# Prompt Guide

## Image Prompt Structure (Nano Banana Pro)

Order from most to least important:

Subject + Action/relationship + Setting (place/time/weather)
+ Style/medium + Composition/camera + Lighting/color
+ Key details + Constraints (what to avoid)

## Editing Prompt Structure

Keep (must not change) + Change (what to modify)
+ How (style/strength/direction) + Constraints (avoid side effects)

## Video Prompt Structure (Veo 3.1)

[Cinematography] + [Subject] + [Action] + [Context]
+ [Style & Ambiance]

### Cinematography vocabulary
- Camera movement: dolly, tracking, crane, aerial, slow pan, POV
- Composition: wide, close-up, extreme close-up, low angle, two-shot
- Lens/focus: shallow DoF, wide-angle, soft focus, macro, deep focus

### Audio direction
- Dialogue: use quotation marks ("We have to leave now.")
- SFX: describe explicitly (SFX: thunder cracks)
- Ambient: define soundscape (quiet hum of a starship bridge)

### Timestamp prompting (multi-shot in single generation)
```
[00:00-00:02] Medium shot from behind explorer...
[00:02-00:04] Reverse shot of explorer's face...
[00:04-00:06] Tracking shot following explorer...
[00:06-00:08] Wide crane shot revealing landscape...
```

## Tips
- Start short, iterate. Change one or two things at a time.
- Be concrete: "shallow depth of field, warm tones" not "better"
- Put important details first.
- Avoid contradictions.
- Use constraints: "no text, no watermark, no extra people"
- For consistency: reuse fixed character descriptions.
- For edits: specify what stays before what changes.
