Short video format picker
Give it your product and who is on camera. Get a format pick, a script outline and 10 hooks.
Short video format picker is a free AI skill for the job "Grow on social". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: beginner
What it does
Most store videos fail at the same place: the first seconds. They show the product, not a reason to keep watching. A few short video formats come up again and again in videos that sell, such as reactions, myth-busting, comparisons and teasers. Each has a structure you can follow. This skill matches those formats to your product and your people. It picks the ones that fit, writes a script outline for each, then writes 10 hooks across formats. It also adds a narrow version of each hook that names a small group so the right people stay. The same video can run as an organic post, a creator post and an ad. The view and sales numbers in the sources are one presenter's picks, not benchmarks.
You give it
- Your product, price and key benefit
- Who can be on camera (you, a team member, creators, a real expert who backs the product)
- Your set and props
- Who you serve and one real story from your team (optional)
- Customer words (optional)
You get
- A format pick with a script outline for each video
- 10 hooks across formats
- A narrower version of each hook
- A shot plan for a tutorial that shows the product being used
- A script for a video that carries a second story
Use it when
- You have a product and a phone and want a plan for what videos to film this week.
- Your videos get few views and you think the opening is the problem.
- You want one video to work as a post, a creator post and an ad.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Give your product facts and who can be on camera. Be honest about what you cannot film.
- Add one real story from your team or a customer, if you have one.
- Pick two or three formats from its list and film them as simply as you can.
- Check each hook against your claims. Cut any line you cannot back up.