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People Safety

Watch, stop, decide for yourself, then hear why. Ten lessons and the badge challenge, one after another.

Part of Home Alone Safety for Kids from SOS 4 Kids Inc.

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Character roster16 in the badge · 3 retired

Who they are, what they sound like, and which films they are in. Pictures are cut from the film as shipped.

Brandon (animated)the boy the course follows, about 10ANIMATION
Brandon (animated)GENERATED

People Safetyintro, secrets, the six rules, trust meter, minivan, bike, puppy, pizza

Brandon (live action)the same boy, on cameraLIVE ACTION
BrandonREAL VOICE

People Safetythe gift from Mr. Taylor

Mr. Taylorthe neighbour who gives Brandon the gameLIVE ACTION
Mr. TaylorNOT TRACED

People Safetythe gift from Mr. Taylor

Brandon's mumthe trusted adult he tellsANIMATION
The 2017 narratorREAL VOICE

People Safetysecrets, rules-c, rules-d

Brandon's dadthe adult on the porchANIMATION
The 2017 narratorREAL VOICE

People Safetysecrets

The girl who whispers a secreta friend at schoolANIMATION
Does not speakSILENT

People Safetysecrets

Family at the surprisea mother and two childrenANIMATION
Does not speakSILENT

People Safetysecrets

The woman who asks Brandon for directionsa harmless declined offer — the illustration of rule 2, not a lureANIMATION
The 2017 narratorREAL VOICE

People Safetyrules-b

Dale Brunner — the man in the minivanthe second person in the van — silent, and that is the pointANIMATION
Does not speakSILENT

People Safetyminivan

Marcy Okonjo — the woman in the minivanthe lure — she does the talkingANIMATION
Marcy OkonjoGENERATED

People Safetyminivan

Kyle Ferris — the teenager on the bike, a boythe lure — asks Brandon to walk him to a shopANIMATION
Kyle FerrisREAL RECORDING, RE-VOICED IN A CLONE OF ITSELF

People Safetythe stranger on the bike

Ray Delgado — the man with the lost puppythe lure — asks for help finding a dogANIMATION
The man with the lost puppyGENERATED

People Safetythe lost puppy

The pizza delivery manthe lure — nobody ordered the pizza, and he gets aggressiveANIMATION
The pizza delivery manNOT TRACED

People Safetypizza A and pizza B

Sergeant Mungarthe police officer who explains tricky peopleANIMATION
Sergeant MungarGENERATED WITH HER PICTURE, IN THE SAME PASS

People Safetya police officer explains tricky people

The safer strangerspolice officer, firefighter, store worker, teacher, security guardANIMATION
Does not speakSILENT

People Safetythe safe-people montage

The townneighbours, passers-by, children, cyclists, shoppers — no namesANIMATION
Does not speakSILENT

People Safetyevery street scene

The woman in the van (old)REPLACED

Replaced 25 Aug by Marcy Okonjo – she read male and shared the house face.

The man in the van (old)REPLACED

Replaced 25 Aug by Dale Brunner – shared the house face.

The teenager on the bike (old)REPLACED

Replaced 25 Aug by Kyle Ferris – drawn as a girl, spoke as a boy.

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reading the Lab…

New note

Part 0 — People Safety — start here

sos-ps-01-intro-v5x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:48 AM CT

It looks ok to me. Rachel will also need to give her ok.

Part 1 — People Safety

no film – this part is a card

B1DONEpart 1

Done — check it if you want.

The clickable People Safety badge that used to sit between the intro and the Mr. Taylor film is gone. The intro now hard-cuts straight into Mr. Taylor.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:49 AM CT

Rachel will also need to approve.

B1bDONEpart 1

Done.

The badge screen (part 2) shows the new shield art, not the original.

B2DONEpart 1

Done — check it if you want.

Velma rewrote the key points. Current build has three; she wants four, with the last one edited.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:30 PM CT

Is people safety badge 2 or is that badge 1?

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:56 AM CT

People Safety is BADGE 2. Badge 1 is Street Smarts. (The other half of this note – the narrator sounding flat and the cut-off at the first interaction – is fixed: both narrator films re-spoken with a bounce-first take chooser, movement now 4.0-7.6 semitones against 2.5-3.6 before.)

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 6:05 AM CT

ah right, we have I think these are the badges, right? Starting from the left to the right: – Street smarts – People safety – Online safety – Safety at home – Safety – Fire safety – Accident prevention – Basic first aid

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3 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 2 — The gift from Mr. Taylor

sos-ps-02-gift-v2x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

Velma rewrote key points 1 and 4. Points 2 and 3 are fine.

Done — check it if you want.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing children need the spoken dialogue in written form.

