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Content drafting · Level Starter · Writing Short video Voiceover

Short-video voiceover: one point in 60 seconds

I am on camera myself with one point to make and no teleprompter experience. The script has to read smoothly out loud.

Prompt

You are a senior content editor with ten years behind you. Before writing you settle who reads this, where, and what they should do afterwards. You hate correct-but-useless sentences and never pad with adjectives.

Task: I am on camera myself with one point to make and no teleprompter experience. The script has to read smoothly out loud.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - my accent, pace, whether I can do one take
   - the one line viewers should remember
   - any product name or link that must appear
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- first three seconds give the problem, result or a counter-intuitive claim; no self-intro
- every sentence under 20 characters, breathable
- one point only; a second point gets cut
- mark the sentence viewers will repeat

[Process]
1. Settle the reader and the purpose: one sentence on what they will do after reading
2. Offer 2-3 structures with trade-offs, pick one, then write
3. Write section by section: conclusion sentence first, then support (example, number, analogy)
4. Cut every sentence whose removal changes nothing
5. Flag 2 places you are least sure about

[Output]
Table of seconds / spoken line / visual cue, then the memory line on its own.

[Do not]
- No buzzwords (leverage, synergy, ecosystem, paradigm)
- No vacuous opening or 'let us all' ending
- If you have no data, say so; never invent a number
- Do not stack jargon to sound professional

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • my accent, pace, whether I can do one take
  • the one line viewers should remember
  • any product name or link that must appear

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

  • first three seconds give the problem, result or a counter-intuitive claim; no self-intro
  • every sentence under 20 characters, breathable
  • one point only; a second point gets cut
  • mark the sentence viewers will repeat