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Affirmology Trailer Production Kit v1

Updated Jun 11, 2026 · Affirmology_TrailerProductionKit_v1.md

Affirmology Trailer Production Kit v1

For: Jeff and Sol Date: June 11, 2026 Goal: Everything you need to build the ~100-second loading trailer (Video A) yourselves, fast, with a consistent look, and to hand a clean project to an editor for polish. Target: a first usable cut in under a week. Companion: Affirmology_VideoStrategy_v3.md (the why), Affirmology_PredictiveBrain_IdentityChange_Research_v1.md (the science hook).

The trailer is the same for every viewer. It does not read the person's chart. It evokes the feeling of being seen, shows the beauty and complexity of the systems, and hands off to the audio that actually is personal.

THE UNDER-A-WEEK PLAN (read this first)

The trick to moving fast is to lock the audio first, because picture cuts to audio, not the other way around. Suggested split so Sol can start before Jeff joins:

• Day 1 (Sol): lock the voice and music. Paste the script (Part A) into ElevenLabs (Charlotte), render, adjust pauses, get the final length. Generate two or three music beds in Suno (Part B). Drop voice and music into CapCut and rough-mix so the timing is frozen. This single step de-risks everything.
• Day 2 (Sol): build the frame kit. Generate the still images and branded cards (Part D) in Midjourney plus Canva. This is the consistent-look layer. No video yet.
• Day 3 to 4 (Sol, or Sol plus Jeff): generate motion. Animate the stills and generate the hero shots (Part C options). Pick the easy or medium option for each scene first; only attempt the ambitious ones if time allows.
• Day 5 (Jeff joins): assemble in CapCut. Lay clips against the locked audio, drop the text cards, add transitions and the gold-light motif, color-match. Export a first cut.
• Day 6 to 7 (optional): editor pass. Hand the layered project to an editor for sound design, color, and finishing, or refine yourselves.

You can get a watchable first cut by Day 5. The editor makes it a masterpiece, but it works without one.

PART A: THE VO SCRIPT (ElevenLabs-ready)

Voice: ElevenLabs, Charlotte (same as the demo audio, for brand continuity). Settings to try first: Stability 45 to 55, Similarity 80, Style 0 to 15, Speed slightly slow. Render two or three takes and pick.

How the pauses work: the <break time="1.5s" /> tags are real ElevenLabs syntax and force a pause. Adjust the seconds to taste. If a tag ever reads oddly, replace it with a line break and an ellipsis. Keep the delivery slow and intimate, almost whispered at the open, building with the music.

Estimated length: about 95 to 110 seconds at this pacing. Check the actual render and nudge breaks to hit your target.

Listen.

The night you were born, the sky made a shape it had never made before. And has never made again.

That shape is you.

Thousands of pieces of you, written in a language you were never taught. The stars. The keys. The centers. So much to learn. So little time.

Maybe that is why the affirmations never worked. You can say "I am enough" a thousand times, and the mind just whispers back, "yeah, right." The brain protects who it already thinks you are.

But what if you did not have to study any of it? What if you could simply hear it. Feel it. Absorb it. Become it.

This is your blueprint, turned into sound. Spoken softly enough that the guarding mind finally lets it in. The truest things about you, walking with you again.

And this is only the beginning. For your love. Your work. Your healing. The road ahead. One song. Yours alone.

Your audio is almost ready. Breathe. This is your first taste. Welcome to the ones remembering their song.

Alternate opening line options (test a few, pick what gives you chills): "Listen." / "Close your eyes for a moment." / "Before you hear yours, hear this."

Alternate closing line options: "Welcome to the ones remembering their song." / "Your song is about to begin." / "This is the sound of being known."

PART B: MUSIC AND SOUND DIRECTION

The music does half the emotional work. This is a movie-trailer score that builds to a crescendo at the handoff (the moment they have been waiting for), then resolves into the warm bed.

Tool: Suno (you already use it). Generate two or three options, pick one, and you can ask Suno to extend or regenerate sections.

Suno prompt to start:

Cinematic spiritual trailer score, deep and mysterious, slow build. Sparse glowing pads and a single distant piano note at the open, soft heartbeat pulse, low emerald drone. Gradually add shimmering strings and a rising swell. Builds to a warm, awe-filled crescendo around 80 percent, then resolves into a calm, golden, breathing ambient bed. No drums until the swell. Reverent, sacred, ethereal, hopeful. Female-leaning warmth. Around 100 seconds.

