Video Prompts That Actually Move

Image-trained habits hurt video prompts. Listing beautiful nouns without camera verbs produces near-stills with a mild shimmer. Motion needs intentional verbs.

Camera verbs that work

• Slow orbit / push-in / crane rise
• Parallax track left with locked subject
• Rack focus from foreground to logo

Duration is a design decision

Four seconds is a logo sting. Eight seconds is a mood beat. Fifteen seconds needs structure — setup, development, resolve. Put duration in the technical segment so models respect the arc.

If you cannot storyboard the motion in three frames, the model cannot invent it for you.