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In “Create a video”, the “Explained story” tab makes a video where a voice tells you what is happening to you, step by step. A single drawn hero, the numbers on animated cards.

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What the app does with it

  • A voice over alone, from the first shot to the last, that speaks to the viewer as “you”. They are the hero: the first words throw them into the situation (“You just…”), with no preamble.
  • One step, one problem: the story moves forward day by day and every step runs into a concrete problem, explained with real numbers (prices, thresholds, laws and deadlines of the country of the video’s language). An uncertain number is said without a number rather than invented.
  • A single drawn hero: their face stays the same from one shot to the next. The other people remain silhouettes.
  • Still images that the camera moves across: no animated clips. A wide shot is followed by a tight shot on the same image, for a cut every 2 to 3 seconds.
  • Overlays are automatic: counter, step, title, number cards, recap, and the two word choice before the end. Cards take up about two shots out of five.
  • Default length: 90 s, one part. Default style: comic. Default tone: educational. “Classic” subtitles and light music are on.

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The form that works

Address the hero as “you”, from the very first sentence. Give the stakes, the obstacle, and if possible a number that hurts.

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Before / after

No hero, no situation, no steps: the AI will make a lecture, not a story.

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Adding your own cards

You can write the script yourself with overlay markers: the app follows it as is, without adding, removing or moving anything.
The full marker syntax is in on-screen overlays.

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Common mistakes

  • Writing in the third person (“a man stole…”): the format speaks to the hero as “you”. Write “you”.
  • A subject that is too broad: one thread, one hero, one problem at a time. Otherwise, split into episodes.
  • Inventing numbers: only give real ones. Without certainty, let the AI say “months” or “a fortune”.
  • Several heroes: only one hero is drawn. The others would be silhouettes.
  • Asking for animated shots: the format is made of still images, which keeps it affordable.
  • Text in the image: every word or number on screen goes through the overlays, never through the drawing.

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Settings that go with it

  • Length: 90 s by default. The text holds about 2.4 words per second; lengthen it for more steps.
  • Voice: a single voice over. Pick it in “Voice”, or leave “Automatic”.
  • Voice-over tone: “Documentary” or “Suspense” work well.
  • Series: episodes reuse the series hero, without redrawing them. See creating a series.
  • Music: light, under the voice. Turn it off if it bothers you.

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Before launching

Test short: a short length and a single part cost little and show you whether the voice, the hero and the cards suit you. Then lengthen. For the virality grid and the first seconds, see the rules of a good prompt.
To compare, also look at How it works: the same faceless voice over, but on an object, with no hero.