viral-video-studio

# Viral Video Studio End-to-end workflow for cloning viral TikTok content structure and building a monetizable channel. ## Workflow Overview ``` Step 0: Define Character (once) — create character bible, fill character sheet Step 1: Analyze reference video — download, extract frame, decode content type Step 2: Deep Viral Analysis — 7 triggers, frame breakdown, share mechanic Step 3: Reverse-Engineer Viral Structure — hook/setup/conflict/peak/twist/CTA Step 4: Generate New Video Concept — same structure, new character/scenario Step 5: Scene-by-Scene AI Image Prompts — 6 frames, Midjourney/DALL-E Step 6: Full Script with Text Overlays — per-frame spec with sound cues Step 7: Algorithm Optimization — completion rate, hook formulas, length strategy Step 8: CapCut Assembly Instructions — import, timing, effects, export Step 9: 30-Day Posting Calendar + Monetization Roadmap ``` --- ## Step 0: Define Character (Do This Once) **Before making any video**, create a Character Bible. Read `references/character-bible.md`. Key decisions: 1. Pick archetype: Overconfident Underdog / Dignified Aristocrat / Innocent Explorer / Unlikely Professional 2. Define: species, color, signature outfit, personality, fatal flaw, motivation 3. Write a "consistency prompt prefix" — prepend to EVERY AI image prompt 4. Choose series format: single gags OR running series (series = faster follower growth) **Output:** A completed character sheet saved to `assets/character-sheet.md` See `assets/character-sheet-template.md` for the fill-in-the-blank template. --- ## Step 1: Analyze Reference Video When user provides a TikTok URL: ```bash # Download video yt-dlp -o "/tmp/tiktok-ref.%(ext)s" "<URL>" # Extract first frame for visual analysis ffmpeg -i /tmp/tiktok-ref.mp4 -ss 00:00:01 -frames:v 1 /tmp/tiktok-thumb.jpg -update 1 # Try to get subtitles (may not be available) yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "vi,en,zh" --skip-download -o "/tmp/tiktok-sub" "<URL>" ``` Then use the `image` tool to analyze `/tmp/tiktok-thumb.jpg` and describe: - **Content type**: Comedy / Educational / Story / Trend - **Format**: AI-generated images / Live action / Screen recording / Animation - **Hook style**: Text hook / Visual hook / Sound hook - **Pacing**: Fast cuts / Slow / Building - **Emotion trigger**: Humor / Surprise / Curiosity / Relatability --- ## Step 2: Deep Viral Analysis This is the most important step. Read `references/viral-analysis.md` for full protocol. **Quick analysis (run for every reference video):** 1. **7 Triggers check** — which psychological triggers fire? (surprise, relatability, curiosity, social currency, empathy, awe, identity) 2. **Frame-by-frame breakdown** — what emotion does each moment create? 3. **The Real Why** — what universal human experience is at the core? 4. **Share mechanic** — who sends this to whom, and why? 5. **Red flags check** — does the reference video have any fail patterns to avoid? Output a **Viral Analysis Report** (template in viral-analysis.md) before writing any script. --- ## Step 3: Reverse-Engineer Viral Structure Decode the video into this framework: ``` HOOK (0-3s): What stops the scroll? SETUP (3-10s): What's the premise? CONFLICT (10-25s): What's the tension/challenge? PEAK (25-35s): What's the climax? TWIST (35-45s): Surprise or punchline CTA (45-55s): What action does it ask for? ``` Identify: - **Character archetype**: Small vs Big / Underdog / Relatable everyman - **Emotion arc**: Anticipation → Tension → Release → Satisfaction - **Loop factor**: Does it make viewers rewatch? How? --- ## Step 4: Generate New Video Concept Create a new video using the SAME structure but DIFFERENT content: **Concept generation prompt:** ``` Based on this viral structure: [DECODED STRUCTURE] Generate 5 new video concepts using the same emotional arc but different characters/scenarios. Each concept: Title + Character + Scenario + Twist Format: AI-generated image series (6 frames) ``` Pick the best