Kindled · Editor brief

KD_C0094 — Editor Brief

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01What this video is

A 100-second fully animated film with no people in it at all. Six 3D characters speak straight to camera, one at a time, seven or eight seconds each — first the counterfeit hormone that has been sitting in the receptor, then the four things in the bottle, then the product itself. The one job of the edit is the relay: every character does exactly one thing, in order, and you cut the moment that thing is done. Nothing is ever cleaned, dissolved or washed away — things arrive, occupy, and get displaced.

02Format & look
Format
100% 3D character animation — six generated characters inside one cell. No on-camera humans, no live-action plate, no presenter, no talent day. Every speaker is a rig built from an image prompt, not a face you cast.
Cutting
hard cuts only, roughly one new frame every two and a half seconds, on a metronome of one character per beat. Exactly one camera move in the whole film (the pull-back at the Core Reframe beat), plus two small pushes and two dead-still holds on the scripted pauses. Zero dissolves anywhere.
Length
about 1:48 delivered on a 1:40 boarded spine, with headroom to the ceiling and no floor. Do not pad it toward two minutes — where the words run short, hold the picture.
03Who it's for

A woman between 45 and 60 who has been on levothyroxine for years, whose panel keeps coming back optimised, and who has quietly collected a new label almost every year — IBS one year, low mood the next, prediabetes after that. She is fluent in her own bloodwork and does not need the basics explained to her; she needs someone to tell her why the treatment she has been taking correctly is not landing.

04Why it works (the vision)
The real cause
her medication floods the blood with the raw hormone, and at the conversion fork it comes out backwards as a metabolically dead lookalike that then sits in the receptor the real hormone has to reach.
What hurts most
being told the numbers are normal while the body keeps losing — which leaves her only one explanation, that this must be her.
The smaller hurts
the dose raised again with nothing changing, the labels that each explain one symptom and none of them the cause, the word that will not arrive mid-sentence, the weight that will not move.
What she actually wants
absolution before transformation. Proof that she took the pill correctly for years and the failure was never hers, and never her doctor's either.
In the first fifteen seconds she has to feel watched rather than sold to — the Problem Agitation beat lists the labels she has actually been handed, in her order, and the villain recites them the way somebody lists their own achievements. Then the Medication Reframe beat hands her the relief: the pill did exactly what it was built to do, and something downstream of it was standing in the way.
05The hook — on-screen text
▶ On-screen text — the first thing the viewer reads
6 variations to test — written with the comp + DR-craft method and gated for qualification (every hook stops the RIGHT prospect — broadcast clickbait is culled), glanceability + loop-discipline (the mechanism stays withheld — the loop IS the hook). Each card shows who it stops and the course concept it’s grounded in.
Each carries an evocative emoji (the production layer), the principle that grounds the copy, and who it stops — the specific person the hook qualifies. Pick for the avatar, not for cleverness.
C · mixquestion
⚠️ Still shedding on levothyroxine?
In-media-res callout: drop the reader inside her own unresolved situation rather than introducing a topic.
Stops: The woman on levothyroxine who is still losing hair — everyone not on the drug has no reason to stop.
A · memoryquestion
On levothyroxine and still cold?
Callout-question skeleton from the DR canon — the two-condition callout excludes everyone outside the avatar in five words.
Stops: The medicated hypothyroid woman whose hands and feet never warmed up after treatment started.
A · memorysingle-headline
Five diagnoses. Not one was it 😳
Number-led reveal from the swipe canon — a counted receipt is more believable and more qualifying than an adjective.
Stops: The woman with a file full of accumulated labels — IBS, low mood, prediabetes, just your age — and no answer.
C · mix3-stack
Hair in the drainCold hands by threeAnd your labs say fine 😳
Chaining open loops — each line narrows the audience and the last line turns the stack into a contradiction.
Stops: The woman who can check all three of these against her own morning before the line finishes.
C · mixjuxtaposition
Your labs came back normalYour shower drain didn't 😩
Juxtaposition-as-curiosity-engine — two facts that cannot both be true open the gap without explaining it (Evolve/Zakaria hook craft).
Stops: The medicated thyroid woman whose panel reads fine and who is still clearing hair out of the drain.
B · compsingle-headline
🚨 What nobody tells you about four o'clock
Adapted from the top in-niche winner's on-screen grammar (a single bold 'what nobody is telling you about X' card held static) — the claim is swapped from the drug name to the avatar's own hour, so it qualifies on a symptom instead of echoing the competitor.
Stops: The woman whose four in the afternoon is a fixed daily event she has stopped mentioning to anyone.
How to build it (from the mined winners)
  • Structure: a bold static hook box with the claim, plus a second box for authority/setup — the two-box claim+authority shape that won across the mined ads.
  • Emoji: one that sparks emotion / urgency / curiosity (🚨 ⚠️ 😲 😳 😩) — never a neutral/informational one (📈, ➡️). Match it to the device.
  • Type: big, clean, readable. Serious-authority tone (investigative / lab-coat), not a playful TikTok question.
  • Reveal: claim lands first; the second line drops after — the loop snapping open.
⏱ Timing — read it, don’t rush it

