Skeleton Dark Comedy Shorts Editor

I’m building a YouTube Shorts channel where a wise-cracking skeleton drops punchy scares in under half a minute, and I need a fresh mind to cut the very first clip. The brief is simple yet precise: a 20-30 second short that opens with an unmistakable hook in the first three seconds, races through beats with tight retention edits, and lands every laugh on a bed of spooky background music.

The tone is dark comedy. The on-screen star is a skeleton. The vibe of the soundtrack should stay spooky, never goofy, so the humour bites while the atmosphere chills. Feel free to lean on CapCut, ElevenLabs, and any AI tools that help you layer captions, SFX and snappy transitions at viral-speed pacing.

Deliverables (for this initial task)
• One finished 20–30 s vertical video in 1080×1920 (mp4)
• Hard-burned captions, fast and legible
• Hook locked in by the three-second mark
• Skeleton character present throughout (can be animated, masked, or composited)
• Spooky background music plus punchy SFX mixed for mobile

When you reply, drop a link to your strongest short-form work, outline your workflow in a sentence or two, note your average turnaround, and list the tools you’ll lean on. If the test hits the mark, I’ll have a steady stream of shorts ready for you.