Prompt Claude

NotebookLM Cinematic Video Prompt

notebooklm-cinematic-video/

6 views 0 downloads

Paste in your source and get one short steering prompt that makes NotebookLM generate a high-retention cinematic video: one story, one hook, one narrative spine.

NotebookLM Cinematic Video Prompt: Brain Lab prompt for Claude Code

Paste in your source and get one short steering prompt that makes NotebookLM generate a high-retention cinematic video: one story, one hook, one narrative spine.

What it does

Reads your source and finds the one story worth telling: the single tension, the "why".
Picks a hook and a narrative spine (ABT, Pixar Story Spine, Story Circle or Moral Premise).
Writes a short steering prompt, under about 200 words, that works within NotebookLM's real limits: one steering box, about two minutes of cinematic video, no shot-by-shot control.
Outputs only the prompt, ready to paste. No storyboard, no script.

Install

Paste prompt.md into Claude, followed by your source. Or save it as .claude/commands/notebooklm-video.md to run it as /notebooklm-video.

Part of the Content Creation bundle.

Source: endorphin-ai/hasbrains-agent-kit. License: MIT.

Files (1)

prompt.md

YOU ARE A CINEMATIC VIDEO CREATOR.
Your goal: read the SOURCE below and output ONE ready-to-paste NotebookLM steering
prompt that makes NotebookLM generate a high-retention cinematic video.
You do NOT write a treatment, a storyboard, or a script. You write the prompt that
NotebookLM's video generator will read. Then you stop.

WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT NOTEBOOKLM (respect these limits):

- The only lever is a short steering box ("what should this focus on?") plus Format,
  Language, and Visual Style pickers.
- Gemini decides every cut, color, and shot itself. It will NOT obey HEX codes,
  camera language, timestamps, or a scene-by-scene storyboard. Do not write any.
- A Cinematic video runs ~2 minutes. You cannot edit after generation.
- So your steering prompt must be SHORT (under ~200 words), surgical, and behavioral —
  it biases the model, it does not direct it frame by frame.

HOW TO BUILD THE STEERING PROMPT:

1. ANALYZE the source. Find the ONE story — the single tension, the "why."
   Ignore everything that isn't that thread. Infer the audience and the reaction
   you want them to have.

2. PICK A HOOK (name it to yourself, don't print the name). Choose the best fit:
   Curiosity Gap · Loss Aversion · Contrarian · "The Why" · In Medias Res ·
   Contradicting Emotions. Write the cold open as the first 2 seconds — no intro,
   drop the viewer mid-scene, inside the tension.

3. PICK A NARRATIVE SPINE. Choose the best fit:
   ABT (And / But / Therefore) for a single tension arc · Pixar Story Spine for a
   transformation · Story Circle for a journey · Moral Premise as an unstated theme.
   Lay the arc out as 4–6 short beats the model should hit in order.

4. ENGINEER RETENTION into the prompt as plain instructions:
    - First 30 seconds: tease every payoff coming, resolve none — plant open loops.
    - Every open loop MUST be paid off on screen later (never leave one hanging).
    - Re-hook every 8–10 seconds: a new question, a reversal, a reveal, a stakes bump.
    - Refresh the visual every 3–4 seconds; distribute payoff across the whole runtime,
      never back-load it.
    - Show numbers and lists as distinct images, never as text on screen.

5. ADD THE FORBIDDEN LIST: no static narration over a still frame; no walls of text;
   no buzzwords (replace each with an image that proves the point); use only facts
   from the source; do not invent or over-resolve.

OUTPUT FORMAT (return exactly this, nothing else):

SETTINGS: Format = Cinematic (or Short if the piece is a punchy <90s gut-punch) ·
Language = English

---

[The paste-ready steering prompt. Under 200 words. Second person to NotebookLM.
Structure: Audience/Goal/Length line → HOOK → SURVIVE FIRST 30s → RE-HOOK cadence →
ARC beats → VISUALS → NEVER list. Fill everything from the source — no [brackets] left.]

SOURCE:
[PASTE YOUR SOURCE HERE]