Mixing rules (from the neuroscience): keep the music energy mostly below ~200 Hz and above ~4 kHz so it never masks the voice (which lives ~100 to 400 Hz). In CapCut, duck the music to about 15 to 20% volume under the VO, and let it swell up in the gaps between lines and at the crescendo. Reuse the Heavenly Circuit motif if you want a recurring sonic signature across all the videos.

Sound design touches (optional, an editor can add): a soft "whoosh" on each major visual transition, a low sub-bass "boom" on the encoding reveals, a single gentle chime at "your audio is almost ready," and a slow breath sound (inhale and exhale at six seconds) under the bridge section.

PART C: SCENE-BY-SCENE STORYBOARD WITH BUILD OPTIONS

Eight scenes matched to the script. For each: the VO it covers, the on-screen text, and build options ranked Easy (fastest, cheapest, very doable), Medium (better, a bit more work), Ambitious (best, may not make the first cut). Pick per scene based on what you can pull off. You decide what makes the cut.

A note on the tools named: Midjourney for still images, Suno for music, Runway or Kling to turn a still into a moving shot (image-to-video), Veo 3.1 for the few highest-quality hero shots. Do not use Sora (being discontinued in 2026).

Scene 1 - The encoding (0:00 to 0:12)

VO: "Listen... the night you were born, the sky made a shape it had never made before. And has never made again." On screen: no text yet, or a single faint word: "Listen." Black to one gold point of light.

• Easy: A black frame with a single glowing gold dot that slowly pulses (made in Canva or CapCut with a glow element), then a slow zoom into a starfield stock image. CapCut keyframes do the zoom.
• Medium: Midjourney still of a deep-space starfield resolving toward a faint zodiac wheel, then animate a slow push-in with Runway (image-to-video, "slow cinematic dolly in, subtle particle drift").
• Ambitious: Veo 3.1 hero shot of a single point of light expanding into a constellation that draws golden lines into the geometry of a natal chart.

Midjourney prompt: deep space starfield, a single warm gold point of light, faint golden constellation lines beginning to form a circular astrology chart, deep emerald-black background, cinematic, ethereal, mysterious, volumetric glow, ultra detailed, 16:9 --ar 16:9 --style raw

Scene 2 - The overwhelm (0:12 to 0:30)

VO: "That shape is you. Thousands of pieces of you, written in a language you were never taught. The stars. The keys. The centers. So much to learn. So little time." On screen, timed to the line: the card "Thousands of pieces of you, written in a language you were never taught."

• Easy: Three quick cross-dissolves between a natal chart graphic, a Gene Keys wheel graphic, and a Human Design bodygraph (use real chart images, styled gold-on-emerald in Canva), each slowly rotating via CapCut keyframes.
• Medium: Same three, but animate each with Runway so the chart lines glow and draw on, the Gene Keys wheel lights sphere to sphere, and the bodygraph centers fill and empty.
• Ambitious: A single continuous Veo shot where the chart keeps layering glyphs and lines until it is gorgeous and overwhelming, particles swarming.

Midjourney prompt (Gene Keys wheel): intricate circular mandala of 64 glowing golden segments, sacred geometry, fine gold linework on deep emerald, luminous, complex but elegant, cinematic lighting, 16:9 --ar 16:9 --style raw

Important: generate the actual accurate charts from your own engine (Swiss Ephemeris) as SVG, then beautify, so they are real, not decorative. Use Midjourney only for the abstract/atmospheric versions.

Scene 3 - Why affirmations fail (0:30 to 0:44)

VO: "Maybe that is why the affirmations never worked... say 'I am enough' a thousand times, and the mind just whispers back, 'yeah, right.' The brain protects who it already thinks you are." On screen: card "The brain protects who it already thinks you are." Optional: faint text "I am enough" appearing and dissolving / bouncing away.

• Easy: The words "I am wealthy / I am enough / I am loved" type on screen in soft gold, then visibly fade or shatter and fall away, over a dim brain-as-constellation image. CapCut text animations.
• Medium: A Midjourney image of a human head in profile made of constellation lines, with affirmations approaching and deflecting off a glowing boundary; animate the deflection in Runway.
• Ambitious: Veo shot of glowing words drifting toward a luminous figure and bouncing off a soft shield, then one word slipping through only when the figure exhales.

