No Prompt Skills Needed: How to Write a Story for an AI Video

You don't need prompt engineering

In powervideos, the story you write is the whole creative input. There's no settings panel and no magic words to memorize. Only one thing really matters: someone reading your story should be able to see it.

A formula that works

Who + where + what changes + what it looks like

Put those four pieces together and you have a story that can be filmed.

Before and after

Before:

A fox, very dreamy.

The model will give you a fox. But where is it? What happens? Which kind of dreamy?

After:

A small fox walks into a quiet forest at night, finds a trail of glowing footprints, and follows them to a lighthouse above the clouds. Style: watercolor picture book, soft blue and violet tones, warm and gentle, slow following camera.

Same fox, but now it has a character, a place, a change, and a style, and the five storyboard shots almost write themselves.

Checklist before you generate

• One or two main characters, with a few details about how they look
• One clear change in the story: a discovery, a meeting, a turn, a rewind
• A visual style: anime, watercolor, cinematic, claymation, cyberpunk
• A mood or light: early morning glow, rainy neon night, tense, tender
• It fits in 15 seconds: one moment, not an entire saga

Three common mistakes

1. Too much plot. Fifteen seconds holds one turn. Save the life story for the sequel.
2. Asking for text on screen. The video avoids captions and written text, so show the message through action and expression instead.
3. All style, no story. "Cinematic, premium, 4K" is great, but it needs a story to carry it.

Easter egg: The "Try an example" button in the studio hides a complete rainy-rooftop story. Click it to see what a good story looks like.

Try it now

Open the studio and use the formula to write your first story. You have up to 2,000 characters, but three or four sentences are usually enough.