AI Prompt Template Library — Seedance, Veo, Kling, Seedream & Midjourney

Battle-tested prompt templates from real production work. Replace the [BRACKETED] parts with your own subject and go. Building shots from scratch instead? Use the prompt generator.

🎬 Video generation templates

Cinematic Character Walk (emotion piece)

Seedance / Veo / Kling

A [CHARACTER — e.g. tired middle-aged man in a crumpled suit] walking slowly down a [LOCATION — e.g. dim apartment corridor] after work, footsteps gradually slowing, stopping at a door. Close-up on the face, camera slowly pushes in. Low-key practical lighting. Sound: echoing footsteps, distant city hum. Lonely, exhausted atmosphere.

Seedance image-to-video: prefix with 参考@图1 (reference @image1) to lock the character's look.

Product Commercial Hero Shot

Seedance / Runway / Kling

Slow orbit around [PRODUCT — e.g. a matte-black wireless earbud case] floating over a polished stone pedestal, water ripples reflecting beneath. Macro lens, extreme detail. High-end commercial look, dramatic rim lighting, dark background with volumetric light rays. 4K product commercial aesthetic.

Keep one hero product only — competing subjects break the orbit.

FPV Drone Flythrough

Veo / Seedance

FPV drone flythrough starting above [LOCATION — e.g. a misty pine forest], diving between trees, skimming a river surface, rising to reveal [PAYOFF — e.g. a waterfall in golden hour light]. Fast, fluid motion with motion blur. Epic and grand atmosphere. Sound: wind rush, swelling orchestral score.

One continuous path with a clear payoff reads far better than random flying.

UGC Talking-Head Ad

Seedance 2.0 / Veo 3

Handheld selfie-style video of [PERSON — e.g. a cheerful woman in her 20s] in a bright kitchen, talking directly to camera about [PRODUCT], natural morning window light, casual authentic vibe, slight camera shake. Audio: she says "[LINE — e.g. Okay, I have to show you this…]" in an excited conversational tone.

The deliberately imperfect handheld look is what sells UGC — don't ask for 'cinematic' here.

🖼️ Image generation templates

Cinematic Portrait (film still)

Seedream / Midjourney

Cinematic film still, close-up portrait of [CHARACTER — e.g. a weathered sailor with a grey beard], shot on 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, backlit by low golden sun, lens flare, film grain, anamorphic bokeh, melancholic mood, 4K, photorealistic.

Swap the light phrase (neon practicals / candlelight / overcast) to completely change the genre.

Clean E-commerce Product Shot

Seedream / Midjourney

Studio product photography of [PRODUCT] on a seamless [COLOR] background, soft high-key lighting, gentle shadow beneath, centered composition, ultra-sharp detail, commercial catalog style, no props, no text.

Ask for 'no text' — image models love inventing labels on packaging.

Storyboard / Concept Frame

Seedream / Midjourney

[SHOT TYPE — e.g. wide establishing shot] of [SCENE — e.g. a lone car on a desert highway at dusk], cinematic composition, [MOOD] atmosphere, muted color grade, concept art style, 2.39:1 aspect ratio, detailed environment.

Generate a whole scene's storyboard by keeping style words identical and only changing shot type + action.

Anime Key Visual

Seedream / Midjourney (niji)

Anime key visual of [CHARACTER] standing on [LOCATION — e.g. a school rooftop], wind blowing through hair, dramatic clouds, pastel sunset palette, detailed background art, Makoto Shinkai style lighting, high detail, 16:9.

Name a studio/director lighting style rather than 'beautiful anime style' — far more consistent.

How to use these templates

Every template follows the same production logic: a clearly named subject, one primary action, explicit camera language, a defined light source, and a mood. The bracketed slots are the parts that change per project; everything else is deliberately kept stable — in AI generation, consistency of phrasing is consistency of style. Reusing the same style block across a whole set of shots is how you make separate generations feel like one film. New templates are added regularly — the collection grows from our own production work.

Model-specific formatting rules (why Runway wants the camera move first, how Seedance's @image references work, Veo's audio syntax) are covered in the prompt writing guide.