Micro-Doc Breakdown

Status: proving candidate

This is the current proving candidate for documentary-style explainers. It turns a simple myth into a compact mechanism-driven short with archive cards, receipts, timelines, evidence inserts, voiceover, captions, and publish-prep review.

Example

• Topic: how Blockbuster actually died
• Lane: micro-doc-breakdown
• Skill: micro-doc-breakdown-short
• Demo MP4: docs/demo/demo-17-micro-doc-breakdown.mp4

What This Proves

• The lane can produce a real 1080x1920 MP4 with narration and captions.
• The edit exercises documentary-native assets instead of generic stock wallpaper, but the current evidence-card inserts are still a proving workaround rather than the final visual bar.
• Cadence can pass when long visual scenes are split with real evidence inserts.
• The example keeps an honest review bundle under experiments/proving-wave-3/micro-doc-breakdown/outputs/review/.

Current Review

• non-OCR publish-prep passed: resolution, duration, format, cadence, script score, and audio-signal
• OCR caption-sync still fails on median/P95 drift even though all expected caption segments were matched
• treat this as a proving candidate, not a golden caption-sync or final aesthetic reference

Use This When

• the short explains a business, history, tech, culture, or science mechanism
• the hook is a myth correction, hidden cause, timeline, or artifact trail
• the result should be saveable and explanatory rather than pure story entertainment

Motion Skill

• motion-design-coder

Use this for evidence-card motion, receipt reveals, timeline draw-ons, archive insert transitions, and caption-safe hold states. Micro-doc animation should feel like editorial evidence, not decorative deck motion.