About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Psychological Thriller
- Language – English
- Category – Transition FX
- Prompt Title – Memory Fragment Dissolve VFX Prompt
Prompt Details
### **Optimized Dynamic AI Prompt Template: The Fractured Mind Transition**
This dynamic prompt is designed as a modular template. To use it, you will replace the bracketed placeholders `[like this]` with the specific details of your scene. This structure ensures maximum creative control and consistency while guiding the AI to produce a highly specific and atmospheric visual effect.
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#### **Part 1: Core Concept & Narrative Context**
This section sets the stage for the AI, providing the essential “why” behind the visual effect. It grounds the VFX in emotion and story, leading to a more nuanced and impactful result.
* **VFX Goal:** Generate a cinematic, unsettling visual transition effect representing a “Memory Fragment Dissolve.”
* **Genre & Tone:** Psychological Thriller. The mood must be `[Specify a primary emotional tone, e.g., dreadful, anxious, paranoid, confusing, disorienting]`.
* **Scene Context:** The transition begins with `[Describe the starting scene or object, e.g., a character staring at a rain-streaked window, an old photograph in a character’s hand, a close-up on a character’s terrified eye]`. This memory is fracturing because `[Explain the psychological trigger, e.g., the character is realizing a horrible truth, a repressed trauma is surfacing, their perception of reality is breaking down]`.
* **Transition From/To:** The effect transitions from the stable image of `[Starting Scene/Object]` to a fleeting glimpse or the beginning of `[Describe the target scene or memory, e.g., a dark, forgotten room, a distorted face screaming, a sterile hospital corridor]`.
#### **Part 2: The Dissolve Mechanism & Style**
This is the most critical section, detailing *how* the memory breaks apart. Choose one style and fill in its specific parameters, or mix elements for a unique effect.
* **Dominant Dissolve Style:** `[Choose ONE of the following styles: “Glitching Datamosh,” “Ashen Burn,” “Crystalline Fracture,” “Ink Bleed,” or “Whispering Smoke”]`.
* **Style A: Glitching Datamosh** (for themes of digital surveillance, lost identity, or technological paranoia)
* **Fragmentation Pattern:** The image corrupts into `[e.g., sharp-edged digital blocks, cascading scan lines, pixel sorting artifacts, compressed video noise]`.
* **Glitch Behavior:** The fragments `[e.g., flicker violently, smear horizontally, stutter and freeze-frame]` before dissolving.
* **Color Corruption:** The scene’s colors momentarily shift to a `[e.g., sickly CMYK palette, inverted negative, oversaturated neon]`, with flashes of `[e.g., electric blue, corrupted magenta]`.
* **Style B: Ashen Burn** (for themes of lost memories, permanent trauma, or a past being destroyed)
* **Ignition Point:** The dissolve begins from `[e.g., the edges of the frame, a specific focal point like a person’s eyes, a crack that appears in the center]`.
* **Ember & Ash:** The image curls and burns away, leaving behind `[e.g., glowing, sickly orange embers, fine grey ash, thick black soot]`. The embers glow with a `[e.g., hellish, unnatural, fading] `light.
* **Particle Behavior:** The resulting ash particles `[e.g., drift slowly upwards, are violently sucked into a void, crumble into nothingness]`.
* **Style C: Crystalline Fracture** (for themes of a fragile psyche, a shattering worldview, or painful, sharp memories)
* **Fracture Pattern:** The scene shatters as if it were `[e.g., a pane of glass, a frozen lake, obsidian rock]`, with cracks spreading rapidly from `[e.g., a single impact point, multiple points at once]`.
* **Shard Appearance:** The fragments are `[e.g., razor-sharp, refractive and distorted, dark and non-reflective]`. As they break, they briefly reflect `[e.g., distorted images of the target memory, pure blinding light, absolute darkness]`.
* **Shard Motion:** The broken pieces `[e.g., fall away into a dark abyss, hang suspended in the air, fly towards the camera]`.
* **Style D: Ink Bleed** (for themes of fading identity, repressed thoughts, or memories becoming muddled and indistinct)
* **Dissolve Pattern:** The image dissolves as if it were a watercolor painting being drenched. The colors `[e.g., bleed into each other, smear downwards like tears, are diluted by spreading water spots]`.
* **Focal Point Behavior:** The focal point of the scene, `[Describe the focal point, e.g., the protagonist’s face]`, holds its form the longest before `[e.g., its features melt together, a single dark ink spot consumes it]`.
* **Texture:** The effect has a tangible texture of `[e.g., wet parchment, thick, viscous ink, fibrous paper]`.
* **Style E: Whispering Smoke** (for themes of ghostly presence, forgotten pasts, or ethereal, dream-like states)
* **Evaporation Pattern:** The scene dematerializes into `[e.g., fine, wispy tendrils of smoke, a thick, heavy fog, ethereal vapor]`.
