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Host-led explainer episode

A documentary-style explainer with your own on-camera host. The host talks to camera in a few locations, the narration cuts to cinematic b-roll on the key words, and lower thirds and quote cards carry the facts. The same face in every shot, lip sync checked line by line. Our example is "The Last Invention", an explainer about AI.

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Example from Pixel Dojo.

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What you provide

  • The topic and the one idea the episode argues
  • Your host: a saved character, or a description
  • A 10 to 20 second clip of the host's voice (optional)
  • Two to four places the host talks from
  • Length: 2, 3 or 4 minutes
  • Tone, e.g. calm and curious, or punchy
  • Sources or notes to draw facts from (optional)

What Sensei does

  1. Research and a script of host lines and voiceover lines, with sources
  2. One host locked across every location, one voice for every line
  3. Every host line lip-synced and re-made if the mouth drifts
  4. B-roll cut on the spoken words, lower thirds, quote cards, music and room tone

The brief Sensei follows

Make a [Length: 2, 3 or 4 minutes] host-led explainer episode about [The topic and the one idea the episode argues], [Tone, e.g. calm and curious, or punchy], 16:9, 1080p, with captions. First call web research on [The topic and the one idea the episode argues] (start from [Sources or notes to draw facts from] if given) and keep the source URL for every fact and number. Then call the explainer maker with action start: topic = [The topic and the one idea the episode argues], tone = [Tone, e.g. calm and curious, or punchy], minutes from [Length: 2, 3 or 4 minutes], setups = the places in [Two to four places the host talks from], host_image_url = [Your host: a saved character, or a description] if it is a photo or saved character (else host_description = [Your host: a saved character, or a description]), voice_url = [A 10 to 20 second clip of the host's voice] if given, and sources = your research notes with their URLs. The host is one original adult, never a real person or a look-alike. Tell the user it takes 30 to 60 minutes, keep calling status until it is ready, then deliver the video, the SRT and the list of sources.

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