuine duty in keeping individuals attached to good friends, family members and community,” said Lynette Poh, Singtel’s head of brand, engagement and commitment, of the collaboration.
“The horror-comedy style also gave attached a lot of space for brand-new ways to inform acquainted Singapore stories, and turn daily settings right into something unfamiliar person and visually unforeseen. Innovation became part of exactly how the innovative group brought that world to screen.”
For SPH Content Laboratory, the series was also a possibility to trying out a brand-new entertainment layout. Every animal in its world started as an initial sketch by the lab’s musicians. These were incorporated with initial photography and live-action footage, then established via a hybrid VFX workflow with production companions Editlounge and Gengis AI.
“Singapore has always had a wonderful custom of spooky storytelling,” said Phin Wong, head of the material and solutioning department at SPH Media.
“linked takes that really familiar part of our culture and has fun with what it can become in a contemporary short-form collection– mixing horror and funny, neighborhood stories and ‘hantu’ mythology, and a visual world that moves in between the acquainted and the sensational.”
