Dr Antonio Pablo Velandrino Nicolás
A Creative Proposal
A patient says their voice problem scores a twelve. Is that bad, or close to normal? Until this study, a clinician in Spain had no proper benchmark to say. It built the missing yardstick, and a yardstick is a quietly powerful thing to put in a film.
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Research
The Paper
Normative Values for the Spanish Version of the VHI-10 — Velandrino Nicolás A, Cabello Luque F, Álvarez-Gómez J. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2026. DOI: 10.1159/000552107. PMID: 42044143.
The Voice Handicap Index is one of the most widely used tools in voice care. In its short form, the VHI-10, a patient answers ten simple questions about how their voice affects their daily life, and the answers add up to a single score. It is quick, it comes straight from the patient, and that is why clinicians everywhere rely on it. But a score on its own is only half the information. To know whether a given number is high, you have to know what people without a voice problem typically score, and for Spanish speakers that reference had not been established.
Your study fills that gap. You gathered the VHI-10 scores of 709 adults across southeastern Spain, aged 18 to 92, with no diagnosed voice disorder, and from them built the normative values that were missing: what a typical score looks like, a threshold above which a voice problem is likely, and a full set of percentiles to place any individual score in context. It is painstaking, methodical work, and it turns the questionnaire from a number into a number that means something.
That is exactly the kind of contribution a film serves well, because its value is easy to feel and easy to overlook at the same time. A clinician who now has a Spanish benchmark can spot a voice problem and grade how severe it is with more confidence. The people who benefit, from voice clinics to the many Spanish-speaking clinicians who lacked this reference, will mostly never read the paper itself. A short film gives the work a second, wider door, and carries it to the practitioners who will use it every week.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1159/000552107
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42044143/
A Number That Means Something | Draft script and scene structure
The Script
Running time written for 60 seconds, five scenes, and scales cleanly to 90 or 120. A first draft, built from your paper, and a starting point rather than a finished thing.
Timing
Visual
Voiceover
0:00–0:12 · The hook
A person at a clinic answers ten short questions on a tablet about how their voice affects their life. The answers resolve into a single number.
Your voice carries your work, your relationships, almost everything about how you meet the world. When something goes wrong with it, how do you measure how much it matters? One widely used tool simply asks: ten questions, answered by the patient, that add up to a single score.
0:12–0:30 · The problem
The patient's score appears, a number alone on the screen. A question mark hangs beside it. Is it high? Is it normal? There is nothing to compare it against.
But a score on its own only tells you half the story. Say a patient scores a twelve. Is that a real problem, or close to normal? To know, you need to know what people without any voice trouble usually score. For Spanish speakers, that reference did not exist.
0:30–0:46 · The work
Many ordinary people in Spain answer the same ten questions. Their scores gather into a clear distribution, from which a typical value and a threshold line emerge.
So this study asked more than seven hundred people in Spain, of all ages and with no voice disorder, to answer the same ten questions. From their scores came the missing benchmark: a typical score sits below five, and a score above about ten points to a likely problem.
0:46–0:58 · Why it matters
The original patient's score is placed against the new benchmark, and its meaning becomes clear. The clinic now reads it with confidence.
Now that patient's twelve has meaning. A clinician in Spain can place any score against a proper reference, and judge whether there's a voice problem and how severe it is. A simple questionnaire, finally calibrated for the people using it.
0:58–1:00 · The close
A calm closing frame. Paper title, authors, journal, and the link to read the full study.
A measuring stick built where there wasn't one. The full study is below.
This script is a first draft, built from your paper. Every word is open for refinement together.
Look and feel
Visual Direction
Two written directions. Both are described so you can feel the register before anything is drawn. Our steer is to build one precise system and open it with a human moment before letting the measurement take over — a decision for the alignment stage.
Option 1: The Yardstick
Data-led and calm
Clear, calm and data-led. The film is built around the idea of measurement itself: the ten questions, the single score, the distribution of ordinary voices, and the threshold that gives the score meaning. Elegant and precise, closer to a high-end data explainer than to decoration, with the central metaphor of a measuring stick running quietly through it. This direction speaks most directly to the clinicians and researchers who will actually use the benchmark. Palette: restrained and precise, an authoritative base with a single clear accent for the threshold and the score that crosses it.
Option 2: The Human Voice
Warmer, wider reach
Warmer and more human. The film leads with the voices themselves, a teacher or a singer, someone whose work depends on being heard, and the quiet worry when a voice starts to fail, before arriving at the questionnaire and the benchmark that helps make sense of it. The measurement is still there and still accurate, but the weight falls on the people. This direction reaches the wider audience, including the teachers and singers who live by their voices.
Deliverables
What We Will Build
The deliverable is a complete, launch-ready film built to the highest production standard.
01 / Master film
A Scrolly Explainer at the agreed length
Professionally recorded voiceover, original sound design and a music bed chosen to fit the tone. Delivered in full resolution at 16:9. Built for conferences, teaching, voice clinics, your institutional channels, and anywhere you present the work.
02 / Short-form cuts
30-second and 15-second edits
Edits from the master for social and any targeted promotion. The argument compressed without being simplified.
03 / Square and vertical versions
9:16 and 1:1 reformats
Reformats of the master for LinkedIn, X and other platforms. Reframed and re-edited where the composition demands it.
04 / Full ownership, every format
All final files in full resolution
You own the finished work outright, with no licensing restrictions or ongoing fees.
Four stages
How We Work
Four stages from alignment to delivery. From contract to delivery is approximately four to six weeks for the standard build.
Alignment
01
We make sure we fully understand the paper, the audience and what the film needs to do. The script you've seen is a starting point. We refine it together until every line earns its place, including how the figures and the measurement are described, and we settle the language question here. Nothing proceeds without agreement on what the film is saying.
Visual development
02
We build the chosen visual direction into a full storyboard, scene by scene, so you see exactly how the film will move before a frame is animated. You choose the direction and, if you want narration, the voice. Nothing goes into production without your sign-off.
Production
03
Our team builds the film. You have a review point at rough cut, where you and your co-authors can give consolidated feedback before the final pass. We don't disappear and come back with a finished film. You're involved at every milestone.
Delivery
04
Final files in every format you need, with a guide on where and how each cut is best deployed, then the distribution campaign if you choose to run one.
Timing
Why Now
There's a real reason to move now.
Path forward
Next Steps
If the script is close, the next step is a short Microsoft Teams call to walk through it, agree the length, the language and the audience focus, and settle the visual direction. From there we move into alignment and the project is underway.
Walk through the script
01
A short Teams call to review the draft, agree length, language and audience focus, and settle the visual direction.
Refine if needed
02
If it's not quite right, tell us where it misses, and we'll send a revised draft before any call. The thinking is on us either way.
Choose the visual lean
03
Decide whether to lead with the Yardstick for clinicians, the Human Voice for wider reach, or one precise system opened with a human moment.
Begin production
04
Once scope is agreed, begin alignment and script refinement, then storyboard and production on a four-to-six-week standard build.
Legal
Legal and Commercial Terms
This proposal is prepared for Dr Antonio Pablo Velandrino Nicolás and his co-authors, and is otherwise confidential. The script, visual concepts, creative direction, and structural approach in this document are the intellectual property of Animara Studios Ltd until a formal agreement is signed and a deposit received. This document is not a contract or binding agreement. All pricing, timelines, and deliverables will be confirmed in a separate Statement of Work. Animara Studios Ltd operates under English law.
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