AI Video Prompt Examples #1: Ambient Piano №1
Music Video Case Study
Film Festival 4K Version
In this series, I present the prompts that were used to create my music videos, which I exhibit internationally in various film festivals.
As I note in Some Brief Observations on AI Filmmaking, perhaps the most important prompts are the ones not used, because their failure to produce compelling moving imagery is essential for honing in on the ones that end up being the most usable.
Short Synopsis
An exploration of the idea of a musical composition being its own kind of world– in this case, a piano world.
Long Synopsis
This music video is an exploration of the idea of a musical composition as its own world, in this instance a ‘piano world’ where the music is algorithmically generated and the video produced via generative AI.
Conceptually, I started with the general idea of algorithmically composed piano music and its associated imagery of various automata — robots, machines, cyborgs, steampunk tech — and then I began to explore this piano world’s performance, factory, urban and garden spaces at different times of day and with differing levels of sociality and isolation, along with a range of color palettes ranging from monochromatic to vivid and varied.
Prompts
Running cinematic robot piano in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Running cinematic action robot piano in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Speeding cinematic action robot piano in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Speeding cinematic action sci-fi cyborg grand piano in a music hall in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Medium shot running cinematic action robot piano in a night club in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Medium shot running cinematic action steampunk robot piano in a night club in the style of Italian avant garde cinema
Speeding flying cinematic steampunk piano machine in the style of Italian avant garde F
cinema action of steampunk piano robot in a night club in the style of Russian avant garde cinema
Cinematic action of steampunk piano robot in a cyberpunk night club in the style of Russian avant garde cinema
Cinematic action of steampunk piano robot in a cyberpunk flashing neon lights night club in the style of Russian avant garde cinema
Cinematic action of little piano robot workers in a large piano factory in chiaroscuro noir Gothic lighting
Fast cinematic action of little piano robot workers in a large piano factory in chiaroscuro cyberpunk neon lighting
Fast cinematic action of little piano robot workers in a city alley on a bright day surrounded by homeless and business people dancing
Fast cinematic action of little piano robot workers in a dystopian sci-fi city alley at night with neon lights surrounded by tribal tattooed homeless and business people dancing in the rain
Fast cinematic action of little piano robot workers in a bright dimly lit morning fog on the outskirts of a city surrounded by weeds trees and plants
Fast cinematic action of little piano robots in a bright dimly lit morning fog on the outskirts of a city surrounded by weeds trees and plants and rusty machines
Fast cinematic action of techno piano DJs in a bright dimly lit morning fog on the outskirts of a city surrounded by weeds trees and plants and rusty machines
HDR Fast cinematic action of flying through a garden of piano flowers on a bright sunny day
HDR cinematic action of a piano in a garden on a bright day exploding into colorful flower debris pieces
HDR cinematic action of a fast dancing robot piano in a garden on a bright day exploding into colorful flower debris pieces
