TL;DR: Amateur AI clips come from underspecified prompts. Name the camera move, the lens, the light and the grade, and the model stops guessing. The order that works: subject, setting, action, camera, lens, lighting, mood, film-look, then the technical flags.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/dineshstack/cinematic-ai-video-prompts-a-step-by-step-formula-4nfc)