I Refused to Fake AURADUEL’s Crowd for Its 117-Second Shipaton Demo Video
1. The rules, read before anything else
Devpost is strict about the video, so the rules were copied literally into the first lines of the script file on September 12: under two minutes, public on YouTube or Vimeo, it must show the app working on the real device, no third-party music or trademarks, in English or with English subtitles. After September 30 it cannot be edited.
Two more rules were mine. Nothing in the video promises what the app does not do. And nothing inside a screenshot gets retouched. Both of them cost work later. Both were worth it.
2. The script came before the camera
I dictated three blocks in this order: the emotional part, the design, the technique. The order stayed. What changed was the shape.
The judges watch dozens of videos, so the first four seconds carry one sentence in my voice: "Being me was always a...
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