What production route does the whiteboard explainer shot need?

At least prompt only. Works when the face is built from features a sentence can pin down — a strong jaw, a gap in the front teeth, one grey streak. Drift shows up first in the eyes and the hairline, and it shows up worst at three-quarter angles.

Shots Talking head

Whiteboard explainer

The face is small and the board is the subject, which drops the consistency requirement to almost nothing. The cheapest authority frame in the library.

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The recipe

Four fragments, composed around your locked line

The shot never describes the person. It describes what is happening to them, which is what keeps the face out of the variables.

Opening: Video ofRuns straight into the locked line
Framing: Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame
Direction: Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn
Finish: Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections

Getting it right

Never ask the model to write real text on the board — add it in the edit
Half-body framing at this distance survives the prompt-only route where a portrait would not

Composed

This shot, composed against Priya Menon

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

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections --ar 4:5 --style raw --seed 2340568566 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100

Flux

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections

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, perfect straight teeth, veneers, poreless skin
seed: 2340568566 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28

Seedream

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections

Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build
Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]

Used by

Personas built around this frame

@priyaliftsheavy

Priya Menon

Reference frame

Strength programming for women who were told to do cardio

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Prompt only

The arithmetic behind money advice you have already been given

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@inesrunsthenumbers

Inês Ferreira

Reference frame

Sustainability claims, checked against the arithmetic

SustainabilityThreadsThe Contrarian

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Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections --ar 4:5 --style raw --seed 2340568566 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections 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, perfect straight teeth, veneers, poreless skin seed: 2340568566 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build. Wearing technical athleisure, a monochrome palette of black, white and grey, in an empty gym floor, hard direct light with sharp shadows, camera at eye level. Three-quarter body, standing beside a whiteboard that fills the right half of frame. Turning between the board and camera, marker in hand, pointing at a diagram already drawn. Even overhead light, board legible, no reflections Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, a square face with a strong jaw, dark brown almond eyes, thick straight brows, a nose with a wide bridge, evenly balanced lips, a visible gap between the front teeth, shoulder-length curly dark brown hair with no fringe, swept back from the face, bronze skin, natural texture and visible pores, slightly below average height with an athletic build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]