Mohawalat Fahm reel

Decisions

• D-02 The waiver and the stage 01 questions

  • AChosen
  • - A: write all open slots as four-option questions, post them, do not wait (no one answers in this non-interactive run), take the recommended options (rests on: questions.md section 5, "Not a waiver: a lead session's task brief"
  • "A skipped question takes its recommended option")
  Why, and its source

  Ice counts only words the user typed in this conversation as a waiver; a relayed brief is not one. Waiting would break the explicit "do not wait" instruction, so the questions are recorded and defaulted, and the delivery note lists each with its alternatives.

  Source: ice/plan/stage01-questions.md; questions.md section 5

• D-03 Platform, audience, aspect and frame rate

  • A (stage 01 question 2, default)Chosen
  • - A: Reels, TikTok, Shorts, Facebook Reels
  • pan-Arab social audience
  • one 9:16 master 1080x1920 at 25 fps (the source rate) (rests on: "ريلز طولي عربي"
  • source probe 25/1 CFR)

  "ريلز طولي" fixes vertical; the episode is 25 fps CFR, and ice-edit says to keep the footage rate rather than duplicate frames.

  Source: prompt; ice/sources/episode/info.json; ingest-and-ledger.md section 2

• D-04 Length

  • AChosen
  • A 55 to 70 s
  • B 30 to 45 s
  • C 70 to 90 s
  • D 15 s (stage 01 question 3)

  the chosen argument needs about 58 s of speech to reach its payoff; the references run 54 to 59 s.

  Source: ice/transcripts/; reference probes

• D-05 Language on screen

  • AChosen
  • A verbatim spoken Arabic in the references' three text roles (kinetic word, glass plate, short white caption)
  • B full word-by-word captions
  • C titles only
  • D bilingual (stage 01 question 7)
  Why, and its source

  both references put only spoken words on screen, in spoken order, and drop connectors; the reel keeps that truth rule. The host's Egyptian line is shown as spoken, not converted to MSA.

  Source: ref-a measurement (68 of 79 spoken words on screen, none paraphrased); ice/reference/ref-b/ANALYSIS.md

• D-06 The segment (strongest part)

  • A (stage 01 question 1, default)Chosen
  Why, and its source

  the sharpest contrast in the episode (a ballistic missile against high schools) is understood in under four seconds; it carries the episode title "from the school to the street"; every claim is the guest's analysis, attributed; and each named thing exists as real, dated footage (the 6 Oct 2026 M51.3 test Macron attended, the October 2026 lycée blockades, the 2023 army budget).

  Source: ice/plan/candidates.md; ice/transcripts/w_1100_1170.json, w_1655_1720.json; S2 in COMPLIANCE.md

• D-07 Brand identity and official files

  • A, revised after the critic (r2): the master uses the house font; a free fallback is ready and tested: Almarai Bold and Regular (SIL OFL 1.1, Google Fonts, film/fonts/free-*.ttf), chosen by a side-by-side render of the real title words "محاولة فهم", "الصاروخ الباليستي", "الثانويات" in the house font, Tajawal, Almarai, Cairo, Readex Pro and IBM Plex Sans Arabic (film/fonts/compare_small.png): Almarai is closest in letter construction (round terminals, open ع, low contrast, similar width), Tajawal second. The fallback renders with film/index.html?font=free. The episode's corner mark is cropped out of every speaker shot (one rule). The post text says "unofficial edit" (ice/assets/CREDITS.md), never the screen.Chosen
  • A house font from aljazeera360.com, colours measured from the references, no AJ logo bug, programme title as sign-off
  • B free look-alike font (Tajawal or Cairo)
  • C AJ360 package with the 360 logo and navy end card
  • D neutral (stage 01 questions 4 and 10)
  Why, and its source

  "بهوية البرنامج وألوانه" asks for the programme's own identity; the house font is the programme's real letterform, fetched from the brand's own platform; ref-a (the AJ Arabic version) carries no logo bug and the episode is an AJ Arabic upload, so the AJ360 package would be the wrong platform. The house font's licence names Al Jazeera Network only, so any public posting outside Al Jazeera uses the fallback version or gets the network's written approval (delivery note).

  Source: ice/assets/BRAND-MATERIAL.md; ice/assets/brand-sheet.json

• D-09 Reference role and mode

  • AChosen
  • - A: both references as MOVES and LOOK of the same brand
  • mechanisms carried by reason, written as a fidelity contract (rests on: Omar's standing rule relayed by the lead session
  • ice-remake/references/rights-and-modes.md section 1)

  every element ties to the line that justifies it; no blind imitation; the contract is ice/plan/FIDELITY.md.

