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Method · Lever 04

The F.A.B. method

Feature, Advantage, Benefit: a grid from sales, transposed to mark up the script and automatically produce the visuals that appear behind the speaker.

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What is the F.A.B. method?

F.A.B. stands for Feature, Advantage, Benefit. It is a classic grid from sales and marketing: not merely describing a characteristic (Feature), but explaining what it enables (Advantage) and what it changes for the person (Benefit).

Three blocks illustrating Feature, Advantage and Benefit linked together.

From sales to training

In training, F.A.B. serves to prioritise information: distinguishing the raw fact from its concrete application and its interest for the learner. This is what avoids "catalogue" videos where everything is put on the same level.

Illustration of the shift from sales to training with linked icons.

Mark up the script and produce the visuals

Hoctav uses F.A.B. to mark up each segment of the script and decide what appears behind the speaker: feature text, advantage text, diagram, illustration or emotional image. Every change on screen supports a precise instructional objective.

  • Concise key texts (fact, rule, useful action)
  • Diagrams for structures and processes
  • Neutral illustrations to show the concrete
  • Emotional images to convey what is at stake
Diagram illustrating the markup of the script and its pairing with different types of visuals.

Why visuals matter so much

The visual system extracts the meaning of an image in a few milliseconds. Visuals chosen and synchronised with the speech anchor the explanation and support retention, where a lone speaker against a fixed background quickly loses attention.

Stylised head facing a glowing image illustrating the speed of visual processing.

How Hoctav applies it

From the script structured in M.E.R.E., Hoctav automatically generates the visual backgrounds according to the F.A.B. grid — without you having to open any editing software.

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