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Ultra-Detailed Prompt Guide | Mastering SeaArt Muse
🚀 Super Practical Text-to-Video Writing Guide | Complete SeaArt Muse Tutorial!
Want SeaArt Muse to perfectly bring the ideal image in your mind to life?
The key lies in how you craft your prompts! This guide will walk you through step-by-step to write high-quality prompts and master the core techniques of text-to-video generation.
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📌 What are prompts, and why are they so important?
Prompts are the core basis for AI to recognize and construct video content. They describe the main subjects, scenes, actions, and transitions in the video, directly affecting the final visual quality and expressiveness.
Simply put, if you want to generate a certain kind of video, the prompt is your "language" to communicate with the AI. Write it precisely, and the AI understands your intent; write it vaguely, and the output may go off track.
🎬 Three Prompt Formulas to Help You Master AI Video Creation
Whether you are new to AI video generation or want to spark creative inspiration, we have prepared clear and easy-to-understand prompt construction methods for you. Mastering these "formulas" will make your videos more vivid, engaging, and expressive!
✅ Beginner Formula: Easy to start, ignite imagination
Ideal for creators just starting with AI videos or those who want to quickly brainstorm scenes with AI. Using relaxed and free expressions, you can generate highly imaginative visuals.
Formula structure:Prompt = Subject + Scene + Motion
- Subject: The core element in the frame—can be a person, animal, plant, object, or even a fictional creature.
- Scene: The environment where the story takes place; real or fantastical, including background and foreground spatial information.
- Motion: Describes the dynamic state of the subject and elements, such as running, floating, stillness, or shaking, emphasizing the scale or rhythm of movement.
📌 Example:
"A white fox running through the forest" — simple and direct, yet full of vivid imagery!
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🔍 Advanced Formula: Enrich details, enhance quality
Suitable for users familiar with AI video generation. Through detailed descriptions and precise control, you can create videos with stronger expressiveness and narrative depth.
Advanced structure:Prompt = Subject (description) + Scene (description) + Motion (description) + Aesthetic Control + Stylization
- Subject description: Portray character features from appearance, clothing, attributes, e.g., "a black-haired girl wearing traditional Miao ethnic clothes adorned with silver accessories."
- Scene description: Set atmosphere and environmental details, e.g., "a misty bamboo forest on a high mountain" or "a neon-lit futuristic city at night."
- Motion description: Precisely describe the action and its outcome, e.g., "slowly raising her head," "violently swinging," "shattered the window."
- Aesthetic control: Add lighting, framing, perspective, and cinematic language (like "low-angle tracking shot," "close-up," "backlighting effect") to boost visual impact.
- Stylization: Define the visual style, e.g., "Chinese ink painting," "vaporwave," "hand-drawn illustration," "post-apocalyptic punk."
📌 More advanced example:
"A girl surrounded by ruins, wearing a tattered feathered robe, standing in the dusk, with the camera slowly zooming in on her closed eyes."
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🖼️ Image-to-Video Exclusive Formula: Control dynamics and camera language
When generating videos from images, the AI already recognizes the subject, scene, and style. Here, the key to prompts is: dynamic description + camera movement control.
Image-to-video structure:Prompt = Motion + Camera Movement
- Motion description: Describe the actions of elements in the image (person/animal/object), e.g., "slowly turning head," "quickly leaping up."
- Camera control: Use prompt words like "camera dolly in," "camera orbit," "fixed shot" to specify the camera movement style.
📌 Examples:
"The person slowly turns their head to the right, with a fixed camera."
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"A cat jumps down from the stool on the left and lands on the floor, with the camera following the cat."
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🎥 Cinematic Prompt Breakdown | 8 Lighting Techniques to Instantly Boost Video Atmosphere
In high-quality video creation, beyond subject and motion, light and shadow play a critical role in setting the tone and elevating visual depth.
By mastering the prompt techniques for various lighting types, you can take full control of the scene's atmosphere—giving your AI-generated video that cinematic feel.
The following content is based on practical experience using SeaArt Muse, summarizing commonly used lighting types and sample prompts for each.
(Note: All GIFs are compressed previews. Actual video quality is significantly better.)
💡 Complete Lighting Breakdown | 8 Common Light Effects with Prompt Examples
☀️ 1. Natural Daylight | Warm, Refreshing, and Transparent
Keywords: rim light, low contrast, medium-close shot, sunlight, side lighting, warm tones, clear skies
📌 Best for: countryside, pastoral settings, summer vibes, children or animals
Prompt Example:
A girl around 20 years old sits in the grass, wearing a floral dress with braided hair draped over her shoulders and a pure, gentle smile. Behind her, two fluffy ponies stand quietly. Sunlight bathes the scene, creating a peaceful and poetic countryside ambiance.
