vox-skilllisted

# Remotion paper B-roll One topic in, one 1920×1080 narrated film out, built as React. The register is editorial documentary: it holds attention by being genuinely interesting, not by shouting. Everything animates because code moves it. There is no After Effects step, no timeline to drag. You direct the film by writing components and tuning props. ## Pick the right skill first | You want | Use | |---|---| | Horizontal 1920×1080, React/Remotion, code-drawn charts and newspapers | **this skill** | | Vertical 1080×1920 for TikTok, Reels or Shorts | **this skill**, `--vertical` — see `references/vertical.md` | | Any narrated explainer where the pipeline choice is open | `explainer-studio` | | Fast-cut product ad with sound design | `fastcut-ad` | ## What decides quality, in order 1. **The fact you build on.** One genuinely surprising, checkable reversal. Without it the film has no reason to exist and no craft rescues it. 2. **The narration.** It is the clock and the spine. Every cut is timed to a spoken word. 3. **Depth.** Whether the frame has three layers moving against each other. 4. **Everything else.** Spend effort in that order. ## The pipeline Ten phases. Do not start phase N+1 before phase N produces its artifact. ### 1. Find the reversal, write the beats Find the thing that turns out to be the opposite of what a viewer assumes. Not a statistic, a contradiction. Write **8 to 12 beats, one idea per line**. The script IS the timeline. A beat is one sentence or o