Archive, narration, and a thesis that lands.
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A documentary holds you by owing you an answer.
- 01Structure first, on paper, before a single clip is placed.
- 02Pace is set by how fast information arrives, not by how often we cut.
- 03Every act opens a question and closes a different one.
- 04Score enters late. Music laid early does the work the edit should be doing.
Long-form retention is not a function of cut rate. Fast cutting on an empty structure just makes the emptiness arrive sooner. What keeps a viewer at minute fourteen is an unresolved question they picked up at minute two, and that has to be built before the timeline is touched.