About Prompt
- Prompt Type – Dynamic
- Prompt Platform – ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney, Meta AI and more
- Niche – Action Thriller
- Language – English
- Category – Aerial FX
- Prompt Title – Helicopter Night Chase VFX Prompt
Prompt Details
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### **Optimized Dynamic AI Prompt Template: Helicopter Night Chase VFX**
This template is designed as a modular framework. To use it, copy the entire structure and replace the bracketed `[variables]` with your specific details. The detailed structure provides the AI with deep context, leading to more precise, cinematic, and high-quality results.
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**## 1. Role & Goal**
Act as a world-class Senior VFX Supervisor and Cinematographer. Your task is to generate a series of ultra-photorealistic, cinematic still frames (or a detailed shot description for a pre-visualization sequence) depicting a high-stakes helicopter night chase. The final output must be suitable for a major action-thriller film, focusing on dramatic tension, visceral action, and breathtaking aerial visuals.
**## 2. Core Scene Concept**
This scene captures a critical moment in a tense aerial pursuit over a sprawling metropolis at night. The chase is not just about speed, but about tactical maneuvering through a complex urban environment. The mood is gritty, urgent, and fraught with danger. The protagonist’s helicopter is closing in on the antagonist’s craft, and the confrontation is imminent.
**## 3. Key Subjects & Elements**
**### 3.1. Primary Helicopter (The Pursuer)**
* **Type/Model:** `[Example: MH-60 ‘Stealth Hawk’, a modified Black Hawk with sharp, angular lines]`
* **Appearance & Condition:** `[Example: Matte black, non-reflective radar-absorbent paint. Minimal markings. Cockpit glows with green and blue tactical displays. Shows minor scuff marks from a previous engagement.]`
* **Armament/Features:** `[Example: Side-mounted minigun is visible, with a crew member manning it. Advanced sensor pods and FLIR turret are mounted on the nose.]`
* **Pilot’s Action:** `[Example: Executing an aggressive banking turn, rotor blades narrowly clearing a skyscraper’s antenna.]`
**### 3.2. Secondary Target (The Evasive Craft)**
* **Type/Model:** `[Example: Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil, a lighter, more agile civilian helicopter]`
* **Appearance & Condition:** `[Example: Dark corporate blue with a gold stripe. It is visibly damaged, with smoke trailing from one engine and bullet holes riddling the fuselage. The rear tail rotor shows sparks.]`
* **Occupant’s Action:** `[Example: A figure in the back is desperately trying to return fire with a small automatic weapon, muzzle flashes illuminating the cabin.]`
* **Evasive Maneuver:** `[Example: Dropping altitude suddenly, weaving between buildings and under a major suspension bridge.]`
**## 4. Environment & Setting**
* **City:** `[Example: A dense, futuristic version of Hong Kong or downtown Los Angeles]`
* **Time of Night:** `[Example: 2:00 AM, the dead of night]`
* **Key Landmarks:** `[Example: The chase is happening low, through a canyon of neon-drenched skyscrapers, over a multi-level highway teeming with light-streaked traffic, and towards a vast industrial port complex.]`
* **Weather Conditions:** `[Example: A light, persistent drizzle. Raindrops streak across the camera lens and helicopter canopies. Streets are wet and highly reflective.]`
* **Altitude:** `[Example: Extremely low-level, between 500 and 1000 feet, emphasizing the danger and proximity to the urban environment.]`
**## 5. Cinematography & VFX Specifications**
**### 5.1. Camera Work**
* **Lens:** `[Example: Shot with a wide anamorphic lens, creating cinematic bokeh and horizontal lens flares from city lights.]`
* **Angle & Perspective:** `[Example: A dramatic, low-angle tracking shot from a ‘virtual drone’ flying alongside the pursuer helicopter. Include a close-up shot of the pursuer’s pilot, face illuminated by console lights, intense and focused.]`
* **Motion:** `[Example: Fast, aggressive camera movement with realistic shake and vibration. A slight motion blur on the background and rotor blades to convey extreme speed.]`
