Character profiles in documentary: what to include and when to write them

A paper cut is a written assembly of interview selects in the order the editor plans to use them. It is the blueprint for the rough cut. Here is how it works.

Embedding-based semantic search finds passages by meaning rather than by matching words. Here is what an embedding is in plain terms, how the search works, and where it still misses things.

Retrieval-augmented generation answers questions about indexed interview transcripts by retrieving relevant chunks and grounding the model's output in those chunks. Here is how the pipeline works and where it still fails.