Intro film credits

Understanding our changing world.

Music

“Channel Intro 6” by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Edited and extended for this film.

Film and photography

“Data Center Tour & Technical Deep Dive into the Power, Data and Cooling Infrastructure!” by Lawrence Systems, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Excerpted, cropped, muted and colour-graded.

“Visit the E-beam Machine”: footage by Jennifer Lauren Lee / NIST; animation by Sean Kelley / NIST. Adapted for PakistanFirst.

Faisal Mosque photograph: Wasif Mehmood / Pexels. Cropped and colour-treated; also used as a reference for the architectural reconstruction.

Energy footage from Pexels: thermal generation, nuclear generation and wind turbines by K (@kelly); solar farm by Kindel Media. Edited and arranged as a composite under the Pexels License.

Earth imagery and geography

Opening globe: NASA / DSCOVR EPIC natural-colour satellite imagery. Earth surface: NASA Earth Observatory Blue Marble Next Generation. Cloud composite: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Reto Stockli, with enhancements by Robert Simmon. Images adapted for framing, colour, movement and globe projection. NASA media guidance; no NASA endorsement is implied.

Faisal Mosque location: OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Geographic calculations use GeographicLib by Charles Karney (MIT license).

Original production

PakistanFirst identity, editorial design, procedural landmark models, landscape, camera movement and animated routes. Architecture and unseen surroundings are interpretive reconstructions; illuminated routes are illustrative.