Faceless Channel Pipeline
A four-step chain from topic to finished faceless video: script, shot list, generation prompts, and the metadata to publish it.
A repeatable pipeline for a faceless channel. Run each step, check the output, then paste it into the next. **Step 1: The script.** ``` Write a [60 / 90 / 180] second script about [TOPIC] for a [NICHE] channel. Audience: [WHO WATCHES AND WHY] Channel voice: [e.g. "calm and factual" / "fast and irreverent"] Format: [top-list / single story / how-something-works / myth versus fact] Rules: - The first sentence states the payoff or the tension. No introduction, no channel branding, no "in this video". - One idea per sentence, at about 140 words per minute of target length. - Every 15 seconds, an open loop: a question, a reversal, or a promise that keeps them watching. - Concrete specifics only. Every number, name, and date must be something I can verify, and anything you are not certain of is marked [VERIFY] rather than stated. - End on the payoff, then one line inviting a specific action. Return the script as numbered sentences. ``` **Step 2: The shot list.** ``` Turn this script into a shot list. One visual per sentence. Script: [PASTE STEP 1] For each sentence: the visual in one line, the shot type, and whether it needs generated video, stock, a screen recording, or a text card. Vary the visual type at least every three shots. Where a sentence is abstract, choose a concrete image that stands for it rather than a literal illustration. Return a table: sentence number, script line, visual, shot type, duration. ``` **Step 3: The generation prompts.** ``` Write video generation prompts for every shot marked "generated" in this list. Shot list: [PASTE STEP 2] Style spine, identical in every prompt: [PALETTE, LIGHTING, LENS LOOK, GRADE] Each prompt: the style spine, then the subject and one action, then the camera as one move or static, then the audio. Under 120 words. No on-screen text, no watermarks, and nothing that requires readable text or recognizable faces. ``` **Step 4: The publish pack.** ``` From this script, write: 8 title options under 60 characters, a description whose first two lines carry the hook, chapter labels if the video is over 3 minutes, 12 tags, a thumbnail concept described as an image prompt with at most 4 words of on-screen text, and a pinned comment question. Script: [PASTE STEP 1] Every title must be a promise the script actually keeps. ``` --- Check between steps: after step 1, verify every [VERIFY] fact yourself. After step 2, confirm no three consecutive shots look alike. After step 3, generate one shot before generating all of them.
How to use
Splitting this into four calls is what makes the output usable, because a single prompt asking for a script, shots, prompts, and metadata does all four adequately and none of them well. The [VERIFY] step between one and two is the one to keep: faceless channels live on stated facts, and a confidently wrong number in the first ten seconds is the comment that follows the video everywhere. Generate one shot before committing to the batch.
More video prompts
[Attach your first frame image, and the last frame image if your tool supports it, then use this prompt:] Animate from the first image to the last image. What changes between them: [THE ONE TRANSFORMATION, e.g. "the closed box opens and the product rises out of it" / "the empty street fills with morning light" / "the character turns fro
First and Last Frame Control
Direct a video model between two fixed images so the motion, timing, and transition land exactly where you need them for an edit.
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Multi-Shot Character Consistency
Keep one character looking like the same person across separately generated shots using a locked description block and fixed style spine.
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Explainer Video
Turn a product or concept into a 60 to 90 second explainer with a script timed to shots, so the visuals carry what the words cannot.