Day of Design
← All workJoshua Hoo · 2026

Investor’s video channelFor Chinese-speaking North America

Understand it,
and you can hold it.

Joshua的投资故事

EP01
EP01
EP02
EP03
EP03
Frames from the first three episodes · re-set from the cuts, without the digital presenter or the background images

00The project

Client
Joshua Hoo
Channel
Joshua 的投资故事
Format
Vertical video · about three minutes
Year
2026

Joshua Hoo is a veteran investor. His channel, Joshua’s Investment Stories, speaks to Chinese-speaking viewers in North America: about three minutes an episode, watched upright, one investing story at a time. Its line runs to six characters — understand it, and you can hold it. We set how the frames look and built the flow that turns a script into a finished episode.

  • Channel line and look
  • Vertical frame layout
  • Video production flow (Remotion)
  • AI voice and digital presenter
  • Three vertical episodes
  • YouTube channel banner

01The channel

One line,
in two colours.

The line is Joshua’s own: understand it, and you can hold it. We split it at the comma — the understanding in white, the holding in gold — so the turn can be seen. Deep navy carries everything; warm gold is kept for the few words that matter most, on the banner and in every frame.

Joshua的投资故事

Channel name · spaced Latin into Chinese

NavyGround
#092442
Warm goldEmphasis
#C6A86B
BoneType
#EEF0F4

所以记住一句

黄金是保险,
不是彩票。

5,589美元/盎司

Kicker · statement · figure: the three voices of a frame

02The frame

One frame,
one point.

Every frame keeps the same order, so the viewer never has to look for the point. Figures are monospaced, like a market screen; in the cuts the background image is darkened and graded to navy and gold, so the words always stand in front. Here the frames are re-set from the cuts with the backgrounds left out.

Episode 3 · gold loses 45% between 2011 and 2015
  1. 1Disclaimer

    “For information only · not investment advice” — on every frame.

  2. 2Kicker

    Opens with ▸ and sets the time and context.

  3. 3The figure

    Monospaced numerals; the unit drops in size and turns gold.

  4. 4Statement

    The point in one line, in heavy type.

  5. 5Support

    A line of source or cost, stepped back to grey.

  6. 6Caption

    Follows the narration, set over the shadows.

  7. 7Progress

    A fine gold rule: how much is left.

03The episodes

Three episodes,
three questions.

The first three episodes were made in a single week, each starting from one concrete question. All three wear the same frame; only the background and its grade change — cool for the first, warmed with gold for the third.

  1. EP01

    第二层思维

    Second-level thinking

    First-level thinking says AI is real, earnings will catch up and valuations are fine. Howard Marks works on the second level.

  2. EP02

    涨 40%,该卖吗?

    Up 40% — time to sell?

    The Nasdaq is up 40% in a year; do you sell? This episode’s answer: I don’t know, and I don’t time the market.

  3. EP03

    黄金是保险,不是彩票

    Gold is insurance, not a lottery ticket

    Gold hit a record US$5,589 an ounce, yet between 2011 and 2015 it lost 45%. Where does it belong in a portfolio?

04Production

A script goes in,
an episode comes out.

We built the making of an episode into one fixed flow: presenting, narration, captions and layout never start from scratch, and a new episode needs only a new script.

  1. 01Script

    One question an episode, written as a script of about three minutes.

  2. 02Cloned voice

    Narrated by a cloned model of Joshua’s own voice.

  3. 03Digital presenter

    A lip-synced presenter made from his likeness.

  4. 04Auto-captions

    Timed line by line from the narration.

  5. 05Remotion render

    The layout is code, so every episode wears the same frame.

YouTube channel banner · re-set from the original, without the portrait and signature
Client
Joshua Hoo
Year
2026
Scope
Channel line and look · Vertical frame layout · Video production flow (Remotion) · AI voice and digital presenter · Three vertical episodes · YouTube channel banner

The on-camera presenter is a digital human made from Joshua’s own likeness and voice and is not shown here. Nor are the cuts’ background images — AI-generated mountain and iceberg in episode 1, Wikimedia Commons photographs in episodes 2 and 3: the square frames on this page are re-set from the cuts’ own words and layout, on the navy ground alone. The original banner carried a portrait and a signature; the banner on this page is re-set from it without either. Figures and views in the frames are the client’s programme content, shown for layout only — not investment advice.