Done — check it if you want.

After answering 'Should Brandon accept this gift?' a block of dialogue text flashes on screen and vanishes just before the Secrets video loads.

SpenceSun 23 Aug, 5:06 AM CT

I've watched it and on my screen it just fades nicely from Brandon to the card.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 9:21 AM CT

Archived to history along with the rest of the pre-25-Aug pass – the console now defaults to what we are working on now, and the history tile brings everything back with its full thread. Nothing is deleted.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:22 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:29 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

3 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 8:01 AM CT

duplicate of another item

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Part 3 — Secrets, surprises and privacy

sos-ps-04-secrets-v8x-720.mp4

Done.

She finds the secrets narration robotic and asks for Josh's voice. NOTE: this narration IS the Josh source take, and the A8 re-render of its 8 flattest lines published within the hour of her

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:31 PM CT

Who's the voice on this? Is this the Josh voice? I think that this would be more appropriate if it was the Josh voice that has the nice bouncy sound to him. It's not that it sounds robotic. It's just that it sounds flat and I don't know if that's the same voice. We need to lock down the voices and the characters.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:57 AM CT

Found the cause of the flatness, not a symptom. My take chooser ranked how close a take landed to 127 Hz ABOVE how lively it was, so it kept the first in-band take even when that take barely moved – 22 of 41 rendered lines were under 4.0 semitones. Re-ranked bounce-first and re-spoke both narrator films end to end. Secrets now moves 4.0-7.6 semitones across all 28 lines. Same Josh, same voice id, livelier read. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done.

Answer feedback is text the child must read; she wants it spoken. The badge challenge already has narrated feedback (sos-ps-q1..q5 -n mp3s); the lesson gates do not.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:32 PM CT

I think it would make sense to just stay with the bouncy light Josh voice that we've already got locked down because we can control that and do things with it. The woman from the original video, it doesn't make sense to try to bother cloning her because she's just generic at the moment. While it's nice that we have it, we need a character that we can move forward with and have locked in.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:57 AM CT

Taken as the standing rule: Josh is the narrator going forward and nothing gets cloned from the 2017 woman. Her existing recordings still ship untouched, which is what you said on the 24th. That is already true of this badge – 41 narrator lines on Josh, 58 of her originals as recorded, nothing cloned.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:22 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done — check it if you want.

'Which feelings mean a secret is not safe?' requires clicking ALL FOUR feelings before it accepts the answer. Every feeling is correct, so the question reads as broken.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 5:59 PM CT

The package has a red ribbon now – deep crimson ribbon and bow on a cream box, so there is no yellow left on it anywhere. Changed inside the one shot that carries it (28.32-37.72s, found by scene detection), everything else in the frame identical: same boy, same room, same plant and lamp and doorway, same SURPRISE panel. The 2017 audio was not touched and I proved it – the audio md5 of the new film is bit-identical to the master. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 6:21 PM CT

REVERTED at Spencer's request – 'the Red Ribbon thing was just a goof. You can ignore that one. I don't want to actually change that one.' The gift is back to the original red box with the gold ribbon, and the original poster is back with it. The red-ribbon version was built and is still in the media library as sos-ps-04-secrets-v9x-720.mp4, unreferenced, so it is one line to revive if Velma ever wants it. Nothing else on the film moved: audio md5 unchanged throughout, all four gates still in their measured silences.

Done — check it if you want.

The audio cuts off abruptly mid-word at the end of every teaching point.

Done.

At the 3rd stop the narrator is cut off mid-sentence; at the 4th stop also cut off.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:32 PM CT

Your description is not clear to me what you're talking about. I can't see the actual number measurement. It would be nice if I could see a time code somewhere so that I understand what exactly you're saying. I think in general this robot sound is from a flat narrator. It needs to be turned into the bouncy Josh and that will solve whatever problems there are.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:57 AM CT

With the timecodes you asked for. The two stops in the secrets film are at 28.00s and 42.30s; both sit inside measured silences of the shipped track and no line is cut off at either. The flat sound was the narrator take, not the cut – fixed by the bounce pass above, movement 4.0-7.6 semitones now against 2.5-3.6 before. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

5 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 5:59 PM CT

The six-rules card has a picture now. Six numbered cards pop in one by one, 1 to 6, in the same cream, the same white cards and the same overshoot as the safe-people montage – which I used only as the style reference and did NOT touch. It is drawn in code, not generated, so the rules are typeset from the rule strings and cannot be misspelled: you get the numerals AND the words, not one or the other. The poster is the last frame, all six already up, so it reads as a finished graphic before anyone presses play. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 10:47 PM CT

Correcting my own link on this row: I sent you Open it in the course which is Secrets. The six-rules card is part 4. The right link is Open it in the course – that is where the six numbered cards pop in. Same mistake as J7 and the same cause: I typed a part number instead of reading the map. There is now a check (link_check.py) that refuses to publish when a link disagrees with the part an item is pinned to, and it is what caught both.