Not a fixed 3 seconds. Each line stays up as long as the viewer needs to comfortably read it. Storyboard baseline: line 1 holds to ~4.5s, line 2 from ~5.2s to ~10s. Read-time is the floor — lengthen if a line needs it.

on-screen hook text reference
1 / 2
storyboard · format match · lymphoria · click to enlargeTake ✓ the winning on-screen-text structure — match ITS format (line count + grammar), then adapt to our angle.
Comp-grounded — mined from winning ads (lymphoria · lymphoria · resilia). Winning hook = claim box + authority/command box; emoji as tonal punctuation; loop opened by withholding the mechanism. None resolve in the overlay.
06Editing brief — pace, style, vibe
Vibe
quirky and charming while it tells her something awful. The aggression lives in what is said, never in how it is said — the villain is warm and pleased with himself all the way through, and the four actives are plain workers doing a job.
Pace
165 words a minute, and treat that as a casting gate rather than a note — the whole delivered runtime is built on it. Inside every beat the cutting sits between two and four seconds.
Slow down
the two scripted pauses are real 0.8-second dead stops, one inside the Medication Reframe and one inside the Core Reframe. The pull-back at the Core Reframe is a single constant-rate move that must feel like the camera stepping back to show you something, not like a reveal effect.
Tighten
the four active beats are a metronome — one character, one prop, one verb, cut. Where the words run long, tighten the cutting; never stretch a beat to fill a marker and never add a third pause.
07Visuals — keep the eyes engaged

Faces are not the spine here — that is the live-action default and this film has no faces. The spine is one set seen at two lenses: a single receptor door, and then that same door repeated down a corridor. Everything else hangs off that identity, so build the six character sheets and the four world plates first, lock them, and chain every downstream shot from them.

Inserts to drop in, synced to the line:

  • Hook beat → extreme macro on the keyhole with the counterfeit seated inside it, turning to camera; the headline card is up on frame one and holds static for the whole beat.
  • Problem Agitation, on the four labels → four accelerating micro-cuts of fingers hooking over the wardings, one per name, re-framed out of a single generation (four separately generated hands will not match).
  • Medication Reframe, on the fork → key-blank-shaped units arriving down a wet lumen as countable solid objects, then coming out the wrong way wearing the villain's face, held tight on the exit throat so the count stays withheld.
  • Iodine beat → a crate of uncut blanks set down at the fork, macro on the blanks settling so the viewer sees they have no teeth yet.
  • Selenium beat → the lever's full travel and the linkage engaging underneath it; the first berry in the film arrives on the forward-cut keys.
  • Zinc beat → a palm flat to the door plate, tumblers turning over, then a real key turning all the way round for the first time.
  • Ashwagandha beat → the chain wide: the crate, the lever and the woken plate all holding their positions in one lateral frame.
  • Product & Delivery beat → the bottle claiming the four, a rendered product macro with the named actives legible at phone size, and a rendered sublingual macro cropped to lips and dropper only, showing two full dropper squeezes.
  • Core Reframe beat → the single pull-back revealing the corridor, one villain design instanced hundreds of times.
  • Social Proof beat → four glimpses through four open doorways, camera never entering a room.
  • Close beat → the lever held forward with the corridor of open doors behind it, then the end card with the guarantee badge.

