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Paper Desk Documentary
A 20-second vertical documentary about any true story: a deep narrator tells it while your photos and clips, in black and white, move full frame or snap onto grey paper as prints, with yellow labels and captions that follow every word.
Short-form · 9:16 · TikTok, Reels, Shorts
Add your footage and Cardboard makes it yours.
RemixWhat you’ll bring
- What's the story?How the first skateboards were made in 1950s California
- Names, dates and facts to get right, or your own scriptOptional1958, Venice Beach; surfers nailed roller-skate wheels to planks; the first shop boards sold in 1959
- Add photos and clips of the story3–13The place, the people and the objects of the story, old or black-and-white suit it best · at least one upright photo or clip of the place · 3 to 12 · add a recording of you reading it to narrate it yourself
What you’ll get
- Name the story; it's written and narrated for you
- Your photos and clips as archive prints
- Captions, labels and paper sounds on every cut
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