Text Message Drama

Status: showcase candidate

This is the current message-led story showcase candidate. It uses staged chat cards as the main visual grammar, with gameplay underneath as motion support.

Tracked preview clip:

• demo-11-text-thread-reveal.mp4

Use this lane when the strongest visual grammar is the chat itself.

Core shape:

• cold-open on the most suspicious or explosive message
• reveal the exchange in staged beats rather than one giant screenshot
• use narration as glue and interpretation
• optionally run gameplay or support footage below the message lane
• keep captions out of the message UI's way
• use visible state changes or transition pulses every 2s to 3s so the edit does not feel like a static screenshot slideshow

Primary skill:

• text-message-drama-short

Related skills:

• hook-overlay
• motion-design-coder
• short-form-captions
• video-render

Use motion-design-coder for chat-bubble reveals, receipt zooms, message-state transitions, and caption-safe motion. Message UI should move in staged beats, not as one static screenshot.

Current proving surface:

• local full-quality MP4: experiments/proving-wave-3/text-thread-reveal/outputs/final/video.mp4
• embedded demo MP4: docs/demo/demo-11-text-thread-reveal.mp4

Review status:

• direct cadence detection passes at 2.33s median cut interval
• script score passes
• full publish-prep is unstable on this local run after the validation process starts, so treat this as a visual showcase candidate rather than a fully green canonical render