Food and Recipe Video

Direct appetizing food video: the shots that make food look good, real cooking physics, and sound designed to do half the work.

Create a food video for [DISH OR PRODUCT].

Format: [OVERHEAD RECIPE / RESTAURANT HERO SHOT / PRODUCT REVEAL / ASMR CLOSE-UP]
Length: [SECONDS]
Mood: [warm homemade kitchen / clean modern studio / rustic outdoor / moody fine dining]

Style spine, identical across every shot:
"[LIGHTING: soft diffused daylight from a window at camera left, with a subtle warm bounce fill] on [SURFACE: a worn oak board / matte ceramic / dark slate]. [PALETTE]. Shot on a [50mm / 100mm macro] lens, shallow depth of field with the focus on [WHAT], natural color, appetizing but not oversaturated."

Then the shots:

**Shot 1, the hero (0 to [X] seconds)**: [THE FINISHED DISH], [ANGLE: overhead flat lay / 45 degrees / low three-quarter]. Camera [slowly pushes in / holds]. [THE ONE MOVEMENT: steam rising, a slow drip down the side, cheese still settling].

**Shot 2, the action**: [ONE COOKING MOMENT: the pour, the flip, the cut, the pull-apart], filmed in [real time / slight slow motion]. Hands enter frame naturally, [SLEEVES AND SKIN VISIBLE, NO RINGS OR WATCHES]. One action only, completed once.

**Shot 3, the texture**: extreme close-up macro of [THE TEXTURE THAT SELLS IT: the crumb, the sear, the glaze, the melt]. Almost still, with only [the smallest movement].

**Shot 4, the payoff**: [THE BITE, THE CUT THROUGH, THE POUR], showing the inside.

Physics that must be right: food behaves with real weight and viscosity, steam rises and dissipates, liquid pours in a continuous stream and settles, cheese and chocolate stretch and break realistically, and nothing floats, morphs, or reassembles.

Audio, which does half the work in food video: [THE SPECIFIC SOUNDS: the sizzle as it hits the pan, the crack of the crust, the pour, the knife through crust onto a board]. Close-miked and dry, no music unless asked, no voiceover.

Clean frame: no text, no logos, no hands in shot 1, no cluttered background props competing with the food.

Rules: one action per shot. Keep the style spine word for word identical across shots so they cut together. Food styling beats camera tricks, so describe the food as it should look at its best moment rather than adding effects.

How to use

Sound carries food video more than any visual choice, so direct it explicitly: a sizzle, a crack, and a pour recorded close and dry will outperform a better-looking clip with generic ambience. The physics list is there because food is where generated video fails most visibly, with steam that behaves like fog and cheese that reassembles itself. Keep hands out of the hero shot and in the action shot, which is the convention viewers read without noticing.

More video prompts

[Attach your first frame image, and the last frame image if your tool supports it, then use this prompt:]

Animate from the first image to the last image.

What changes between them: [THE ONE TRANSFORMATION, e.g. "the closed box opens and the product rises out of it" / "the empty street fills with morning light" / "the character turns fro

First and Last Frame Control

Direct a video model between two fixed images so the motion, timing, and transition land exactly where you need them for an edit.

Videointermediate

Generate a sequence of shots featuring the same character.

**Step 1: write the character lock.** This exact text goes into every shot prompt, word for word, before anything else. Never paraphrase it.

CHARACTER LOCK:
"[NAME], a [AGE] year old [DESCRIPTION: build, height impression], with [HAIR: exact length, color, texture, and how it is

Multi-Shot Character Consistency

Keep one character looking like the same person across separately generated shots using a locked description block and fixed style spine.

Videoadvanced

Write and shot-list an explainer video.

What we are explaining: [PRODUCT, FEATURE, OR CONCEPT]
Who is watching and what they already know: [AUDIENCE + BASELINE]
The one thing they should understand afterward: [THE SINGLE TAKEAWAY]
What they should do next: [THE ACTION]
Length: [60 / 90 / 120 seconds]
Visual style: [SCREEN RECORDING / MOT

Explainer Video

Turn a product or concept into a 60 to 90 second explainer with a script timed to shots, so the visuals carry what the words cannot.