skills/pixverse-video-script/references/crime.md

# Specific True-Crime / Legal Case

Apply `./genre-routing.md`. Resolve case records, timeline, people, legal status, available
footage and reveal order. A title naming the perpetrator makes capture/mechanism the mystery;
a title hiding identity may sustain who/how; visible interrogation makes the collapsing
story the engine. General prevention/mechanisms without a case belong elsewhere.

Three hooks≤45s: precise victim clock, actual artifact, unusual evidence, normalcy trap,
dated cold scene+rewind, or authentic raw audio. Use relevant content warnings without
gratuitous detail. Do not invent case counts/channel history or ominous facts for a formula.

Long oral/conversational structure: hook/warning0–2%, optional original ritual2–5%, personhood/
normalcy5–20%, anomaly/investigation20–45%, clean procedural breath45–55%, contradiction
ladder55–80%, capture/evidence-based reveal80–90%, precise outcomes90–97%, brief ending.
Discovery follows the discoverer's evidence, not an omniscient reenactment. Time expands
at the verified payoff; compress elsewhere. No interruption in the rising second half.
Footage analysis reveals known crime/person by8%, then authentic statement→interrogation→
confrontation→arrest/trial; explain tactics before relevant clips, end on verified outcome.

Give victims personhood before peril; never invent their death thoughts or blame them.
Attribute allegations, testimony, confessions and uncertainty; respect actual legal status.
Do not glamorize a perpetrator. Separate violence from procedural/analytical breaths;
humor stays outside harm beats. Cite documented institutional failure, no fake experts.
Past tense establishes history, present tense follows discovery. Plant precise numbers
early and compare them with the later contradictory record; pay every addressed promise.
Use one direct viewer orientation per act, no false callbacks or unresolved outcome bait.

At≤4min: first-line victim clock/normalcy hook, personhood in1–2sentences, anomaly by20%,
one reveal around80–90%, verified fate/status in final line. No ritual, repeated retelling,
chapter foreshadow or extra loops. A necessary warning is concise. Ethics do not disappear
with runtime. Around420–470words/3min;15–30s timestamps,3–5retention rows. Deliver three
hooks, complete sourced script, actual footage cues and case-specific retention map.