40 cinematic AI video prompts that actually work

A good prompt has seven parts: subject, environment, camera, lens, lighting, motion, atmosphere. Here is the pattern, then variations you can steal.

The pattern Subject doing one clear action. Environment with one clear time of day. Camera with one clear move. Lens. Lighting with a named source. Motion speed. Colour direction.

Examples - Elegant woman walking a rainy Paris street at night, 35mm anamorphic tracking shot, warm practicals against blue moonlight, slow controlled pace, teal and amber. - Macro of a mechanical watch escapement, 100mm macro, single hard key with black background, 1cm dolly in, cold silver palette. - Wide establishing shot of an abandoned city at dawn, 24mm static, low sun raking through dust, no camera movement, faded silver grade.

Then enhance Run any rough idea through the Prompt Enhancer. It expands one sentence into the full seven-part structure and lets you edit before generating.

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