The Gorilla Who Wanted a Cat #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
- 416 chars · outside the 480–500 band
- AI disclosure
- Declared to YouTube as synthetic media
- Playlist
- Wild Bonds
Subject
Koko the gorilla knew about a thousand signs; for her birthday she asked for a kitten, chose a tailless gray kitten she named All Ball, cared for it like her own baby, and when it died she mourned in sign language, proving great apes feel love and grief like we do
What the viewer was meant to leave with
Grief and the need for companionship were long thought to be uniquely human, but Koko — a gorilla several times stronger than a man — asked for a kitten, raised it with total gentleness, and mourned its death in sign language, showing great apes love and grieve much like we do.
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.