Example result: AI street interview (vox pop)
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AI street interview (vox pop) video prompt

This prompt describes a handheld street-interview video in a city you choose: a reporter holds a microphone toward a person and asks your question, and the person laughs and answers naturally, with a realistic crowd, daylight and light street noise.

video-street-interview — veo — 68 words

Handheld street-interview video on a busy [CITY, e.g. Bengaluru] street during the day. A reporter holds a microphone toward a [PERSON, e.g. college student in a denim jacket] and asks: "[QUESTION, e.g. What's one thing AI can never replace?]"

The person laughs and answers naturally: "[ANSWER]"

Realistic crowd and traffic in the background, natural daylight, slight handheld shake, clear dialogue over light street ambience. Vertical 9:16, 8 seconds.

Put spoken lines in quotes — Veo 3.1 lip-syncs quoted dialogue.

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What you will get

A vertical 8-second handheld clip of a reporter and a passer-by on a busy street, with the person laughing and answering your line over natural traffic and crowd sound.

Common mistake

The words come out wrong, or the lips do not match them.

Fix: Keep each spoken line short, under about 12 words, and inside quotes. Veo lip-syncs quoted lines best.

Other ways it goes wrong
  • The background crowd looks repeated or strangely empty. Name street details: “auto-rickshaws, a tea stall, a bus passing”. Specific objects give the crowd variety.
  • The microphone shows an unreadable logo. Add “a plain black microphone with no logo”. Writing on small objects often comes out as gibberish.
  • The answer does not fit in eight seconds. Time yourself reading both lines aloud. If they take more than six seconds, shorten them: the clip also needs room for the laugh and the street sound.
Try a variation: your own street

Swap the city and the person for your own setting, such as “Jaipur bazaar” and “shopkeeper in a turban”, and change the question to one your followers would want to answer.

Still not right? Add this and run it again

Clear audio. The person speaks slowly and their lips match the words exactly.

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