concept and proceed. --- ## Step 5: Scene-by-Scene AI Image Prompts For each of the 6 frames, write Midjourney/DALL-E prompts following this formula: ``` [Subject] [Action] [Setting] [Emotion] [Style: photorealistic/cartoon/cinematic] [Aspect ratio: 9:16 vertical] ``` **Quality modifiers to always include:** - `photorealistic, ultra detailed, professional photography` - `9:16 vertical format` (TikTok native) - `dramatic lighting` or `soft natural lighting` - `funny expression` / `shocked expression` / `confident pose` **Consistency tip:** Start each prompt with "Same [character description]" to maintain visual consistency across frames. > **🎀 Cute Factor:** Cute characters — chubby body, round shape, big eyes — create instant emotional investment. The cuter the character, the faster viewers bond and the harder they laugh at failures. Lean into exaggerated cuteness. See `references/character-bible.md` for the Cute Factor framework. **Video generation options (choose by budget):** - **Budget**: DALL-E images → CapCut slideshow (~$0.50/video) - **Mid**: Hailuo AI video clips → CapCut (~$0.75/video) - **Best quality**: Kling AI with character reference image (~$1-3/video) - See `references/video-generation-tools.md` for full comparison, pricing, and all 15 Kling AI prompts for Hammy video. See `references/prompt-templates.md` for 10 ready-to-use prompt templates. See `references/script-templates.md` for 4 full script templates + 30 content ideas. See `references/character-bible.md` for character archetypes, quality checklist, and emotional arc framework. See `references/viral-analysis.md` for the 7 viral triggers, deep analysis protocol, and red flags checklist. --- ## Step 6: Full Scene-by-Scene Script For EVERY scene (frame), specify ALL of the following in detail: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CẢNH [N] — [TIMESTAMP, e.g. 0:00-0:03] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁️ HÌNH ẢNH (Visual): - Nhân vật: [Ai? Đang làm gì? Biểu cảm gì? Tư thế?] - Bối cảnh: [Địa điểm, ánh sáng, góc máy] - Chuyển động: [Static / Ken Burns zoom in / Ken Burns zoom out / Pan] - Chi tiết quan trọng: [Vật thể nào nổi bật? Màu sắc chủ đạo?] 🎨 DALL-E / MIDJOURNEY PROMPT: "[Character description], [action], [setting], [emotion], [lighting], photorealistic, 9:16 vertical" Negative prompt: "blurry, deformed, text, watermark" 📝 TEXT OVERLAY: Nội dung: "[Tối đa 6 từ + emoji]" Vị trí: [Top / Bottom / Center] Font style: [Bold white + black stroke] 🔊 ÂM THANH: Nhạc nền: [Tên loại nhạc / mood: sneaky / dramatic / happy / sad...] SFX: [Tên sound effect cụ thể: "record scratch" / "vine boom" / "sad trombone" / không có] Volume nhạc: [100% / 70% / 50%] ⏱️ THỜI LƯỢNG: [X giây] 🎭 CẢM XÚC MỤC TIÊU: [Người xem cảm thấy gì ở cảnh này?] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` ### Ví dụ cảnh chi tiết: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CẢNH 1 — 0:00-0:03 (HOOK) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁️ HÌNH ẢNH: - Nhân vật: Hammy (hamster béo màu cam) đứng thẳng, hai tay chống hông Biểu cảm: Tự tin, mắt ánh lên quyết tâm Tư thế: Nhìn thẳng vào camera, ngực ưỡn ra - Bối cảnh: Trước cổng ngân hàng khổng lồ, góc máy thấp nhìn lên Ngân hàng cao như tòa nhà chọc trời so với Hammy - Chuyển động: Ken Burns zoom out chậm để lộ kích thước ngân hàng - Chi tiết: Ánh nắng buổi sáng, bóng Hammy dài trên mặt đường 🎨 DALL-E PROMPT: "Hammy, a tiny chubby round orange hamster with big black eyes, wearing yellow cherry-print shorts, standing confidently arms akimbo in front of a massive marble bank building that towers above him, dramatic low angle shot, morning golden light, photorealistic, 9:16 vertical" Negative: "blurry, deformed, text, watermark, multiple characters" 📝 TEXT OVERLAY: Nội dung: "Hammy có kế hoạch 😤" Vị trí: Bottom 1/3 Font: Bold white + black stroke, size lớn 🔊 ÂM THANH: Nhạc nền: Spy/sneaky piano theme (bắt đầu nhẹ) SFX: Dramatic single piano chord khi text hiện ra Volume nhạc: 60% ⏱️ THỜI LƯỢNG: 3 giây 🎭 CẢM XÚC: Tò mò + hào hứng — "Cái gì đây?!" