AI Video Drone Shots: Aerial Prompts for Angles, Altitude, and Flyover Moves
AI video drone shots: master altitude bands, oblique camera angles, one-move physics, and a flyover template for stable, cinematic aerial footage.
Camera, Light & Scenes
Weather And Atmosphere: Rain, Fog And Dust Without The Mush
Weather is the fastest mood a prompt can buy and the fastest way to ruin a shot. Ask for rain and half the time you get a grey veil over everything, faces
Interiors That Read Real: Windows, Depth And Background Detail
Generated rooms have a tell, and once you see it you cannot unsee it: they look like furniture showrooms. Everything is new, evenly lit, arranged for a
Push-In Vs Zoom: Making The Model Move The Right Way
Type “zoom in on her face” into almost any video generator and you will get a shot that feels slightly wrong, even when the face itself looks great. The frame
Practical Lights: Lamps, Screens And Neon That Motivate The Scene
Here is a quick test I run on generated interiors: where is the light coming from? If I cannot point at something in the frame — a window, a lamp, a glowing
Night Scenes Without Noise: Exposure Words For Dark AI Video
Prompt “a dark night scene” and the generator hands you one of three failures: a noisy mess that looks shot through a dirty sensor, shadows crushed to a single
Lens Language: Focal Lengths, Depth Of Field And What They Do To Faces
“Shot on an 85mm” has become a magic phrase in AI video prompts — pasted at the end of everything, understood by almost nobody. Here is the awkward truth from
Handheld, Locked-Off Or Gimbal: Choosing Camera Energy Per Scene
Watch any AI-generated scene with the sound off and you can usually feel the camera before you can name it. Some clips hum with nervous energy. Some sit there
Golden Hour On Demand: Prompting Time Of Day That Stays Believable
“Golden hour” might be the most-prompted lighting phrase in AI video, and the results give it away: an orange wash over everything, skin the colour of
Depth Layers: Foreground, Subject, Background In Every Prompt
There is a particular flatness that gives generated footage away before any artefact does. The subject is sharp, the background is sharp, everything sits at
Shot Vocabulary: Twenty Camera Terms Every AI Creator Should Know
When you describe a shot to an AI video model the way you would describe it to a friend — “get closer”, “show the whole place”, “make it feel dramatic” — the
Camera Movement Prompts for AI Video: Every Move Explained
Camera movement is the difference between footage that feels like a slideshow and footage that feels like cinema. AI models […]