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What Exists in the Deepest Place on Earth?

What to study

Curiosity Gap

  • The Mariana Trench is a name most viewers know, but few could say what lives there.
  • The creature is an answer you can't name, with fins on top and spindly bent arms.
  • Dark rock walls frame it dead center, so nothing pulls your eye away.
How the packaging works
Title

What Exists keeps the question wide open, and Deepest Place on Earth explains why the name on the thumbnail matters to viewers who don't know it.

Thumbnail

Thin, wide-spaced capitals look like a film title card, promising a proper documentary, and the creature hangs alone between dark rock walls.

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When your topic is a famous place or thing people know by name but have never seen inside, put the name on the thumbnail in clean capitals. Show one strange thing found there, and don't label it.

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The transferable lesson

Name a famous place, show one unlabeled oddity from inside it, and viewers want to know what else is there.

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