Lore

Who/Where/What/Camera/Mood Prompt Structure

Overview

A five-element prompt framework for replacing vague prompts (e.g. "a cinematic scene," "a cool shot") with specific ones. Before writing a prompt, decide:

Then write those five decisions explicitly into the prompt, rather than describing the vibe you want and hoping the model infers the specifics.

Menu-based alternative

Higgsfield's Cinema Studio offers a menu-based shortcut for two of the five elements: pick a camera movement (e.g. handheld, for natural shake — see Handheld Camera Shake as an Emotional Signal) and a genre/mood from a list instead of describing them in text. This gets the same specificity without needing prose.

Related: Brief Image Generation Like a Movie Director, Not a Prompt Engineer applies the same "decide the specifics before prompting" principle to start-frame image generation.