YouTube / Long-form
Last Light
A YouTube documentary about the last lighthouse keeper on the Bulgarian coast.
A concept project made for the KomerStudio portfolio. Not a real client.
- Category
- YouTube / Long-form
- Format
- 16:9 · 4K
- Runtime
- 18:42
- My role
- Edit, sound design, color, titles
- Deliverables
- YouTube master, 3 vertical cut-downs, thumbnail frames
01The idea
The last man who lights the lamp every night before the lighthouse goes automatic. The lighthouse is the setting. The story is about what is left of a person when their job disappears.
02How I cut it
- 01
It opens on 40 seconds without narration: waves, the lamp turning, one line. The hook is a question.
- 02
Three chapters, each ending on something unsaid that pulls into the next, so the retention graph has nowhere to dip.
- 03
The interview is cut down to what matters. The pauses stay where they say more than the words.
03The look
Wide static frames, long takes, natural light. The camera watches and takes its time.
04Motion · Sound · Color
Motion
Thin chapter cards and lower thirds. Graphics only show up when they have something to say.
Sound
Wind, waves and the lamp mechanism. Music only arrives in chapter three.
Color
Cold blue shadows against the warm beam. Soft contrast, with detail kept in the sky.
05What you get
A video that plays like a film but is built for YouTube: a hook up front, a clear structure, a strong ending. Plus three vertical cut-downs that point back to it.
06Preview
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