idea 04 · needs footage
Hero film in chapters
The conservation film in short chapters instead of one long clip.
Rijksmuseum, Operation Night Watch
The conservation was livestreamed and the research published in stages, so the story arrived as episodes rather than one film.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch
Chapter 01
The chamber goes up
01The chamber goes up2:10
02Fifty-six days of scanning3:44
03The varnish comes off4:52
Tap a chapter. The bar restarts on that segment and runs. A real film swaps in behind the same control.
Sample · needs footage
Three chapters with their own progress segments, auto-advance, and a jump on tap. It honours prefers-reduced-motion by filling the segment instead of animating it. The still behind it is a CC0 photograph standing in for your footage.