Voiceover on a Cartoon Christmas
One narrator, short lines, and one idea. The cartoon on the wooden board does not get a second voice or a second topic.
Use one narrator, short lines, and one idea. Hearth Bakery's cartoon Christmas reel has a single voice explaining one fact, such as the closing time, over a paper-cutout or a cartoon on one wooden board. Short lines fit the first three seconds and the beats that follow. A second narrator, a conversation, or a stack of policies breaks the reel. The drawing is not a real person. The first three seconds carry one big hook title in the spoken language, unless on-screen text is off. At most one arrow. No blank grey strip. Approve the stills before motion. One voice, short lines, one fact. Write the closing time in lines you can say in a breath, draw that fact on one wooden board, approve the stills, and lock the narration only after the picture is right. The first three seconds show the paper counter and one English hook while the narrator says they close at four. A second narrator, a conversation, or a stack of policies is rejected before posting. The shapes stay drawings. Fifteen to forty-five seconds. If the voice sounds real, the caption says it is AI.
One voice, short sentences
Write lines you can say in one breath. The narrator might say they close at four, then that the tins are on the counter, then stop. Hearth Bakery does not add a second voice to play a customer. A dialogue wants faces you do not have, and a cartoon customer is still a drawing, not a real person who visited the shop. One-breath lines, closing time first, and no second voice. The first three seconds show the paper counter while the narrator says they close at four. A dialogue that wants a customer's face is the script you reject. A cartoon customer would still be a drawing, so this reel simply does not add one.
The picture holds one idea
The board shows the pieces for that one fact. A paper door, a paper tin, at most one arrow. No blank grey strip and no cut to another background. If the voiceover is English, the big hook title is English and matches the first line, unless on-screen text is off. Four beats are plenty inside fifteen to forty-five seconds. After the hook is set, draw a paper door, a paper tin, and at most one arrow, all in service of the closing time. The opening three seconds show the English hook while the narrator says they close at four. A grey strip, a second background, or a second policy in the picture is refused.
Approve, then let it speak
The stills of the board are approved before the paper moves and before you lock the narration to the picture. If a beat redraws the board into a room, fix the still. The narrator does not paper over a bad frame by talking faster. One idea remains the entire spoken script. Approve the board, then lock the voice. Fix a bad still before anyone talks faster. The first three seconds show the approved board while the narrator says they close at four. A beat that redraws the board into a room, or a script that grew a second idea, is the version you throw out.
A worked example
One narrator explains Hearth Bakery's closing time over a paper counter on a wooden board. The lines are short. The English hook in the first three seconds matches the voice. There is no second speaker, no grey strip, and at most one arrow. The shapes are cartoons, not customers. Stills are approved before motion. Short lines, one board, an approved still, then the voice. The first three seconds show the paper counter and the English hook while the narrator says they close at four. A second speaker is rejected before posting. The shapes are cartoons.
Before you post
- Only one narrator speaks.
- The lines stay short.
- The reel contains one idea.
Where Scro fits
Scro plays one idea as a cartoon or a paper-cutout on one wooden board. The first 3 seconds show one big hook title in the spoken language, unless on-screen text is off. Use at most one arrow, leave no blank grey strip, and approve the stills before motion. Approve the stills, keep one narrator on one idea, and export the moving paper after that. The first three seconds show the hook while the narrator says they close at four. A second voice or a grey strip is rejected before posting. If the voice sounds real, the caption says it is AI.
Keep one narrator. Finished samples are on the examples page.
Related: Shop Name in the Caption.