Part 4 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-rules-six-720-2.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

THE 6 RULES SLIDE IS MISSING ENTIRELY. Velma sent it after the meeting as the one thing People Safety does not have. In her original it is item 1.17.

Done — check it if you want.

Rules 1, 2 and 4 end abruptly, cutting off the last word.

Done — check it if you want.

Velma wants a permanent six-rules reference the child can reach at any time.

Done — check it if you want.

The six-rules slide opens cold, with no narration introducing the concept.

Done — check it if you want.

The 'tap each sign to uncover the rule' signs are stretched horizontal red bars. They are supposed to be stop signs and they do not look like stop signs.

Done — check it if you want.

The Six Rules pop-up is ugly and the capitalisation is wrong – 'six' lower case, the rest upper case, 'rules' lower case.

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6 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 5 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-05-rules-a-v5x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

Part 6 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-05-rules-b-v10x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 2 shot: a man on the left is pointing down the street at people for no reason. Nobody knows what he is doing.

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 3, the family code word. The teaching is incomplete: a code word is DISPOSABLE. Spencer settled the wording 20 Aug – it is not that it changes after every single use, it is that it does

Done — check it if you want.

In the rules-b street frame everyone is still white – INCLUDING the woman who approaches Brandon. The A10 pass diversified the background but deliberately left the named shopkeeper white.

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3 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 7 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-05-rules-c-v8x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 4 'Be alert': Brandon taking his hoodie off reads as odd, and the car reversing sideways out of the garage looks broken.

Done — check it if you want.

Continuity: a street full of people, then suddenly an empty street with one car driving erratically.

Done — check it if you want.

The car comes out of the garage sideways and appears to drive on the sidewalk. This is the E5 residual flagged on 21 Aug and never fixed – now client-confirmed.

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3 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 8 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-05-rules-d-v14x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 6 GO: Brandon runs away from a shopkeeper who is only offering a hug, on a busy street where he is in no danger. Running is wrong for the situation.

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 6 YELL: Brandon yells while the narration is still saying GO – the action does not match the words. He is also yelling at nobody, straight down the lens.

Done — check it if you want.

The YELL frame shows Brandon yelling at nothing – no visible threat, so the action reads as senseless.

Done — check it if you want.

Rule 6 TELL: the trusted adult he runs to looks like the same woman he just ran away from. And the badge never teaches WHO is safe to tell when a parent is not there.

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4 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 9 — The six People Safety rules

sos-ps-e8-safe-people-montage-v4x-720.mp4

Done.

No teaching exists for safe strangers at the TELL beat. She supplied the script.

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1 thing already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 10 — Your trust meter

sos-ps-06-trust-a-v7x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

Part 11 — Your trust meter

sos-ps-06-trust-b-v7x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

Part 12 — Your trust meter

sos-ps-06-trust-c-v3x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

Part 13 — Your trust meter

sos-ps-06-trust-d-v9x-720.mp4

This part as a wholeplay it from the top

Nothing is open on this part – I have not found a problem and neither has Velma. Watch it once and press Looks right, or flag it if you see something I missed. This is the only row on this part, so silence here means nobody has ever actually checked it.

Part 14 — “Your dad’s been in an accident”

sos-ps-06a-minivan-v20x-720.mp4

G2cDONE — IT IS LIVEpart 14 · 0sthe file ↗

YOU: Van rebuilt end to end as generated video – no old footage left in it. Correct seating from the first frame, and nobody walks backwards. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:52 AM CT

Van rebuilt with Seedance 2.5 as ONE BLOCK – Marcy's four lines, her voice and her mouth authored in the same pass, Dale silent beside her, Brandon listening. Live as v17x. The film got 3.2s LONGER and all three gates moved with it (trust meter 18.6 -> 21.8, quiz 21.0 -> 24.2, feelings 25.6 -> 29.0), re-measured off the finished file. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 12:14 PM CT

Seating corrected and the block regenerated whole: Marcy is in the FRONT PASSENGER seat leaning out toward Brandon, Dale is DRIVING behind the wheel on the far side, mouth closed. Live as v18x. All three gates re-measured off the new file and landed on the same numbers (21.80 / 24.20 / 29.00), verified silent. Open it in the course