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💡 2. Artificial Lighting | Sculpted and Emotional
Keywords: artificial light, rim lighting, low saturation, indoor lighting, warm tones, over-the-shoulder shot, subject-focused
📌 Best for: indoor interviews, emotional scenes, nighttime interiors
Prompt Example:
A girl in a blue and white checkered shirt sits in a dimly lit room, her ponytail draping down, smiling softly at the camera. A desk lamp gently illuminates her face while the background is blurred, creating a quiet and restrained emotional mood.
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🌙 3. Moonlight | Calm, Mysterious, and Emotionally Charged
Keywords: moonlight, slanted lighting, soft light, shadows, night tones, dark palette
📌 Best for: nighttime introspection, suspense scenes, emotional tension
Prompt Example:
A young woman stands quietly in a worn-out interior, with chipped white tiles and a cracked wooden door behind her. Her sharp short haircut, dark hair, and icy blue eyes reflect the cold moonlight from outside. Wearing a black top with a crisp white collar, her posture slightly tilted, she appears to be listening intently to a silent voice. Her lips are pressed together, revealing suppressed yet intense emotion. Moonlight casts soft, layered shadows across her face, creating a restrained yet powerful tension. The close-up focuses on her expression, capturing a private, frozen, and cinematic moment.
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🔦 4. Practical Lighting | Immersive and Realistic
Keywords: practical light, under lighting, night, medium-close shot, warm tones, front-lit face
📌 Best for: nighttime domestic life, urban daily moments, family settings
Prompt Example:
Practical lighting, high contrast, warm tone, low angle, two-person shot. A white woman sits on the bed in a dark room, wearing a black tank top with a Chanel logo. Her hair falls loosely, and a bracelet adorns her wrist. A warm light bulb illuminates her surroundings. In the background, a Black woman in white sits on the bed, turning her head to look at the white woman.
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🔥 5. Firelight | Ritualistic and Raw Warmth
Keywords: firelight, fireplace, warm tones, high contrast, backlit subject, over-the-shoulder framing
📌 Best for: historical, nostalgic, or emotionally charged moments
Prompt Example:
Filmed over the shoulder, a girl wearing a white shirt and pink vest stands in front of a fireplace, looking toward someone to the right of the camera.
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🌌 6. Fluorescent Light | Cold Modernity and Spatial Compression
Keywords: fluorescent, top linear light, cool tones, bluish-gray, narrow space
📌 Best for: school halls, hospitals, corridors, urban night scenes
Prompt Example:
A blonde young woman stands in a school hallway lined with blue lockers. Wearing a white tank top, she covers her face with both hands, showing subtle anxiety while glancing to the side. The weak top and side lighting casts soft shadows, while gray-blue walls and a narrow frame enhance the sense of stillness and restraint.
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☁️ 7. Overcast Light | Soft, Restrained, and Story-Driven
Keywords: overcast light, soft light, low saturation, low-angle shot, centered framing, stillness
📌 Best for: urban portraits, static shots, introspective emotion
Prompt Example:
Medium-close shot, soft lighting, low contrast, rim light, low angle, overcast day, cool tones, centered composition. A foreign woman in khaki clothing and a gray sweater, wearing a black hat, walks slowly toward the camera. Behind her, a brown building with windows emitting yellow light; a blurred figure sways in the foreground, adding to the still yet story-rich atmosphere.
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🌈 8. Mixed Lighting | Layered Drama for Complex Scenes
Keywords: mixed lighting, under lighting, cool and warm blend, nighttime, dynamic tones, camera motion
📌 Best for: stage performances, dreams, abstract expression
Prompt Example:
High contrast, under lighting, mixed tones, cool colors, close-up, side lighting. A foreign man stands in front of a projection screen in a dim room, wearing a white tank top and silver earrings. He gazes into the distance with a thoughtful look. As the camera pans right, blue and purple lights blend behind him, casting colored highlights across his face, enhancing his features and the dreamlike quality.
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☀️ 9. Sunny Light | Clear, Warm, and Poetic Urban Vibes
Keywords: sunny daylight, soft shadows, warm tones, front light, shallow depth of field, calm atmosphere
📌 Best for: city walks, portrait close-ups, peaceful emotions
Prompt Example:
Early morning sunrise, warm sunlight, kitchen setting, mid-shot. A blonde white woman in a clean white outfit carefully prepares a drink. In a calm domestic scene, she opens a sugar jar, scoops some sugar into a white mug. On the table: spice jars. Background: slightly blurred, with soft floral wallpaper and a white cabinet filled with jars. Gentle sunlight filters through the window, adding warmth and stillness to the morning mood.