Midjourney prompt: human head in profile formed from golden constellation lines and stars, a soft luminous protective aura around it, glowing words drifting toward it, deep emerald background, ethereal, cinematic, 16:9 --ar 16:9 --style raw

Scene 4 - The turn (0:44 to 0:57)

VO: "But what if you did not have to study any of it? What if you could simply hear it. Feel it. Absorb it. Become it." On screen: the four words appear one at a time, centered: "Hear it. Feel it. Absorb it. Become it."

• Easy: Everything goes still and dark except the gold point of light, which begins to breathe (slow scale pulse). The four words fade in and out in sync with the VO. CapCut only.
• Medium: The swarming glyphs from Scene 2 collapse inward into the single point of light (Runway "particles converge to center, calm").
• Ambitious: Veo shot of the whole chart dissolving into a single breathing orb of warm light.

Scene 5 - The bridge (0:57 to 1:14)

VO: "This is your blueprint, turned into sound. Spoken softly enough that the guarding mind finally lets it in. The truest things about you, walking with you again." On screen: minimal. Maybe a thin waveform that breathes. This is the warm turn: shift the color temperature from cold blue-white to warm flowing gold.

• Easy: A silhouette of a person with headphones, eyes closed (Midjourney still), with a gold waveform line pulsing across the screen (CapCut audio-spectrum effect or a simple animated line).
• Medium: Animate the silhouette with subtle breathing motion in Runway, gold light blooming from the chest (the heart-coherence nod).
• Ambitious: Veo shot of warm golden light traveling from a chart, into a waveform, into a calm figure who softens as it arrives.

Midjourney prompt: serene silhouette of a person with headphones, eyes closed, warm golden light glowing from the heart, soft particles, deep emerald to gold gradient, peaceful, cinematic, ethereal, 16:9 --ar 16:9 --style raw

Scene 6 - The breadth (1:14 to 1:30)

VO: "And this is only the beginning. For your love. Your work. Your healing. The road ahead. One song. Yours alone." On screen (fast, mostly text and icons): quick flashes, half a second each. Suggested labels with a simple gold line-icon each: "Relationships," "The month ahead," "Through a hard season," "Before sleep," "Your path," "Abundance," "Heart coherence." End on "One song. Yours alone."

• Easy: A rapid montage of seven branded title cards (built once in Canva, same template), each a gold icon plus one or two words on emerald, cut fast to the music.
• Medium: Add a subtle motion to each card (slow zoom or drift) and a soft whoosh between them.
• Ambitious: Each card is a tiny atmospheric Kling clip (a couple embracing in light, a moon over water, a figure walking a glowing path).

This scene exists to signal that the demo audio is one taste of many. Keep it fast and let the cards carry it.

Scene 7 - The handoff and crescendo (1:30 to 1:42)

VO: "Your audio is almost ready. Breathe. This is your first taste." On screen: the AFFIRMOLOGY AI wordmark resolves on the musical peak, then a quiet line of render status.

• Easy: The wordmark fades up over the breathing gold point as the music swells, then a small "Preparing your audio..." line in mono font. CapCut.
• Medium: The constellation lines from Scene 1 redraw to form the wordmark, then settle.
• Ambitious: Veo or After Effects animation of stars converging into the wordmark with a lens-flare bloom on the crescendo.

Scene 8 - The close (1:40 to end, holds during the wait)

VO: "Welcome to the ones remembering their song." On screen: "Welcome to the ones remembering their song." then the breathing gold point holds, with the live render progress beneath it.

• Easy: Static end card with the breathing dot and the line, holds as a loop while the real audio renders behind the scenes.
• Medium: A slow, gentle starfield drift loop so the wait never feels frozen.

PART D: THE VISUAL CONSISTENCY SYSTEM

This is how everything looks like one world even though it is stitched from many tools.

Locked palette (use these exact values): deep emerald #0a2014, card emerald #112e26, gold #c89b3c, soft gold #d9b15a, cream #faf6ee, muted cream #cdbfa3, line #1f4536.