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

The black lady in the van is great. We made a choice later that Velma wanted more variety and so we went with this idea of the black lady and white guy with cap in the van, it's fine. Seating had to be fixed: woman in the passenger seat, man driving.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Seating fixed and the block regenerated whole – she is in the front passenger seat leaning out, he is driving on the far side. Live as v18x.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 2:49 PM CT

Van rebuilt END TO END as generated video – there is no 2017 footage left in it at all. That old footage was both the wrong seating at the start AND the backwards walking. Now: Brandon alone on an empty street, the van pulls up, Marcy in the FRONT PASSENGER seat leaning out, Dale DRIVING on the far side with his mouth shut, then a new closing beat with his three thoughts over it. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:10 PM CT

It was the POSTER, not the film. The seating has been right since the rebuild – Marcy front passenger, Dale driving – but the poster had been cut from the MIDDLE of the film, with the van already parked and both adults in shot. That is the picture you saw before pressing play, and it advertised a scene the opening does not contain. Re-cut from 0.6s so the still and the first frame agree. posters.py now warns whenever a poster is taken from anywhere but the opening. Open it in the course

Done.

The minivan film is glitchy throughout. The first part shows the male driver alone, then jumps to driver plus female passenger. CONFIRMED FROM THE FRAMES: at 0.04 and 1.50 the passenger seat

Done — check it if you want.

The van drives up onto the sidewalk in one shot and is parked at the curb in the next. And there is no driver visible in the vehicle at all.

G2eDONE — IT IS LIVEpart 14 · 8sthe file ↗

YOU: Van captions rewritten against the finished film, every line measured. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

The new video of the lady in the van looks and sounds good, but the CLOSED CAPTIONING IS BROKEN IN TERMS OF SYNC. And when Brandon speaks after the lady in the van he says the word properly, 'SHE', but the words on the course are wrong, they say 'HE doesn't…'. That has to be fixed.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Both fixed. Every caption re-timed against the measured speech, and HE corrected to SHE in the caption track and in the lesson panel.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 2:49 PM CT

Captions rewritten from scratch against the finished film – all nine cues measured off the actual speech, not carried over. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:10 PM CT

Same root cause as G2d and now fixed with it. The van captions were timed to an earlier cut and drifted further the longer it ran – Get in quick 1.3s late, I'll take you to the hospital 2.5s, I don't know this person 3.8s. Rebuilt from the film that ships, every cue measured off the actual speech. I also checked all 18 caption tracks in the badge the same way: the van was the only one out, and turn.py now fails the turn if any track drifts from its film, so this cannot happen quietly again. Open it in the course

Done — check it if you want.

Every predator in the badge is a man.

Done.

The female passenger speaks with a man's voice. This is the flagged G2/L1 collision: the woman was lip-synced to the existing STRANGER track, which reads male. Velma's staging fix: swap the

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:36 PM CT

You broke the video again. You've got a clip at the beginning of an empty right-hand passenger seat and then it goes a couple seconds later to the proper video of the woman and the man. You have to remove the part from 0 to 4.55 seconds. That doesn't belong. It's an empty passenger seat. Just clip that out.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 8:20 AM CT

Velma: “The voices of the predators are wrong. 1) The man and woman in the van – the woman speaks with a man's voice. 2) The teenager on the bike is now a young woman with a man's voice. All the characters look the same, they have the same face. There should be some variety.” Spencer: “Run these scenes with NEW characters entirely, to fix both problems at once. Remake the van scene with man and woman completely different looking, woman speaks with proper female voice. Brandon stays the same. The teenager on the bike is clearly either a female or male, both in looks and voice.”

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 9:10 AM CT

Remade, not patched. TWO NEW PEOPLE: Marcy Okonjo, a Black woman in her forties with short natural hair, glasses and a mustard jacket, now AT THE WHEEL at the near window – which also kills the two-steering-wheel cabin – and Dale Brunner beside her, a heavyset man in his late fifties with a grey beard and a red cap, silent, hands in his lap. NEW FEMALE VOICE for her: ElevenLabs Matilda, 197-272 Hz. The real tell was never pitch – the old track sat at 205 Hz but with a spectral centroid of 1927 (dark, chesty) where a known female voice in this badge sits at 2762, and that darkness is what you and Velma both heard as a man. Brandon, the words and the running time are untouched. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:22 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:29 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done — check it if you want.

The driver's shot disappears while the question is on screen, so the child is asked about a person they can no longer see.

Done — check it if you want.

'Click on Brandon to see what he is thinking' is fussy and PowerPoint-ish.

Done.

