A 35-second 4:3 promo cut from my True Event Files documentary on the Flannan Isles lighthouse mystery, where three keepers vanished in December 1900. I research, script, edit and animate historical mystery documentaries for this independent YouTube channel. For this cut I re-framed the original 16:9 edit to full-frame 4:3 and rebuilt every graphic for the new format: a period telegram typed word by word, kinetic serif captions with a single red key word, archival photo cards, an animated "110 ft" stat and a closing title card. The look is a dark archival case-file style with a muted storm palette, film grain, slow push-ins and a hook in the very first frame. All project footage is from my own channel, not former employers. Atmospheric stock footage: Pexels (Pexels License). Photos: Chris Downer, geograph.org.uk, CC BY-SA 2.0. Music: Gathering Darkness by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Thunder sound: Richard Humphries, CC BY 4.0.
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Documentary storytelling with animated maps, archival files, investigation boards, timelines and sound design for True Event Files.