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🎬 Crafting Cinematic Visual Aesthetics | 8 Common Lighting Styles Explained
In AI video creation, mastering prompt-based control of various visual elements—especially lighting—can significantly enhance a scene’s beauty, expression, and narrative tension.
Below is a categorized guide to light source types and lighting characteristics, complete with descriptions and prompt examples, to help you precisely shape the visual mood in your AI-generated videos.
💡 Lighting Characteristics
Beyond the light source itself, fine-tuning the quality of light is equally essential. Here are some commonly used approaches:
🌤️ ① Soft Light
Smooth transitions with diffused shadows, ideal for romantic and warm atmospheres.
Prompt Example:
Sunset, soft light, side lighting, rim light, warm tones, low saturation, centered composition, medium-close shot, eye-level camera.A foreign couple stands beside a red taxi, captured from the waist up. The man, wearing a beige knit sweater with hands in his pockets, leans forward slightly with a gentle smile. The woman wears a yellow dress, lace gloves, and a silk scarf, elegantly linking arms with the man. In the softly lit background, vintage-style architecture is vaguely visible, with two green street lamps casting a warm glow. A police officer stands upright in classic uniform, adding realism to the urban scene. Gentle light from the right side creates warm rim lighting on the couple’s outlines, evoking a natural and cozy atmosphere.
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🔦 ② Hard Light
Strong shadows and high contrast enhance drama and visual intensity.
Prompt Example:
Hard light, side light, medium shot, low saturation, high contrast, mid focal length.A close-up of a foreign man in a black shirt, sitting at a wooden desk with folders and a yellow radio. His arms are crossed over his ?, head resting against the wall, eyes closed, and mouth slightly open mid-sentence. A blurred silhouette appears in the foreground. The background is a dark wooden wall adorned with paintings and decor, creating a quiet, contemplative mood.
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🎭 ③ High Contrast
Strong color differences and clear visual focus—great for conveying emotional tension or thematic oppositions.
Prompt Example:
High contrast, high saturation, rule-of-thirds composition, sunset, mid focal length, soft light, backlighting, rim light, warm tones, medium-close shot, natural daylight.A close-up of a white woman in a blue checkered dress with earrings. As the camera pulls back, she walks forward smiling and speaking. The blurred background reveals a white brick wall with a painting, a wooden cabinet with a lamp and flowers, a red dresser with another lamp, and an open door letting in sunlight.
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🌘 ④ Side Light
Adds dimensionality, highlights contours and facial structure.
Prompt Example:
Rim light, side light, soft light, medium-close shot, dusk, sunset, centered composition, warm tones, low saturation, long focal length.A woman with voluminous blue curly hair stands gracefully before a large window. She wears a flowing pale green dress and has her hair neatly pulled back. Soft light from the window highlights her delicate features as she converses with someone off-camera. A touch of sadness in her eyes adds depth to her mysterious aura. The dim background with strong light contrast enhances emotional tension. The setting sun casts patterned light through the window, adding artistic and cinematic atmosphere.
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🔻 ⑤ Under Light
Lighting from below evokes unease, eeriness, or mystery.
Prompt Example:
Under lighting, dawn, firelight, warm tones, low contrast, backlight, three-person framing.In a dark setting, a close-up of a foreign woman wearing yellow. She holds a cigarette in her left hand and a lighter in her right, lighting it before bringing it to her lips. Her gaze drops downward. On the left, a black silhouette with arms crossed watches her. On the right, an elderly figure observes intently.
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🌫️ ⑥ Low Contrast
Muted tones and soft transitions evoke nostalgia, loneliness, or retro urban settings.
Prompt Example:
Low contrast.In a vintage 1980s music hall, a musician in a worn jacket plays guitar amid dim colors and coarse textures. A small crowd gathers to listen. The camera slowly pans right, capturing the blend of live music and cheers. Background details include old musical signage and weathered walls.
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✨ ⑦ Rim Light
Creates glowing edges around subjects, emphasizing form and spatial depth.
