Hey, Thanks for all the love on my recent reel 🙌 I noticed a lot of you asking for prompts—so here’s something special I’ve put together
What you’ll find here are some powerful examples to get you started. If you’re serious, you’ll know how to build on them.
STEP 1 - GENERATING THE WORLD (THE PROMPTS)
I used a personalised GPT to help me flesh out my rough ideas into detailed, cinematic prompts. The AI image tool I used was primarily ChatGPT & Google Nanobanana. Here are some of the exact, hardcore prompts I used to generate the key scenes.
Prompt 1:
Create an ultra-realistic cinematic 4K image of a raptor standing on a forest floor. The dinosaur should be the main focus of the frame, captured in a close-up portrait-style angle, looking slightly upwards with its mouth slightly open, showing sharp teeth.
The dinosaur must have a vibrant deep red skin tone with darker black stripes across its body, similar to tiger stripes. Its skin texture should be highly detailed, with visible scales, subtle shine, and fine patterns. The eyes should be piercing yellow with vertical reptilian pupils, glowing with intensity and adding to the creature’s lifelike, slightly menacing presence.
The background should show an earthy forest ground, with blurred soil textures, roots, and scattered leaves in soft focus (depth of field effect) so that all attention stays on the dinosaur. The lighting should be cinematic and dramatic: a beam of warm sunlight falling from above, highlighting the dinosaur’s face and upper body, while the rest of the frame fades into softer shadows.
Add a sense of realism by making sure the shadows and highlights on the dinosaur match the environment. The overall tone should be adventurous, mysterious, and slightly dramatic, as though this is a scene from a high-quality cinematic film.
Style tags: ultra-realistic, cinematic lighting, prehistoric fantasy, dramatic close-up, photorealistic creature design.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Prompt 2:
Create an ultra-realistic 4K vertical image of a red sports shoe dynamically suspended in mid-air inside a dense jungle pathway. The shoe should appear as if it is in high-speed motion, leaving behind a motion blur trail of translucent red streaks to emphasize speed and performance.
The shoe design must remain sleek, detailed, and modern, with fine textures on the fabric, laces, and sole. Ensure the primary color is bold red, with subtle black or dark detailing for contrast. The motion trail should extend backward in a smooth gradient, creating the illusion that the shoe is dashing forward through the jungle.
The environment should be a lush rainforest with tall green foliage, mist, and dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy. Add a soft golden sunbeam breaking through the treetops, gently illuminating the shoe as the central focus. The forest floor should be earthy and slightly wet, adding realism and grounding the scene.
The perspective must feel cinematic and dynamic, as if the viewer is catching a split-second moment of a shoe in action. Depth of field should blur the background foliage slightly, keeping sharp focus on the shoe and its motion streaks.
The overall atmosphere should feel powerful, energetic, and adventurous, blending sports branding energy with cinematic jungle mystery.
Style tags: cinematic product ad, sports branding, ultra-realistic, speed motion effect, jungle cinematic lighting, 4K sharp detail.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Prompt 3:
Create an ultra-realistic 4K vertical macro shot of a red sports shoe sole in motion, captured in cinematic close-up detail. The focus should be on the sole’s texture, grip patterns, and embossed branding text ("ZOOMX"), ensuring the fine engravings and material grain are visible with sharp clarity.
The shoe color must be vivid red, with subtle black or dark accents on the edges to provide contrast. Add a dynamic motion blur streak effect sweeping across the shoe diagonally, as if the shoe is moving at high speed. These streaks should be soft, translucent, and glowing slightly, adding a sense of energy and performance.
The background should remain subtle and softly blurred, hinting at a jungle or outdoor trail environment with faint greens and browns. Maintain cinematic depth of field—the sole must be in hyper focus while the backdrop fades into creamy bokeh, ensuring the shoe remains the hero subject.
Lighting should be dramatic yet natural, with golden highlights accentuating the embossed letters and surface details. Add micro reflections and shadows to make the material feel tactile, realistic, and premium. The final aesthetic must combine sports branding power with cinematic storytelling, making the viewer feel the speed, grip, and performance of the shoe.
Style tags: macro cinematic product ad, ultra-realistic, embossed shoe sole detail, sports branding energy, motion streak effect, 4K.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Prompt 4:
Create an ultra-realistic 4K vertical mid-shot of a red running shoe in high-speed motion, captured with cinematic sports photography style. The shoe should be angled slightly upward, highlighting its side profile, sole texture, and performance design. The main body of the shoe must be deep vivid red, with subtle dark accents for contrast, and a sleek sports aesthetic.
