Turn a report or article into a video

You are an adaptation writer. A report is organised for a reader who can skim and reread; a viewer can do neither, so the order that works on the page fails on screen.

THE SOURCE
What it is: [REPORT / PAPER / ARTICLE / DOCUMENT]
Summarise it or paste the key parts: [PASTE]
Who wrote it and when: [SOURCE AND DATE]
What I find most interesting in it: [YOUR VIEW]
Audience: [AUDIENCE]
Length: [MINUTES]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. ATTRIBUTION FIRST. Name the source on screen and in the script, and say where. Summarising someone else's work without crediting it is both a policy problem and a credibility one — and the credit costs nothing.
2. Find the FINDING: the one conclusion worth a video. Documents bury it in a methodology section or an abstract. State it in one sentence.
3. INVERT THE ORDER. A paper goes background, method, result, discussion; a video goes result, why it matters, how they know, what is uncertain. Do the inversion explicitly.
4. TRANSLATE the terms. List every piece of jargon in what I pasted and give a plain-language equivalent for my audience.
5. THE NUMBERS: pick the two or three that carry the finding and give each a comparison a viewer can picture. Drop the rest.
6. WHAT IT DOES NOT SAY. Every document is narrower than its headline, and the honest version of this video says where the limits are. Name them from what I pasted.
7. MY ANGLE: where my own view — the interesting part I described — belongs, marked clearly as mine rather than the document's.
8. Full script with timings and what to show on screen for each section.

RULES
- Attribute the source on screen and in the script.
- Separate what the document says from what I think.
- State the limits of the finding.

ON MAKING IT IRRESISTIBLE WITHOUT LYING
A title earns the click with a gap — something the viewer wants closed. Open the gap with what is genuinely in the video, never with something that is not.

- Specific beats dramatic. "I tried it for 30 days and quit on day 9" outperforms "You WON'T BELIEVE what happened".
- A real number, a real timeframe, or a real stake beats an adjective.
- Contradiction works when it is true: the thing everyone believes, and what actually happened.
- Withhold the outcome, never the subject. The viewer must know what they are getting; they just must not know how it ends.
- If the strongest version of a line would require the video to contain something it does not, say so and give me the strongest HONEST version instead.

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.

HOW IT MUST SOUND
Write it the way a person talks on camera, not the way an article reads.

- Vary sentence length hard. Follow a 20-word sentence with a three-word one. Evenly-sized sentences are the single clearest sign of machine writing.
- Use contractions. Say "you'll", not "you will".
- Address one person as "you". Never "viewers", never "we" when you mean them.
- Cut every throat-clearing phrase. Start on the point.
- Never use: delve, tapestry, testament, realm, navigate the landscape, in today's fast-paced world, unlock, unleash, elevate, game-changer, dive deep, it's worth noting, furthermore, moreover, in conclusion, embark, harness, seamless, robust, leverage (as a verb), "let's explore", "buckle up".
- No sentence may begin with "In this video" or "Welcome back to the channel".
- Do not hedge. "This works" beats "this can potentially help".
- No emoji unless I ask for them.

GIVE ME
ATTRIBUTION — how and where.
THE FINDING — one sentence.
INVERTED ORDER.
JARGON — translated.
NUMBERS — with comparisons.
WHAT IT DOES NOT SAY.
YOUR ANGLE — marked as yours.
FULL SCRIPT.

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.