Educational carousel about lost city Cahokia from @historyofparks

Video format

Carousel

Video outline

1. Hook with hidden anomaly
2. Establish massive scale
3. Reveal a dark twist
4. Highlight monumental feats
5. End on unresolved mystery

Hook overview

Present a massive, unknown phenomenon located in a highly familiar setting to create immediate cognitive dissonance and curiosity.

Title hook

The lost city of America that most people have never heard of

Verbal hook

🤯 Have YOU heard of the lost city of Cahokia?

Visual hook

The opening image is a striking aerial photograph of a massive, unusual earthen mound in a lush green landscape. The scale of the structure, the modern path leading up its side, and the contrast with the surrounding flat terrain create immediate curiosity and visual intrigue.

Hook strategies

1. secrets-shortcuts
2. curiosity-open-loops

Payoff

Conclude with an unsolved mystery, missing link, or permanent enigma, leaving the audience with a sense of wonder and prompting them to speculate in the comments.

Narrative framework

The Forgotten Marvel Blueprint

Narrative framework logic

Leverage the 'hidden in plain sight' trope by introducing a massive, forgotten phenomenon, validating its scale with hard data, injecting a dark or fascinating mid-point twist, and concluding with an unsolved mystery to provoke discussion.

Narrative framework breakdown

• frameworkType: Standard Narrative
• frameworkName: The Forgotten Marvel Blueprint
• coreLogic: Leverage the 'hidden in plain sight' trope by introducing a massive, forgotten phenomenon, validating its scale with hard data, injecting a dark or fascinating mid-point twist, and concluding with an unsolved mystery to provoke discussion.
• confidence: 95
• pendingStatus: created