Edits cut from what the audience already feels.

I'm Nicole, a narrative editor working with Asian drama. I read what fans rewatch, quote and argue about, then build trailers, character promos and social cuts around those moments — subtitled for every market they reach. When there's no footage yet, I make it.

Original work

As Strangers

타인처럼 · original short · 1:03

“In that city, in those years, to love you was to pass you by.”

Gyeongseong, the 1930s. Two people who can only love each other in passing — across a tea house, on a stairwell, under one umbrella, through a train window as it pulls away.

Story, characters, art direction, edit and sound design are mine. Every frame was generated with AI image and video tools, then checked one by one: no stray figures, no doors opening on their own, no faces drifting between shots. Sixteen layered sound effects under Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1.

Made to show what I bring when there's no footage to start from.

Drama edits

The Early Spring

早春晴朗 · 조춘청랑 · 그런 일은

A four-minute relationship edit built from what the fandom kept asking for: not more scenes, but the feeling of the two of them falling again.

Close-ups in the first seconds, intimate moments placed as pay-offs along a rising arc, and a song that carries the whole story without dialogue.

Light the Dark

把黑夜点燃 · 파흑야점연

A trailer re-cut for a series most viewers hadn't heard of yet. It opens on the aftermath, rewinds to the explosion, and closes on the image it started with.

1:46, released with Korean, English and Chinese subtitles.

Made for the first second

9:16 · 55 seconds

The short version of the same edit. A face in frame one, no black frames before the hook lands, and an ending that hands straight back to the start.

It's the reason most of its viewers found the drama at all.

What happened next

One short passed 370,000 views without ads. 74% of viewers stayed instead of swiping, and the average view ran longer than the video itself — people watched it twice. Comments arrived in Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, Italian and Korean.

영상 영화처럼 좋네요. 이런건 대체 어떻게 만드는 건가요?Viewer in Korea

Bravo pour la musique sélectionnée.Viewer in France

Lo vi 50 veces… que hermoso que es.Viewer in Latin America

What I make

Social cuts

10 to 30 second vertical edits for launch weeks, character reveals and episode drops.

Trailers

45 second to two minute story-led trailers, including versions localized for a new market.

Creative direction

Concept, music, pacing and AI-assisted original visuals, with each step documented.

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Freelance projects and paid pilots with platforms, distributors and agencies. English or 한국어. More edits on YouTube.