Prompt Example:
Dusk, sunset, side light, rim light, medium shot, centered framing, warm tones, soft light, low saturation.A clean two-person frame: a foreign man with curly brown hair and blue eyes stands center foreground in a black short-sleeved shirt, body slightly tilted right, gazing at the camera with a thoughtful expression. On the left, a woman with shoulder-length blue hair and blue eyes enters the frame. She wears a white long dress, smiling softly, her right hand resting gently on her left arm. The sea stretches behind them, with distant ships in soft focus. Warm sunset light casts rim lighting on their figures, creating a quiet yet intense atmosphere.
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🕶️ ⑧ Silhouette
Bright backlight turns subjects into dark outlines, used to express solitude, epic scale, or a journey.
Prompt Example:
Dusk, silhouette, mixed tones, wide shot, establishing shot, high contrast.A runner crosses the desert. The camera slowly pans right as the figure begins climbing a sand dune. The lone silhouette persists through rough terrain with steady steps. The background shifts from rolling dunes to steep cliffs, emphasizing the journey’s difficulty. The runner remains centered, the camera steady, with no abrupt changes.
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🕒 Time of Day
Effectively controlling the time of day in your prompts can shape the mood, narrative depth, and visual tone of your AI-generated video. Below are common time segments with example prompts for inspiration:
✅ Daytime
Example Prompt:
☀️ Sunrise, daytime, soft lighting, side light, rim light, medium close-up, centered composition, warm tones. An elderly Caucasian woman sits on a white bed, wearing a gray cotton top. Her neatly brushed white wavy hair frames a gentle smile and kind eyes as she gazes softly in the direction of the camera, speaking with her son whose blurred silhouette appears on the right side of the frame. Sunlight streams through beige curtains, casting soft highlights on the bedsheets and walls. A white wrought iron window guard subtly outlines the window, enhancing the cozy and serene atmosphere. The camera focuses on the woman's upper body, with a softly blurred background to emphasize her emotional presence and the intimacy of the environment.
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🌙 Night
Example Prompt:
🌌 Late at night under dim yellow lighting, a man and woman sit at a dining table in conversation, captured with a wide-angle, full-frame shot. The man wears a gray knit sweater and black pants, attentively watching the woman across from him, who is dressed in white pajamas and casually holding a laptop as if streaming a show. The room is decorated with retro furniture and lighting fixtures, evoking a vintage mood. A low-hanging chandelier, patterned curtains, and scattered household items complete the lived-in ambiance. Overhead and mixed soft lighting bring out a saturated nighttime atmosphere. The composition is symmetrical and steady, preserving a quiet moment filled with subtle emotional tension.
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🌄 Sunrise
Example Prompt:
🌅 Early morning light breaks across the horizon as a beautiful and sensual woman sits at the edge of a field, wearing a dark cotton shirt with her hands naturally folded on her knees. The medium-close shot captures her leaning slightly forward, eyes firmly fixed on the distance, as if recalling a poignant memory. Soft morning rays enter from the left, gently illuminating the fine lines on her face, while a warm rim light outlines her figure. The sky transitions between soft orange and pale yellow, and the defocused field behind her creates a solemn, tranquil portrait that feels frozen in time.
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🌇 Sunset
Example Prompt:
🌆 At dusk, a beautiful and alluring Caucasian woman in a red polka-dot dress sits in the driver’s seat of a car, hands firmly gripping the steering wheel. She gazes out the window with a natural smile. The light slants in from outside, softly illuminating the car interior while projecting faint silhouettes of city streets and passing pedestrians onto the glass. A medium shot captures the contrast between the car's cool-toned interior and the warm glow of the orange-red sunset outside, creating strong emotional resonance. The background is gently blurred, drawing focus to the woman's inner emotional world.
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🌁 Dawn
Example Prompt:
🌄 In the faint light of dawn, an archer in full gear trains in the misty woods. Shot from a side angle, the camera slowly zooms in to capture his piercing gaze and the taut string of his drawn bow. With a barely audible twang, the arrow launches, and the camera follows its flight at the moment of release. The left side of the frame anchors the composition, as the archer’s cold, focused demeanor is heightened by the cool color grading and low contrast. Sparse trees and grass frame the tranquil woodland in the background, evoking a sense of restrained tension just before the break of day.
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🎬 Final Thoughts: Master Prompts to Unlock Cinematic Magic
With the powerful generation capabilities of SeaArt Muse, a well-crafted prompt is your gateway to boundless creativity. Whether you're aiming for cinematic portraits, dynamic motion, or emotionally rich storytelling, mastering prompt structure, lighting dynamics, and composition will empower Muse to render your vision with stunning accuracy and artistry.
📌 Don’t let your ideas stay in your head—write your first prompt and watch AI “direct” your imagination into reality.
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