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How to Prompt a Runway Gen-3 Camera Move List for a Product Hero

Gen-3 hero shots fail when they become a Kling loop or name a celebrity. Camera moves only. No logos. No seed if Ref is NONE.

The matching generator is the Runway Gen-3 Camera Move List for a Product Hero (No Logos or Celebs) (Runway Gen 3 Camera Move List For A Product Hero No Logos Celebs) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).

Lock the Runway model name

Write a Runway Gen-3 camera-move shot list for a product hero. No logos, celebrities, or trademarked UI. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.

Paste these fields before you hit run:

Runway model lock: [Model]
Product (unbranded description, materials, color): [Product]
Hero surface and set (no brand names): [Set]
Camera moves I allow (dolly in, orbit, crane, static): [Moves]
Duration and aspect I can prove: [Format]
What must never appear: [Never]
Seed or reference still notes I may use (or NONE): [Ref]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
How many shots: [Count or 6]
Lighting I can prove: [Light]

That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.

Only the camera moves you allowed

Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.

Walk the Generate list in order:

  1. Honesty ledger: model, product materials, set, moves, format, light. Forbidden: logos, celebs, UI chrome, competitor product names.
  2. Shot table: Count rows. Each has move from Moves, duration from Format, product placement from Product, light from Light.
  3. Prompt block per shot: subject, set, camera move, negative (Never). No celebrity, no logo text.
  4. What this is not: Kling loop, Pika demo, orbit-only loop. Say camera-move list for a still-to-motion hero.
  5. Ref: only Ref. If NONE, do not invent a seed.
  6. Negatives: Never plus logos, celebs, readable packaging type unless Product quoted type.
  7. Run notes: Model lock, aspect, seconds. No invented feature names.
  8. Compliance pass: quote Banned words, celebrity names, logo requests. Cut them.

If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.

Unbranded product, no readable marks

Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.

Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:

  • Runway Gen-3 camera-move list for a product hero. Not Kling, not Pika, not a loop pack.
  • No logos, celebrities, trademarked UI, or readable brand marks.
  • Only camera moves listed in Moves.
  • If Ref is NONE, do not invent a seed number.
  • No emojis.

When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.

Not a Kling loop and not Pika

Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.

Tags on the card (runway gen-3 camera moves, runway product hero shot list, no logos or celebs) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.

Fill the card, then run

Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.