# Correlate — Promo Video Voiceover Script

**Runtime:** ~2:00 · **Aspect:** 16:9 (1920×1080) · **Style:** Animated screen recording
**Video file:** `correlate-promo-2min.mp4`

The lines below are timed to the on-screen action in `/app/scripts/record_promo_video.py`.
Speak calmly, scholarly, warm — think a Ken Burns narrator crossed with a late-night
FM host. Slight pauses between scenes for the visuals to breathe.

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## Scene 1 — Weekly hero (0:00 – 0:08) · 8s
**On screen:** Weekly feed loads. "Lately, these threads have surfaced." headline.

> *"Every tradition has its own name for the same territory. What if you could see them all at once?"*

*(≈ 12 words. Leave ~2s of quiet music at the top.)*

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## Scene 2 — Traditions lexicon (0:08 – 0:23) · 15s
**On screen:** `/traditions` — the lexicon grid scrolls slowly. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Sufism, Alchemy, Native American Shamanism.

> *"This is Correlate — a living archive of the world's spiritual, philosophical, and esoteric traditions, arranged side by side. Every path here points, in its own tongue, toward the same horizon."*

*(≈ 34 words · 15s at a warm pace.)*

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## Scene 3 — Tradition detail (0:23 – 0:36) · 13s
**On screen:** Native American Shamanism opens. Era, region, and the italic body copy scroll into view.

> *"Tap any tradition and its beliefs, practices, key figures, and shared vocabulary come with it. Read one path, or read them all against each other."*

*(≈ 28 words · 13s.)*

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## Scene 4 — The Oracle (0:36 – 1:15) · 39s
**On screen:** `/oracle`. The question "What connects Logos in Greek philosophy with the Tao?" is typed in real time. Response streams in — cited, source-labelled.

> *"When you're ready to ask a question of your own, meet the Oracle. Ask anything — a term, a passage, a hunch — and the Oracle traces it across three, four, five traditions at once. Every claim it makes is cited inline and labelled Academic, Esoteric, Speculative, or Redacted, so you always know whether you're reading a scholar, a mystic, or a rumour."*

*(≈ 78 words · 39s — this is the emotional centre of the video. Land it slowly.)*

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## Scene 5 — Share the correlation (1:15 – 1:33) · 18s
**On screen:** Oracle response saved to Weekly. Share-card modal opens; card flips front → back.

> *"Any correlation worth keeping becomes a shareable card — vertical, quotable, Instagram-ready. One tap sends it to the community. One more sends it anywhere else."*

*(≈ 27 words · 18s.)*

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## Scene 6 — Community feed (1:33 – 1:50) · 17s
**On screen:** Weekly feed scrolls. A community post is bumped.

> *"Every week, the correlations that resonate most rise to the top. You'll find questions you didn't know you had, and answers from people you didn't know you were walking beside."*

*(≈ 33 words · 17s.)*

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## Scene 7 — End card (1:50 – 2:00) · 10s
**On screen:** Traditions grid hold, then a gentle pull to the Cor·relate wordmark.

> *"Cor·relate. The same truth — in every tongue."*
>
> *(2-beat pause.)*
>
> *"Now on the Play Store, App Store PWA, and correlate.online."*

*(≈ 20 words · 10s. Let the last line land softly.)*

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## Music direction (optional)
- Warm, sparse instrumental — solo piano or fingerpicked acoustic; something in the
  vein of *Nils Frahm — Says*, *Ólafur Arnalds — Near Light*, or *Emile Mosseri*.
- Duck under voiceover; swell for scene transitions and the outro.

## Suggested YouTube metadata
- **Title:** *Correlate — the same truth, in every tongue*
- **Description (first line):** *A quiet 2-minute walk through Correlate, an archive that shows how the world's traditions are pointing at the same horizon under different names.*
- **Tags:** comparative religion, spirituality, philosophy, esoterica, hermeticism, kabbalah, taoism, jungian, mysticism, PWA, indie app
- **Thumbnail:** Frame from Scene 1 (Weekly hero) or Scene 4 (Oracle question landed) — always with the Cor·relate wordmark visible.
