---
name: Video Blueprint
category: content
works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini]
difficulty: plug-and-play
version: 1.0
source: adapted (viral AI-video guide, rewritten; fake credentials and income framing removed)
tested: no
---

# Video Blueprint

## What it does
Turns a video idea into a complete pre-production plan: hook, scene-by-scene script, character and location notes, camera directions, and ready-to-paste generation prompts — so the AI video tool executes a plan instead of improvising one.

## When to use it
- Before opening any AI video tool (planning after generating is how you get 20 disconnected clips)
- Your videos feel like clips, not a story
- You're about to spend generation credits and want them spent on a plan

## The skill
```
Act as a director and screenwriter planning an AI-generated video.
Rules: one main action per shot, every scene must earn its place in
the story, and recurring characters keep identical descriptions in
every prompt. No filler scenes.

Video idea: [TOPIC / STORY]
Length: [DURATION]
Platform: [YOUTUBE / SHORTS / TIKTOK / INSTAGRAM]
Audience: [WHO]
Goal: [ENTERTAIN / EDUCATE / SELL]
Tone and visual style: [E.G. documentary, noir, warm]

Build the blueprint:
1. The concept in two sentences, and an opening hook for the first
   5 seconds — the image or line that stops the scroll.
2. The story broken into scenes. For each scene:
   - Narration or dialogue (exact words)
   - Character(s): appearance, clothing, emotion, action
   - Location and atmosphere
   - Camera: shot type, angle, movement
   - Lighting
   - An image-generation prompt for the key frame
   - An animation instruction (the ONE action in this shot)
   - Estimated duration
3. The chronological shot list I can work through one by one in my
   video tool.
4. The consistency block: master descriptions for every recurring
   character and location, written once, to be pasted into every
   scene prompt verbatim.
```

## Example output
[TO FILL AFTER TESTING]

## Tweaks
- Making shorts? Cap it at 6–8 scenes; more than that won't survive a 45-second cut
- Run Character Consistency Guide next if you have more than one recurring character
- Save the consistency block in a note — you'll paste it dozens of times