  Source: lead session brief (log entry 2); ice/plan/FIDELITY.md; ice/reference/ref-a/ANALYSIS.md; ice/reference/ref-b/ANALYSIS.md

• D-10 Commercial use

  • AChosen
  • - A: leave unknown, and use no noncommercial-only source, so the answer cannot change the material (rests on: questions.md section 1 row 19
  • ice-edit "Noncommercial material: never used on this route")

  the slot is asked only when a noncommercial-only source would otherwise be used; every candidate kept is CC BY or a free commercial license, so the question never arises.

  Source: questions.md section 1; ice-edit routes contract

• D-11 Versions

  • AChosen
  • A one 9:16 master
  • B plus 30 s cutdown
  • C plus 16:9
  • D plus 15 s teaser (stage 01 question 9)

  the brief asks for one reel; a cutdown would lose the payoff.

  Source: prompt

• D-14 Disclosure: contact with the excluded official reel's analysis

  • AChosen
  • - A: stop reading it, never open that file, the combined STYLE-BIBLE.md built partly from it, or the section of other files about it
  • take every decision from the two given references, the episode and this run's own measurements
  • disclose it here, in the delivery note and in the case study
  Why, and its source

  honesty about what could have influenced the result; the segment choice (D-06) came from a separate agent that never saw that file, and it picked a different part of the episode (a guest's argument, not the presenter's intro).

  Source: the lead session's original Arabic background, logged verbatim as run log entry 2 (ice/log/conversation.jsonl); the 30 lines read: owner-research/aljazeera-references/4Zah8EHgtyM/BREAKDOWN.md lines 1 to 30

• D-16 Goal

  • AChosen
  • - A: the viewer understands the missile-versus-schools contradiction and wants the full episode (rests on: "اختار أقوى جزء فيها للريلز"
  • the reel is a programme promo on the episode's platforms)

  a reel cut from an episode works as its trailer; the takeaway in concepts.md is the understanding, the sign-off names the programme.

  Source: prompt; ice/plan/concepts.md

• D-19 Call to action (stage 01 question 8)

  • AChosen
  • A the programme title as sign-off, said by the host
  • B add "شاهدوا الحلقة كاملة"
  • C add the channel handle
  • D no end card

  both references end on the programme title when the presenter names it; the host's own line "في هذه الحلقة من محاولة فهم" gives that title its spoken reason; B and C would be words nobody says.

  Source: ref analyses; ice/plan/script.md row 7

• D-20 Brand owner (stage 01 question 11)

  • AChosen
  • A not owner (unofficial showcase)
  • B owner
  • C agency for the owner
  • D unknown
  Why, and its source

  the request is a showcase for the Ice site; nothing says the user is Al Jazeera. The delivery note lists the permissions Al Jazeera, AFP, France Télévisions, FRANCE 24 and the font's designer would need.

  Source: prompt; intake-and-brief.md section 1 (brand_owner default)

• D-21 Disclaimer wording (COMPLIANCE RD1, RD2)

  • AChosen
  • - A: RD1 as a name plate at the guest's first medium shot, his name and role as the episode description gives them: "د. عبد الكريم أمنكاي" / "أستاذ مساعد العلاقات الدولية، معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا"
  • RD2 met without a label, because archive of 2022 and 2023 appears only while the speech names that past event

  attribution is required (the claims are his analysis); date labels on every shot would add text over archive, which the programme never does.

  Source: ice/sources/episode/info.json description; COMPLIANCE.md RD1, RD2

• D-12 Approach (stage 02)

  • AChosen
  • - A: reading 1 of concepts.md, "the contradiction, proved" (rests on: D-06
  • candidates.md filmable list)

  Source: ice/plan/script.md; ice/plan/concepts.md; ice/plan/FIDELITY.md; ice/reference/ref-a/ANALYSIS.md; ice/reference/ref-b/ANALYSIS.md; house-style-numbers.md (ranges used as diagnostics only)

• D-23 The reference's "title behind the head" (FIDELITY F5), adapted

  • AChosen
  • - A: titles in front, in the chest band (y 870 to 1020) inside the safe zone
  • person mattes kept only for the disc behind Macron
  Why, and its source

  measured on stills (film/out/stills/sheet2.jpg): in the 9:16 medium shot the head covers x 330 to 800, leaving under 250 px each side, and the platforms' right margin (192 px on Shorts) takes most of the right side; split words became unreadable ("مـ ... ـتها"). The programme title now rises in front over the host, who is held and defocused after his last word.

