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OpenAI video generation prompts. 9 entries.
Video generation 9
Camera movement vocabulary that video models understand
The 14 camera moves that generation models respond to reliably, with the phrasing that works and the phrasing that produces a wobbling mess.
Establishing shot: open a video with a place
A prompt for the wide opening shot that tells the viewer where they are, with the three things that make a generated landscape look filmed rather than rendered.
Fewer warped hands and faces: what to change in the prompt
The prompt-side fixes for the classic generation failures (melting hands, drifting faces, extra limbs), ordered by how often each one works.
Music visualizer: abstract particles that pulse to a stated tempo, loopable
A filled 7-part prompt for an abstract background clip: particles that pulse at a stated BPM, a near-seamless loop, no text; the model cannot hear your track, so the beat is matched in the editor.
Nature documentary: long lens, slow motion, no narration
A filled 7-part prompt for a wildlife shot that looks filmed from a hide: 600mm compression, heat haze, one animal doing one slow thing, slow motion at a stated rate, and the anatomy traps.
Retro VHS: a 1990s home video shot on a camcorder
A filled 7-part prompt for the camcorder look: 4:3 inside the frame, tracking noise, colour bleed, auto-focus hunting and a zoom nobody meant, with the date stamp added in the editor.
Style lock: one paragraph that makes every clip look like the same film
A reusable style paragraph (stock, palette, grain, light rules) appended to every generation prompt so a series cuts together instead of looking like ten different ads.
UGC-style generated ad: make it look like a phone, not a studio
Prompt rules that push a video model toward the handheld, imperfect look of user-generated content, which still outperforms polished ads in most feeds.
The 7-part prompt structure for text-to-video
A fill-in template that gives any video model the seven things it needs: subject, action, setting, camera, light, style and sound. Fewer vague words, fewer wasted generations.