Documentary & testimony Testimony documentary
24 — Part Two
A first-person account of a rescue operation, told across one long interview, archive and a reunion — paced to the silences as much as the words.
- Client
- DiploAct
- Role
- Editor
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 02:54
Purpose
A long-form testimony for vertical social channels: one man's account, in his own words.
The challenge
Almost three minutes is long for a feed built around thirty seconds. The film has to earn every minute without hurrying the speaker.
Structure
The interview alternates with texture — archive, aerial footage, a dog tag — so the voice never has to carry the screen alone, and the strongest sentence (“it was a silence”) lands on a hug rather than a face.
Captions
Captions are set word by word to follow the speaker's breathing; at the turning points they scale up and become the image.
“they told us to be ready”
“it was a silence”
“I'm starting to accept this”
“if one hostage”
On-screen captions, quoted from the film.
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