PROMPTS.md

# Prompts for the sample videos

Every sample on the model card is a raw single take. All of them ran on
`minimax/h3-max/text-to-video/lora` with these settings:

```json
{
  "loras": [{ "path": "https://huggingface.co/KennethFal/vh5tape-vhs-lora-minimax-h3/resolve/main/vh5tape.safetensors", "scale": 1.0 }],
  "duration": 15,
  "resolution": "480P",
  "aspect_ratio": "4:3",
  "prompt_expansion_mode": "balanced"
}
```

The pattern: **trigger, damage tier, scene** — see the model card for the three
damage-tier phrases.

## cartoon-robot.mp4 (seed 4201)

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. A 1980s Saturday morning cartoon: a boxy silver robot and two kids run through a neon cave, cel animation with bold outlines and flat colors, energetic synth score and zappy sound effects.
```

## news-anchor.mp4 (seed 4205)

```
vh5tape, worn VHS tape recording with visible tape damage. A 1987 evening news broadcast: a serious anchorman with gray hair and a navy suit at a wood-grain news desk, a world map graphic over his shoulder, typewriter news theme, measured broadcast voice.
```

## game-arcade.mp4 (seed 4208)

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. Full-screen footage of a 1980s 8-bit arcade space shooter video game: a pixel spaceship dodging blocky asteroids and firing white pixels, chunky bleeps and bloops, scanline flicker.
```

## movie-horror.mp4 (seed 4211)

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. A 1980s horror movie on a rented tape: fog drifting through a moonlit cemetery as a figure in a raincoat walks between leaning headstones, droning synth bass, distant thunder.
```

## commercial-toy.mp4 (seed 4215)

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. A loud 1980s toy commercial: kids crash action figures together on a plastic mountain playset with spring-loaded missiles, fast zooms, an excited announcer shouting and a rock jingle.
```

## musicvideo.mp4 (seed 4219)

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion. A 1980s synth-pop music video: a band with big hair and shoulder pads plays keytars in neon fog, dramatic backlighting and dutch angles, pulsing synth-pop track.
```

## vh5-commercial.mp4 (seed 8801, **scale 1.5**)

The satirical VH5 spot pushes the LoRA past its trained range: scale 1.5 plus
stacked damage language.

```
vh5tape, badly damaged VHS tape with heavy tracking errors and distortion, the tape is nearly destroyed: constant thick bands of tearing static, the picture repeatedly rolls and collapses, severe color smearing and ghosting, warping and dropouts everywhere, the audio warbles and cuts out. A loud 1980s late-night TV commercial for a brand of blank videotapes called VH5, the world's first pre-worn videotape: a cheesy pitchman with a mustache and a shiny gold suit holds a black VHS cassette up to the camera and shouts excitedly in a wood-paneled electronics showroom stacked with cassette boxes, proudly gesturing at a television whose picture is already ruined with static, a delighted housewife gasps and applauds, starburst price graphics and a phone number banner flash at the bottom of the screen, echoing announcer voice yelling about a limited time offer, cheap synthesizer jingle.
```

## The trailer

The trailer is an edited composite (~50 pieces) of clips generated the same way —
same trigger/tier/scene pattern at 5–15s per clip — cut together with static
channel-flip bumpers and a scored music bed. Its logo animations came from
`ideogram/v4` stills animated via `minimax/h3-max/image-to-video/lora`, and the
"new → old" beat used `minimax/h3/reference-to-video/lora` at **scale 1.5**
(at 1.0 the reference reproduces faithfully but stays clean; 1.5 keeps the
footage and wrecks the tape).