Action: Expression
Proud Smirk
Self-satisfied smirk showing pride in accomplishment. Best for: Achievement content, proud moments, satisfaction scenes, accomplished feelings.
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- Pick your model's tab — the JSON re-shapes itself to that model's block order and limits.
- Click any green value to edit it in place — swap the subject, setting, or style for your own.
- Copy and paste the JSON as your prompt in the tool — links below.
{
"scene": "Person with self-satisfied smirk showing pride in achievement",
"action": {
"description": "smirking proudly",
"dialogue": "I knew I could do it all along."
},
"camera": {
"angle": "slight angle for attitude",
"distance": "medium close shot",
"movement": "confident proud stance"
}
} - Veo 3.1 follows structured prompts unusually well — lock camera, lighting and audio as separate JSON fields and it respects each one.
- Native audio: describe dialogue, ambient sound and music directly in the audio field.
{
"action": {
"description": "smirking proudly",
"dialogue": "I knew I could do it all along."
},
"scene": "Person with self-satisfied smirk showing pride in achievement",
"camera": {
"angle": "slight angle for attitude",
"distance": "medium close shot",
"movement": "confident proud stance"
}
} - Kling 3.0 reasons about the scene like a director — write the action field as a shot note, not a keyword list.
- Multi-shot is the signature feature: split the action into "Shot 1: … Shot 2: …" inside the action field for cuts within one generation.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "slight angle for attitude",
"distance": "medium close shot",
"movement": "confident proud stance"
},
"action": {
"description": "smirking proudly",
"dialogue": "I knew I could do it all along."
},
"scene": "Person with self-satisfied smirk showing pride in achievement"
} - Seedance responds best to a strict block order: CAMERA → SUBJECT → ACTION → ENVIRONMENT → LIGHTING → STYLE. The JSON below is ordered to match.
- Keep the camera block to a shot type plus one movement — stacking movements degrades output.
{
"action": {
"description": "smirking proudly",
"dialogue": "I knew I could do it all along."
},
"scene": "Person with self-satisfied smirk showing pride in achievement",
"camera": {
"angle": "slight angle for attitude",
"distance": "medium close shot",
"movement": "confident proud stance"
}
} - Wan 2.2 is the latest version with genuinely open, downloadable weights. "Wan 2.5/2.6/2.7" are hosted API-only versions on commercial platforms.
- Open-weights Wan 2.2 has no audio track — drop the audio field or move sound design to post.
{
"action": {
"description": "smirking proudly",
"dialogue": "I knew I could do it all along."
},
"camera": {
"angle": "slight angle for attitude",
"distance": "medium close shot",
"movement": "confident proud stance"
},
"scene": "Person with self-satisfied smirk showing pride in achievement"
} - Runway exposes camera controls in the UI — use the camera block here as your settings checklist rather than prompt text.
- Gen-4.5 excels with reference images: the subject field doubles as your reference-tagging description.
Run this prompt
Copy the JSON above, then paste it as your prompt in any of these tools. Veo 3.1 is free to try inside Gemini (daily limit applies).
What each block does
| Block | Purpose |
|---|---|
| scene | Where it happens: location, time of day, weather, mood of the space. |
| action | What visibly happens during the clip. Describe motion the camera can see, not internal states. |
| camera | Shot framing and movement. One movement per clip reads best on every current model. |
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