01 · Article & source
El Niño looms but South Africa’s farmers are better prepared for drought
- Publisher
- Sunday Times, credited to Business Day
- Byline
- Stella Mapenzauswa, Economics Editor
- Published
- 15 September 2026, 11:55
- Article text
- Fetched from the supplied URL; full body verified
What the article reports
The source record keeps the evidence behind each line of reel copy, so every claim in the reel can be checked against the article.
02 · Copy review
The article becomes eight short fields.
The template sets a character limit for each field, and each line is paired with the finding it comes from. Select a field to play its scene.
Left empty
Cleared to match the Dark Red house style, so the footer shows only the progress line.
03 · Timing
Six scenes, five seconds each.
Each scene carries one idea. Select a scene to jump to it in the reel.
Each scene fades up over 0.55s, holds, then exits over 0.25s. The music fades in over the first second and out from 28s. The progress line runs the full 30 seconds.
04 · Render & review
Checked before it’s rendered, approved before it’s published.
Automated checks run on the composition. Approvals are recorded separately, and publishing is manual.
Composition checks
- Lint & runtimePassed
0 errors and 0 runtime errors.
- LayoutPassed
0 issues across 9 sampled frames.
- MotionPassed
0 issues.
- ContrastPassed
10 of 10 text checks pass WCAG AA.
- Visual reviewDone
All six midpoint snapshots inspected. Copy, wordmark, rules and source are visible without clipping.
- WarningsReviewed
3 template warnings, all from the master design: an absolute audio-volume tween, six scenes on one track, and two empty photo slots that share a blank source. The slots stay hidden, so the render is unaffected.
Approvals
- Copy approvalApproved
Copy signed off. The status label is off to match the final style.
- Logo rightsCleared
The wordmark was supplied by the Sunday Times from its brand guide.
- Music rightsLicensed
Sam River, “In Other News”, licensed from Artlist. Final tracks will come from Gallo Records, which Arena Holdings owns alongside the Sunday Times.
Built with HyperFrames 0.8.40. Output: 1080 × 1920, 30 seconds, H.264.