# Trunk or Treat Announcement Video Maker

Type the date, the place and what is happening at your trunk or treat or fall festival, and get a short narrated announcement with captions on every word, ready for your Facebook page, the church screen or the school newsletter.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/trunk-or-treat-announcement-video-maker
Search intent: A church children’s ministry leader, a school PTA or PTO volunteer, or a neighborhood or community group organizer in the US who is running a trunk or treat or fall festival in late October and needs a short, family-friendly announcement video with the date, time, place, rain plan and costume contest — without filming or editing one.

## What it produces

- 5 to 8 scenes, each with one spoken line and one generated frame
- A minute by default; 30, 60, 90 or 180 seconds are selectable in the composer (paid plans to 180s). Scene length comes from the narration's true duration
- ElevenLabs voiceover: 5 voices, narrating in any of 29 languages
- Word-timed captions burned in from the voice model's own character alignment
- A licensed music bed, ducked under the narration, loudness-normalised master
- 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, 1080-class, no watermark on any plan

## Preset applied on this page

- Source type: prompt
- Voice: bella
- Captions: bold-center
- Music: uplifting
- Visual style: 3d
- Aspect ratio: 16:9

## The brief this page adds, verbatim

This string is prepended to whatever the visitor types before the scriptwriter
sees it — in the script preview on this page, in the video you generate after
clicking through to the composer, and in the API when you send
`preset: "trunk-or-treat-announcement-video-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a short narrated announcement video for a trunk or treat or a fall festival run by a church, a school, a PTA or a neighborhood group. Open with the name of the event and the day in the first line, with no greeting. Then give the details the user typed, one per scene, in the order a family needs them: the day and date, the start and end time, the place and the address, what happens there (decorated car trunks, candy, a costume contest, games, food), how to take part or sign up a trunk, and the rain plan. Read every date and time in full, and say the day, the time and the place again in the last scene, then close with the one thing to do — come along, sign up or share it — only as the user describes. Use only the dates, times, addresses, rules, prices and details the user gives; never invent a date, a time, an address, a price, a prize, a sponsor, a headcount, an activity or a rain plan, and if the user gives no rain plan say nothing about the weather. Keep it warm and family-friendly — friendly costumes, candy, pumpkins and string lights, never scary: no blood, gore, weapons or frightening images. Each scene describes one frame of the kind of event described — car trunks decorated as themes in a parking lot at dusk, a table of candy, children in friendly costumes, hay bales and pumpkins — with no real person, pastor, teacher or celebrity, no film, cartoon or brand character, no text, signs, numbers or legible writing in the frame, and no one speaking to camera.

## Example inputs from the page

- Trunk or treat at our church: Saturday, October 24, 4 to 6 pm in the east parking lot, 210 Elm Street — costume contest at 5, and if it rains we move into the fellowship hall
- Hollow Oak Elementary PTA trunk or treat: Friday, October 30, 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the school bus loop — families can sign up to decorate a trunk by October 23, costumes must be school-friendly, rain date Saturday the 31st
- Birchwood neighborhood fall festival: Sunday, October 25, 2 to 5 pm at the Birchwood Park pavilion — hayride, chili cook-off, kids’ costume parade at 3, and bring a canned good for the food drive

## Getting started

Pick a plan at /pricing and start creating today. The widget on the page runs the
real scriptwriter with this preset and returns the script, the per-scene image
prompts and the estimated runtime. Rendering the visuals, voiceover and final
file spends credits.

## How it works

1. **Type the date, the place and what is on** — The day, the time, the address and which lot, the costume contest, how to sign up a trunk and the rain plan — in your own words.
2. **Check every date and time before it renders** — The script comes back one detail per scene. Fix a time, add the rain plan or cut a line before any picture is made.
3. **Post it, play it, link it** — A landscape video for the Facebook page and the church screen, with the date and place in the captions; switch to vertical for Reels and Shorts.

## What a trunk or treat announcement has to say

A family deciding whether to come needs the same few things, and an announcement that leaves one out gets the same question in the comments all week: the day and the date, the start and end time, the address and which lot or field, and what happens there — decorated trunks, candy, a costume contest, games or food. Say who the contest is for and when it is judged, and how to sign up to decorate a trunk if you need more cars.

Then the rain plan, which is the detail most often missing from a flyer in late October: a room to move into, a rain date, or a line saying where a cancellation will be posted. The announcement uses only what you type: the day and date, the start and end time, the address and which lot or field, the rain plan, the costume contest and anything else you list. Nothing is added — no time, no address, no prize, no sponsor and no promise about the weather — so a detail you leave out is left out of the video too. The script comes back for review before anything renders, so whoever is running the event can check every date and time first.

## Where to post it: the Facebook page, the church screen, the school newsletter

For most churches, schools and neighborhood groups the announcement lives in three places. On the Facebook page, uploaded as a video post or a Reel and pinned until the event. On the screen before and after services, in the announcement slides the week before. And in the school or parish newsletter, where a link to the video sits under the written details for parents who read on a phone.

Connect TikTok, Instagram and YouTube once and publish to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the app, on every plan. Mini connects 1 account, Starter 3, Pro 6 and Studio 25. A Facebook page, a school newsletter and the church’s announcement slides are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and upload it to the page, link it from the newsletter, or insert it into the slides the way you would any video file. The page starts in landscape, which fits a projector and a Facebook post; switch to vertical in the composer for Reels, Shorts or TikTok, or make one of each from the same script.

## Friendly, not frightening, and built from your details

It is written as a family event, not a scare: friendly costumes, candy, decorated trunks and pumpkins, with no blood, no gore, no weapons and nothing frightening on screen, so it can play in front of a room of preschoolers or before a Sunday service. The voice is a bright, warm narrator by default over an uplifting music bed, with large captions in the lower third that a room can read from the back row. 5 voices are previewed in the composer.

Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot: decorated car trunks at dusk, a table of candy, children in friendly costumes, pumpkins and string lights. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan. The scenes show the kind of event you describe, not your own parking lot, building or families, and no real person appears — no pastor, principal, child or neighbor is drawn from life, and no film or cartoon character either. The frames carry no lettering, because generated writing comes out garbled; the burned-in captions carry the date, the time and the address instead. Every video is made on a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee.

## Who it is for

- **Churches and children’s ministries** — A trunk or treat in the church parking lot, announced on the Facebook page and on the screen before the service for the two Sundays before it.
- **School PTAs and PTOs** — The PTA trunk or treat or fall festival, with the date, the sign-up for trunks and the costume rules, linked from the school newsletter and the class pages.
- **Neighborhood and community groups** — A block party, a fall festival in the park or a community trunk or treat, shared in the neighborhood Facebook group with the time, the place and what to bring.
- **Libraries, parks departments and community centers** — A fall family event in the lot or on the lawn, announced in the same look as the rest of the season’s programs.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | A flyer made in a design app, then a separate video for social media if anyone has time. | The date, the place and what is on, typed once in a box. |
| Visuals | Last year’s photos, or stock pumpkins that look like every other flyer. | A generated fall-event scene for every detail, in one consistent look. |
| Voiceover | A volunteer records it on a phone, and again when the time changes. | A bright narrator by default, 5 voices to choose from, a changed line re-read on its own. |
| Captions | Typed in by hand, or no captions at all for the sound-off scroll. | Every word captioned, so the date and the address read with the sound off. |
| Turnaround | An evening of editing the week before the event, when there is no evening to spare. | Minutes, with every date and time checked before it renders. |
| Changing it | The rain plan changes and the video has to be made again. | Edit the line in the script and render the video again. |

## FAQ

### What should a trunk or treat announcement include?

The day and date, the start and end time, the address and which lot or field, what happens there, the costume contest and when it is judged, how to sign up a trunk, and the rain plan. If you collect candy donations, say where and by when; if there is a cost, say it. Anything you type is read and captioned, and anything you leave out is left out.

### Will it add details I did not type?

The announcement uses only what you type: the day and date, the start and end time, the address and which lot or field, the rain plan, the costume contest and anything else you list. Nothing is added — no time, no address, no prize, no sponsor and no promise about the weather — so a detail you leave out is left out of the video too. The script comes back for review before anything renders, so whoever is running the event can check every date and time first.

### Can I post it on our church’s or school’s Facebook page?

Yes, as a download. Connect TikTok, Instagram and YouTube once and publish to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the app, on every plan. Mini connects 1 account, Starter 3, Pro 6 and Studio 25. A Facebook page, a school newsletter and the church’s announcement slides are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and upload it to the page, link it from the newsletter, or insert it into the slides the way you would any video file.

### Can it play on the screen before the service?

Yes. The page starts in landscape (16:9), the shape of a projector or a TV screen, and the export is a 1080p MP4 with the narration and music in it. Insert it into the announcement slides or the presentation software you use on Sunday like any other video file, and play it once through before the service to check the sound level in the room.

### Is it scary for small children?

It is written as a family event, not a scare: friendly costumes, candy, decorated trunks and pumpkins, with no blood, no gore, no weapons and nothing frightening on screen, so it can play in front of a room of preschoolers or before a Sunday service.

### Does it show our building, our parking lot or our families?

No. The scenes show the kind of event you describe, not your own parking lot, building or families, and no real person appears — no pastor, principal, child or neighbor is drawn from life, and no film or cartoon character either. The frames carry no lettering, because generated writing comes out garbled; the burned-in captions carry the date, the time and the address instead. Nothing on screen talks: there are no moving mouths and no lip sync. One narrator voice tells the whole video, dialogue included, and the captions carry the words. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot: decorated car trunks at dusk, a table of candy, children in friendly costumes, pumpkins and string lights. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan.

### Can we make the announcement in Spanish too?

Yes. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages, Spanish included, chosen in the composer, so a bilingual parish or school can make one version in each language from the same details. There are 5 voices, all recorded in American English. There is no British, Irish or Australian voice and no voice cloning. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages — French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish among them — chosen in the composer; the voices read them, but a native listener may hear the American accent, so listen to the first one before you post a series.

### What does it cost, and how long can a video be?

Plans are monthly: Mini $7 (200 credits), Starter $19 (600 credits), Pro $49 (2,000 credits), Studio $149 (7,500 credits). A five-scene short in pictures costs 13 credits; with AI motion in every scene it costs 68. You see the price before you generate, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mini ($7 a month, 200 credits) covers about 15 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 2 with AI motion in every scene. Every paid plan makes videos of 30 seconds, one minute, 90 seconds or three minutes; a longer video has more scenes and costs more credits, and you see the price before you generate. You own the videos on every plan and can use them commercially, paid ads included. There is no watermark on any plan, the export is 1080p, and the music beds are licensed for commercial use with no attribution.

### Do I have to sign up to try this?

Yes, and pick a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment has a 7-day money-back guarantee. On a plan, the box at the top writes the script and the shot list for no credits — that is the part that decides whether the video is worth making.

### Do I own the videos, and is there a watermark?

You own them, on every plan, and there is no watermark on any plan, no resolution cap and no platform withheld. Four things do follow the plan, because they are what a video costs to make: AI motion and sound effects need Starter, and a presenter avatar and the choice of video model need Pro. Everything else — every voice, every language, every caption style, every aspect ratio — is the same on all of them.

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