Chloé Zhao

Detailed

Full Zhao production.

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.

Google · duration 8s · 720p, 1080p, or 4K · audio native · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit

{
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "Chloé Zhao",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

{
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "natural-light intimacy, handheld lyricism, golden-hour landscapes, quiet observational realism",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

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.

Kuaishou · duration provider-dependent, commonly up to 15s · 1080p HD; native 4K modes advertised by Kling · audio native sound generation · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "Chloé Zhao",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "natural-light intimacy, handheld lyricism, golden-hour landscapes, quiet observational realism",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

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.

ByteDance · duration provider-dependent · 720p/1080p; some hosts expose 4K tiers · audio native synchronized audio on supported hosts · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit

{
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "Chloé Zhao",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

{
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "natural-light intimacy, handheld lyricism, golden-hour landscapes, quiet observational realism",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "audio": {
    "music": "minimal ambient"
  }
}

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.

Alibaba · duration workflow-dependent · 720p open-weights TI2V · audio none in base text/image-to-video pipeline · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "Chloé Zhao",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  }
}

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "natural-light intimacy, handheld lyricism, golden-hour landscapes, quiet observational realism",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  }
}

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.

Runway · duration 2-10s · 720p; aspect-ratio-specific pixel sizes · audio none in video generation · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "Chloé Zhao",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  }
}

{
  "action": {
    "emotion": "authentic connection"
  },
  "camera": {
    "distance": "wide landscape shots",
    "movement": "handheld intimacy"
  },
  "scene": {
    "mood": "contemplative"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "type": "golden hour natural"
  },
  "style": {
    "aesthetic": "intimate realism",
    "influences": "natural-light intimacy, handheld lyricism, golden-hour landscapes, quiet observational realism",
    "tone": "melancholic beauty",
    "color_palette": "earth tones"
  }
}

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).

Veo 3.1 — free in Gemini ↗Veo 3.1 — Google Flow ↗Kling 3.0 — official app ↗Higgsfield — Kling, Seedance & Wan ↗fal.ai — API playground ↗Seedance 2.0 — Dreamina ↗Runway Gen-4.5 ↗

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.
lighting	Light source, quality and shadow behavior. The single highest-leverage block for realism.
style	Aesthetic direction: film stock, color palette, references, tone.
audio	Dialogue, ambient sound and music. Only Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 render audio natively.

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Standard

Classic Zhao style