Pick a depth. Each prompt opens in your AI pre-loaded with the lesson. Click a row to preview the prompt.
A good video prompt is five decisions, not a sentence. You name the subject, the setting, the style, the camera, and the lighting. If you leave any of those blank, the model fills it in — and its defaults are probably not what you wanted. Learning to name all five up front is the difference between 'rolling dice' and 'directing'.
Structured prompts outperform thin ones because they supply the five decisions a model needs to stop guessing: subject, setting, style, camera, and lighting. Without those labels, the model fills blanks from its training distribution — rarely the aesthetic you had in mind. The pair below shows how each added label narrows the output space toward what you actually want.
BAD:
A cat in a kitchen.
GOOD:
Subject: a ginger cat, tail flicking
Setting: a sunlit 1970s kitchen, dust in the air
Style: 35mm film, warm grain, slight halation
Camera: eye-level medium shot, shallow depth of field
Lighting: late-afternoon side-light from a single window
Motion: the cat turns its head toward the camera once, slowly