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A specialized skill for the story-architect and narrator agents covering documentary narrative structure. Provides 3-act structure, emotion curves, scene arrangement, and narrative patterns by documentary type. Use for 'treatment,' 'narrative structure,' '3-act,' 'emotion curve,' and similar topics.

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# Narrative Structure — Documentary Narrative Structure Methodology

Specialized narrative knowledge used by the story-architect and narrator agents when designing treatments and narration.

## Why Documentaries Need Narrative

Listing facts makes a report. Layering facts with **narrative structure** makes a documentary. What keeps the audience watching to the end is not information, but the curiosity of "what happens next?"

## 5 Documentary Narrative Types

### 1. Investigative
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Mystery/Question -> Clue gathering -> Obstacle -> Breakthrough -> Truth discovery
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