  Source: film/out/stills/sheet2.jpg, sheet3.jpg; platform-specs.md section 3

• D-24 Finishing layer, measured from the references and applied for a reason

  • AChosen
  • - A: what the references measure: no grain or film texture on any shot (aj360 breakdown: flat-area noise is compression only, no grain overlay, no scanlines
  • ref-b by eye the same), so none is added
  • archive "old record" look only through desaturation and lifted blacks
  • a blur-in of 6 frames on titles and plates (the references' plates enter soft)
  • real subframe motion blur (8 subframes, 180 degree shutter) only on the two disc swoops, the one fast move
  • glow only on the programme title and the pins
  • vignette 0.38 to 0.42 at the corners

  Omar's rule: the finishing layer is measured from the reference and applied for a reason; the references are clean broadcast pictures.

  Source: owner-research/aljazeera-references/aj360/BREAKDOWN.md "Finishing layer"; ice/reference/ref-b/ANALYSIS.md

• D-26 The episode's own red glow behind the guest (source 1681.6 to 1694.6)

  • AChosen
  • - A: leave it: it is the programme's own quote-card graphic
  • subtle in the vertical crop
  Why, and its source

  measured on a frame (source 1690): the selective desaturation took the guest's face saturation from 147.5 to 71.0 while the glow area only went from 53.4 to 44.2, which would grade a person (forbidden by default) to remove almost nothing.

  Source: ice/sources/episode/probe/red_cmp.png

• D-30 Cold read 3, round 1 fixes

  Source: ice/review/clarity/read-3-r1.md; film/out/stills/sheet7.jpg

• D-31 The loaded word as it is said

  • AChosen
  • - A: "مديونية"
  • the form both Whisper models hear unprompted (large-v3 0.90 and 0.93
  • medium 0.79 and 0.75
  • written "مديونة") and the best of three prompted forms (مديونية 0.69
  • مديونيته 0.56
  • مديونيتها 0.56)

  F1 and RC1 allow only words that were said; no ear in this run, so the measured forms decide; the envelope shows no stop closure for a "ت".

  Source: ice/transcripts/wordcheck/results.json; scratch/wc3.json (prompted forms)

• D-32 The red glow behind the guest, removed from the background only

  • AChosen
  • - A: under an inverted person matte (rembg isnet-general-use per frame, feathered, smoothed over time), saturated reds of the background turn to the curtain's brown and lose the glow's extra light
  • the flying red dot (46.92 to 47.30) is inpainted

  the matte removes D-26's objection: skin, lips and suit are never touched (the face is outside the weight), so no person is graded.

  Source: tools/calm_red.py; before and after frames S21/0362 and S21/0420

• D-33 Critic 09 round 1 fixes

  Source: ice/review/critic-09-r1.md; film/out/stills/

• D-34 The brand test at 09 for an unofficial edit

  • AChosen
  • - A: the identity tests do not gate this film: identity-tests.md section 1 runs them on films made for a named brand, and this one is not (D-20: an unofficial showcase for the Ice site, Al Jazeera owns the footage and is not the client)
  • the result is reported as a finding in the delivery note and the case study, and the fix it points to is listed for the day Al Jazeera adopts the edit
  Why, and its source

  B would have to add brand codes the programme does not use in its own reels (its reels carry no persistent mark besides the logo, which masking covers); inventing them breaks brand-authenticity.md ("a brand code is used as the brand really uses it, never invented to pass the test"). The clarity read itself, which ice-edit's 09 row requires for promotional types, is a separate gate and is judged on its own.

  Source: ice/review/clarity/read-3-r2.md item 0; ice/review/identity/masked-09-r2.txt; identity-tests.md sections 1 and 2; D-20

• D-35 Critic 09 round 2 fixes

  Source: ice/review/critic-09-r2.md; ice/review/fixes/

• D-36 The guest's background as delivered (grade)

  • AChosen
  • - A: record the exception: the speaker himself stays untouched (skin, lips, hands, suit, hair: the person matte keeps them out of the weight, measured by the critic as no change in cheek colour between corrected and untouched shots)
  • only the episode's red quote-card glow and its flying dot behind him are toned to the curtain's brown, and the matte is eroded 7 px so no red rim is left on the outline
  Why, and its source

  the owner's rule puts red on the people talked about, never on the speaker; the correction grades the set, not the person.

