Script + Edit Team for Faceless History Channel — $50/video, Ongoing (4–6 videos/month)

I'm looking for a two-person team—one writer, one editor—to produce short narrated history documentaries for a faceless YouTube channel. I prefer a team that already collaborates effectively, rather than two freelancers that I would need to coordinate. The channel: the aftermath of well-known 20th-century events—what happened to the people involved after the cameras left. Sample titles from the queue: What Happened to Stalin's Children After His Death? · Hiroo Onoda Fought WW2 Until 1974—What Happened When He Came Home · 1 Soviet Officer Refused the Order—The Night Stanislav Petrov Stopped a Nuclear War I have 20 scored titles ready and add more monthly. SCRIPT — $15 1,300–1,500 words (~9–10 minutes narrated). Cold open of 80–120 words that poses the question before any context. Written for voiceover: short sentences, no tongue twisters, no subordinate-clause pileups. Source list at the end with a citation for every factual claim. Delivered in Google Docs. EDIT — $35 The finished cut is 9–10 minutes long, in 1080p MP4 format, and includes the project file, which is built from the script and a voiceover track that I supply. Archival stills, maps, and documents with subtly varied Ken Burns motion—a new image every 4–7 seconds. On-screen text for names, dates, and places. Music from a library I pay for. Source log listing every asset used. This format is a fixed template. Same intro treatment, same text style, same pacing recipe for every video. I want a team that gets fast at repeating it, not one that redesigns the look each time. $50 per finished video. 4–6 videos per month, ongoing. Rising to $65 after ten accepted videos. Three non-negotiables 1. Facts must be real and checkable. What I'm paying for is a writer who verifies every writing against actual sources and fixes what's wrong. I check every claim. Fabricated facts end the contract. 2. Restraint on difficult material. Much of this subject matter touches on the Holocaust, atomic warfare, and political violence. It must be written and cut with restraint—factual, human, and specific; never lurid, never dwelling on graphic physical detail. No graphic imagery, no horror-movie sound design, no dramatic zoom-punches on distressing photographs. Sensational treatment costs the channel most of its ad revenue at the same view count, so this approach is not a taste preference—it's the economics of the channel. 3. Legitimate sourcing only. Public-domain archives (Library of Congress, National Archives, Bundesarchiv, Imperial War Museum where terms allow) or licensed stock. No ripping footage from other YouTube channels or documentaries. Reused content is the main way channels like this get demonetized, and I audit the source log on every delivery. PAID TRIAL — $25 total One assigned title: The Fate of Rudolf Höss's Children—The Family Beside Auschwitz Rudolf Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz. His wife and five children lived in a villa immediately adjoining the camp. The story is what became of those children across the decades that followed—several lived long lives, and at least one has spoken publicly about it in recent years. The 2023 film The Zone of Interest brought the household to wide attention. Writer — $10: 400-word opening section plus a source list Editor — $15: cut the first 2 minutes from that script, using a voiceover I'll supply within 24 hours of receiving it, with a source log I pay every shortlisted team for this, whether or not I hire. Turnaround: 4 days. Rights: work-for-hire, full copyright assigned on payment. Standard contract. Turnaround target once running: 4 days from script approval to finished cut. To apply, answer all four: Start your proposal with the word ARCHIVE. Who are the two people? Send links or samples for each—writer samples and edited videos, separately. I want to know which person did what. Will the same two people work on every video, or does the assignment rotate within a larger team? I'm hiring for consistency, and I'd rather know now. Where do you source public-domain WWII-era photography, and how do you verify that an image is actually in the public domain? Proposals that skip any of these are ignored.