Twelve motion briefs

Write what changes over time.

A video prompt is a small directing document: action, camera, timing, sound, physics, and continuity working toward one readable sequence.

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Cinematic

Tidal Pool Micro-Documentary

A natural-history sequence told through scale and careful camera movement.

Create a 12-second coastal micro-documentary in three connected shots. Start inches above a tidal pool as tiny anemones move underwater; rack focus to a hermit crab crossing wet stone; then rise slowly to reveal the ocean beyond at low tide. Use soft overcast light, accurate water refraction, realistic animal speed, and detailed natural audio. Keep the camera calm, horizon stable, and marine life anatomically consistent.

#documentary#ocean#macro
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LifestyleReference image recommended

Bakery Before Opening

A warm observational sequence built from small practical actions.

Generate a 10-second handheld morning vignette inside a neighborhood bakery before opening. Follow the baker sliding one tray onto a wooden counter, dusting flour from an apron, and turning the sign on the glass door as sunlight enters. Use a 35mm documentary feel, gentle camera breathing, real flour physics, quiet room tone, and restrained warm color. One continuous shot, no dialogue, no visible brands, and no duplicated pastries or fingers.

#lifestyle#bakery#handheld
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CommercialReference image recommended

Museum Chair Material Film

A design-product film focused on joinery, fabric, and silhouette.

Produce a 9-second furniture film for an unbranded lounge chair in an empty museum gallery. Shot one glides across the walnut joint and woven wool; shot two reveals the full chair as a rectangle of sunlight travels slowly across it; shot three shows a hand pressing the cushion once and leaving frame. Use quiet gallery acoustics, 65mm macro detail, neutral color, exact product geometry, and no captions, people, or impossible material deformation.

#commercial#furniture#design
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Music VideoReference image recommended

Rooftop Shadow Choreography

A dance concept where moving shadows carry the visual hook.

Create a 12-second rooftop dance sequence at late afternoon. One dancer in loose monochrome clothing performs a compact contemporary phrase while the camera completes a slow half-orbit. Their long shadow crosses painted ventilation shapes and briefly aligns with a second architectural shadow at second eight. Use steady body anatomy, grounded footwork, real wind in fabric, a 28mm lens, and percussion-led movement. No cuts, crowd, skyline text, or supernatural effects.

#music video#dance#orbit
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Nature

Orchard Irrigation at Dawn

An agricultural aerial with realistic water, scale, and morning light.

Generate an 11-second dawn aerial over parallel citrus rows as irrigation begins. Start high with geometric field patterns, descend gradually toward one line of trees, and finish close enough to see droplets catching orange sunlight. Thin ground fog should move independently from the drone, with believable water pressure and leaf motion. Use a smooth forward descent, natural ambient sound, accurate scale, and no buildings changing shape between frames.

#nature#aerial#agriculture
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Animation

Paper Robot Repairs a Book

A miniature stop-motion repair story with a clean visual arc.

Create an 8-second stop-motion film on a bookbinder’s desk. A palm-sized robot folded from blue paper walks to a torn book, pulls a strip of repair tissue from its backpack, smooths it over the page, then sits proudly on the closed cover. Use fixed three-quarter framing, warm desk-lamp light, tactile paper fibers, twelve-frame timing, and tiny mechanical sound effects. End with stable geometry and no extra tools appearing.

#animation#paper#miniature
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SportsReference image recommended

Winter Ridge Training Film

A grounded sports sequence emphasizing breath, footing, and terrain.

Create a 10-second training film of one trail runner moving along a snowy ridge before sunrise. Alternate only three shots: boots compressing crusted snow, profile tracking with visible breath, and a wide locked frame as the runner crosses the horizon. Use realistic pace, consistent clothing, cold blue light warming at the edge of frame, natural foot impacts, and wind audio. No logos, slow motion, crowds, duplicate limbs, or changing mountain contours.

#sports#winter#training
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TravelReference image recommended

Canal Market Opening

A travel sequence with layered foreground action and stable geography.

Generate a 12-second early-morning canal market scene from a small moving boat. The camera passes baskets of herbs in the foreground, a vendor raising a striped awning, and bicycles crossing a stone bridge in the distance. Use one steady lateral journey, soft mist, believable water reflections, quiet market sounds, and restrained documentary color. Maintain consistent bridge architecture, boat speed, faces, and object scale without time-lapse motion.

#travel#market#documentary
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ProductReference image recommended

Glass Perfume Light Study

A luxury product loop using refraction rather than decoration.

Produce an 8-second seamless product loop of an unbranded clear perfume bottle on black stone. A narrow band of warm light travels behind the bottle, creating controlled refractions while a single wisp of vapor drifts from left to right. The camera makes a subtle five-degree push-in and returns exactly to start. Preserve bottle, cap, and liquid geometry; use quiet low-frequency sound and no flowers, labels, floating particles, or gold ornaments.

#product#perfume#loop
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Explainer

How a Book Reaches the Shelf

A concise visual explainer using one object and four clear stages.

Create a 15-second overhead explainer showing how a library book is processed. On a clean blue table, hands move one unbranded book through four stages: inspection, barcode placement, protective cover, and shelf label. Separate stages with simple physical cards numbered 1–4, keep every label abstract except the numbers, and use crisp studio light with calm paper sounds. Maintain the same book and hands throughout; no floating UI or jumpy object positions.

#explainer#education#overhead
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Game CinematicReference image recommended

Signal Tower Awakening

A game-world reveal driven by architecture and a single energy event.

Create a 12-second game cinematic approaching an abandoned signal tower above a desert canyon. Begin behind the shoulder of a lone mechanic, then crane upward as wind catches hanging cables and the tower’s circular antenna activates with one restrained blue pulse. Dust rolls through lower ruins while the camera reveals the canyon scale. Use grounded sci-fi materials, stable character clothing, realistic wind physics, and no weapons, text overlays, teleportation, or changing architecture.

#game#science fiction#environment
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SocialReference image recommended

Hilltop Kite Festival Reel

A bright social clip with believable crowd and fabric motion.

Generate a 10-second vertical social reel at a windy hilltop kite festival. Follow one handmade red-and-cream kite lifting from a child’s hands, tilt up through layered kites, then settle on the family laughing beneath. Use late-afternoon backlight, realistic string tension, varied crowd movement, clean 9:16 framing, and natural wind and laughter audio. Keep faces consistent, kite shapes stable, hands correct, and avoid captions or slow motion.

#social#festival#vertical
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Different formats need different prompt priorities

Channel 01

Short film

Performance, geography, continuity, and a visible change by the final shot.

Channel 02

Commercial

Product geometry, material behavior, edit rhythm, and controlled copy space.

Channel 03

UGC

Natural speech, phone movement, identity, room continuity, and believable imperfection.

Channel 04

Animation

Medium-specific physics, frame timing, shape consistency, and loop logic.

The motion brief

Subject action → environment response → camera behavior → timing → sound → continuity constraints.

01Subject action02Environment response03Camera behavior04Timing05Sound06Continuity

Frequently asked questions

Describe a limited action, one clear camera behavior, the environment's physical response, timing, sound, and the details that must stay consistent.