  Source: ice/review/fixes/red-glow-before-after.jpg (round 1 matte), ice/review/fixes/guest-matte-current-before-after.jpg (the current, eroded matte); ice/review/critic-09-r2.md items 2 and F

• D-37 Round 2 fix check follow-ups

  Source: ice/review/critic-09-r2.md "Round 2 fix check"; ice/review/stages/07-approver.md, 08-approver.md; ice/review/fixes/disc-matte-before-after.jpg

• D-38 Row 1 out: the host's "باليستي" without the guest's "نعم"

  • AChosen
  • - A: out at 1703.72, a frame boundary: after the closure (1703.60) comes the host's unvoiced /t/ release (1703.64 to 1703.70), and the guest's voiced "نعم" begins at 1703.72 (158 to 163 Hz
  • the host speaks at a median 122 Hz, the guest at 166 Hz)
  • a cut test on the source hears "باليستي" whole at 1703.70 and 1703.72, "باليست" at 1703.62 and 1703.68
  Why, and its source

  a word boundary that keeps the host's whole word and no fragment of another voice; B would put an off-screen "yes" on the archive.

  Source: ice/transcripts/row1check/row1-out.json (pitch per 40 ms, 20 ms envelope, Whisper words), cut-test.json (four out points); ice/review/critic-09-r2.md "Final check"; tools/build_edl.py r8

• D-39 The brand test at 09: held for the owner

  • none by the run: Ice holds stage 10 on a failed brand test, and no option B exists without inventing a brand code. The film files are complete and technically green; the delivery note says the run is held at 09 on this one item.Chosen
  • - A: the owner accepts D-34 (an unofficial showcase
  • not made for Al Jazeera)
  • and the film ships with the brand test reported as a finding

  Source: ice/review/stages/09-approver.md; ice/review/clarity/read-3-r2.md, read-3-r3.md; ice/review/identity/09-r2.md, 09-r3.md; ice-qa identity-tests.md sections 1, 2 and 6

• D-40 The owner's decision on 09: the programme's own marks

  • A (the owner's direction)Chosen
  • - A: the two persistent marks of the programme's official vertical reels, taken from those reels' own pixels at the same position and size (the Al Jazeera logo top left, x 95 to 194, y 160 to 320
  • the stacked "محاولة فهم" wordmark with its red dot top right, x 853 to 1017, y 200 to 298, on 1080x1920), laid on with a screen blend, on the whole reel and leaving as the programme title rises (the official reels show none on their blue end card)
  • the end title stays as it was
  Why, and its source

  the owner keeps the programme's identity and directs its real marks; they are used as the programme uses them, not invented. Measured on the official reels ZUhNxnrVuew (Venezuela episode) and 1dradF-qrwI (drones episode), same canvas, same pixels, plus the programme promo O5IjhyK3hd8 (logo only). No reel of the France episode was opened: three of them (fQdvsPusdb8, tFlzbvMiH7U, 5b9CVmnYnZU) appeared by title in the channel's listing of shorts and were left alone (D-14).

  Source: ice/assets/brand-marks.json; tools/brand_marks.py; film/marks/marks.png; ice/reference/marks-ZUhNxnrVuew/, marks-1dradF-qrwI/, ref-c/

• D-41 Whose claim the turn is

  • AChosen
  • - A: the said attribution held on screen with the claim: "أجزاء من المجتمع الفرنسي تقول:" as a small quiet header (46 px Regular
  • silver) above "أطروحة كاذبة" from 51.11 to the cut to the war footage
  • the title itself held through "لماذا؟"
  • and the caption before it given its verb ("... الفرنسي تقول")
  • as "فيه ناس تقول لك:" heads the host's plates (D-33)
  Why, and its source

  the words are the guest's own, already said; the header keeps the turn attributed while the claim and the question are on screen, and stays clear of his chin (y 800 to 860).

  Source: ice/review/stages/09-approver.md round 3; ice/review/clarity/read-3-r4.md; stills film/out/stills/t052.60.png

Made in this stage

• 01-COMPLIANCE.md

  Research note COMPLIANCE.md

  Compliance note: mohawalat-fahm-france-reel

  Runtime date: 2026-10-29

  Status: partial: platform policy pages were not fetched one by one (no ad is run; the reel is editorial); the rules below come from the brief, the platforms' known community rules for news content and the research notes listed.

  Brief slots used: topic = current affairs, French student protests 2026, debt, education and military spending (prompt); market = pan-Arab (D-03); platform = Reels, TikTok, Shorts (D-03); language = Arabic (prompt)

  Categories matched: news and current affairs (editorial); political content; protest footage with police and minors; weapons imagery (a strategic missile test). No advertising category applies: nothing is sold.

