Red line HUD

How to use it

Run most of the clip as full-frame red annotation scenes that break the claim down on black, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the verdict.

Where the speaker sits

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Drawn over: marks and type drawn over the full speaker. Stock speaker from Pexels.

Palette

THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

VISUAL STYLE: Red line HUD
Slice style ref: sref-1AK6N7
Red line HUD. Red technical annotations, grids and readouts around one bold word or shape, on black.
Palette: #0D0D0D black ground, #E3242B signal red, #7A7A7A grey for small labels, #F2F2F2 white for the one live number. One red only.
Line and fill: thin 1px red strokes for grids, crosshairs, corner brackets and dimension arrows. The key word or shape is solid red. Nothing rounded or friendly.
Texture: faint film grain over everything.
Light: flat. Red lines and the key word glow very slightly, a touch more at the one peak.
Camera: locked. At most one slow scan bar or one small zoom.
Motion: lines draw on with a snappy ease-out and stay; a crosshair tracks and locks; numbers tick up and land; a hand-scribbled loop circles the key point once, on the word it refers to. Everything holds after it lands.
Type: bold condensed capitals for the key word; tiny monospace capitals for labels and readouts.
The rule: one red, black ground, everything annotated.
Don'ts: no second colour, no rounded friendly shapes, no photos, no gradients beyond the faint glow, no busy flicker.
Accent: as in the palette.
Frame shape: ask me before you start (9:16 vertical, 4:5 portrait, 1:1 square or 16:9 wide).
Energy: normal.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

Look rules

• Red line HUD. Red technical annotations, grids and readouts around one bold word or shape, on black.
• Palette: #0D0D0D black ground, #E3242B signal red, #7A7A7A grey for small labels, #F2F2F2 white for the one live number. One red only.
• Line and fill: thin 1px red strokes for grids, crosshairs, corner brackets and dimension arrows. The key word or shape is solid red. Nothing rounded or friendly.
• Texture: faint film grain over everything.
• Light: flat. Red lines and the key word glow very slightly, a touch more at the one peak.
• Camera: locked. At most one slow scan bar or one small zoom.
• Motion: lines draw on with a snappy ease-out and stay; a crosshair tracks and locks; numbers tick up and land; a hand-scribbled loop circles the key point once, on the word it refers to. Everything holds after it lands.
• Type: bold condensed capitals for the key word; tiny monospace capitals for labels and readouts.
• The rule: one red, black ground, everything annotated.
• Don'ts: no second colour, no rounded friendly shapes, no photos, no gradients beyond the faint glow, no busy flicker.

What it suits

Best for

Breaking down a claim, analysing numbers, or explaining psychology and tech with precision.

Avoid for

Warm family stories, faith or comedy.

Content

Numbers, Explainer, Opinion, News

Tone

Serious, Precise, Bold

Pace

Medium

Topics

analysis, data, psychology, tech, claim, statistics, research, evidence, ai, science

Colours

#0D0D0D #E3242B #7A7A7A #F2F2F2

For AIs: this style as plain text.