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THE OPEN STUDIO / FREE TOOL

One useful idea.
Five starting plans.

A little structure for your next demonstration. Build a brief, adapt the format and take the plan into your own process.

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01

Your content brief

The useful details come first.

Your brief stays in your browser. This is a structured planning tool; it does not call an AI service.

02

Give the idea a shape

One lesson. Five starting structures.

30–45 second structure

Short video

STARTING POINT

OPEN / 0–3 SEC

Show the actual problem behind “Make phone captions easier to read”. Give creators filming tutorials on a phone one detail to look for.

DEMONSTRATE / 3–30 SEC

Use my own before-and-after phone preview. Show the starting point, one useful change and the resulting comparison. Explain what changed while the action is visible.

MAKE IT USEFUL / 30–45 SEC

Check contrast, line breaks and interface overlap. Finish with one small action the viewer can repeat.

FINAL PASS

Read the captions on a phone. Check the crop against the destination app. Use original or permissioned footage.

Review the evidence. Make it yours.

TWO MORE TOOLS FOR THE WORKBENCH

A quick check.
A clearer next step.

Useful little tests to keep beside your edit. Everything runs in your browser.

01 / BEFORE YOU RECORD

Script timing

Estimate the reading time before you hit record. Leave room for pauses, demonstrations and your natural delivery.

13 sec31 words
Estimated spoken time
An estimate, not a recording measurement. Read it aloud and check your actual take.

02 / BEFORE YOU EXPORT

Caption color check

Test a text and solid background color. A useful first check before previewing captions against real footage.

Make it readable.
11.89:1Solid-color
contrast ratio

Meets the 4.5:1 contrast threshold for normal text.

Based on W3C text-contrast guidance. This color-pair check does not certify a video’s accessibility. Check size, timing and changing footage too.

A starting structure.
Your expertise does the rest.

This planner uses authored structures tailored to each format. Add your own knowledge, verify your claims and show a real example. The quality comes from the work you put into the demonstration.

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