  Read the whole file: 01-COMPLIANCE.md

• 01-BRIEF.md

  The brief: what the user said and every slot with its source

  Brief: mohawalat-fahm-france-reel

  Runtime date: 2026-10-29

  What the user said

  Verbatim (the request typed after /ice, relayed by the lead session): "اعمل ريلز طولي عربي من حلقة "محاولة فهم" على الجزيرة بتاريخ 28 أكتوبر 2026، "من المدرسة إلى الشارع.. جذور الاحتجاجات في فرنسا": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPrJruvywk نزّل الحلقة بنفسك، واختار أقوى جزء فيها للريلز. الأسلوب: نفس مونتاج ريلز "محاولة فهم" على الجزيرة، بهوية البرنامج وألوانه وتوجهه، وأحسن منه كمان. المراجع: https://youtube.com/shorts/x4nwLHZUjRQ https://youtube.com/shorts/0Gb3N9OfVCI دوّر على أحدث لقطات حقيقية ورسمية مناسبة ونزّلها. الموسيقى والمؤثرات تبقى حقيقية من مكتبات، مش معمولة بالكود. ومسموحلك تنزّل أي موديل أو أداة محتاجها. ما تسألنيش ولا تستنى موافقتي في أي حاجة. كمّل لوحدك من الأول للآخر لحد الفيديو النهائي، واعمل case study للنشر على موقع Ice."

  "اعمل ريلز طولي عربي من حلقة "محاولة فهم" على الجزيرة بتاريخ 28 أكتوبر 2026، "من المدرسة إلى الشارع.. جذور الاحتجاجات في فرنسا""

  Read the whole file: 01-BRIEF.md

Made in this stage

• 02-concepts.md

  Concepts pitched and the one chosen

  Concepts (stage 02, light tier for an edit: three readings of the same footage)

  The footage fixes the subject (D-06). The three readings differ in what the reel shows while the guest argues.

  **The contradiction, proved (chosen).** The host's line sets a ballistic missile against the high schools; the guest explains the debt and the "no money" message; the payoff (money was found for the army) closes the loop. Every named thing is shown as real, dated footage: the 6 Oct 2026 M51.3 launch Macron watched, the October 2026 lycée blockades, the 2023 army budget, the 2022 invasion.

  **The guest alone (unexpected).** No archive at all: the speaker, the studio, the words as kinetic type, like a manifesto. Strong on mute, but it drops the programme's archive-in-the-pause signature and leaves the "missile" as a word.

  **The ledger (unexpected).** The two budgets as a running two-column ledger on screen, education on one side and the army on the other, filling as the guest speaks. It needs numbers the speakers did not say in the clip (the truth rule forbids them), so it would turn into invented data.

  Read the whole file: 02-concepts.md

Decisions

• D-08 Voice

  • AChosen
  • - A: the episode's recorded voices only (rests on: route ice-edit
  • the footage carries the speech)

  the footage is the voice; nothing in the brief asks for narration, and Ice never generates a voice the user did not choose.

  Source: prompt; router section 2 ("Never generate a voice the user did not choose")

• D-15 Written hook vs the reference's timing rule (scoped conflict)

  • AChosen
  • - A: keep the reference rule
  • the first frame carries the hook through the picture (the missile launch) and the first spoken nouns become titles as they are said ("ماكرون" at about 0.5 s, "صاروخ باليستي" at about 3.2 s), and the contrast line becomes the first glass plate as it is spoken
  Why, and its source

  the user's instruction ("نفس مونتاج ريلز محاولة فهم") outranks a house default; the purpose of the written hook (a muted viewer gets the hook from frame 1) is met by the picture plus the spoken-word titles. Logged as a scoped exception for this programme's style.

  Source: short-form-hooks.md section 6; ref-a measurement rule 11

• D-29 Words over the war and army archive

  • AChosen
  • - A: the spoken words as kinetic titles over that archive
  • white with a crimson glow while spoken
  • silver after
  Why, and its source

  the muted-first platforms (Facebook feed) need the payoff on screen; the words are the spoken ones, at their spoken time; it extends the hook's exception of D-15 to the two other named things shown as archive.

