AI Video Generation Revision
AI Video Generation Revision
Create Professional Video Content Without a Camera
Framework: Director's Prompt Formula
The core idea
The Director's Prompt Formula treats an AI video prompt like a film director's shot list: Subject, Action, Camera Movement, Environment, Cinematic Style, Duration, and Quality. Filling in all seven produces noticeably more controlled, professional-looking clips than a vague one-line description.
Three generation modes cover most use cases: text-to-video (starting from a written prompt), image-to-video (animating an existing still image, e.g. one from Day 4), and talking avatar (an AI character delivering a spoken introduction). The Generate-and-Stitch Pipeline is how these get assembled into something usable: generate clips in a consistent style, download them all, import to an editor like CapCut, arrange in story order, add audio/narration, add text overlays, then export.
Before publishing anything, the Video Ethics Test asks 4 questions covering consent, disclosure, and honesty — would the people depicted know about the video, would you be comfortable disclosing it's AI-made, do real people shown consent to appear, and is it true and non-misleading.
Key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Director's Prompt Formula | Subject + Action + Camera Movement + Environment + Cinematic Style + Duration + Quality |
| Text-to-video | Generating a video clip directly from a written prompt |
| Image-to-video | Animating an existing still image into a short video clip |
| Generate-and-Stitch Pipeline | The end-to-end process of generating, downloading, and editing multiple AI clips into one video |
Common mistakes to avoid
- Using a one-line video prompt without specifying camera movement or cinematic style
- Skipping the Video Ethics Test before publishing a clip involving real people
- Generating clips in inconsistent visual styles that don't cut together cleanly
- Forgetting that image-to-video needs an existing image as its starting point, not just a text prompt
Before the exam, make sure you can...
- Recite all 7 elements of the Director's Prompt Formula
- Know the difference between text-to-video, image-to-video, and talking avatar
- Name at least 2 of the 4 Video Ethics Test questions
- Recall the 3 required clips in the Day 6 assignment portfolio