During Brandon's inside-voice beat ('I don't know this person…') the van has no passengers at all. CONFIRMED: at 20.60, 24.50 and 28.30 you can see straight through both windows to the far

G2dDONE — IT IS LIVEpart 14 · 26sthe file ↗

YOU: Answered by measuring it: he says SHE. The caption said HE and so did the panel. Both fixed. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 2:49 PM CT

Confirmed by measurement: he says SHE. Caption and lesson panel both corrected, and the cue is now timed to where he actually says it. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:10 PM CT

You were right and I was wrong to call this done. The words and the panel were fixed; THE CAPTION TRACK NEVER WAS. The live page was still serving cues timed to an earlier cut – up to 3.8 seconds late by the end – and cue 8 still read 'HE doesn't know our family code word' when she says SHE. Rebuilt from the shipping film: 11 cues, worst drift 0.00s, and it says She. Open it in the course

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10 things already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Part 15 — The stranger on the bike

sos-ps-06b-bike-v24x-720.mp4

A10dDONE — IT IS LIVEpart 15 · 0sthe file ↗

YOU: Bike finished. I had trimmed the block and cut off 'not kids' – it ships whole now. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:38 AM CT

Rebuilt with Seedance 2.5 as ONE BLOCK – Kyle's two lines and Brandon's answer generated together, picture and voice in the same pass, audio never separated. Live now as v17x. The film got 0.7s SHORTER and both gates moved with it (quiz 15.50 -> 16.22, trust meter 22.60 -> 21.32), re-measured off the finished file. Open

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Kyle's voice is actually perfect for a kid of that size. I don't think it sounds like an adult. Go with that. What you got is fine.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Taken. Kyle stays exactly as generated, and I widened his recorded register to match what he actually is rather than the band I had guessed.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 2:10 PM CT

Bike finished. The opening was rebuilt with no start frame at all – that was what kept dragging the old girl and the backwards pedestrians in – and Brandon's line was re-rolled because Seedance had given a ten-year-old a 144 Hz grown-man pitch. He now measures 232 Hz and reads as a child. Kyle unchanged at 138 Hz, the register you approved. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 2:49 PM CT

Fixed – I had trimmed the generated block at 10.9s and cut off 'not kids'. The block ships whole now and the caption matches. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:10 PM CT

Found it, and the film was never the problem. Measured: the last words run 31.24-31.72 with real energy at -31 dB and the file runs past them. Nothing was trimmed. What happened is in the player – the video's 'ended' event called finishPart() which swapped to the NEXT LESSON on the same frame the last word finished on. The line was not cut off, it was stepped on. A part now holds a beat before it hands over, with a guard so a child who scrubs back is not yanked away. Open it in the course

Done.

Narration and caption disagree: one says 'video game store', the other says 'video store'. Video stores no longer exist.

Done — check it if you want.

'Click on Brandon to see what he is thinking' is still on screen in this lesson. G4 removed it from the trust lesson; this instance survived.

Done — check it if you want.

The teen on the bike is white.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:45 PM CT

First of all it's not a girl, it's a boy. The video is okay because it could be construed as a teenage boy with long hair but the voice is definitely a boy so you have to commit to this being a boy not a girl. Otherwise it generally looks okay. It's just the timing is a little weird with the bike – it first rides down and passes Brandon and then it kind of comes back. That's a little weird.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 8:20 AM CT

Velma: “The voices of the predators are wrong. 1) The man and woman in the van – the woman speaks with a man's voice. 2) The teenager on the bike is now a young woman with a man's voice. All the characters look the same, they have the same face. There should be some variety.” Spencer: “Run these scenes with NEW characters entirely, to fix both problems at once. Remake the van scene with man and woman completely different looking, woman speaks with proper female voice. Brandon stays the same. The teenager on the bike is clearly either a female or male, both in looks and voice.”

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 9:10 AM CT

Now the picture agrees with the voice. Kyle Ferris is unmistakably a boy of about sixteen – short cropped dark hair, squarer jaw, grey hoodie under an open black jacket – and his face is distinct from Brandon's and from every adult. The voice is unchanged at 196-213 Hz, which is exactly a teenage boy, as you said. Running time and both gates untouched. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:22 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 5:59 PM CT

Fixed by making the shot that never existed. The narrator says the stranger STOPS to ask for directions and the film never showed the stopping – that missing five seconds is why the cut felt wrong. Brandon now keeps walking in the same framing, Kyle rides up behind him and coasts to a stop, Brandon turns his head. It also solves what a wipe could not: the camera no longer teleports to the far side of the street, and the brightness step of 141 to 113 becomes 141 to 120 to 113. Silent on purpose, so it lands in the real silence between the narrator and Kyle without touching a word. Film goes 28.10 to 32.36s and both gates were re-measured, not fitted. Open it in the course

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:09 PM CT

Re-rolled. Kyle now comes in from behind the camera, overtakes Brandon from behind, coasts level and puts a foot down – he only ever moves forward, no riding past and doubling back. He is unmistakably a teenage boy in both new blocks. Film is 32.16s and both gates were re-measured off the finished stack. Open it in the course

A10eI AM MAKING ITpart 15 · 21sthe file ↗

Mine to build.

