{
 "slug": "edit-low-poly-parable",
 "name": "Low-poly parable",
 "category": "preset",
 "group": "Edit styles",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "A hard subject becomes watchable as one person's story, while every turn rests on a source the viewer can see.",
 "use_when": "Brand films, opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness.",
 "phrase": "a first-person narrated story in dated chapters, staged in a low-poly 3D world with anonymous figures, a figure holding the printed source to camera at every fact, sentence captions revealed word by word",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "No photoreal face anywhere: the anonymity is the point.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "People watch a story and keep a list: 1.6 percent of plays saved here, against 5 to 6.5 percent for the same account's step lists. Do not use it for a how-to or a lead magnet.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "The reference opens on a black frame 0, which is its thumbnail. Open on the first lit frame.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "source-to-camera",
  "caption-sentence-reveal",
  "cut-on-sentence-end",
  "fade-from-black",
  "3d-render-style",
  "format-generated-scenes"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "measured",
 "source": {
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@pro.glitch/video/7698204515014577421",
  "note": "Our own reading and measurement of a TikTok by @pro.glitch, posted 19 Oct 2026. The clip is a third-party reference and is not shown; the words here are ours"
 },
 "body": "## Measured on the reference\n\n| What | Value |\n|---|---|\n| Length | 344.4 s |\n| Aspect | 9:16 |\n| Visual changes per 10 s | 2.03 |\n| Median segment | 4.1 s |\n| First visual change | 0.43 s |\n| First spoken word | 0.0 s |\n| Spoken words per second | 2.57 |\n| Loudness, integrated | -15.2 LUFS |\n| True peak | -2.2 dBTP |\n| Sound floor | -42.6 dBFS (a quiet bed is likely) |\n| Face in sampled frames | none: no presenter |\n| Plays, saves | 12,700 plays, 1.6 percent saved (read 23 Oct 2026) |\n| Against the account's median | 2.1 times |\n\n## The recipe\n\n1. Write the script as one person's story in dated chapters, each turn anchored on a real source. Narrate in the first person at about 2.5 words per second.\n2. Build each chapter as a low-poly 3D set with soft light and shallow depth of field. Cast anonymous figures and one narrator figure.\n3. Hold each set with a slow push or drift and cut at the end of a sentence: 1.5 to 2.5 changes per 10 seconds, holds of 3 to 5 seconds.\n4. Whenever a fact is stated, cut to a figure holding the printed source page to camera, readable.\n5. Captions: one sentence at a time, small white sans with no box, revealed word by word, low centre.\n6. A quiet ambient bed under the voice; sound effects only where the story has an object. Voice at -14 LUFS.\n\n## Not for\n\nStep lists, tool tutorials, lead magnets, product demos, anything under 60 seconds.",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-low-poly-parable",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-low-poly-parable.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me a production plan: the shots or scenes in order, what each one needs, and the edit settings, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is low-poly parable: a hard subject becomes watchable as one person's story, while every turn rests on a source the viewer can see. How it works: a first-person narrated story in dated chapters, staged in a low-poly 3D world with anonymous figures, a figure holding the printed source to camera at every fact, sentence captions revealed word by word. It is right for: brand films, opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness. No photoreal face anywhere: the anonymity is the point. People watch a story and keep a list: 1.6 percent of plays saved here, against 5 to 6.5 percent for the same account's step lists. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}