Layouts to use:

  • Extreme close-up macro is the default grammar — the film lives at that scale and only leaves it twice.
  • Lateral medium for every character address: one rig, to camera, depth axis closed. No second doorway anywhere at frame edge before the Core Reframe.
  • Full-frame wide, twice only — the chain wide at the Ashwagandha beat (composed left to right, hard right edge at the door plate) and the corridor at the Core Reframe.
  • On-screen text runs in three layers: one static headline card top-centre through the hook, the word-by-word caption track centre-lower carrying the whole voice-over, and eight short name burns hard in and hard out. Nothing appears on screen that is not spoken.

Two camera moves worth it:

  • The pull-back at the Core Reframe — the film's only move. Constant rate, no easing, no rack focus, no whip. Generate it long and generate it twice, once ending on the doors closed and once with the doors opening, so the move and the open can be timed against the voice independently.
  • A 2% push on the product macro, and one earlier on the villain's face in the hook. That is the entire move budget; everything else is a hard cut.
08Speakers

Pick an ethnicity (face + matching voices) and a market. Image/voice prompts written for GPT Image 2 / Nano Banana Pro + ElevenLabs.

REVERSE T3 — the counterfeit in the lock
Male 3D animated character. The villain: a mirrored copy of the real hormone with one authored wrongness in it, warm and pleased with himself the whole way through.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian man with fair skin, light eyes, and short cropped brown hair lightly greying at the temples, clean-shaven or light stubble, in his ageless — a hormone-shaped character, not a person of any age, charming, quirky, pleased with himself; a semi-realistic 3D animated character, never a human. He is seated inside the receptor keyhole, turned to camera and waving; macro, shallow depth. He wears no clothing — a key-shaped body in the same silhouette and colour family as the real hormone, mirrored, wrong in a way that only reads in macro. Background: a receptor door plate in wet cell wall, cold blue-grey key light with a single warm practical on him alone. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Male, quirky-animated-authoritative, fast at 165 words a minute. Charming and warm while telling her exactly why she is losing hair — the aggression sits in the claim, never in the tone. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Male, quirky-animated-authoritative, fast at 165 words a minute. Charming and warm while telling her exactly why she is losing hair — the aggression sits in the claim, never in the tone. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
IODINE — the supplier
Male 3D animated character. Squat, deliberate, unhurried — he hands over the raw material and leaves. A supplier, not a hero.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian man with fair skin, light eyes, and short cropped brown hair lightly greying at the temples, clean-shaven or light stubble, in his ageless — a mineral-shaped character, plain, matter-of-fact, unhurried; a semi-realistic 3D animated character. He is walking into frame carrying a crate of uncut key blanks, setting it down at the fork, addressing camera the whole time. He wears heavy low-centred build with a blunt silhouette that has to separate from the other three at phone size. Background: a junction in a wet lumen with a mechanical lever beside it, palette still cold — help has arrived and nothing has changed yet. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Male, plain, unhurried, matter-of-fact. A delivery man who knows the job matters and has no interest in being thanked. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Male, plain, unhurried, matter-of-fact. A delivery man who knows the job matters and has no interest in being thanked. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
SELENIUM GLYCINATE — the switch
Female 3D animated character. Precise and a little dry; she throws the lever that decides which way the conversion runs.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian woman with fair skin, light hazel eyes, and chin-length straight ash-brown hair with natural greys, parted to the side, in her ageless — a mineral-shaped character, precise, dry, economical; a semi-realistic 3D animated character. She is standing at the lever with a hand already on it, addressing camera, then throwing it through its full travel. She wears tall narrow silhouette with a high centre of mass — deliberately the visual opposite of the supplier's. Background: the same wet junction, and the grade lift starts on her lever throw and runs unbroken from there. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Female, precise, a little dry. The one who knows the whole thing turns on her single action and never makes a speech about it. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Female, precise, a little dry. The one who knows the whole thing turns on her single action and never makes a speech about it. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
ZINC GLYCINATE — the recognition
Male 3D animated character. Grounded and steady; he presses a palm flat to the receptor plate and makes the door answer.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian man with fair skin, light eyes, and short cropped brown hair lightly greying at the temples, clean-shaven or light stubble, in his ageless — a mineral-shaped character, grounded, steady, unshowy; a semi-realistic 3D animated character. He is palm flat against the door plate, addressing camera, then macro on the tumblers turning over and a key turning all the way round. He wears broad upright silhouette with wide flat hands — the hands are the read, so build them for it. Background: back at the receptor door, grade lifting through the middle of the arc. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Male, grounded, steady. He states what he does once and does not oversell it. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Male, grounded, steady. He states what he does once and does not oversell it. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
ASHWAGANDHA KSM-66 — the guard
Female 3D animated character, distinctly the oldest of the four. She plants herself at the re-issue door and stands. Standing is the entire performance.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian woman with fair skin, light hazel eyes, and chin-length straight ash-brown hair with natural greys, parted to the side, in her reads as the oldest of the four — carried in posture and mass, never in wrinkles, unhurried, entirely unbothered; a semi-realistic 3D animated character. She is planting herself in front of the re-issue door and standing — no bracing, no straining, no fight. She wears the heaviest and most settled silhouette of the four, wide base, low and immovable. Background: the wet junction with the grade near the top of its arc, and behind her the other three props still holding position. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Female, older, unhurried. The only one of the four with nothing to prove; the closing line is a fact about the future, said flat. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Female, older, unhurried. The only one of the four with nothing to prove; the closing line is a fact about the future, said flat. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
THE CHORUS — the product speaking as itself
Warm female voice, first-person plural, delivered by the four gathered with the bottle. This is a 3D animated group, not a mascot and not a narrator — there is no narrator anywhere in this ad.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a white Caucasian woman with fair skin, light hazel eyes, and chin-length straight ash-brown hair with natural greys, parted to the side, in her ageless — the four characters together with the product, warm, level, first-person plural; a 3D animated group and a rendered bottle, never a spokesperson. She is the four gathered in one frame, then the bottle entering and the four resolving into and behind it. She wears the Kindled bottle — berry liquid, glass dropper, and a label whose named actives must read at phone size. Background: the product frame, then the corridor of open doors for the reveal and the close. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · Broadcast neutral
Warm female, first-person plural. Nearest register is a compassionate educator with the credential stripped out — no doctor persona. Level and unhurried at the close, with no lift on the guarantee or the call to action. Accent / voice: General American, neutral broadcast register.
Voice · Warm conversational
Warm female, first-person plural. Nearest register is a compassionate educator with the credential stripped out — no doctor persona. Level and unhurried at the close, with no lift on the guarantee or the call to action. Accent / voice: General American, warmer and more conversational.
09Comp inspiration — pick what fits (you won't use it all)

