Choose a show, not a template

Three Reels in a row, all the same: an AI voice over stock pictures. After this lesson you will have a Show Card with five episodes you can film this week.

Set up in one minute

1. Install ChatGPT or Google Gemini from the Play Store or App Store. Claude also works. The order is about how common they are, not which is better.
2. Open the app and sign in with an account you already use. No card needed.
3. On a prompt card, tap Copy. In the assistant, press and hold in the message box, tap Paste, fill each bracket in your own words and send.

You can fill the brackets in Hinglish or in your own language. The assistant understands. Tell it which language the reply should be in.

Why the template channel fails

You know the pitch: a "faceless" Hindi AI channel, sold in a ₹9 workshop with earnings screenshots. YouTube's rules keep exactly this out of its earning programme: templates with nothing of the maker in them.

A "part-time job" or "task" group on Telegram or WhatsApp that pays a little, then wants a deposit, is a scam.

Your show in one card

A show is a viewer, a problem, and your access: things you own, use or do daily, not "what pays most". Pick a repeatable format: test and verdict, how-to, or A versus B.

Example: Rohit Yadav, 26, who works shifts at an e-commerce warehouse near Gurugram and cooks for his flatmates. His first plan was AI-voiced quotes over stock clips.

Help me plan a small show of short videos I will make on my phone for Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
- My work or daily life: [your job / your day]
- Things I own, use or can test at home: [5 to 10 products, tools or apps]
- People I understand well: [for example: tired shift workers]
- Language my viewers speak: [Hinglish / Hindi / Tamil / English …]

Suggest 5 show ideas. For each: 1. Viewer. 2. The one problem every episode helps with. 3. A repeatable episode of 25 to 35 seconds. 4. My part: what I must film or test that you could not make up. 5. Three episode titles.
Use only the things I listed. No money claims, no copied videos, no health or finance topics.
Write in simple Indian English. Short sentences. Polite. No heavy words.
End by asking which idea feels most like me.

He chose test and verdict:

I choose idea number [number] (or my own: [describe it]).
Act as a strict reviewer for a platform that does not reward templated or repetitive content.
1. Score it from 1 to 5 for: my own input; variety between episodes; use for the viewer.
2. Name the biggest risk of it becoming a copy-paste channel.
3. Rewrite the format so every episode needs something only I can provide.
4. Write my Show Card in this layout: Show name / For / Every episode / My part (never skipped) / I will never / First 5 episodes / Platform.
For the episodes, use only things I listed in this chat. Add no prices and no new products.

In our test, the reviewer scored his variety low ("show the tool, start the timer, thumbs up"), so each verdict now needs one flaw on camera. His card:

Show name: Rakho ya Hatao? (keep or skip?)
For: people who cook after a long shift in a small kitchen
Every episode: one tool under ₹300, one timed test at my real dinner, one verdict, 30 seconds
My part: my hands, my kitchen, my stopwatch, one flaw on camera
I will never: review a tool I have not used; claim "cheapest" or "number one"; make health claims
First 5: pull-cord chopper · stretch lids · garlic crusher · clip-on strainer · oil spray bottle
Platform: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts

The rupee amounts in our examples are made up to show the method. Use your own numbers.

Three questions, then the path

1. My part: what do I add that an assistant cannot invent?
2. Five in a row: would five episodes back to back each show something new?
3. Name swap: if another name were on this channel, would anyone notice?

Rohit's first plan failed all three; Rakho ya Hatao? passes.

Each lesson adds one part to your Show File, a single phone note: script, voice, shots, edit, rules, money, weekly routine. Plainly: this course will not make your videos popular, get you into any programme or tell you what you will earn. You get a skill you can repeat; the rest depends on your work, your effort and your market.