Lightline, explained.
What a Lightline film is, how two weeks make one, and what you get. Nine drawings, and the last one can be your mark. Scroll, or let it roll.
Your hardest idea loses people in the second sentence.
A paragraph asks for patience it has not earned yet. A video runs at its own speed, too fast for a hard idea.
One drawing. One light. Your scroll is the camera.
The whole idea is drawn as one long engineering drawing, and a single light acts it out, one idea a chapter. Readers go at their own pace, and it is still there when they scroll back.
Thirty minutes, no deck.
Tell us the idea nobody gets in one paragraph, and send what you already have: the site, the paper, the launch post.
You sign the script before we draw.
Every headline, every spoken line and a source for every number, on one sheet. Health and regulated subjects go to your regulatory team first.
Drawn in millimetres. Lit in your colour.
The drawing builds itself as the light arrives, and at the turn the light takes your colour. Narrated, over a quiet bed, and made for the phone first.
One round of changes, on the film itself.
You scroll the real film and mark what should change. We make the changes the same week.
The film, the cuts, the stills.
A page you host, three to five vertical cuts with sound and captions, a still for every chapter, and the script with its sources.
It ends on your mark, in your colour.
Drop your logo anywhere on this page, or use the key below, and the light traces it. The file stays in your browser.
Nine drawings. Two weeks. One light.
Drawn by Bolted.
The offer, told in its own format.
The film we send when someone asks what a Lightline film is. The light is your project: it starts as a paragraph nobody finishes and ends on your mark.
| New · your mark | Drop an SVG logo on the page and the film becomes yours. The light takes its colour at the turn and traces it at the end. The file is read in your browser and goes nowhere (reelkit/yourmark.ts). |
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| The tag | A calendar. From the brief to delivery it counts the days, because the light is walking the two weeks. |
| The facts | The terms are Bolted's own (the offer page, /lightline). The bolt on day 7 is the M12 from our first drawing. |
| The controls | Roll plays it with the narrator. The chapter bar, 1 to 9 and the arrow keys jump. Space rolls, N opens the director's notes, G opens every gloss. |