A menu, not a checklist — these are the strongest references for this ad. Borrow the technique that serves it and leave the rest; one video won't (and shouldn't) carry all of them.

lymphoriaclosest format match
Take ✓ the roll-call grammar — one character, one job, seven to eight seconds, cut — with a non-human villain introducing itself in first person and narrating the viewer's own symptoms back to her in second person.
good for the whole spine, and the hook beat in particular, where that ad proves a card naming the prescription on frame one qualifies rather than repels.
Question ⚖ its villain is a substance that gets cleared out and ours is a squatter that gets displaced, so every generation chained off it will keep suggesting a dissolve — worth QC'ing that reflex before anything else in the film.
lymphoria
Take ✓ one character, one literal prop, one readable verb — every ingredient beat carries a hand prop matched to its job so the frame reads in a single glance.
good for the four active beats, where our props are the crate, the lever, the palm on the plate and the body in the doorway.
Question ⚖ every prop verb in that ad is a cleaning verb (mallet, broom, hose), so borrow the grammar and refuse the verbs — ours act on supply, direction, recognition and re-entry, and none of them removes anything.
resilia
Take ✓ a high-fidelity wet interior treated as a location you cut to rather than a diagram you explain, plus a second-person list of body signs used as a hook door.
good for the world plates, and for the symptom-mirror hook variant where she checks two body facts against herself while the ad is still playing.
Question ⚖ its proof stack is a before-and-after clearance animation, which is the exact frame this concept exists to refuse — so treat it as a set-dressing reference only, never a structural one.
10Script

Clean spoken dialogue — copy-ready.

0:00–0:07HOOK A (variant) — villain monologue
REVERSE T3

Hi, I'm Reverse T3. I'm why your hair's in the drain every morning and your hands go cold by THREE.

0:00–0:07HOOK B (variant) — misdiagnosis flip
REVERSE T3

Your labs say you're treated. Your body says otherwise. I'm Reverse T3. I look EXACTLY like your medication.

0:00–0:07HOOK C (variant) — symptom mirror
REVERSE T3

You lose words mid-sentence. Your weight won't move. Five diagnoses in six years. I'm Reverse T3. Not ONE was real.

