talking-head-image-overlays

A style where the footage is never cut and every visual change is a composite. One continuous talking-head take runs the whole video; overlays hard-cut in and out on the nouns the speaker says. Retention comes from information changing, not from shots changing.

Reverse-engineered by pixel measurement from a reference reel in this style and proven end to end on unrelated footage. The full measured spec is references/style-system.md; the build pipeline is references/method.md. This file is the map.

The four acts

Overlay structure is not uniform across the runtime. It moves through four acts, and getting the act boundaries right matters more than any single graphic.