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I want to generate a video with AI.

Every question is optional. The ones marked Recommended matter most.

AI tools invent labels, logos, prices and people. Before you publish, check every detail against the real product, and use only your own brand and people who agreed to appear.

How many shots?

For example: Dockside Lemonade, a sparkling lemonade in a glass bottle

For example: A baker in her fifties lifts a tray of croissants from the oven, sets it down, and smiles at the camera.

For example: A tiny corner bakery just before sunrise; the street outside still dark.

For example: Medium close-up

  • Wide: the whole scene; people look small in it.
  • Medium: a person from the waist up.
  • Medium close-up: head and shoulders
  • Close-up: a face or an object fills the screen.
  • Extreme close-up: one small detail, like an eye or a ring.
  • Over the shoulder: from behind one person, looking at what they see or who they face.
  • From above: looking straight down on the scene.
  • Low angle: looking up at the subject, so it feels big or powerful.
  • Through their eyes: we see what the character sees.

For example: Slow push in

  • Still: the camera doesn't move.
  • Slow push in: moves gently closer; draws attention.
  • Pull back: moves away; reveals the surroundings.
  • Pan: turns left or right from one spot.
  • Tilt: turns up or down from one spot.
  • Follow: travels alongside a moving subject.
  • Circle around: moves in an arc around the subject.
  • Handheld: slight natural shake, like a phone or documentary.
  • Drone: flies over the scene from high up.
Shot 2

About 2 to 5 seconds per shot.

Shot 3

About 2 to 5 seconds per shot.

Shot 4

About 2 to 5 seconds per shot.

For example: Realistic film

For example: Documentary feel. Warm oven light against cool blue window light. Calm.

For example: Oven door creak, tray clatter, quiet room hum. No music.

For example: The baker, warm and a little tired: Fresh out. Come and get them.

For example: A quiet scene with only background sound.

For example: Use my picture as the first frame.

  • Use my picture as the first frame: the video starts from it; then describe only the movement.
  • Pictures to copy a person, product or place from: they'll look the same in the video.

For example: Instagram or Facebook Reels or Stories

For example: Right away, and again at the end

  • Right away, and again at the end: Google advises showing the product or brand in the opening seconds. That is its advice, not an independent measurement.
  • The whole time: for a product demonstration.
  • Only at the end: a reveal; the story comes first.

For example: Real lemons, nothing artificial.

For example: people in their twenties and thirties who want a cold drink that is not a soda

For example: Find it in the cooler aisle

For example: Maria: 55, short gray hair, round glasses, navy apron with flour stains.

For example: other people, cars on the street.

For example: Slow motion

  • Time-lapse: hours pass in seconds.

For example: Background softly blurred

  • Background softly blurred: subject stands out.
  • Wide view: a lot of the scene in frame.
  • Macro: tiny things shown very large.

For example: 'OPEN 6AM' painted on the shop window.

More detail, if you have it

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How to write a prompt for an AI video tool

Use this form when you want a short clip from a video tool such as Google Flow, Kling, Runway or Luma. Video tools cannot ask you questions, so there is no “How should the AI start?” choice. Pick “One shot” or “A few shots” at the top.

  • What happens. One main action per shot. Google’s best practices for Veo warn that chaining several events into a short clip often leads to muddled or incomplete videos.
  • Where and when. The setting appears in every maker’s formula, and time of day and weather are part of describing it. See Google’s prompting guide for Veo 3.1 and Kling’s prompt guide.
  • How it’s filmed. How close the camera is and how it moves come first in the formulas from Google and Runway. ByteDance’s Seedance guide advises one camera move per shot.
  • Look and light. The Seedance guide notes that without a stated style the result can drift toward live-action realism.
  • Sound. Most leading tools now generate sound, and the examples in Google’s Veo prompt guide give it its own “Audio:” line. Alibaba’s Wan guide advises writing “No background music” when you want none.

Why labeled prose and not JSON

No maker of a leading video tool recommends JSON prompts. Their examples are plain sentences, sometimes labeled, such as “Audio:”. The evidence that JSON does better is anecdotal: blog posts and practitioner reports, with no published method. Runway’s guide says structure and order matter far less than conveying the idea clearly. So this form writes short labeled prose that every tool can read.

A worked example

A bakery wants a short clip of its baker at dawn, with one spoken line. The form composes:

One continuous shot.
Medium close-up, slow push in: a baker in her fifties with flour on her forearms lifts a tray of golden croissants out of a deck oven, sets it on the steel counter, then looks up at the camera and smiles.
Setting: a tiny corner bakery just before sunrise; steam rises from the tray; the street outside the window is still dark blue.
Style: Realistic film. Documentary feel. Warm orange light from the oven against cool blue light from the window. Calm, welcoming mood.
Audio: the oven door creaks open, the metal tray clatters onto the counter, a low room hum. No background music.
Dialogue: the baker, warm and a little tired, says: "Fresh out. Come and get them."
Avoid: subtitles, on-screen text, logos, watermarks.

Length, shape and sound on or off are set in your video tool’s own controls, not in the prompt, which is why they sit in a separate card.

What the form adds for you

It opens with “One continuous shot.” to discourage unwanted cuts, as Alibaba’s Wan guide suggests, and ends by excluding subtitles, on-screen text, logos and watermarks, following the Seedance guide, which reports stray subtitles even when none were asked for.