30 AI Video Genres and the Prompt Structure Each One Needs

The seven-block structure stays constant across every genre. What changes is which blocks carry the weight. Horror lives on lighting; nature lives on lens and patience; music video lives on grade and rhythm.

Knowing where the emphasis goes is most of the craft. Here's a tour across 30 genres.

Atmosphere-driven genres

Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk leans on neon lighting and cyberpunk grades. Horror & Thriller leans on the unseen — static cameras, eerie light, negative space. Dreams & Surrealism leans on impossible combinations and muted pastels. Fantasy & Dark Epic leans on scale and volumetric light.

Movement-driven genres

Sports & Action leans on FPV dives and handheld tracking. Dance & Movement leans on camera rhythm matching body rhythm. Carnival & Spectacle leans on chaotic energy and saturated grades. Nightlife leans on neon, movement and grain.

Lens-and-patience genres

Nature & Documentary leans on macro and telephoto lenses and slow movement. Ocean & Maritime leans on god rays and underwater lensing. Architecture leans on symmetry and wide lenses. Food & Gastronomy leans on macro and shallow depth of field.

Character and style genres

Romance & Drama leans on 85mm portraits and soft light; Social Reality and Voice & Storytelling on documentary intimacy; Medicine on clean clinical light. And the style-forward set — Anime & Manga, Pop & Music Video, Fashion, Retro & Vintage, Underground Music, AI & Future, Invisible World, Climate Hope, Ancient Mythology, Myth & Creatures, Street & Urban, Wellness & Spiritual, Stadiums & Arenas, Film & TV BTS — each bends the structure toward its signature element, usually the grade.

Same seven blocks, every genre.
The genre just decides which block carries the weight.

See all 30 side by side

A genre-organized library teaches the pattern: browse the horror section and you absorb how horror uses light. The organization is itself the lesson.