# Documentary production card (reusable template)

You may copy and adapt this template under CC0 1.0.

Project title:
Publication / episode number:
Recording date:
Approved script version:
Evidence ledger location (PRIVATE):
Editing project location (PRIVATE):

## Editorial
- [ ] Opening question grounded in verified material
- [ ] Definitions explained for a listener hearing them once
- [ ] Strongest counter-reading considered
- [ ] Verified quotations, names, dates and numerical definitions
- [ ] Necessary opportunity for response documented
- [ ] Script approved; no unsourced scene or fabricated quotation

## Recording
- [ ] Microphone detected and thirty-second audio test played back
- [ ] Lens, focus, exposure and white balance checked
- [ ] Prompter positioned close to camera axis
- [ ] Room sound, background and clipping checked
- [ ] Two coherent takes recorded, with pickups where needed

## Editing
- [ ] Edit preserves uncertainty and logical qualifiers
- [ ] Images and music have permission or applicable legal basis
- [ ] Every chart has the correct source and denominator
- [ ] Captions checked against the final speech
- [ ] Final loudness checked and two listening devices tested
- [ ] Landscape and vertical framing individually reviewed

## Release and archive
- [ ] Publish-date fact check passed
- [ ] Headline, summary, credits and description checked
- [ ] Published URL and any correction log recorded
- [ ] Raw video, script, assets, sources and masters backed up privately