**### 5.2. Lighting**
* **Primary Light Sources:** `[Example: Diegetic lighting only. The cold, bright strobes of the helicopters, the warm glow of office windows, the vibrant neon and LED billboards, and the piercing searchlight from the pursuing helicopter cutting through the rain and fog.]`
* **Light Interaction:** `[Example: Volumetric lighting. The searchlight beam should be visible in the misty air. Rotor wash should kick up spray from wet rooftops, catching the city lights.]`
* **Reflections:** `[Example: Specular highlights and sharp reflections of the city on the wet surfaces of the helicopters.]`
**### 5.3. Visual Effects (VFX)**
* **Weapon Effects:** `[Example: Bright, realistic muzzle flashes from the minigun, with streams of red tracer rounds arcing towards the target. Small, bright impacts sparking on the target’s fuselage.]`
* **Damage & Debris:** `[Example: Trailing black smoke, intermittent electrical sparks from the damaged helicopter, small pieces of metal shearing off.]`
* **Atmospherics:** `[Example: Dense atmospheric perspective. Buildings in the distance are faded by haze and fog. A thin layer of smog hangs over the city, illuminated from below.]`
**## 6. Mood & Tone**
* **Primary Mood:** `[Example: Tense, high-stakes, desperate, claustrophobic despite being in the open air.]`
* **Color Palette:** `[Example: A predominantly cool palette of blues, cyans, and deep blacks, punctuated by intense, saturated hot spots from neon signs (reds, magentas), explosions, and weapon fire. Think “cyberpunk-noir”.]`
**## 7. Artistic Style & Inspirations**
* **Overall Style:** `[Example: Hyper-realistic, cinematic, gritty photorealism.]`
* **Film References:** `[Example: The visual language of Michael Mann’s “Heat” (the sense of a real city at night), the kinetic aerial action of Michael Bay’s “Ambulance”, and the atmospheric lighting of Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049”.]`
**## 8. Constraints & Negative Prompts**
* **Avoid:** Daytime scenes, clear skies, static or slow shots, cartoonish or overly stylized effects, unrealistic physics, lens flare that obscures the action, visible film grain unless specified as ‘fine cinematic grain’.
* **Ensure:** The focus remains on the two helicopters. The city is the backdrop, not the main subject. The sense of speed and danger is paramount.
**## 9. Desired Output**
* **Format:** `[Example: A sequence of 4 ultra-photorealistic, 8K resolution, cinematic still frames from different perspectives (wide shot, tracking shot, cockpit view, target view). Aspect ratio 2.39:1.]`
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### **Example Prompt in Practice**
Here is the above template filled out to create a specific, powerful prompt.
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**## 1. Role & Goal**
Act as a world-class Senior VFX Supervisor and Cinematographer. Your task is to generate a series of ultra-photorealistic, cinematic still frames depicting a high-stakes helicopter night chase. The final output must be suitable for a major action-thriller film, focusing on dramatic tension, visceral action, and breathtaking aerial visuals.
**## 2. Core Scene Concept**
This scene captures a critical moment in a tense aerial pursuit over downtown Seoul at night. The chase is not just about speed, but about tactical maneuvering through a complex urban environment. The mood is gritty, urgent, and fraught with danger. A special-ops helicopter is closing in on a rogue data courier’s craft, and the confrontation is imminent.
**## 3. Key Subjects & Elements**
**### 3.1. Primary Helicopter (The Pursuer)**
* **Type/Model:** KAI KUH-1 Surion, heavily modified for special operations.
* **Appearance & Condition:** Matte-grey digital camouflage pattern. No visible national insignia. Cockpit glows with amber and red tactical displays. The fuselage is slick with rain.
* **Armament/Features:** A GAU-19/A gatling gun is mounted on a side pintle, a crew member is strapped in behind it, ready to fire. A state-of-the-art FLIR/LIDAR sensor turret on the nose is actively tracking the target.
* **Pilot’s Action:** Executing a tight, high-G turn around the Lotte World Tower, rotor blades churning the rain-filled air.
**### 3.2. Secondary Target (The Evasive Craft)**
* **Type/Model:** MD 500 Defender, a small, nimble helicopter.
