The Cost Shift – Test Scene

Built for your brief.

Every point from your post, answered with the test scene, not with promises.

Charts

Your data, exactly

Charts are generated from the numbers you send (CSV or sheet), not drawn by hand. The line ends where your data ends.

Pacing

A new visual every few seconds

Kinetic text, icons, counters and charts change on the spoken word. No static screens.

The big number

Lands without cheese

Count-up, one beat of stillness, one context line, then a small stamp. No confetti, no zoom blur.

$150 per finished 13-minute video works for me
Turnaround 5–7 days, one video per week is fine
Two revision rounds included
16:9, 1080p, mixed to YouTube loudness (−14 LUFS)
Music from YouTube Audio Library or your Artlist/Epidemic licence
Every track and asset logged with its licence in a delivery sheet
Finished video and project files belong to the channel
Happy to do the paid $60 cold-open test

Optional: a host for the channel.

A faceless channel can still have a face. Four options, all lip-synced to your narration automatically. SHIFT (A) is in the test scene. Pick one, or none.

How a 13-minute video gets made.

Built in code with Remotion, so a new chart means new data, not new keyframes. That is how a 13-minute video fits into $150 and 5–7 days.

Your package

Script with visual cues, chart data, finished narration.

Word timing

The narration is measured word by word. Every visual cue snaps to the spoken word.

Scene library

Charts, maps, counters, icons and transitions in the channel style, built once, reused every week.

Data check

Every chart value is read straight from your file, and each source sits on screen.

Sound

Licensed music bed plus subtle whooshes and pops, mixed to −14 LUFS.

Delivery

MP4 master, project files, licence sheet. Shorts cut on request.

Tools, honestly.

Remotion (React) for all motion graphics and charts
After Effects-style easing, no templates
FFmpeg for mix and loudness
Test narration: ElevenLabs AI voice (your videos use your narration)
Test music: ElevenLabs Music, commercial licence
Host characters: drawn in code, no AI images, no stock

More work.

Two more samples with data visuals and maps.

Documentary motion pack sample: lower third, stat card, timeline, ranking.

Animated map in an explainer style, built in Remotion with D3.

Sources in the test scene.

Median sales price of houses sold (MSPUS), FRED / U.S. Census Bureau, rounded
Median household income, U.S. Census Bureau, nominal, rounded
Cost-burdened renter households: Harvard JCHS, America's Rental Housing 2024
Median age of first-time home buyers: National Association of Realtors, 2024 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers