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How To Write the Perfect Google Veo 3 Prompt

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Olumide Gbenro
May 28, 2025

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How To Prompt Google Veo 3

Creating compelling video prompts requires a methodical approach that builds from the foundation up. Follow these steps in order to construct prompts that generate cinematic, professional-quality results.

Step 1: Establish Your Cinematic Foundation

Start every prompt by defining the emotional and visual DNA of your scene. This sets the stage for everything that follows and gives the AI a clear creative direction.

First, identify the mood and tone. Ask yourself: What should viewers feel when watching this? Your options might include gritty and raw, dreamlike and surreal, vibrant and energetic, melancholic and contemplative, epic and grand, or intimate and personal.

Next, declare your cinematic style. This involves choosing a visual approach that supports your mood. Consider whether you want noir-inspired shadows and contrast, documentary-style realism, high-fashion editorial polish, or classic Hollywood glamour.

Finally, specify your primary shot type. This tells the AI how to frame the entire scene from the start. Your main options are close-up for intimate emotional moments, medium shot for balanced character and environment, wide shot for establishing location and scale, or extreme long shot for epic, sweeping vistas.

Example opening: "A tense, noir-inspired close-up captures..." or "An ethereal, golden-hour wide shot reveals..."

Step 2: Define Your Core Visual Elements

With your foundation set, now paint the essential components of your scene with precise, evocative language.

Describe your subjects with specificity. Instead of simply mentioning "a man," provide rich detail: "a weathered detective in his fifties, wearing a rain-soaked trench coat, his face marked by years of disappointment." For recurring characters, establish consistent visual anchors like distinctive clothing, build, or physical characteristics that help maintain continuity.

Choose powerful, precise action verbs. Generic movements like "walks" should be replaced with specific alternatives that convey intention and emotion. Consider "limps deliberately" for determination despite injury, "strides purposefully" for confidence and direction, or "stumbles frantically" for desperation and urgency.

Build your environment with sensory richness. Describe not just what's present, but how elements interact with each other. Include key objects, dominant colors, and distinctive textures that make the space feel lived-in and authentic.

Example: "...a lone detective in a trench coat, his face etched with exhaustion, walks slowly down a neon-drenched alley. Trash cans overflow, casting long shadows."

Step 3: Create Atmospheric Immersion

This step transforms your basic scene into a rich, sensory experience that feels cinematic and professional.

Master your lighting description. Be hyper-specific about how light behaves in your scene. Instead of "bright light," describe "harsh fluorescent strips casting unflattering shadows" or "golden hour backlighting creating a warm rim around the subject." Consider how light interacts with surfaces, creates shadows, and affects the overall mood. Useful terms include chiaroscuro for dramatic contrast, diffuse moonlight for soft mystery, or neon-drenched for urban grittiness.

Define your color palette strategically. Choose three to five dominant colors and explain their emotional purpose or physical placement. For example, "a wash of melancholic blues contrasted by a single, hopeful point of warm orange light" gives both visual and emotional guidance.

Add atmospheric conditions that enhance the mood. Consider environmental elements like mist that softens harsh edges, fog that creates mystery and depth, dust motes that catch light beautifully, rain that adds texture and reflection, heat haze that creates dreamlike distortion, or snow that muffles sound and creates isolation.

Include implied sound for deeper immersion. While AI won't generate audio, describing sound cues helps inform the visual mood and pacing. Mention distant sirens for urban tension, rhythmic clanking for industrial atmosphere, or oppressive silence for psychological drama.

Describe textures that viewers can almost feel. Use evocative combinations like "gleaming obsidian," "rusted corrugated metal," "velvet rich with dust," or "rain-slicked cobblestones."

Example: "...The alley air is thick with steam from a broken pipe, catching the lurid green and purple glow of distant neon signs. Rain slicks the grimy brick walls, reflecting the sickly light."

Step 4: Choreograph Movement and Camera Work

This crucial step brings your static scene to life through carefully planned motion and cinematography.

