How to make a minimalist brand teaser
Describe the one thing your teaser shows and give Vizard Agent your brand colours and logo. It samples the exact colours out of your reference, chooses a typeface, generates the sound effects, and analyses their waveforms so each sound lands on the frame where the picture moves.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the frame and the movement rather than the mood. Minimalist work fails on vagueness more than anything else, because one under-specified element in an empty frame is the entire video. An image of your brand colours is enough, since Vizard Agent samples the actual pixels. Name the sounds you want too, because they carry the whole piece.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
With nothing else on screen, the timing is the entire design, and timing means sound and picture landing on the same frame. A generated sound file often has silence at the front, so placing the file on a frame isn't the same as placing the sound on it. In the session behind this article it:
- Looked at the brand colour reference and the logo reference separately.
- Checked which geometric sans-serif fonts were available rather than assuming one, and read the font files.
- Sampled the brand purple and pink directly out of the reference image.
- Generated the typing, notification and bass sounds and checked the duration of each file.
- Analysed the waveforms to find where each sound actually begins, then rendered the frames and composited the audio against those measured onsets.
- Delivered 1920x1080 at 30fps, exactly the 13.0 seconds that was asked for.
When does this not work well?
Minimalism has nowhere to hide. Most failures come from asking a spare format to carry more than one thought, and two elements competing in an empty frame read as indecision. Approximate brand colours are obvious on a full-screen flat colour. The format leans on sound, so muted autoplay kills it. And past about fifteen seconds, restraint turns into emptiness.
Common questions
Do I need hex codes? No. Vizard Agent samples the colours out of a reference image, and hex codes are welcome too.
Can it use my brand typeface? Upload the font file and it will. Otherwise Vizard Agent picks from the geometric sans faces available.
Can I get a silent version too? Yes, and it's worth having. Ask Vizard Agent for both in the same conversation.