  Source: COMPLIANCE.md RD2 (the war label also dates the 2022 footage); clarity-gate.md section 5 (muted platforms)

Made in this stage

• 03-script.md

  Script

  Paper edit (stage 03): "الصاروخ الباليستي ولا الثانويات"

  Source: `ice/sources/episode/episode.mp4` (25 fps). Clock: SOURCE seconds. Word times from faster-whisper large-v3-turbo on short windows (`ice/transcripts/`, `ice/transcripts/seams/`); every in and out point snapped to the quietest 20 ms frame of the speech envelope (`tools/env.py`). No cut falls inside a word. Pauses inside segments are natural (0.3 to 0.7 s, `tools/gaps.py`); none reaches the 1.0 s podcast trim threshold, so none is trimmed. No speech is sped up.

  Speakers: HOST = عثمان آي فرح (presenter). GUEST = د. عبد الكريم أمنكاي, assistant professor of international relations, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (episode description; identified on screen by the episode's own quote card at 00:28:00).

  | # | Speaker | Source in | Source out | Length | Spoken words (verbatim, fillers in brackets) | Role | Cut reason |

  | 1 | HOST | 1699.72 | 1703.72 | 4.00 | وفيه صورة لماكرون وهو [يعني] مع إطلاق صاروخ باليستي | hook, part 1: names the picture | in: dip at 1699.70 after the guest's "لا"; out (r6): 1703.72, a frame boundary, after the host's /t/ release (unvoiced 1703.64 to 1703.70, after the closure at 1703.60) and where the guest's voiced "نعم" begins (158 to 163 Hz; host median 122, guest 166); a cut test on the source hears "باليستي" whole at 1703.70 and 1703.72 and "باليست" at 1703.62 and 1703.68 (D-38, `ice/transcripts/row1check/row1-out.json`, `cut-test.json`) |

  Read the whole file: 03-script.md

• 03-hooks.md

  Openings compared

  Hook sheet (stage 03): three openings, in the speakers' own words

  | # | Opening (first 3 to 9 s) | Source | First 3 s on mute | First 3 s with sound | Verdict |

  | A | HOST: "وفيه صورة لماكرون وهو مع إطلاق صاروخ باليستي... فبالتالي فيه ناس تقول لك: إنت قادر تصرف على الصاروخ الباليستي؟ طب اصرف على الثانويات الأول!" (8.6 s) | 1699.72 to 1709.08 | a ballistic missile leaving the sea and Macron watching it: a real event that stops the thumb | "a picture of Macron with a ballistic missile launch" names what is on screen | chosen: picture and sound agree from frame one; the contrast lands by 8.6 s |

  | B | HOST: "فيه ناس تقول لك: إنت قادر تصرف على الصاروخ الباليستي؟ طب اصرف على الثانويات الأول!" (3.9 s, from 1705.10) | 1705.10 to 1709.08 | the host in the studio | the contrast in under 4 s, but "the missile" has no picture of its own yet | runner-up: faster, but the missile arrives as a word, not as an image |

  | C | GUEST: "فرنسا إذا استخدمت كل ما تنتجه في سنة واحدة، ستعجز عن سد مديونيتها" (7 s), the host's line moved to the end | 1117.0 to 1124.0 | a man at a table | a debt fact, abstract until the end | rejected: the strongest line would come last |

  Read the whole file: 03-hooks.md

Made in this stage

• 04-storyboard.md

  Storyboard

  Storyboard (stage 04): B-roll and overlay plan on the locked clock

  Edited time in seconds, 25 fps. Generated from `tools/plan.py` (every time is anchored to a spoken word of `ice/edit/retimed-transcript.json`).

  | # | In-out | What appears | Source | Treatment | Why (the spoken line) |

  | S1 | 0.00-0.41 | broll GLuoKxdKTjE | GLuoKxdKTjE @43.7 | archive entry | the launch the host is about to name: the missile breaks the sea |

  | S2 | 0.41-2.72 | broll GLuoKxdKTjE | GLuoKxdKTjE @39.8 | archive spotlight, disc, matte | "لماكرون": Macron watching the launch from the frigate |

  Read the whole file: 04-storyboard.md

Decisions

• D-01 Route and edit type

  • AChosen
  • - A: ice-edit, podcast type, "episode to reels" pipeline, plus the ice-remake analysis step for the two references (rests on: router section 2 compound rule
  • ice-edit section 2, first match "clips cut from a long episode")

  the material is a clip cut from a long talk-show episode, which ice-edit's table sends to the podcast type first; the references are style only, so the remake analysis is borrowed, not the route.

  Source: prompt; ice-edit SKILL.md section 2; router section 2

• D-17 Music direction (stage 01 question 5)

  • AChosen
  • - A: the real library track closest to both references by measurement, ducked under speech, 2 runners-up in the delivery note (rests on: lead session rule
  • ice/reference/ref-*/sound_map.json: D minor, about 84 BPM, cinematic underscore or drone, synth bass)

  Omar's standing rule; both references share key and tempo, which gives a measurable target.

