About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – Google Veo
- Niche – Festival film
- Language – English
- Category – Video
- Prompt Title – New Year cinematic video prompt Veo
Prompt Details
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### **Optimized Google Veo Prompt: “Midnight’s Breath”**
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**Overall Concept:** Generate a 90-second dynamic video sequence in the style of a poignant, character-driven Sundance Film Festival indie drama. The theme is the introspective and quietly hopeful moment of a New Year’s transition, focusing on connection and reflection rather than a loud party. The mood is melancholic yet optimistic, intimate, and deeply cinematic.
**Core Narrative Sequence (Dynamic Prompt Structure):**
**Scene 1: The Anticipation (0-30 seconds)**
* **Action:** A medium close-up shot of a young woman (late 20s, expressive face, wearing a simple wool sweater) standing on a chilly, dimly lit apartment rooftop overlooking a sprawling city skyline (inspired by Tokyo or New York). It’s minutes before midnight. She leans against a cold metal railing, her breath visible as steam in the frosty air. She’s not sad, but deeply contemplative. A few friends are blurred softly in the background, their conversation a low murmur.
* **Cinematography:** Gentle, subtle handheld camera movement, as if the viewer is a quiet observer. A slow rack focus from her face to the distant, glittering city lights. Shallow depth of field is crucial.
* **Lighting:** Naturalistic and moody. The primary light source is the ambient glow from the city below and a single string of warm, tungsten fairy lights draped over the railing, casting a soft golden light on her features. Avoid harsh or flat lighting.
**Scene 2: The Climax (30-60 seconds)**
* **Action:**
* **(Shot A):** An over-the-shoulder shot from behind the woman as the first distant fireworks begin to silently bloom in the sky. Her friend gently places a hand on her shoulder.
* **(Shot B):** A cut to a close-up of their hands as another friend passes her a delicate champagne flute. The focus is on the small, intimate gesture.
* **(Shot C):** The camera returns to her face. As the muffled sound of the city’s countdown swells, she doesn’t cheer loudly. Instead, a slow, genuine smile forms on her lips. She looks at her friend, and they share a meaningful, unspoken moment of understanding. A single, happy tear might well up in her eye. At the stroke of midnight, they softly clink glasses.
* **Cinematography:** The cuts should be smooth and deliberate (J-cuts or L-cuts would be ideal). Use a slow-motion effect (rendered at 60fps and played back at 24fps) for the moment the glasses clink and the smile forms, emphasizing the emotional weight of the instant.
**Scene 3: The Aftermath (60-90 seconds)**
* **Action:** A wide, static shot of the small group of friends now standing together, silhouetted against the backdrop of the city and the ongoing fireworks display. They are not jumping or shouting, but watching in quiet awe. The woman from Scene 1 now has her head resting on her friend’s shoulder. The feeling is one of peace, closure, and quiet hope for what’s to come.
* **Cinematography:** The final shot is a long take, letting the scene breathe. The camera performs a very slow, almost imperceptible dolly-out, gradually widening the frame to make the characters feel like a small, warm part of a massive world.
**Technical & Stylistic Directives:**
* **Film Emulation:** Shot to look like it was captured on an **ARRI Alexa camera with vintage Cooke S4/i or Kowa anamorphic lenses**. This should produce soft, beautiful lens flares (especially from the city lights), slight edge distortion, and an organic, non-digital feel.
* **Color Grade:** A desaturated, cinematic color palette. Emphasize deep blues, teals, and blacks in the shadows and night sky, contrasted with the warm, golden-orange tones of the tungsten lights and skin tones. Apply a subtle **Kodak Vision3 500T film grain** profile. Introduce slight halation around bright light sources.
* **Aspect Ratio:** 2.39:1 (Cinemascope) to enhance the cinematic, festival-film feel.
* **Sound Design (for mood inference):** The audio should be diegetic and immersive. Muffled city traffic, distant sirens, the low murmur of conversation, the crisp sound of breath in the cold, and the eventual, booming-yet-distant sound of fireworks. A faint, melancholic indie-folk or ambient electronic score (like Bon Iver or Ólafur Arnalds) should subtly fade in during Scene 2.
**Negative Prompts (Crucial Exclusions):**
* **NO:** Generic, loud, chaotic party scenes.
* **NO:** Cheesy, direct-to-camera smiling or waving.
* **NO:** Overly saturated, vibrant colors or HDR effects.
* **NO:** Stock footage of fireworks or countdown clocks.
* **NO:** Fast-paced editing, whip pans, or jump cuts.
* **NO:** Obvious digital effects or CGI.
* **NO:** Slapstick humor or exaggerated expressions.
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