AIGC ASIA Official MV: Zopia’s Role and Lessons

How can a cultural theme find an expression that feels present? AIGC ASIA’s official theme song and music video, 《让千年正年轻》, brings that question into a collaboration between music and images.

The creator, 韦优 Excellent, is credited on the official page as 大湾区靓仔 for lyrics, composition, arrangement and direction. AI contributed the singing, while the video was created in collaboration with Zopia’s AI director. The work was presented at the creator launch event in Shenzhen on September 17, 2026.

Start by watching the complete official MV. Then return to the creative questions below: how a cultural subject can guide a song’s visual structure, how musical sections become shot intentions and how to develop those decisions in your own project.

Let the theme become something an audience can feel

Cultural subjects can provide extensive background and a great deal of information. A music video reaches the viewer first through rhythm, sound, people and images working together. One useful creative question is what the audience should feel before deciding how much to explain.

The title connects a long cultural timescale with the idea of youth and the present. It invites questions about how something inherited enters contemporary life and how younger people find their own relationship with it.

Those questions can lead to specific choices. Which person should carry the perspective? What action makes the relationship visible? What changes between the beginning and the end?

When watching, first follow the overall emotional movement. Notice which moments draw you towards the subject and which make you want to understand more. Looking at the work as a whole gives you a useful foundation before examining a particular image or transition.

Connect the production tasks through one creative idea

A creator working across songwriting and direction can keep the song and the images in conversation. As AI contributes to production, the creative work also involves selecting material and deciding how it belongs together.

Lyrics, performance, image generation and editing affect one another. A quiet musical passage may need room for a person’s reaction. A change in energy may need a new visual task. Another attractive shot is useful when it helps that relationship develop.

For your own project, start with a brief section map. Mark where the song changes and write what the viewer should experience at that point. This keeps production choices connected to the work rather than to a list of available effects.

Watch once for the whole, then again for structure

On a first viewing, let the song play without stopping. Note the strongest feeling and the cultural question you would like to explore further.

On a second viewing, pay attention to how the opening establishes context and how sections move between ideas. You can also listen without the images and imagine a visual rhythm, then compare it with the complete work.

This exercise can reveal that a music video does not need a new image on every beat. Holding a composition, allowing a gesture to finish or returning to an earlier image can also create rhythm.

If you share the work with someone else, include the title, creator credit and an observation or question. A specific point about a transition or an emotional change can open a more useful conversation than a general reaction alone.

Begin your own MV with a short musical passage

For a practical exercise, imagine an apprentice returning to a contemporary workshop. The person sees an unfinished object, hesitates and decides to try again. This fictional story gives us a small change to organise.

Write three sentences: why the person arrives, what they find and what they decide. Then map the music around those actions.

Start with as few images as the story needs. Add duration and coverage as the music requires. A clear sequence gives you a stronger basis for revision than a large folder of unrelated images.

Write an action before adding style

Once the visual task is clear, a prompt can describe subject, action, space, camera and light. For the apprentice’s reaction, you might write:

A fictional apprentice in a charcoal work shirt stands beside a wooden bench in a present-day craft studio. The apprentice places a sketch next to an unfinished object, pauses and looks towards the window. Eye-level medium shot, gentle forward camera movement, soft afternoon light, restrained action. Keep the clothing and workbench position consistent.

The useful detail is the readable movement: placing, pausing and looking. If that sequence becomes too complicated, ask only for the reaction. If the camera distracts from the moment, use a locked composition.

Keep a short record of what should stay constant: the person, clothing, object silhouette and direction of the room. Later shots can use that context while changing the action needed for the current moment.

Bring cultural detail into the action

For a real cultural subject, research the relevant tools, processes, clothing and use of the space. A visually distinctive element becomes more meaningful when it belongs to a specific context.

If the story centres on a technical gesture, decide what the viewer must see clearly. You may need an accurate source image, permitted footage or input from someone who knows the practice. The production method should help the audience understand the action.

Everyday relationships can carry cultural meaning as well. Who teaches whom? Who uses the object? Why does a younger person return to it? Turning those questions into behaviour can help the film move beyond a collection of symbols.

Review the sequence against the music

Place the selected clips in story order before adding elaborate transitions. Check whether the actions connect, the space is understandable and the important object remains recognisable.

Then look at the musical changes. Is there enough time to see the person’s decision? Does the chorus arrive before the visual idea is ready? Are two adjacent shots repeating the same information?

Often, the first useful revision is length. Holding a reaction slightly longer or removing a redundant establishing image can change how the sequence reads. A beautiful clip can remain in the material library if it does not serve the current edit.

Watch without music as well. The image sequence should have an intelligible relationship even when the soundtrack is temporarily absent.

Build a sound and credit plan alongside the images

Music is the centre of an MV, but the surrounding audio still deserves attention. Decide whether environmental sound, a brief spoken moment or a deliberate pause contributes to the scene. Introduce those elements where they strengthen the relationship between person and place.

Keep contributor information as the project develops. Lyrics, composition, performance, direction, imagery and sound may involve different people and tools. Recording those roles early makes the final credit more accurate and easier to prepare.

For a cultural project, a short creative note can explain the subject and references. That note gives viewers another way into the work after they have watched it.

Bring the decisions into your Zopia project

Organise the song sections, story, references and shot plan together. Give each selected output a role: this introduces the person, this shows attention and this resolves the action.

When you return to the project, you can see what the next shot needs to accomplish. Revision becomes a response to the sequence rather than a search for a more impressive isolated image.

To explore the original work, watch 《让千年正年轻》 in full. For your own MV, choose a short musical passage and give it a clear visual task, then develop the project in Zopia.

Sources

• AIGC ASIA: official MV and creator introduction
• AIGC ASIA: creator launch event
• September 20 event report, attributed to 周口网 and republished by China Daily’s website
• Complete official music video