Write a text-to-video prompt for a cinematic short clip
A fill-in template for an 8-second cinematic clip in Veo, Sora, Kling or any text-to-video tool: subject, action, camera, light and sound.
The prompt
Create an 8-second cinematic video.
Subject: [who or what is on screen, e.g. a tea seller pouring chai at a roadside stall]
Action: [what happens, in order, e.g. he lifts the kettle high and pours a long stream into small glasses]
Setting: [place and time, e.g. a busy Mumbai street at dawn, light rain]
Camera: [slow push-in / tracking shot from the side / static close-up / drone shot rising]
Lens and look: [35mm, shallow depth of field, warm film colours]
Lighting: [soft golden morning light / neon reflections on wet ground]
Sound: [rain, kettle hiss, distant traffic, no music / soft instrumental]
Aspect ratio: [16:9 / 9:16]
Rules:
- One continuous shot with realistic motion and physics.
- Keep the subject consistent from start to end.
- No text, captions, logos or watermarks on screen.
- Do not show real, identifiable people or copyrighted characters.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- place and time, e.g. a busy Mumbai street at dawn, light rain
- soft golden morning light / neon reflections on wet ground
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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