Guides / Writing prompts
Writing prompts that work
The hardest part of a faceless video isn't any single frame — it's making thirty frames look like they belong to the same video. These are the prompt habits that keep a project consistent.
Keep one style anchor
Decide the look once and repeat it on every frame: medium, palette, lighting, and mood. Changing it per frame is the number-one reason a video feels stitched together.
Structure each prompt the same way
- Subject — who or what is in the frame.
- Action — what they're doing (this is the part that changes frame to frame).
- Setting — where, kept consistent or shifting deliberately.
- Style anchor — the same closing line every time.
Before and after
"a man thinking about money"
"flat stickman at a desk, hand on chin looking at a coin, muted paper-grain background, soft warm light, minimal, centered"
One idea per frame
Each frame carries one beat of the story, matched to one voiceover line. If a prompt has two actions, split it into two frames — the pacing will be tighter and each image will be cleaner. The script splitter helps you break a paragraph into exactly that.
Iterate cheaply
Lock the style anchor first on two or three frames. Once the look holds across them, fill in the rest — you're only changing the action line, so the whole set stays coherent and you waste fewer generations.