The new bike two-shot is a STILL with a slow push. Nobody moves.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 7:09 PM CT

Fixed, and measured. The last eleven seconds ran at motion 0.04-0.22 where the rest of the film runs 1.7-3.6 – not a slow push, a still. The two-shot is now a generated block where both of them move: Kyle leans over the handlebars and speaks, Brandon shifts, glances up the street and answers. Motion 0.37-0.69 through that stretch. FIRST ATTEMPT FAILED and it is worth knowing why: I referenced a frame OF the frozen shot and prompted hard for movement, and it came back frozen again at 0.15. A reference is an instruction you did not write and it outranks the one you did. It was got the officer's way instead – extended forward off the arrival block, which was already alive. Open it in the course

Done — check it if you want.

The teenager vanishes near the end and the bicycle is left standing by itself.

Done — check it if you want.

Brandon crosses directly in front of the stranger, far too close.

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Part 16 — The lost puppy

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H1bDONE — IT IS LIVEpart 16 · 0sthe file ↗

YOU: The puppy is finished, opening and all. The old man in the bushes is gone; Brandon walks home alone and the new man steps out after. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 12:32 PM CT

Puppy man recast and live as v9x. New face, new voice, made together in one pass. Open it in the course

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Three problems: 1) the old man speaks mechanically, 'I can not find' instead of 'I can't find'. 2) At the midway point the old brown man turns back into the original younger white guy. 3) After the first video it cuts to a DIFFERENT WHITE GUY at the street while Brandon is shown in a different style. SOLUTION: remake the whole scene as ONE video with the proper new brown old man in one style and actor voices.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Done exactly as you said: ONE continuous 20-second video, one man, one style, no legacy footage spliced in. He now says 'I lost my dog and I can't find him'. Live as v11x.

Done.

The man's voice is robotic.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:38 PM CT

The problem is now that his voice sounds normal it's out of sync with the lips. So either correct that in some way that works or I'm not sure what you're going to do but it's out of sync. The cadence sounds normal though.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:56 AM CT

Kept the cadence, fixed the sync. Every line is re-timed to the ORIGINAL mouth – each one now starts and ends exactly where the 2017 speech did (8.01-9.28, 9.77-10.82, 11.41-16.18). He was also much quieter than Velma, so he is levelled to match. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done.

Client confirmation of L1: the puppy man's voice is robotic. BUT Spencer, 25 Aug, listening to the live cut: “the man's voice as you have it is fine at the start of the video.” His actual qu

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:38 PM CT

the man's voice as you have it is fine at the start of the video. At 24seconds you have another voice, I don't know who that voice is, but shouldn't it be the character of "Josh" the Narrator instead?

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:29 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

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Part 17 — The pizza nobody ordered

sos-ps-07-pizza-a-v13x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

Velma reports two Brandons at the beginning of the pizza video.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:29 PM CT

The Narrator for this was supposed to have already been switched out for the FRIENDLY new Josh voice as NARRATOR in the beginning or wherever else the robotic narrator voice now exists

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:29 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done — check it if you want.

The front door is standing OPEN while Brandon is inside, in the one lesson whose entire teaching is that you do not open the door.

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Part 18 — The pizza nobody ordered

sos-ps-07-pizza-b-v8x-720.mp4

Done — check it if you want.

The door suddenly opens in the pizza lesson – contradicting the entire teaching about keeping the door locked. FOUND, and it is worse than a door: the interior of the house changes halfway t

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Part 19 — A police officer explains tricky people

sos-ps-09-officer-v14x-720.mp4

Done.

Can closed captions be added to the police officer film?

Done — check it if you want.

The captions on the officer film are the caption file from the ORIGINAL Hamilton Police interview. Wrong words and wrong timings.

J7DONE — IT IS LIVEpart 19 · 0sthe file ↗

YOU: Sergeant Mungar is finished and IN THE COURSE. The whole 130-second piece is one continuous Seedance take in one police station, her picture and her voice made together. She says uh-oh feeling now, and the captions and the on-screen words say it too – all three finally agree. ▶ Play it hereOpen in the course ↗

Done.

The replacement female officer is white. The badge has almost no visible minority characters.

Done.

Client confirmation of J1, already approved by Spencer: the officer should be a visible minority.

Done.

