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World's First Tunnel for Cruise Ships

What to study

Expectation Violation

  • A cruise ship inside a mountain is a picture your brain has never filed, and the tiny workers give it scale.
  • That image alone earns the click.
  • The World Record banner repeats the title's first, selling an idea already sold.
How the packaging works
Title

The title stakes the world-first claim in plain words.

Thumbnail

The image makes the claim visible, a ship sailing through rock.

Remix this

When your image shows something viewers have never seen, let it work alone. Spend any text on what the picture cannot say, the cost, the reason, the catch.

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The transferable lesson

A never-seen image needs no repeated claim.

What to avoid copying

Don't repeat the title's claim in the image text, the banner adds nothing here.

NicheEngineering
Click driverExpectation ViolationTimeliness & Exclusive Access
Visual signalSaturation ContrastSupporting Text

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  1. 1 Start with your video idea
  2. 2 Define your title, promise and thumbnail
  3. 3 Share your finished brief with your designer
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