Video generation
Prompts for text-to-video and image-to-video models: shots, camera moves, styles, consistency.23 entries.
Before you post a generated video: disclosure and rights checklist
Six checks for AI-generated clips before they go on TikTok, Reels, Shorts or a client's site: labels, likeness, music, logos, model terms and provenance.
Anime style: 2D cel look, limited animation, clean line weight
A filled 7-part prompt for a hand-drawn anime shot: flat cel shading, animation on twos, a held painted background, and the three things the style breaks in current video models.
Architectural walkthrough: an interior on a steadicam in natural light
A filled 7-part prompt for a real-estate or design walkthrough: one slow steadicam path through a room, windows as the only light, straight verticals, and the turns that make geometry drift.
Generate a 10-clip b-roll pack for a talking-head video
One agent prompt that reads your transcript and writes ten generation prompts for cutaways that show what is being said, each tagged with the sentence it covers.
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.
Keep the same character across clips: the reference sheet prompt
A character description block you reuse verbatim in every prompt, plus a generated reference sheet, so a face, outfit and build stay the same from shot to shot.
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.
Claymation and stop motion: 12 fps feel, fingerprints, slight jitter
A filled 7-part prompt for a clay stop-motion shot where the imperfections are the point: visible fingerprints, a frame-by-frame stutter, a set that looks built by hand, and what not to ask for.
Fashion lookbook: a model walks in a studio at 24 fps
A filled 7-part prompt for a lookbook clip: seamless backdrop, one walk toward the camera, cinema frame rate so the fabric moves like fabric, and the faces, feet and prints that need extra care.
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.
Food close-up: macro, steam, a slow pour
A filled 7-part prompt for a food shot that looks edible: one macro framing, one slow physical event (a pour, steam, a crack), side light that shows texture, and the hands and labels to keep out.
Ask an agent to turn a script into a numbered generation shot list
A prompt for Claude or ChatGPT that converts a 30-second script into 6-8 shot prompts in the 7-part structure, ready to paste into a video model one by one.
Image-to-video: generate the first frame, then animate it
Make a still with an image model first, fix the composition there, and only then ask the video model to animate it. Cheaper iterations and the look you chose, not the one the video model guessed.
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.
Pixel art: an 8-bit game cutscene on a locked pixel grid
A filled 7-part prompt for a retro game cutscene: a stated sprite size, a palette of 16 colours, parallax layers, no sub-pixel smoothing, and why a still from an image model is the safer first frame.
Product hero shot: a 5-second generated clip for an ad or a listing
Prompt for a clean product shot with one motion and one light change, the kind that sits at the top of a listing or opens a 15-second ad.
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.
Talking-head clip: the script format AI avatar and lip-sync tools read best
How to write a 20-second spoken script so that a lip-sync or avatar model delivers it with natural pauses and no mispronounced numbers.
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.
Watercolor and painterly: a moving painting with paper grain and bleeding edges
A filled 7-part prompt for a hand-painted look: wet-on-wet edges, visible paper grain, boiling pencil lines, slow motion so the paint stays paint, and the drift to 3D when the action is too fast.