The question after the officer film is plain text.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:39 PM CT

Her words now say the word “awful” properly, which is great but unfortunately there's just a slight drift with her lip sync because of the way you changed the timing. I don't know if you can fix that at all.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:56 AM CT

Both halves done. The four-words quiz moved from 67.55s to 77.00s, after she has actually said no, go, yell and tell. And the lip drift you heard is gone – v12x swaps only the two words instead of restoring whole sentences, so nothing else moved. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done.

Spencer heard the passage at 107s as a narrator rather than Sergeant Mungar. MEASURED: it is her. The whole film is one voice, 36 lines, 180-247 Hz, and the closing passage matches her openi

Done.

The course uses two different names for the same thing – the 'uh-oh feeling' and the 'awful feeling'.

SpenceMon 24 Aug, 7:40 PM CT

You corrected the word “awful” but like I had said earlier, now you did the whole voice over again. You changed the timing and it drifts off way earlier with her lip sync. Maybe you can just take the last two words “awful feeling” or take the other word “awful” when she says it earlier and just fix those and not screw up the rest of the timing so that her lips are not so far off.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 3:56 AM CT

The word swap you asked for, not the sentence. v12x goes back to the lip-synced v10x track and replaces only the words 'awful feeling' in both places – 1.68 seconds of 115.20 total, measured. Every other word sits exactly where the animation expects it, so her lips do not drift. Open

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 11:23 AM CT

Settled before today. Out of the way so the list only shows what is open.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:30 PM CT

Settled earlier. Kept out of the way.

Done.

She has now DECIDED the J6 question: the officer's closing line should say 'uh-oh feeling', not 'awful feeling'. The officer narration is GENERATED audio (vo71-78), not 2017 original, so the

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Part 20 — People Safety — Badge Challenge

no film – this part is a card

K1bDONEpart 20

Done — check it if you want.

Each challenge question shows the placeholder text 'THIS STEP IS YOURS TO DO' where a picture should be.

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1 thing already open on this part, listed above. This row is for the part AS A WHOLE – anything you notice that is not one of them.

Not tied to a single lesson

47 items about the badge as a whole – navigation, voices, captions, the publish routine. No timecode exists for these, so none is offered.

A1DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Navigation is too strict. Rachel's phone screen turned off and it threw her back to the very beginning of the badge.

A10DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Almost every background character is white.

A10fDONE7 The stranger on the bike

Done.

The old girl was still riding up the road in the OPENING WIDE SHOT. The recast only ever replaced the close two-shot where the complaint had been made.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 12:32 PM CT

Found it: the old girl was still in the opening wide shot, not a cache problem. Remaking that shot now.

A11DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Right answers were sitting in the middle slot.

A12DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

British spellings through the course. Velma flagged 'neighbour' in challenge question 2; the same class of error is in five more places.

A14DONEWhole badge

Done.

Process request from the client: cross-shot consistency has now failed her three times in one lesson.

A2DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Answering a question locks out the other answers, so a child cannot see what the other answer would have said.

A3DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Answer buttons are plain and unattractive; font is 'okay, not great'.

A4DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Font and panel size jump between the question screen and the feedback screen.

A5DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

Every clip hard-cuts into the next one.

A6DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

The key points / 'What you hear' panel is only visible after tapping the full-screen icon. Velma wants it always visible.

A7DONEWhole badge

Done.

Narration voice is inconsistent. Some clips are not Josh.

A8DONEWhole badge

Done.

Josh sounds robotic in places – the lost puppy film especially.

A9DONEWhole badge

Done.

Brandon speaks with several different real children's voices salvaged from the 2017 box. One line sounds like a six-year-old. CAUSE FOUND 20 Aug: most lines attributed to Brandon are not Brandon at all – the female narrator reads them in a lighter register. Measured with the music bed removed (htdemucs) her range is 139-229 Hz and the so-called child cluster is 190-235 Hz; they overlap almost comp

C3DONE2 The gift from Mr. Taylor

Done.

Should the monster card be shown in detail? Is the hat logo a legal problem?

D3DONE4 The six rules

Done — check it if you want.

The door is standing open at the end of the video, in a badge whose whole teaching is that you do not open the door to people you do not know. RE-FILED 21 Aug: this was logged against the SECRETS film for days and that was wrong – the secrets film has no open door anywhere. It is the closing shot of the SIX RULES film.

D4DONE3 Secrets, surprises and privacy

Done.

Is the slide-style presentation (still art, no lip-sync) acceptable?

E2bDONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

The rules feature is titled 'The 6 Rules'.

F1DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

There are TWO different trust meter designs in the badge – one in the animation and a different one in the exercises.

F2DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

The meter currently answers YES / NO. The original activity had three levels.

