WorkCase study

Video · Virtual StagingBerawa, Bali

Villa Hao Kan

One day for the whole group.

Mockup from listing photos · Concept project by Alihrupa · Illustration

Villa Hao Kan is a five-bedroom villa in Berawa. This is a mockup made from its public Airbnb listing photos, not a client project. The film follows one day for the whole group: the roof garden in the morning, the pool and open rooms by day, the long table in the afternoon, the lit entrance at night.

Material
Public Airbnb listing photos, 1200 × 800 px at most. The film uses 10 of 34.
Film
30 seconds, 10 shots, no voice-over, music only
Staging
3 rooms, each set for 2 events: a family celebration and a company retreat
Format
Film 16:9, 1920 × 1080, 24 fps · Staging 3:2

The idea

The listing shows five bedrooms, a long pool and one long table. The film turns that into one question: can one villa hold the whole group? It follows a single day, with the light moving from morning to night, so no narration is needed. Every shot leads toward the long table, where everyone can sit together.

Why it looks this way

Listing photo: Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Listing photo
Open on the roof garden. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Illustration
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Open on the roof garden

The roof garden is the most distinctive thing in the listing. It fills the first seconds, so the film cannot be mistaken for another villa. The drone flies lower than the listing photo and arcs down beside the planter instead of looking straight down.

Light tells the story. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
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Light tells the story

There is no voice-over and no text over the footage. The light moves from soft morning to golden afternoon to night, and that shift carries a whole day. Words appear only on the black cards at the start and the end.

Listing photo: Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Listing photo
Everything leads to one table. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Illustration
03

Everything leads to one table

Five bedrooms can feel like five separate stays; the long table shows everyone in one place. It appears at 12.5–15 s, the moment the music was set to build toward, and the camera runs along it from the end, an angle the listing does not have. The closing card, in Indonesian, comes back to it: everyone at one table.

Photos as reference, not as frames. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Illustration
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Photos as reference, not as frames

The listing photos guided the video model as references for the architecture, furniture and plants, not as first frames. That lets the camera move like a film crew and find angles the listing does not have, like this view across the loungers. Where a new angle reaches past the photos, the same materials continue plainly, and each shot was checked against the listing.

Shot by shot

Scroll to move through it

  1. Drone arcs down beside the roof garden, palm fronds rising into the foreground. Villa Hao Kan

    2–4.5 sSoft morning haze

    Drone arcs down beside the roof garden, palm fronds rising into the foreground

    The hook: a villa with a garden on its roof.

  2. Drone sinks over the long pool, the dark shingle roof running beside it. Villa Hao Kan

    4.5–6 sMorning sun

    Drone sinks over the long pool, the dark shingle roof running beside it

    The pool is long, and it sits inside the garden.

  3. Low glide just above the water toward the white pavilion. Villa Hao Kan

    6–8 sMorning sun

    Low glide just above the water toward the white pavilion

    At eye level, it becomes the pool you would swim in.

  4. Slow sideways track past the loungers toward the tall glass doors. Villa Hao Kan

    8–9.5 sBright day

    Slow sideways track past the loungers toward the tall glass doors

    The terrace opens straight into the house.

  5. Wide, slow arc around the sectional sofa. Villa Hao Kan

    9.5–12.5 sBright midday

    Wide, slow arc around the sectional sofa

    Living room, dining table and kitchen share one open space.

  6. Dolly along the long table from its end, at seat height. Villa Hao Kan

    12.5–15 sAfternoon, warming

    Dolly along the long table from its end, at seat height

    The peak: one table with room for the whole group.

  7. Push across the kitchen island toward the timber shelving. Villa Hao Kan

    15–17 sGolden late afternoon

    Push across the kitchen island toward the timber shelving

    Where people gather before dinner.

  8. Very slow descent at the foot of the bed. Villa Hao Kan

    17–19.5 sGolden light, lamps on

    Very slow descent at the foot of the bed

    The day slows down in a warm, spacious room.

  9. Almost still, low across the petal-filled bath. Villa Hao Kan

    19.5–21.5 sSoft window light

    Almost still, low across the petal-filled bath

    A moment of rest before evening.

  10. Slow push into the courtyard, under the hanging vines, to the lit door. Villa Hao Kan

    21.5–24 sNight, warm lamps

    Slow push into the courtyard, under the hanging vines, to the lit door

    The day ends quietly at the front door.

Virtual Staging

The same rooms were staged for two events, a family celebration and a company retreat, so one set of listing photos can speak to two kinds of group. Each room was first remade with AI as a level, professional-style photo with its own lamps on; then only loose decoration was added, so the table, twelve chairs, pendants and bamboo garden stay as they are. Labelled Virtual Staging · Event decoration illustration.

Virtual Staging. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Virtual Staging
Virtual Staging. Villa Hao Kan, Berawa, Bali
Virtual Staging

Kept true to the place

  • The architecture, furniture and gardens follow the listing photos. New angles continue the same materials and add no rooms.
  • No beach, sea or rice fields. The listing shows none, so the film shows none.
  • The yellow duck float stays in the pool. It is really there.
  • No people in frame. The rooms carry the story.
  • The film ends with listing photo 02 beside a frame from the video, so you can compare them yourself.

Tools used

Story, storyboard, prompts and frame checks
Claude
Film
Kling 4.0, reference-to-video, 1080p
Music
ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Edit, opening and closing cards
Remotion
Staging base photos
GPT Image 2.5 · Qwen Image 3 Edit for one small cleanup
Event decoration
Qwen Image 3 Edit · GPT Image 2.5

Listing photos belong to Villa Hao Kan (Airbnb). Not a client project.

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