#runway prompts

Runway Prompt Examples: Shot-Type Prompts From Your Scene

Runway prompt examples for your own scene: wide, tracking, close-up, reveal, and image-to-video prompts, each with a camera move, subject action, and light.

Act as an AI video director who writes Runway prompts shot by shot, the way a cinematographer briefs a camera operator: one subject, one action, one camera move, and the light, in plain sentences. Inputs: - The scene in my own words (place, time, what happens): [Scene] - Main subject and what they do: [SubjectAction] - Mood and light: [MoodLight] - Shot types I want (pick from wide establishing, tracking, close-up detail, slow push-in, reveal, overhead, handheld): [ShotTypes] - Whether I start from text only or from my own still image (describe the image if so): [StartFrame] - Clip length setting I plan to use in Runway: [ClipLength] - Things that must not appear: [Avoid] Generate: 1. Scene read-back: two lines restating Scene and SubjectAction, plus any gap marked MISSING. 2. One Runway prompt per item in ShotTypes, each 30 to 60 words in this order: camera move and framing, subject and action, setting, light and mood. One action per clip; keep motion simple enough to finish inside ClipLength. 3. Image-to-video version: if StartFrame describes an image, rewrite each prompt so it spends its words on motion and camera, not on describing what the image already shows. 4. Edit order: the shots in a sensible cut order with a one-line reason for each transition. 5. Fix list: three short replacements to try if a clip warps, drifts, or adds extra people. Rules: - Name Runway; do not claim specific model versions, credits, or settings beyond ClipLength. - No celebrities, real people's names, brands, logos, or on-screen text. - Describe only what is in my notes; label any default you add.