0:07–0:16PROBLEM AGITATION
REVERSE T3

Every year they write a new name for me. IBS. Low mood. Prediabetes. Just your age. And every year, four o'clock still flattens you.

0:16–0:31MEDICATION REFRAME — load-bearing wall
REVERSE T3

Your pill floods your blood with T4. At the fork it comes out backwards, as me. I sit in the lock T3 needs. The medication is in your blood, but it's STARVING at your cells.

0:31–0:38SOLUTION INTRO · ACTIVE 1 · IODINE
IODINE

Hi, I'm iodine. I hand your thyroid raw material. You can't cut a key out of NOTHING. Selenium decides which way it goes.

0:38–0:45SOLUTION INTRO · ACTIVE 2 · SELENIUM GLYCINATE
SELENIUM

Hi, I'm selenium. I'm the switch at that fork. His metal's worth NOTHING until I throw it forward, into real T3.

0:45–0:52SOLUTION INTRO · ACTIVE 3 · ZINC GLYCINATE
ZINC

Hi, I'm zinc. Her key is useless at a door that won't answer. I make it ANSWER. And the counterfeit's got nothing left to hold.

0:52–1:00SOLUTION INTRO · ACTIVE 4 · ASHWAGANDHA KSM-66
ASHWAGANDHA

Hi, I'm ashwagandha. Cortisol is what throws that fork backwards. I keep it down. Everything the other three just did stays done. And he doesn't come back.

1:00–1:15PRODUCT & DELIVERY MECHANISM — load-bearing wall
THE CHORUS

Together, the four of us are Kindled. We're berry thyroid drops, two droppers under your tongue, because your thyroid slowed your gut and a pill has to survive it. Women don't expect a few drops to do what YEARS of raising the dose couldn't.

1:15–1:22CORE REFRAME — the money shot
THE CHORUS

You were never under-dosed. You were OUT-NUMBERED. Look down the corridor. Every lock on it wears his face.

1:22–1:32SOCIAL PROOF & OUTCOMES
THE CHORUS

They love us because the shedding stopped, the afternoons came back, the words arrived on time, and nobody added a new diagnosis that year.

1:32–1:40CTA & EMPOWERING CLOSE
THE CHORUS

Your thyroid doesn't need a higher dose. It needs the fork switched back. Thirty days, and if four o'clock still wins, your money comes back. Go see if we're in stock.

🎙️ Full Voiceover Script — copy & paste into ElevenLabs
The complete spoken script, clean (no stage directions). One tap copies the whole thing.
Spoken transcript · full
Hi, I'm Reverse T3. I'm why your hair's in the drain every morning and your hands go cold by THREE.

Your labs say you're treated. Your body says otherwise. I'm Reverse T3. I look EXACTLY like your medication.

You lose words mid-sentence. Your weight won't move. Five diagnoses in six years. I'm Reverse T3. Not ONE was real.

Every year they write a new name for me. IBS. Low mood. Prediabetes. Just your age. And every year, four o'clock still flattens you.

Your pill floods your blood with T4. [pause] At the fork it comes out backwards, as me. I sit in the lock T3 needs. The medication is in your blood, but it's STARVING at your cells.

Hi, I'm iodine. I hand your thyroid raw material. You can't cut a key out of NOTHING. Selenium decides which way it goes.

Hi, I'm selenium. I'm the switch at that fork. His metal's worth NOTHING until I throw it forward, into real T3.

Hi, I'm zinc. Her key is useless at a door that won't answer. I make it ANSWER. And the counterfeit's got nothing left to hold.

Hi, I'm ashwagandha. Cortisol is what throws that fork backwards. I keep it down. Everything the other three just did stays done. And he doesn't come back.

Together, the four of us are Kindled. We're berry thyroid drops, two droppers under your tongue, because your thyroid slowed your gut and a pill has to survive it. Women don't expect a few drops to do what YEARS of raising the dose couldn't.

You were never under-dosed. [pause] You were OUT-NUMBERED. Look down the corridor. Every lock on it wears his face.

They love us because the shedding stopped, the afternoons came back, the words arrived on time, and nobody added a new diagnosis that year.

Your thyroid doesn't need a higher dose. It needs the fork switched back. Thirty days, and if four o'clock still wins, your money comes back. Go see if we're in stock.
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