Credits
What is whose
Her words, licensed footage, generated footage and synthesised voices — each named.
The writing
Every word of both books is Krissy Hall’s and is carried here unchanged — the eleven chapters, the callouts, the nine-item check, the seven affirmations, the note for grown-ups, the author’s note, and all twenty lines of the living book. A gate in this build re-derives the visible text of every page and diffs it against her manuscript, so an accidental edit anywhere fails the build. Everything else on this page is mine.
Generated footage — 8 loops
These have no photograph, so they were generated with OpenAI sora-2
and are disclosed as generated wherever they appear. Every one is abstract: no person, no face,
no hands, and no lettering.
| Loop | Where | Length | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
machine | The book’s contents page · Chapter 1 · Meet Your Machine | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
captain | The living book · Chapter 2 · Who’s the Captain? | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
dashboard | Everything You Can Try · Chapter 3 · Your Dashboard Lights | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
healthy | My Machine Check, and the film · Chapter 11 · I Am Healthy | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
messengers | Tool 1 · Your Feelings Are Messengers | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
calm | Tool 2 · Your Calm Button | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
movie | Tool 4 · The Movie in Your Mind | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
yet | What Was Checked · Tool 5 · The Magic Word | 6.542s | sora-2 (generated) |
Licensed footage — 12 loops
Real photography, licensed from Pexels, each credited to the person who shot it.
| Loop | Where it appears | Filmed by | Length | Original |
|---|---|---|---|---|
hero | The home page | Taryn Elliott | 7s | Pexels |
gate | Chapter 4 · Polish Your Gate | Towfiqu barbhuiya | 7s | Pexels |
rinse | Chapter 5 · Rinse Off the Day | K | 6.667s | Pexels |
deck | Chapter 6 · A Clear Deck | Max Vakhtbovych | 6.5s | Pexels |
tank | Chapter 7 · Fill the Tank | Sini Ko | 7.042s | Pexels |
fuel | Chapter 8 · Good Fuel, Happy Engine | cottonbro studio | 7s | Pexels |
run | Chapter 9 · Let the Engine Run | Kampus Production | 6.5s | Pexels |
recharge | Chapter 10 · Plug In and Recharge | Kurt Von | 7.042s | Pexels |
clouds | Credits · Tool 3 · Thoughts Are Like Clouds | Miguel Á. Padriñán | 7.042s | Pexels |
futureyou | About the Author · Tool 6 · Meet Future You | Matthias Groeneveld | 7s | Pexels |
kind | Things My Machine Loves to Hear · Tool 7 · Kind Words Make a Kind World | James Cheney | 7.042s | Pexels |
grownups | For the Grown-Ups | Kampus Production | 7s | Pexels |
The voices
The living book is synthesised speech, not recorded children:
ElevenLabs eleven_v3, Matilda narrating and
Lily for the kid lines, 20 separate takes totalling
2m 16s. The “say it to me” buttons elsewhere use your own browser’s speech engine,
which is why they sound different and why they do not work everywhere.
Every loop is seamless
Each of the 20 loops is cut so its last frames dissolve into its first, then checked frame-by-frame: the join must not be more different than the clip’s own neighbouring frames, or it fails. See what was checked.