Mini-documentaries your clone researches, writes and narrates
Bring a story worth telling. Your clone researches it, breaks it into chapters and builds a cinematic mini-doc with you as the narrator or the host.
Landscape, vertical or square · Script and storyboard approval
A mini-documentary is the format that makes a channel feel premium. It takes a real story, a person, a place or a mystery, and gives it room to breathe. The catch is the work: research, a chapter plan, and hours of editing. Your clone carries all of it. You bring the subject and your point of view, and your clone shapes the narrative.
Your clone opens on a striking moment, fills in the background, then moves chapter by chapter through each turning point, with a bridge into the next. Where research adds a twist, it gets its own section. Visuals, music, captions and narration in your voice are all built in. Want to host it on camera? Your clone can put your avatar on screen.
The Mini-Documentary structure
Cold open
A striking moment or question pulls viewers straight into the story.
Background
Your clone lays out the history, key players, timeline and what's at stake.
Chapters
Each chapter covers one development or turning point: the facts, a voice and its significance, ending on a bridge into the next.
What the evidence shows
When it helps, data or research that confirms, complicates or reframes the story.
Implications and close
The broader meaning and ongoing impact, then a final reflection that invites viewers to share their own experiences.
Approve and receive
Check the script and storyboard first if you want. The finished doc arrives by email with a title, description and tags.
Just tell your clone: make a Mini-Documentary
Type it the way you'd say it. Tap any line to copy it.
- Make a 15-minute mini-doc on the D.B. Cooper hijacking. Landscape, voiceover only, moody music. Send me the script first.Copy
- Mini-documentary about how my grandmother's bakery survived three recessions. Her photos are in the Drive folder. 10 minutes, warm tone.Copy
- Do a 12-minute doc on the rise and fall of Blockbuster. I'm on screen as host for the cold open and closing.Copy
- Short mini-doc for Reels: 90 seconds on the man who planted a forest by hand. Vertical, captions on, square version too.Copy
- Here's my script for a doc on the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Use it word for word and show me the storyboard before rendering.Copy
Tips for a better Mini-Documentary
- Start with a question you want answered. Your clone builds the cold open and chapters around it.
- Share any personal photos, clips or interviews you have. Real material makes a doc feel like yours.
- For long docs, ask for chapter titles on screen so viewers can follow along.
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Mini-Documentary: questions, answered.
How long can a mini-documentary be?
Tell your clone the length you want. Shorter docs have fewer chapters and may skip the evidence section; longer ones add chapters and give each turning point more room. A 90-second vertical version works too.
Can I include my own interviews?
Yes. Send recorded clips or audio and your clone can work them into the chapters as the voice for that moment. Media Forge can trim or convert files first if needed.
Can my clone build a documentary series?
Yes. Ask for a multi-episode series and your clone plans each episode around its own chapters, keeping the narration voice and visual style consistent across the run.
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