  Source: lead session brief; ice/audio/music/match-ref-a.txt, match-ref-b.txt

• D-18 Look and tone (stage 01 question 6)

  • AChosen
  • A the programme's measured look tied to the words
  • B quieter
  • C louder, more archive
  • D plain captions only

  "بهوية البرنامج وألوانه وتوجهه"; the measured look is in the two ANALYSIS files and the contract in FIDELITY.md.

  Source: prompt; ice/plan/FIDELITY.md

• D-22 Grade and caption style (stage 05)

  • AChosen
  • - A: speakers untouched
  • archive graded as the programme grades it (saturation 0.5, contrast 0.92, blacks lifted with a #221C1E lighten layer, over-exposed entry frames, crimson multiply only on war and army footage)
  • the programme's three text roles at sizes that meet the vertical floors inside the union safe zone of Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Facebook Reels (x 65 to 888, y 288 to 1248)
  Why, and its source

  the references grade archive, never the presenter; the look is not open (two references and a real brand fix it), so no mood board is needed (ice-edit 05 row: "When the look is open ... a mood board first").

  Source: ice-edit/references/ingest-and-ledger.md section 5; ice-engines/references/platform-specs.md section 3; ref analyses

• D-28 Free-font version

  • AChosen
  • - A: render a second master with Almarai (?font=free) for public posting outside Al Jazeera

  the house font's licence is for Al Jazeera Network only; a showcase on the Ice site needs a version that does not depend on it.

  Source: D-07; ice/assets/CREDITS.md

Made in this stage

• 05-DIRECTION.md

  Decision log: options, choice, reason and source for every decision

  Direction: mohawalat-fahm-france-reel

  Runtime date: 2026-10-29 Mode: auto Tier: light (edit type: the footage fixes the subject) Crew: lean

  Summary

  Concept: the missile against the high schools, argued by the guest and signed by the programme (D-06, D-12)

  Direction: the programme's presenter-promo grammar carried onto a guest, vertical (D-13, D-23)

  Read the whole file: 05-DIRECTION.md

• 05-critic-D06-D07-D12-D13.md

  Direction review file critic-D06-D07-D12-D13.md

  independent: the critic did not read DIRECTION.md

  Critic report: D-06, D-07, D-12, D-13 (round 1, 2026-10-29)

  Read: candidates.md, candidate-hooks.md, concepts.md, script.md, hooks.md, hook-tests/compare.jpg, FIDELITY.md, both ANALYSIS.md and contact sheets, ref-b grid, brand-sheet.json, BRAND-MATERIAL.md, COMPLIANCE.md, the episode transcript (w_1655_1720.json, subs_packed.txt), broll info.json files, analyzer report.json. Measured: archive resolutions, reference speaker share, colour contrast, a 4 s strip of IchOSZYC7OE. Scale: 5 student, 6 template, 7 solid pro, 8 high-end agency.

  D-06

  | Option | Verdict | Score | Top note |

  Read the whole file: 05-critic-D06-D07-D12-D13.md

Decision

• D-13 Rhythm and presence numbers (stage 02)

  • A, revised after the critic (r2): speaker on screen 75 to 85% (the references measure 87% and 79%, not 60 to 70%); archive only where a filmable thing is named (the missile and Macron in the hook, the high schools and the young in the pause, the Ukraine war, the army spending); the government, street and unions cutaways are dropped; no digital zoom on 720p archive (10 of the 18 clips); crimson only on the missile, Macron and the army archive, never on the students.Chosen
  • - A: the references' measured presenter rhythm: speaker on screen about 60 to 70%, archive bursts in pauses and short cutaways on named things, digital zoom 1.00 to 1.10 on phrase starts, no shot of the speaker over 9 s without a reframe (rests on: ref-a 77% presenter, ref-b one take re-framed
  • podcast type "no shot over 9 s")
  Why, and its source

  the user asked for the programme's montage; precedence puts the user's explicit instruction above house defaults (ice-direction section 5). The zoom stays at or under 1.10 on top of the vertical crop because the crop already enlarges the 1080p source 1.78 times (house ceiling 1.20 on 1080p).

