sample script 3

"The Sweep" — Veo / Google Flow Prompts

9:16 vertical. Each prompt below is fully self-contained (Emma's full description is repeated every time) so any clip can be regenerated in isolation without losing consistency.

I split Scene 2 into two clips — it's written as a quick montage in the storyboard, and Veo holds up much better generating one continuous action per clip rather than internal hard cuts. Stitch the cuts together in Resolve instead of asking one generation to do it.

Character & Style Reference (generate this first)

Before running the scene prompts, generate one turnaround/reference image of Emma and feed it back into each clip as an image reference if your Flow workflow supports it — this is your best defense against the outfit/hair-consistency drift you've run into before.

Reference image prompt:

Character reference sheet, front and three-quarter view, of Emma: a warm, stylish salon owner in her mid-30s, with long flowing wavy hair that has a subtle iridescent teal-to-blue sheen catching the light like a mermaid's, warm approachable expression, wearing a fitted teal salon apron with a thin gold trim line over stylish modern clothing. Soft painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animation style, warm golden and deep teal color palette, clean simple background, studio lighting.

Scene 1 (0–5s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, wearing a fitted teal salon apron with gold trim over modern clothing, laughs warmly and hugs a happy female client goodbye at the entrance of her bright, busy hair salon. Golden sunlight streams through large front windows. In the background, other stylists work at full stations, blurred with shallow depth of field. A small chalkboard sign near the entrance reads "FULLY BOOKED" in elegant hand lettering. Soft golden-hour rim light on Emma's hair. Camera slowly pushes in at a gentle handheld pace. Upbeat, warm, satisfied mood. No dialogue — ambient salon chatter and soft warm background music only.

Scene 2a (5–8s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, wearing a fitted teal salon apron with gold trim over modern clothing, is mid-motion blow-drying a client's hair, smiling and chatting. As she works, a single small gold coin slips silently and unnoticed from a tiny hole in her apron pocket, falling in slow motion past frame and landing softly among loose hair clippings on the floor below. Camera is a close-up on the apron pocket and the coin's fall, then racks focus back up to Emma's happy face — she never looks down. Warm salon lighting. Soft "cha-ching" register sound is cut short by a small, quiet "plink" as the coin lands. Cheerful but with a small note of dramatic irony in the sound design.

Scene 2b (8–12s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, wearing a fitted teal salon apron with gold trim over modern clothing, is now applying hair color to another client, laughing at something the client said. A small folded bill slips from the same tiny hole in her apron pocket and drifts down to the floor, landing among more hair clippings. Quick soft transition wipe implies time passing between clients. Warm salon lighting, upbeat but unhurried pacing. Same soft "plink" sound cue as the bill lands, slightly quieter this time, going unnoticed under the salon's ambient chatter.

Scene 3 (12–20s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. It is closing time — the salon is empty and dimmer, warm lamps on instead of daylight. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, now looking tired but content, sweeps the floor with a simple broom. The pile she sweeps contains hair clippings mixed with several small coins and a folded bill, all swept together into a dustpan. She tips the full dustpan directly into a small trash bin without looking down or noticing the coins. Camera holds low and steady on the sweeping motion, quiet and contemplative. No dialogue — just the soft sound of the broom bristles and the faint rattle of coins in the pan.

Scene 4 (20–28s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, sits alone at the salon counter at night, counting cash from the till under a single warm desk lamp. Her warm smile slowly fades into quiet, gentle confusion — not panic, just puzzlement — as she looks at the total. The camera slowly cranes past her to reveal the small trash bin from Scene 3 sitting quietly in the background, still visible to the viewer but out of Emma's eyeline. Muted, still, slightly melancholic lighting — cool moonlight through the window mixing with the warm desk lamp. No dialogue, minimal ambient room tone.

Scene 5 (28–38s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, still seated at the counter, looks up as a soft glowing shape — an abstract teal-and-gold lotus/interlocking-rings light form — gently drifts into frame beside her, echoing a lotus flower and overlapping rings. It does not speak or gesture instructively; it simply glows warmly near her shoulder like a calm presence. Emma's confused expression softens into quiet hope, her shoulders relaxing. Warm, soft volumetric light spreads gently across the counter. Gentle, slow camera push-in on Emma's face as it changes.

Voiceover (soft, warm, female, non-corporate tone — paraphrased key message, do not read verbatim): a line reassuring her that she isn't failing from lack of effort, she simply hasn't been shown the right formula yet.

Scene 6 (38–45s)

A warm, painterly 2D/3D-hybrid animated scene, 9:16 vertical. Emma, a stylish salon owner in her mid-30s with long flowing wavy hair with a subtle iridescent teal sheen, exhales and looks up toward soft warm light coming through the window — calm, hopeful expression, no screens, charts, or numbers visible anywhere in frame. The glowing teal-and-gold lotus/rings light form from Scene 5 fades gently upward and out of frame. Camera slowly pulls back and up into a soft golden light that resolves into the FOCUS logo lockup (lotus mark inside interlocking gold rings, wordmark "FOCUS — Define. Align. Prosper.") centered on a clean white background.

Voiceover (soft, warm, female tone — paraphrased key message, do not read verbatim): a line stating she doesn't need more clients, she needs to charge fairly for everything she already does. Soft, inviting CTA to book a strategy session.

Production Notes
No lip-synced dialogue anywhere in this sequence — every spoken line is narrator VO, layered in post rather than generated with the clip. This sidesteps the long-dialogue lip-sync issues you've hit before and keeps every clip regenerable without re-timing mouth movement.
Consistency risk is concentrated in Emma's hair and apron across 7 clips — worth spending the extra generation on the reference sheet above and feeding it into each clip rather than relying on text description alone to hold the look.
The lotus/rings light form in Scenes 5–6 is intentionally abstract rather than a literal animated logo character — this avoids Veo trying to render your actual logo file (which it can't reference directly) and keeps it flexible if you want a more defined "Guide" character later.
Scene 3's broom sweep and Scene 4's counter shot are the two clips most likely to need a few regenerations to get the coin/bill placement to read clearly at a glance — flag extra iteration budget for those two specifically.