* **Smoke/Vapor Color:** The smoke is a `[e.g., ghostly white, murky grey-black, an unnaturally colored sickly green]`.
* **Motion:** The vapor `[e.g., gently rises and dissipates, clings to the ground, is violently pulled towards an off-screen source]`, revealing the new scene underneath.
#### **Part 3: Cinematic & Sensory Details**
This section adds layers of polish, dictating the camera work, lighting, and other details that sell the effect.
* **Camera & Focus:** The virtual camera should `[e.g., perform a slow, unnerving zoom-in, lose focus on the background, violently shake, execute a subtle rack focus to the emerging memory fragment]`. The depth of field is `[e.g., extremely shallow, deep and clinical, erratically shifting]`.
* **Lighting:** The lighting is `[e.g., harsh and high-contrast, oppressively dark with pockets of light, flickering like a dying fluorescent bulb]`. The dissolve effect itself should `[e.g., emit its own cold, pulsating light, cast long, distorted shadows, absorb all surrounding light]`.
* **Color Palette:** The overall color grade is `[e.g., heavily desaturated with a cold blue tint, sepia-toned and gritty, monochromatic with a single jarring accent color like blood red]`.
* **Atmospheric Elements:** Add subtle background elements like `[e.g., floating dust motes visible in light shafts, heavy film grain, subtle lens distortion, a faint heat-haze effect]`.
* **Implied Sound:** Describe the sound this effect would make to influence the visual. The transition is accompanied by the implied sound of `[e.g., high-frequency static and digital shrieks, the crackle and hiss of burning paper, the sharp cracking of shattering glass, wet tearing sounds, a low, guttural whisper]`.
#### **Part 4: Refinement & Constraints**
This final section tells the AI what to emphasize and what to strictly avoid.
* **Key Modifiers:** cinematic, photorealistic, 8K, high detail, intense atmosphere, unsettling, visceral, subsurface scattering, motion blur, psychological horror aesthetic.
* **Negative Prompts (What to Avoid):** a clean or smooth fade, cartoony, fantasy, magical, beautiful, pleasant, soft, generic CGI, stock effect, symmetrical patterns, bright or cheerful colors.
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### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is the above template filled out for a specific scenario: A detective looks at a photograph of a missing child, and a repressed memory of where he last saw her begins to violently surface.
**(This is the final, assembled prompt you would feed to the AI)**
**VFX Goal:** Generate a cinematic, unsettling visual transition effect representing a “Memory Fragment Dissolve.”
**Genre & Tone:** Psychological Thriller. The mood must be dreadful and anxious.
**Scene Context:** The transition begins with a close-up on a faded, 1990s photograph of a smiling young girl held in a detective’s trembling hand. This memory is fracturing because the detective is realizing he has a repressed trauma connected to the child’s disappearance.
**Transition From/To:** The effect transitions from the stable image of the girl’s smiling face in the photograph to a fleeting, distorted glimpse of a dark, dilapidated basement.
**Dominant Dissolve Style:** Ashen Burn.
* **Ignition Point:** The dissolve begins from the girl’s smiling eyes in the photo, which begin to glow with an unnerving heat.
* **Ember & Ash:** The photograph’s image curls and burns away from the eyes outward, leaving behind glowing, sickly orange embers and fine grey ash that looks like disintegrated film. The embers glow with an unnatural, pulsating light.
* **Particle Behavior:** The resulting ash particles are violently sucked inwards towards the burning eyes, as if being drawn into a vacuum or a black hole, before vanishing.
**Cinematic & Sensory Details:**
* **Camera & Focus:** The virtual camera performs a slow, unnerving zoom-in on the photograph, with the depth of field becoming extremely shallow so that only the girl’s eyes are in sharp focus while everything else blurs.
* **Lighting:** The lighting is oppressively dark, with the only significant light source being the harsh, pulsating glow emitted from the burning embers on the photograph itself, casting long, flickering shadows on the detective’s hand.
* **Color Palette:** The overall color grade is heavily desaturated with a cold blue tint, contrasting sharply with the hellish orange of the embers.
* **Atmospheric Elements:** Add heavy film grain and subtle lens distortion around the edges of the frame to enhance the feeling of a corrupted memory.
* **Implied Sound:** The transition is accompanied by the implied sound of the low, intense crackle and hiss of a photograph burning too quickly, mixed with a faint, distorted child’s whisper.
**Key Modifiers:** cinematic, photorealistic, 8K, high detail, intense atmosphere, unsettling, visceral, subsurface scattering on the detective’s skin, motion blur on the ash particles, psychological horror aesthetic, chiaroscuro lighting.
**Negative Prompts (What to Avoid):** a clean or smooth fade, cartoony, fantasy, magical, beautiful, pleasant, soft, generic CGI, stock effect, symmetrical patterns, bright or cheerful colors, large flames.