  Source: ref analyses; house-style-numbers.md sections 2 to 4

Decision

• D-25 Engine

  • AChosen
  • - A: Ice's zero-install HTML capture renderer (ice-engines/scripts/render-html.mjs) with the installed Chrome 149: one page
  • frames drawn from extracted JPEGs
  • frosted plates with backdrop blur over the real footage
  • subframe motion blur
  • lossless FFV1 intermediates
  Why, and its source

  the user allowed installs, but HyperFrames' browser download would land on the nearly full drive C, and the bundled renderer gives everything this reel needs.

  Source: ice-engines/references/engine-choice.md sections 1 and 7.4; film/out/final/main.log (driver and browser lines)

Decision

• D-27 Music edit and mix

  • AChosen
  • - A: "Vanes" from its first bar with no cut or loop
  • its build (8.1 to 11 s) falls on the proof montage, its drop (36.7 s) near "عاجزة"
  • ducked to -17 dB under speech and -9 dB in the free gaps (attack 0.12 s, release 0.45 s), a 0.55 s dip before "وجدت موارد", out under the title hold
  • master -14 LUFS, true peak -1.5 dBTP (social profile)

  one complete track with no stitching; its structure already meets the reel's turning points.

  Source: ice/audio/music/match-ref-*.txt; ice/audio/cues.json; ice-audio/references/mix-and-master.md section 5

Made in this stage

• 09-critic-1.md

  Critic round 1

  Open the file: 09-critic-1.md

• 09-critic-2.md

  Critic round 2

  Open the file: 09-critic-2.md

• 09-critic-3.md

  Critic round 3

  Open the file: 09-critic-3.md

• 09-critic-4.md

  Critic round 4

  Open the file: 09-critic-4.md

• 09-critic-5.md

  Critic round 5

  Open the file: 09-critic-5.md

• 09-critic-6.md

  Critic round 6

  Open the file: 09-critic-6.md

• 09-compliance.md

  Compliance gate result

  Open the file: 09-compliance.md

Critic rounds

1. Round 1FIX P1 THEN SHIP

2. Round 2FIX P1 THEN SHIP

3. Round 3FIX the Macron disc matte at 0

4. Round 4FIX row 1 out to source 1703

5. Round 5SHIP

6. Round 6SHIP

Made in this stage

• 10-NOTE.md

  Delivery report with measured numbers

  mohawalat-fahm-france-reel: delivery report (2026-10-29)

  Status: reviewer approved (auto mode, 2026-10-29): the approver passed every stage from 01 to 10, the critic's final verdict is SHIP, and the clarity read passed (round 5). The masked brand test failed in every round and is accepted on the owner's decision of 2026-10-29 (DIRECTION.md D-40), which added the programme's own marks. The user's own verdict on the film is still open (section "User verdict").

  File: `ice/renders/final/mohawalat-fahm-france_reel_9x16_66s_v8.mp4` (Al Jazeera house font) sha256 12ab22f5dfbfd2abf5509e68d69debab8b241f31c9f630e9cca8361e16eece20 1080x1920 25 fps 66.36 s (1659 frames) H.264 High (BT.709 tags, CRF 16) / AAC LC 48 kHz 320 kb/s

  Versions (`ice/renders/archive/`, hashes in `ice/review/gates/sha256.txt`): v5 = the reel before the owner's decision (no marks; critic last check SHIP); v6 = with the programme's marks (D-40; critic marks check SHIP; cold read r4); v7 = with the attribution header of D-41, centred (cold read r5); v8 = the header set at the line's start, the delivered version (lint C7). Earlier renders before v5 were overwritten under one name; their hashes: c151693d (critic r2, cold read r2), ef779737 (cold read r3, critic fix check), 89a6d15a (critic final check). Other deliverables: `ice/renders/final/mohawalat-fahm-france_reel_9x16_66s_v8_free-font.mp4` (the same film in the free face Almarai, SIL OFL 1.1, for any public posting outside Al Jazeera, D-07; sha256 5bddac4fc8aeb55107bb48cccdb6f34957092dddb389832baa26c2d5300e55f1); sidecars `..._66s_v8_ar.srt` (26 captions, the decided spelling, the rendered word times), `..._66s_v8_transcript.txt` (the speech by speaker, the post text and the disclaimer), `..._66s_v8_edl.json`, `..._66s_v8_retimed-transcript.json`. Not delivered: an un-captioned master (the words on screen are the film's own design, D-05 and D-22; `ice/plan/versions.md` plans none). Case study: `ice/case-study/` and the site folder `ice/case-study/site/mohawalat-fahm-france-reel/` (free-font version with the marks, the disclaimer in Arabic and English). No cutdowns, no other ratio or language (D-11).

  The idea

  Read the whole file: 10-NOTE.md

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