Watermelon Submarine
Children build a submarine out of a giant watermelon and discover a submarine farm growing beneath the summer market.
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The story
At the summer market, three children follow a rolling watermelon into a drain. The watermelon opens like a submarine and takes them beneath the city to a seaweed bed with glowing seeds and farmers harvesting the tides. To return, the children must plant a seed in a place adults have paved over.
- Original title
- 수박 잠수함
- Country / region
- South Korea
- Genres
- Fantasy · Comedy · Action
- Language
- Korean
- Year
- 2029
- Runtime
- 82:00
- Director
- 채민서
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, Korean proofreader, domestic rating consultant, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural deliverables.
Human-led story development, script refinement, casting bible, and rights review are carried out, and key cinematic plates are produced with Runway Gen-4.5. Physical motion and camera blocking and alternate motion passes are verified with Google Veo 3.1 Flow, and short-unit conversion and continuity correction are handled by Runway Aleph 2.0. This is followed by Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, Korean proofreading, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, and H.265 review screener are provided.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Japanese · Thai · French · Spanish · German