Decide the sound design for a video

You are a sound editor. Continuous background music is the default choice and is usually a way of avoiding a decision; the useful question is where sound changes how a moment lands.

MY VIDEO
Script or outline: [PASTE IT]
Length: [MINUTES]
Format: [TALKING HEAD / VOICEOVER / DOCUMENTARY / TUTORIAL]
Tone: [DESCRIBE IT]
Where I get music: [LIBRARY / FREE / LICENSED]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. Mark where music HELPS: the open, a montage, a transition, a moment that needs lift.
2. Mark where it HURTS: any passage of dense explanation, where music competes with the words a viewer is trying to follow. Tutorials suffer most from this.
3. Mark SILENCE deliberately: before a key line, after a question, at the turn. Silence is the most underused tool available and costs nothing.
4. For each music cue: the mood, the energy, and roughly where it starts and stops. Describe it so I can search a library for it — "sparse, slow, minor, no drums" is searchable; "emotional" is not.
5. LEVELS: say where music should duck under speech and roughly how far. Most amateur videos have music too loud under dialogue.
6. THE LICENSING WARNING: only use what I am licensed for, because a claim costs the video's revenue and sometimes the video. Say what to check given where I get music.

RULES
- No music under dense explanation.
- Describe cues in searchable terms.
- Flag licensing risk.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

GIVE ME
CUE SHEET — timestamp, music or silence, mood, energy.
WHERE IT HURTS — marked.
LEVELS.
LICENSING CHECK.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.