Plan realistic subject movement. Describe natural, achievable actions that avoid complexity or physics-defying stunts. Focus on movements like "fabric ripples gently in the breeze," "character walks with a slight limp," or "a bird takes flight with a powerful beat of wings." Keep movements simple and grounded in reality.

Specify camera movement with precision. This is where many prompts fail—you must clearly distinguish between subject motion and camera motion. Your camera options include:

  • Static shots: "The camera is perfectly still, observing..." for contemplative or tense moments

  • Tracking shots: "The camera tracks smoothly alongside..." or "A steady dolly shot follows..." for dynamic movement

  • Panning and tilting: "The camera slowly pans left to reveal..." or "A subtle tilt up shows..." for revealing information

  • Zooming: "A slow, deliberate zoom into..." for building tension or intimacy

  • Handheld style: "The camera shakes subtly, mimicking a handheld feel..." for realism and energy

Integrate advanced compositional techniques naturally. Weave in professional terms like "rule of thirds placement" for balanced composition, "leading lines" for visual flow, "shallow depth of field with bokeh" for focus control, "Dutch angle" for psychological unease, or "silhouette" for dramatic contrast.

Example: "...The camera executes a slow, deliberate pan right, revealing the vastness of the empty street, placing the lone figure off-center, emphasizing his isolation against the stark leading lines of the empty storefronts."

Step 5: Refine for Maximum Impact

Your final step involves polishing your prompt for clarity and power.

Choose strong, specific language. Replace weak verbs with powerful alternatives and generic adjectives with evocative, precise descriptions. Every word should contribute to the overall vision.

Maintain conciseness while preserving detail. Include enough information to guide the AI clearly, but avoid overwhelming verbosity that might confuse the generation process.

Read your complete prompt aloud. This helps identify awkward phrasing or unclear sections that might confuse the AI or dilute your vision.

By following these five steps methodically, you'll create prompts that generate professional, cinematic results with consistent quality and clear artistic vision. Each step builds upon the previous one, creating a comprehensive framework that guides AI toward your exact creative goals.

My Prompt

A raw, handheld iPhone shot captures an authentic social media street interview in New Orleans. The camera shakes subtly with natural movement, mimicking the casual energy of content creation as golden afternoon light filters through Spanish moss, creating dynamic shadows across the French Quarter sidewalk. A young content creator holds his phone at arm's length, interviewing a bubbly blonde college student with beachy waves and a crop top, her backpack casually slung over one shoulder. The framing is slightly off-center and intimate, typical of vertical social media content, as she throws her hands up with pure enthusiasm, her face lighting up with that Gen Z confidence. The camera moves slightly as the interviewer adjusts his grip, creating that authentic, unpolished feel of real street content. Warm Louisiana humidity creates a soft haze in the air while the iconic wrought-iron balconies and colorful Creole storefronts blur naturally in the shallow depth of field behind them. She gestures dramatically as she delivers her response, her blonde hair catching the dappled sunlight, eyes sparkling with that "obviously, everyone knows this" expression. The audio feels implied through her animated mouth movements and body language, while passing tourists and the distant sounds of jazz create that quintessential NOLA street vibe. The handheld camera captures every authentic moment with that slightly unstable, in-the-moment energy that makes social media content feel genuine and engaging.

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Final Thoughts

It’s over. No like really it’s REALLY over. We are cooked! When I say “we” I mean Hollywood studios. But enough of the dramatics, I really believe this is the greatest OPPORTUNITY of our generation. I mean if you love to tell stories (whether for your brand or business) or in general if you have a creative bone in your body, you’re going to love this technology. For those who don’t see the business opportunity, it’s simple: Making videos on social media and getting paid by these platforms just became easier than ever. Yes it’s $250 per month to start but dare I say if you don’t start now, you won’t have the knowledge to market yourself or your business long term (even if you want to delegate to someone else you need to be using these tool!). Anyways, I’ll step off my soapbox now. See you Friday (we’ve gone bi-weekly) so as mentioned, expect a Wednesday & Friday edition moving forward. Peace, everybody.

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