create-broll-narrative-essay

Purpose

Produce a 25–45s lyrical b-roll narrative essay — a VO-driven format where evocative b-roll footage carries a two-act script, a single recurring visual anchor provides continuity across many cuts, and a deliberate 0.25–0.6s structural-silence beat divides the acts. The format lives in the broll-narrative-essay archetype (CREATOR_GRAMMAR.md §8): vo+music, static-title-card caption family, two-act structure with structural silence as the act pivot.

Act 1 — lyrical. Intimate, abstract, sensory. Opens on a detail or a feeling, not the destination. Cuts follow VO phrase rhythm. Every visual returns to the recurring anchor at least once.

Act 2 — informational / resolution. Grounds the lyrical opening with a specific claim, context, or invitation. Resolves the tension the first act opened.

Structural-silence pivot. A 0.25–0.6s audio dropout placed at the act boundary — the EDL encodes it as audio_beats[].type = "silence-beat". The silence is the hinge.

Use for: lifestyle brand essays, destination/travel micro-docs, brand origin stories, product-as-lifestyle ads, mini-documentary shortform.

Do not use for: fast-cut product demos (use create-silent-product-demo or create-product-demo-video), talking-head UGC (use ugc-ad/), beat-synced concept loops (use concept-loop archetype).

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