The brief

Open titles for a documentary series about builders. Patient work — it deserved a patient open.

The cut

Fifty-two seconds, eleven cards, one typeface. The pacing borrows from print: hold, breathe, turn the page. Nothing moves faster than it has to.

The grade

Print stock, not screen. Soft highlights and a paper-white base so the type feels set, not rendered.

The result

The open ran unchanged across all eight episodes. The network asked who cut it.