F3DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

The trust meter graphic itself is ugly – 'looks like it melted in the sun like a crayon'.

F4DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

'What might your instincts be saying?' is confusing and adds nothing – there is no right or wrong answer, and it is asked before any scenario has happened.

F5DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

Butterflies appear in Brandon's chest, not his stomach.

F6DONE5 Your trust meter

Done — check it if you want.

Alarm situations film: the narration and the pictures are out of step, and the photo man shoves a phone into Brandon's face.

H2DONE7 The stranger on the bike

Done.

Is it a problem that the teenager sounds like he is making up a lie as he goes?

I1DONE9 The pizza nobody ordered

Done — check it if you want.

The scenario opens with the words 'Pop quiz'.

J2DONE10 A police officer explains tricky people

Done — check it if you want.

'Behaviours' is spelled the British way in the Line to Remember.

K1DONE11 Badge challenge

Done.

Velma had not reviewed the badge challenge when she wrote either email. This was never a defect – it is her own note that she had not looked at section 11 yet.

L2DONE8 The lost puppy

Done — check it if you want.

Brandon turns and stares at the stranger for the last eight seconds instead of leaving.

M1DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

The player bounces around the screen when the size of the video changes. On a part with no film the video space collapses and everything below jumps up.

M10DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

FOUND BY SHOOTING THE PAGE, not reported. The six-rules card and the lesson list ran below the bottom of the window on desktop – rules 5 and 6 were off screen – and the Escape key did not close either of them.

M11DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

FOUND BY SHOOTING THE PAGE, not reported. In full-screen landscape the 'What you hear' key points ran off the bottom of the screen, and the docked control bar switched itself on behind the full-screen layer.

M12DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

The video jiggles between shots – rough cuts where one generated shot butts straight into the next.

M13DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

A huge difference between the voices and the movements of the mouths.

M14DONEWhole badge

Done — check it if you want.

The one-page badge – the thing the client actually opens – was serving eleven SUPERSEDED films and was missing the six-safe-people montage entirely. Every fix made during the overnight run was invisible on it.

M3DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

The lessons sit inside the Kadence content box with a shadow at the bottom.

M4DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

Anything you click that starts reading aloud has no way to stop it.

M5DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

On desktop the fonts are so small as to be unbelievable.

M6DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

The new CSS cuts off the bottom of the title line – descenders are clipped.

M7DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

Play a film, then click to another lesson, and the audio from the first film is still going.

M8DONEPlayer chassis

Done — check it if you want.

If you scroll away from the player while something is playing, there is no way to stop it without scrolling back.

PROC1DONEHow films get made

Done.

Three consecutive lip-sync failures on the van and the bike, all one cause: new material was being fitted into the OLD timecodes instead of the timeline being allowed to move.

PROC2DONEHow films get made

Done.

I picked kling3_0 for the speaking shots because one clip came back in sync – a sample of one, mistaken for a property of the tool – and never enumerated what else was there.

PROC3DONECharacter roster

Done.

I had animated Brandon and live-action Brandon fused into one character, which is what forced his shots to be animated to a fixed audio track – the only remaining source of drift.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:58 PM CT

We've already covered this a million times. You've already got the animated Brandon voice don't you?

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:58 PM CT

Answered by measuring instead of asking: Brandon is 283 Hz in the gift, 283 in the van, 210 in the pizza – the same boy throughout. Only the bike is wrong, at 144 Hz, because Seedance generated that one line itself. No badge-wide re-voice. Closed.

PROC4DONEHow films get made

Done.

Nothing is being generated until the production script for a lesson has been read and approved.

PROC5DONEHow the course is delivered

Done.

Eleven flat lesson pages were still being published alongside the badge. Fetched live: a lesson page carries 0 players, 1 film and 0 gates; the badge carries 5 player mounts, 18 films and 34 gates. The lesson pages are the thing the interactive player replaced, and every 'here is where this video lives' link I handed over pointed at one of them instead of at the course.

SpenceTue 25 Aug, 1:46 PM CT

Archived as obvious – the player instead of lesson pages.

FERNANDOTue 25 Aug, 1:56 PM CT

Spencer archived this as obvious: the player replaces the lesson pages. Done and out of the way.

S2DONE2 The gift from Mr. Taylor

Done.

Two lines at the top of the gift film are adult words in a boy's register – 'You've got to be more aware of what's going on' at 1.92s (240 Hz, 72 clean frames) and 'Come on, dude, you're smarter than that' at 11.44s. Mr. Taylor measures 104-140 Hz, so it is not him; Brandon measures 215-401, so it fits him. But Brandon is on camera reacting at 2.0-4.0s, and the words scold rather than answer. Noth