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` ### Quy tắc âm thanh theo từng loại cảnh: | Loại cảnh | Nhạc nền | SFX gợi ý | |---|---|---| | HOOK | Dramatic sting / Silence → bang | Single piano chord | | SETUP | Sneaky/spy theme | Footsteps, paper rustle | | CONFLICT | Tension buildup | Machine hum, creaking | | PEAK | Music STOPS → chaos | Explosion, scream | | TWIST | Sad trombone / Magic sparkle | Record scratch, fail horn | | CTA | Upbeat happy | Victory fanfare (mini) | ### Quy tắc hình ảnh đa frame → video: Mỗi video = **6-15 frames ảnh AI** ghép thành video trong CapCut: - Frame 1-2: HOOK (3-6 giây) - Frame 3-5: SETUP + CONFLICT (10-15 giây) - Frame 6-8: PEAK (8-10 giây) - Frame 9-10: TWIST (5-7 giây) - Frame 11-12: RESOLUTION + CTA (5-7 giây) **Ken Burns effect** trên mỗi frame tạo cảm giác chuyển động dù ảnh tĩnh: - Zoom in: tạo tension, dramatic - Zoom out: reveal surprise - Pan left/right: following character movement --- ## Step 7: Algorithm Optimization TikTok ranks videos by priority order: 1. **Completion rate** — watch to the end? (most important) 2. **Rewatch rate** — watch again? 3. **Shares** — send to someone? 4. **Comments** — feel compelled to respond? 5. **Follows** — earn new followers? **Every creative decision must serve one of these metrics.** ### Hook Formulas (First 3 Seconds — Most Critical) ``` "Stop scrolling if you [situation]" "POV: [character] just discovered [thing]" "Watch until the end — [teaser of twist]" "[Bold statement]. Let me explain." "[Number] things about [topic] nobody talks about:" ``` ### Video Length Strategy - **7-15s**: Memes, single-gag AI images → highest completion rate - **15-30s**: Story arc (6 frames) → best balance of value + retention - **30-60s**: Extended story, series episode → loyal audience - **1-3 min**: Deep dives → lower reach but higher-quality followers ### Engagement Tactics - Reply to **every comment** in first hour → algorithm boost - Pin the funniest comment on each video - Create follow-up videos responding to comments - Ask a specific question in CTA (not generic "comment below") - Use "Part 2?" as CTA to tease continuation --- ## Step 8: CapCut Assembly Instructions ``` 1. Import all AI images in order 2. Set each image duration: 3-5 seconds 3. Add Ken Burns effect (slow zoom) on each image 4. Add transition: Fade or Whip Pan between frames 5. Add text overlay per frame (match script) 6. Add background music: search "sneaky/funny/dramatic" in CapCut sounds 7. Add sound effects at TWIST frame (e.g., "record scratch", "dramatic chipmunk") 8. Export: 1080x1920, 30fps, MP4 ``` --- ## Step 9: 30-Day Posting Calendar + Monetization Roadmap ### Posting Calendar See `references/posting-calendar.md` for the full template. **Quick schedule:** - **Week 1-2:** Post 2x/day, test 4 different content styles - **Week 3-4:** Double down on best-performing style, post 3x/day - **Best times (Vietnam timezone GMT+7):** 7-9 AM, 12-1 PM, 8-10 PM **Content mix per week:** ``` 3x Comedy/Story (core content) 2x Trend-riding (attach to current TikTok sounds) 1x Behind-the-scenes (how you make the AI images) 1x Engagement bait (poll, question, "guess what happens next") ``` See `references/trend-riding.md` for the full trend-riding playbook. See `references/channel-setup.md` for new channel setup guide. ### Monetization Roadmap See `references/monetization.md` for full details. **Quick milestones:** ``` 1K followers → Enable TikTok Creator Fund 10K followers → Brand deals (AI tools, pet products, apps) 50K followers → Affiliate marketing ($500-2000/month) 100K+ → Sponsored content ($1000-5000/video) ``` **Fastest monetization paths for AI comedy content:** 1. **Midjourney affiliate**: 20% recurring commission — promote in bio 2. **CapCut Pro affiliate**: Promote editing workflow 3. **Merchandise**: Print-on-demand with your character designs 4. **Course**: "How I make viral AI videos" — sell for $29-99