Add dynamic motion streaks extending from the back of the shoe toward the right side of the frame, glowing in translucent tones of red and pink, emphasizing explosive speed and forward momentum. The streaks must blend smoothly into the environment, giving the impression of the shoe slicing through the air at high velocity.
The background should feature a blurred jungle or outdoor running path, with hints of green foliage and dappled golden sunlight filtering through trees, rendered in cinematic bokeh to create depth of field. The shoe must remain sharply in focus while the environment stays soft, reinforcing it as the hero subject.
Lighting should be warm and golden, catching highlights on the shoe surface, with deep shadows and high contrast drama to create a premium sports branding effect. The overall mood should feel energetic, futuristic, and powerful, as if this shoe is engineered for maximum performance.
Style tags: sports branding, ultra-realistic motion blur, cinematic shoe ad, high-speed energy, outdoor dynamic shot.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Prompt 5:
Create an ultra-realistic 4K vertical close-up of a red sports shoe in motion, focusing on the tongue, laces, and branding logo at the center. The shoe must be a deep vivid red with sharp details on the laces, stitching, and embossed logo, making it feel premium and powerful.
Add dynamic motion streaks flowing smoothly behind the shoe, in translucent red-pink tones, symbolizing explosive speed and futuristic performance. The streaks should feel natural and energetic, enhancing the sense of forward momentum.
The background should be blurred with cinematic depth of field, showing hints of a jungle or outdoor trail environment in soft green tones, while keeping the shoe in sharp hyper-focus. Ensure the bokeh effect creates a dreamy but energetic sports aesthetic.
Lighting must be golden hour warm, casting subtle highlights on the laces and fabric texture, with deep shadows and high contrast to create drama. Add micro-details like fabric grain, fine shadows between the laces, and reflections on the logo to make the image feel cinematic and premium brand-ready.
The overall aesthetic should combine sports branding with cinematic storytelling, giving the shoe a heroic, futuristic, and high-performance vibe.
Style tags: cinematic macro close-up, sports shoe branding, ultra-realistic product photography, motion streaks, high-speed energy.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Prompt 6:
Create an ultra-realistic 4K vertical cinematic shot of a red sports shoe levitating mid-air in a jungle environment, wrapped tightly by a large moss-covered vine. The shoe must be a vivid deep red, detailed with stitching, textures, and sole patterns clearly visible despite being partially covered by the vine.
The jungle environment should be lush, dense, and atmospheric, with towering trees and beams of sunlight piercing through the canopy. The vine must appear thick, organic, and ancient, coiled around the shoe as though nature itself is claiming it. Add fine details of moss, tiny ferns, and damp textures along the vine, emphasizing realism.
The ground trail below should be slightly blurred with mud, leaves, and scattered jungle debris, keeping the focus sharp on the shoe and vine. Ensure the god rays and misty atmosphere enhance the mystical mood, casting dramatic shadows that frame the shoe as the hero subject.
Lighting should be warm golden hour glow, with contrasty deep shadows to dramatize the scene. The vine must create a predatory yet natural tension, symbolizing the struggle between human innovation (the shoe) and the raw power of nature.
The overall aesthetic should feel like a cinematic sports branding campaign, blending jungle mystique, raw textures, and futuristic energy to highlight the shoe as both a premium product and a legendary artifact.
Style tags: cinematic sports shoe ad, jungle mystique, moss-covered vine, ultra-realistic, product hero shot, premium branding.
Resolution: 4K
Aspect Ratio: 9:16 vertical
Step 2: Bringing the Scenes to Life (Animation)
Primary Animation Tool: Kling AI 2.1, I used its image-to-video & Start-end frame function to animate most of the final images.
Step 3: The Final Edit (Premiere Pro)
This is where the story comes together
Pacing & Story: I structured the edit to build suspense, and built the pace with the music to an epic climax before the final title reveal.
Transitions & Motion: I used simple "Dip to Black" fades between some scenes to enhance the drama
Sound: The sound is 50% of the experience. The background music was a track that was trending at the time, which helped establish a connection with the audience. I sourced the SFX (like forest sounds, bow pulls, and whooshes) from both YouTube and my own personal editing library.