* **Appearance & Condition:** Plain, unmarked black. It is heavily damaged, with a trail of white vapor streaming from a damaged hydraulic line. One of the landing skids is bent and dangling.
* **Occupant’s Action:** The pilot is desperately trying to use the cityscape for cover, their face a mask of panic seen through the canopy.
* **Evasive Maneuver:** Diving sharply towards the Han River, attempting to fly under the Mapo Bridge to break the line of sight.
**## 4. Environment & Setting**
* **City:** Seoul, South Korea, at night.
* **Time of Night:** 3:15 AM.
* **Key Landmarks:** The chase weaves through the glass and steel canyons of the Gangnam District, over the massive, illuminated COEX Artium, and towards the dark, sprawling waters of the Han River.
* **Weather Conditions:** A heavy downpour. Rain is lashing down, creating streaks on the camera lens and reducing visibility. The city streets below are a mirror of blurred neon and traffic lights.
* **Altitude:** Dangerously low, weaving between 200 and 700 feet, often below the tops of the tallest skyscrapers.
**## 5. Cinematography & VFX Specifications**
**### 5.1. Camera Work**
* **Lens:** Shot with a wide anamorphic lens, creating dramatic horizontal lens flares from the city lights and helicopter strobes.
* **Angle & Perspective:** A gut-wrenching ‘over-the-shoulder’ shot from just behind the Pursuer’s cockpit, showing the pilot’s hands on the controls and the target helicopter framed in the rain-streaked canopy window.
* **Motion:** Turbulent, shaky camera movements that simulate being in a third helicopter. Significant motion blur on the passing buildings to emphasize the dizzying speed.
**### 5.2. Lighting**
* **Primary Light Sources:** Diegetic lighting only. The rhythmic, brilliant white strobes of the helicopters, the cool blue and magenta glow from massive K-Pop billboards, the red warning lights on buildings, and the powerful, sweeping searchlight from the Surion.
* **Light Interaction:** The searchlight beam should cut a sharp cone through the pouring rain. The powerful downwash from the rotors should atomize the rain on rooftops into a swirling vortex of mist, catching the colorful city lights.
* **Reflections:** Intense, distorted reflections of the neon cityscape glide across the wet, curved surfaces of both helicopters.
**### 5.3. Visual Effects (VFX)**
* **Weapon Effects:** The GAU-19/A fires a short burst. The three barrels are a blur of motion, with bright, sharp muzzle flashes and a torrent of yellow tracer rounds cutting a path through the night air.
* **Damage & Debris:** The tracer rounds impact the water near the MD 500, creating geysers of illuminated spray. The MD 500 vents a plume of smoke, momentarily obscuring it.
* **Atmospherics:** A thick, wet atmosphere. The pouring rain and low-hanging clouds create a claustrophobic feeling. The city lights diffuse into a soft glow in the distance.
**## 6. Mood & Tone**
* **Primary Mood:** Desperate, chaotic, high-tech, and visceral.
* **Color Palette:** A cold, wet palette of deep blues, indigos, and stark blacks, violently interrupted by the hot, piercing colors of neon signs (pinks, electric blues), tracers (yellow/red), and the white searchlight.
**## 7. Artistic Style & Inspirations**
* **Overall Style:** Gritty, immediate photorealism, as if shot by an embedded combat camera operator.
* **Film References:** The urban claustrophobia of Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” (the Hong Kong sequence), the brutal realism of the helicopter scenes in “Sicario”, and the rain-soaked, neon aesthetic of “John Wick: Chapter 3”.
**## 8. Constraints & Negative Prompts**
* **Avoid:** Daytime scenes, clear skies, static or slow shots, cartoonish or overly stylized effects, unrealistic physics, lens flare that obscures the action, visible film grain unless specified as ‘fine cinematic grain’.
* **Ensure:** The focus remains on the two helicopters. The city is the backdrop, not the main subject. The sense of speed and danger is paramount.
**## 9. Desired Output**
* **Format:** A single, ultra-photorealistic, 8K resolution, cinematic still frame from a low-angle tracking perspective, looking up at the two helicopters as they bank hard between two skyscrapers. Aspect ratio 2.39:1.