The Elephants Who Said Goodbye #Wildhearted #Shorts
A production record for one published episode: what it was cut from, how many orders it took, and the format band it was built to.
Production record
- Format
- Shorts · target ~45s
- Frame
- 9:16 vertical · 720p
- Script sections
- 10
- Stills generated
- 11
- Clips ordered
- 10
- Clips per section
- 1.00
- Narration language
- English
- Tag field
- 413 chars · outside the 480–500 band
- AI disclosure
- Declared to YouTube as synthetic media
- Playlist
- Wild Bonds
Subject
When the man who saved a wild elephant herd died, two herds walked 12 hours in single file to stand outside his house — because elephants remember and grieve the humans who love them
What the viewer was meant to leave with
Elephants can remember a specific human for decades, and they grieve the people who loved them — even walking for hours to stand by their home after they die.
Every episode declares this before a single shot is ordered. An episode that cannot name it does not get made — “that was nice” is a failure state.
Figures are read out of this episode’s own build folder, not estimated. Where the renderer recorded a measured runtime it is labelled as measured; where it did not, the planned value is shown and labelled as planned.