BECOME A WITNESS
The upload is deliberately ceremonial
Recording happens in the app and nowhere else, and the archive enrols witnesses by invitation — enrolment needs an access code. Enrol once, hold the camera whichever way the moment asks for — upright or across — and the archive keeps that shape. Four steps, one take, no editing screen.
12.0s
FIXED LENGTH
1
TAKE PER MOMENT
0
EDITING SCREENS
STEP ONE
RECORDING
Hold still for twelve seconds
One take, sound included. The counter is the only control on screen.
STEP TWO
CONFIRMING
Confirm the place and the caption
There is no editing screen. You confirm the recording or you discard it.
STEP THREE
HELD
Held privately in your record
Nothing publishes from the camera. A take waits in your record until you submit it, so you can keep recording and decide later.
STEP FOUR
ACCESSIONED
The archive issues an accession number
Submitted with a consent affirmation, catalogued by place, hour, and coordinate, then held under the custody term.
RECORD
HOLD STILL
EITHER SHAPE IS ACCESSIONED
0.0 / 12.0s
NO EDITING SCREEN · CONFIRM OR DISCARD
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Read the archive anywhere. Recording only happens here, and enrolment takes one minute.
What is accessioned, what is returned
ACCESSIONED
Twelve unbroken seconds, recorded in one take with sound.
ACCESSIONED
A place name and a caption in the witness’s own words.
ACCESSIONED
A coordinate accurate to the street, captured at the moment of recording.
RETURNED
Anything edited, trimmed, stabilised, filtered, or re-recorded after the take.
RETURNED
Anything staged, performed to camera, or captioned to persuade.
RETURNED
Anything recorded of a person who could not consent to being kept.
The words we use
The vocabulary is part of the promise. If the language slips into platform habits, the institution follows.
post, upload
add to the archive
approved
accessioned
rejected, removed
returned
creator, user
witness, contributor
content, video
recording, moment
feed, trending
collection, room