Fonts: Cormorant Garamond (italic and 600) for headlines, Inter for body, JetBrains Mono for small status text.

Aesthetic target: spacey and cinematic, like a Star Wars trailer. Stars in deep space, an emerald story swoosh, gold and white text, a little witchy, golden constellation linework, classy, a touch of Greek Hellenistic idealism.

Three tricks that keep AI-generated images consistent:

1. Reuse a style suffix on every Midjourney prompt. Append the same tail to every image: deep emerald and gold palette, golden constellation linework, cinematic volumetric glow, ethereal sacred, ultra detailed, 16:9 --ar 16:9 --style raw. Sameness of palette and descriptors is what unifies the look.
2. Use the same seed and a reference image. In Midjourney, once you get a hero image you love, reuse its seed (--seed 1234) and feed it back as a style reference (--sref <image url>) on subsequent prompts so they share a visual DNA.
3. Build branded title cards once, in Canva, and reuse the template. Make one card template (emerald background, gold Cormorant headline, a thin gradient divider, the small wordmark in the corner), then duplicate it for every text card. This is faster and more consistent than generating text in AI (which often mangles letters).

The master frame kit to build on Day 2 (in Midjourney plus Canva): the gold point of light, the starfield, the natal-chart art, the Gene Keys wheel, the Human Design bodygraph, the headphone silhouette, the seven use-case icon cards, and the wordmark card. Once these exist, the trailer is mostly assembly.

PART E: THE BUILD PIPELINE, STEP BY STEP (CapCut)

You both know CapCut, so here is the assembly order.

1. New project, set to 1080x1920 vertical if the trailer plays on the phone demo page, or 1920x1080 if it is desktop-first. Confirm which the demo uses before you start. (You can export both later.)
2. Import the locked VO and music first. Place the VO on one audio track, the Suno bed on another. Lower the music to ~15 to 20% under the voice. This frozen audio is your timeline ruler.
3. Drop in the scene clips and stills above the audio, matching each to its VO line using Part C. Use the audio waveform to find each line's start.
4. Add the text cards from your Canva template at the timestamps in Part C. Keep them on screen long enough to read (about 1.5 to 2 seconds each, faster only in Scene 6).
5. Add the gold-light motif and transitions. A consistent soft cross-dissolve between scenes, the breathing-dot overlay where called for, and a gentle whoosh on big transitions.
6. Color-match. Use CapCut's adjustment layer to push everything toward the emerald-and-gold palette so clips from different tools feel unified. A slight warm tint on the back half (Scenes 5 to 8) reinforces the cold-to-warm turn.
7. Mix check. Listen on headphones and on phone speakers. The voice must stay clearly above the music everywhere.
8. Export a first cut. Then either refine or hand off (Part G).

PART F: TOOLS AND ROUGH COSTS

• ElevenLabs (voice): you already have it, Charlotte is in your agent. ~$22/mo tier is plenty.
• Suno (music): ~$10/mo.
• Midjourney (stills): ~$10 to $30/mo.
• Runway or Kling (image-to-video motion): Runway ~$15 to $35/mo; Kling is the cheapest per clip and great for volume.
• Veo 3.1 (a few hero shots only): available via Google's Flow/Gemini; use sparingly for the two or three best shots.
• Canva (title cards): free or Pro ~$13/mo.
• CapCut (edit): free, you have it.

Total to build the trailer: roughly $60 to $120 in subscriptions for the month, plus your time. The frame-kit approach front-loads the look so the spend stays low.

PART G: WHAT TO HAND AN EDITOR

If you bring in an editor to finish, give them: the CapCut project (or an XML or Resolve export), the locked VO and music files, the Canva card template, the Midjourney stills and generated clips in a labeled folder, this kit, and the palette values. Ask them specifically for: sound design (whooshes, sub-booms, the breath bed), color grade to the emerald-and-gold palette, refined transitions, and a final mix. Tell them the cold-to-warm turn happens at Scene 5 and the crescendo lands at Scene 7. That focuses their time on polish, not concept.

NEXT

Once you react to this and the script, the same kit gets built for the Investor Film (longer script, card-by-card data sheet with the verified numbers from Affirmology_VideoStrategy_v3.md Part 8, and a shot list). Tell me to proceed and I will produce the Investor Production Kit next.