Pesona Komodo

A day at sea, one boat for your group.

Mockup from listing photos · Concept project by Alihrupa · Illustration

A mockup made from the public Airbnb listing photos of Pesona Komodo, a wooden phinisi in the waters of Komodo. It is not a client project. The story follows one day on board: the boat in front of a green hill, slow hours on deck, the bow at golden hour, and night in five cabins.

Material: 10 of the 13 listing photos, mostly portrait phone photos around 960×1280 px
The boat: 12 guests · 5 bedrooms · 2 bathrooms, as stated in the listing
Film: 30 seconds, no voice-over, music only
Format: 9:16 vertical · 1080×1920 · 24 fps

The idea

The listing already holds what matters most: one boat for 12 guests, and one photo of that boat in front of a steep green hill. The film turns this into one day you can follow, from the water to the deck, the bow and the cabins, with the light moving from morning to night. There is no voice-over; the places, their order and the music carry the story. The music is calm and acoustic, with a plucked string sound close to the sasando from NTT, without borrowing any folk melody.

Why it looks this way

Listing photo: Pesona Komodo, Komodo, NTT — Listing photo

Open on the boat itself

Listing photo 01 is the only one taken from outside the boat. The film opens on it with a slow, drone-style arc, so the first shot shows this hull, this mast and this hill. The grey sky stays grey; only the camera moves.

Vertical, because the photos are

Eight of the ten photos are portrait, most of them taken on a phone. So the film is 9:16, the shape of a Reel, and little of the photos is cropped away. Every shot was generated vertical from the start, including those from the two landscape photos.

Change the light, not the view

Photo 09 shows the bow on a grey day, facing a bay with other boats at anchor. In the film the light turns gold, but the bay, the moored boats and the hills stay. Light may change. Scenery may not be added.

Five cabins, five beats

The listing says five bedrooms. Instead of writing that on screen, the film shows all five, about two seconds each, cut to the music. Each cabin gets its own camera move, so five similar rooms never blur into one.

Shot by shot

Scroll to move through it

2–5 sSoft morning light, grey sky

A slow, low drone-style arc around the boat

The hill turning behind the hull places you in Komodo before anything else happens.
5–8 sOvercast daylight

A low push between the two navy daybeds

The lounge deck is where the slow hours go, so the camera stays low, near seat height.
8–10 sDaylight

From above the crocheted table runner, rising to the long bench

Starting on the table and rising to the bench shows a salon made for a group.
10–13.5 sGolden hour

Gliding forward over the bean bags toward the tip of the bow

The bow is the shared moment of the day, so it gets the warmest light.
14.7–16.8 sNight, warm cabin lamps

Cabin 1: a slow arc around the foot of the double bed

The count of five begins. Each cabin lasts about two seconds.
16.8–18.6 sNight, warm cabin lamps

Cabin 2: looking down on the bed, turning slowly

A high angle shows the whole bed and the woven discs on the wall.
18.6–20.4 sNight, warm cabin lamps

Cabin 3: a slow slide past the woven lampshade

The lampshade from the listing photo is the detail that tells this cabin apart.
20.4–22.3 sNight, warm cabin lamps

Cabin 4: rising slowly beside the bunk bed

Rising shows both levels of the bunk.
22.3–24 sNight, warm cabin lamps

Cabin 5: a slow push toward the beds, then a fade to black

The fifth room closes the count. What the listing says in one line, you have now seen.

Kept true to the place

The boat as listed: the white-and-blue hull, the mast and the varnished wooden cabins on deck.
The steep green hill and the long jetty behind the boat, as in listing photo 01.
The other boats anchored in the bay off the bow, as in photo 09. They stay in the shot.
The pale painted bow deck. One early take turned it into teak; that take was rejected and redone.
The cabin details from the photos: woven wall discs, blue-and-white floral bed runners, the woven lampshade, the bunk beds and the red carpet.
Nothing added to the view: no Komodo dragons, pink beaches, extra islands or animals.
Only the light changes: a grey morning, daylight on deck, golden hour at the bow, night in the cabins.

Tools used

Story, storyboard and prompts: Claude
Video: Kling 4.0 (reference-to-video), via the Higgsfield API
Music: ElevenLabs Music
Opening, closing card and edit: Remotion
Site Visit Test, frame by frame: Claude, approved by a person at every stage

Listing photos belong to Pesona Komodo (Airbnb). Not a client project.