Stylized · Veo 3 / 3.1 · JSON prompt
three kids in sleeping bags in a wood-paneled living room, one aims a flashlight at the camcorder and waves; static tears across the frame.
{
"subject": "three kids in sleeping bags in a wood-paneled living room",
"action": "one aims a flashlight at the camcorder and waves; static tears across the frame",
"scene": "late-night 1980s living room, CRT TV glowing with a paused game",
"shot": {
"composition": "medium wide",
"camera_motion": "wobbly handheld camcorder",
"lens": "consumer camcorder zoom"
},
"lighting": "TV glow and one warm table lamp, heavy shadows",
"style": "1980s VHS home video: tracking lines, chroma bleed, timestamp corner",
"audio": {
"sfx": "tape hiss, muffled giggles, CRT hum",
"music": ""
},
"color_palette": "faded magenta, phosphor green, brown",
"negative_prompt": "modern devices, clean digital look, text other than timestamp"
}Generate with this prompt →Period authenticity is a checklist of artifacts, not a vibe: 'tracking lines, chroma bleed, timestamp corner' each name a specific defect the model can reproduce. The wobbly handheld camcorder motion and TV-glow lighting complete the 1988 illusion. Note the negative prompt allows 'text' only as the timestamp — otherwise the model adds modern captions and breaks the era.
Paste the JSON straight into Veo 3 or 3.1, or hit Copy as prose for the flattened sentence version — both work, JSON just keeps the fields easy to tweak. To change the look, re-roll one field at a time (swap the camera_motion or lighting and keep everything else fixed). Want a different subject in the same style? Open it in the Veo 3 prompt generator and edit the fields.
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