Microdrama in 18 languages.
- 18
- languages
- 19
- language versions
Vertical microdrama is the highest-volume format in localization, and the one where consistency fails first. We localize microdrama for leading short-form platforms in 18 languages and 19 language versions, with one cast and one glossary across the run.
Volume is the whole problem.
A microdrama season is hundreds of deliverables, each with its own deadline, on a release schedule that does not wait.
Voice drift
A lead voice changes at episode sixty because the performer became unavailable.
Name drift
A character name gets pronounced two ways.
Level drift
Loudness shifts between batches.
By episode two hundred the series sounds like three productions, and no single episode is at fault. A multi-vendor approach makes that certain.
Decide once, hold for the run.
A lead who can commit to forty episodes of a two-hundred-episode series is not cast, however good the audition.
- Cast for the full run: availability confirmed across the expected episode count first
- Series bible from episode one: names, pronunciation, forms of address, phrases, levels, music usage
- Same reviewers throughout: drift caught by people who remember episode nine
- Parallel teams, one standard: one glossary and cast, without lengthening the schedule
- Timing solved in the script: length expansion handled in adaptation, not by speaking faster
Delivery
Parallel teams, one glossary, one cast, sustained across the whole run.
What was delivered.
18 languages:
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Gujarati
- Punjabi
- Haryanvi
- English
- Korean
- Indonesian
- Arabic
Platforms:
- Kuku TV
- RIGI
- ShareChat MOJ (Quick TV)
- Eloelo (StoryTv)
- Flick TV
- Dashreel
English counts once as a language, though two English versions were delivered. That is the difference between 18 languages and 19 versions.