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A visible timer gives short-form content a spine. The audience stays because they want to see whether the claim holds, not because the persona is interesting.
The recipe
The shot never describes the person. It describes what is happening to them, which is what keeps the face out of the variables.
Getting it right
This shot is niche-bound: the planner only puts it in a calendar for Beauty & skincare and Wellness & mind. A tape measure in a personal-finance calendar is the kind of plausible nonsense a generator produces when nobody models the constraint.
Composed
The locked line comes from the character sheet; everything after it comes from the recipe above. Swap in your own line and nothing else changes.
Midjourney
Vertical video of a woman, late twenties, West African features, a heart-shaped face with a narrow chin, dark brown large round eyes, high arched brows, a nose with a wide bridge, full lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a dewy finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing technical athleisure, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a small modern city apartment, an even ring light straight on, camera at eye level. Chest up, mirror behind, camera fixed at eye height. Working through a sequence at speed, product entering frame and leaving, eyes to the mirror not the lens. Even frontal light, timer overlay space kept clear at the top --ar 9:16 --style raw --seed 51514471 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
Vertical video of a woman, late twenties, West African features, a heart-shaped face with a narrow chin, dark brown large round eyes, high arched brows, a nose with a wide bridge, full lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a dewy finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing technical athleisure, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a small modern city apartment, an even ring light straight on, camera at eye level. Chest up, mirror behind, camera fixed at eye height. Working through a sequence at speed, product entering frame and leaving, eyes to the mirror not the lens. Even frontal light, timer overlay space kept clear at the top negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, flat matte skin seed: 51514471 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
Vertical video of a woman, late twenties, West African features, a heart-shaped face with a narrow chin, dark brown large round eyes, high arched brows, a nose with a wide bridge, full lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a dewy finish, average height with a lean build. Wearing technical athleisure, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a small modern city apartment, an even ring light straight on, camera at eye level. Chest up, mirror behind, camera fixed at eye height. Working through a sequence at speed, product entering frame and leaving, eyes to the mirror not the lens. Even frontal light, timer overlay space kept clear at the top Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, West African features, a heart-shaped face with a narrow chin, dark brown large round eyes, high arched brows, a nose with a wide bridge, full lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, cropped short tightly coiled jet black hair, deep brown skin, a dewy finish, average height with a lean build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
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Demonstration
Hands and the working surface only, camera at forty-five degrees
Full body in profile, camera fixed at hip height, three metres back
Directly above a hob, pan centred, hands entering from the bottom of frame
Bench-height, hands and torso, camera at forty-five degrees from the left
Directly above a work surface, hands and material only
Directly above a desk, notes and a hand holding a pen
Full-frame screen content, persona in a small inset in one corner