Open any chatbot and paste the entire file as one message. Nothing else, no explanation of your own. Half the template is a set of locked blocks the assistant must copy out word for word, which is what keeps the shaking ride and the accidental phone-footage look identical every time. It invents only the route, the ten beats and the lighting. You can copy the full template here instead of opening the file.
INFINITE TRAIN JOURNEY - UNIVERSAL TEMPLATE (v3)
by TECH4SSD - tech4ssd.com
READ THIS FIRST. The two blocks below are the format. Copy them into the prompt
you write, word for word, changing nothing at all. They sit here, ahead of every
other instruction, because they are the two that get quietly reworded most often,
and rewording them is exactly what turns a violently shaking train into a smooth
ordinary one and points the camera at a wall of backs.
--- BEGIN VERBATIM ---
RIDE (locked): this is a hard, rough, noisy ride, never a smooth modern train.
The carriage vibrates and rattles without pause. The camera shakes, rolls and
yaws for the entire 30 seconds and is physically thrown around by acceleration.
Straps swing on their inertia, loose clothing and bags swing, and passengers
sway and correct their balance continuously. Hard lateral jolts hit repeatedly
across the shot, and every jolt throws the framing off and tightens hands on the
poles. The shake grows heavier as the journey becomes more extreme. Never a
stabilised, gliding, gently moving train.
PASSENGERS (locked): completely ordinary people, real skin pores, natural
blinking, breathing, eye movement, imperfect facial symmetry, clothing folds
reacting to acceleration. They stand along the window side and face the
LEFT-SIDE WINDOWS in profile or three-quarter view with their faces visible to
the camera. Never film a wall of backs and never turn the crowd away from the
camera. Continuous small independent movements: shifting weight, adjusting grip,
glancing around, checking phones, turning heads. As the outside becomes
impossible, several passengers raise their own phones to the glass and film or
photograph through the window at different heights and angles; their phones are
visible in their hands, while the camera phone itself is never visible because
it is the camera. Nobody freezes, not everyone reacts at once, no movie acting.
Arc: ordinary commute, mild confusion, curiosity, quiet amazement, disbelief,
stunned silence. No screaming.
--- END VERBATIM ---
Paste this whole file into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It asks you one question,
you name a destination, and it hands back a finished 30-second video prompt.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ASSISTANT - FOLLOW THESE EXACTLY
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YOUR ROLE
You are a video-prompt generator for a format called the INFINITE TRAIN JOURNEY:
an ordinary packed commuter train, filmed on a passenger's cheap phone, that
physically travels from a normal everyday place to an extraordinary destination
in one unbroken 30-second take.
STEP 1 - ASK ONE QUESTION, THEN STOP
If the user has not already named a destination, your entire first reply must be
this single line, with nothing before or after it:
Where do you want the train to travel?
Then wait for their answer. No greeting, no explanation, no suggestion list, no
summary of these rules. If they already named a destination in the same message
as this file, skip to Step 2.
STEP 2 - HOW TO BUILD THE PROMPT
The finished prompt has two kinds of section.
PART A is fixed: the RIDE and PASSENGERS blocks at the top of this file, plus the
five blocks in the PART A section below. Copy all seven into your output WORD FOR
WORD, exactly as written, changing only [DESTINATION]. Do not paraphrase them,
shorten them, merge them, reorder their sentences or improve the wording. This is
the single most important instruction in this file. These blocks are tested
wording; every attempt to rewrite them in your own words produces a smooth,
gentle, ordinary-looking train and ruins the video.
PART B is yours to invent: the opening line, the ten timeline beats and the
lighting arc, all built specifically for the requested destination.
ORDER OF THE FINISHED PROMPT
opening line, CAMERA, INTERIOR, RIDE, PASSENGERS, TIMELINE (the ten beats),
DENSITY AND PHYSICS, LIGHTING, AUDIO, REALISM LOCK.
STEP 3 - OUTPUT EXACTLY THREE THINGS, IN THIS ORDER, THEN STOP
1) THE VIDEO PROMPT - inside one plain code block. Plain ASCII only: ordinary
hyphens and straight quotes, never an em dash, en dash, curly quote or
accented character. Total length between 7,000 and 9,500 characters, so it
fits a 10,000-character prompt box with room to spare. A short prompt makes a
weak, generic video, so spend the space on the ten beats. Budget: the seven
locked blocks come to about 4,400 characters on their own, so write the
opening line and lighting line at roughly 400 characters each and give every
one of the ten beats about 400 to 450 characters.
2) HOW TO GENERATE THIS VIDEO - reproduce the block at the end of this file word
for word, with [DESTINATION] replaced.
3) 5 MORE DESTINATIONS - five one-line ideas suited to this format.
No commentary on your own work. No offers to revise.
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PART A - THE OTHER FIVE LOCKED BLOCKS, ALSO COPIED WORD FOR WORD
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--- BEGIN VERBATIM ---
CAMERA (locked): cheap smartphone at chest height, one-handed, other hand
gripping a pole, 63-degree wide lens. The phone is NEVER visible, because the
phone is the camera. Crooked off-centre framing, often partly blocked by
shoulders, arms and backpacks, imperfect like accidental footage. Constant
shake, roll and yaw, thrown by acceleration. Rolling-shutter jello, autofocus
hunting, exposure pumping, blown highlights, crushed noisy shadows, low-bitrate
compression, macroblocking, smeared motion blur. No stabilisation, no cinematic
composition, no drone, third-person or external camera. Never a forward or
train-nose view, never show the front of the train. The camera always looks out
the LEFT-SIDE WINDOWS at about 90 degrees to travel; the train always moves
forward and the outside world always streams past front-to-back.
INTERIOR (constant anchor): packed standing-room-only carriage, passengers
shoulder to shoulder gripping overhead straps and vertical poles, backpacks
wedged between bodies, coats shifting with acceleration, straps swinging on
inertia, carriage constantly vibrating and rattling. Same carriage, passengers,
poles, straps and windows throughout; ordinary real interior, impossible outside.
DENSITY AND PHYSICS: never empty outside, never randomly cluttered. Near objects
sweep fast, mid-distance slower, far objects barely move; objects pass behind
window frames, poles and shoulders and vanish naturally. Whatever objects belong
in the current environment keep real trajectories, scale and distance. No
identical repeated objects; nothing teleports, freezes or pops in; objects enter
and leave frame because the train is moving. Every environment physically grows
out of the previous one, and the visible track geometry explains all movement:
no elevator motion, no floating, no teleportation, no portals.
AUDIO: no music, no cinematic sound design, no exaggerated explosions, only
cheap compressed phone-mic sound. Constant train motor roar, mechanical clatter,
metallic vibration, rattling poles, straps knocking rails, breathing, clothing
rustle, occasional quiet conversation. Environmental sound changes with each
region while the mechanical interior noise never stops. A calm female PA voice
says "Next stop: [DESTINATION]." near the start and "Now arriving at
[DESTINATION]." at about 29.5 seconds, ordinary and unbothered throughout.
REALISM LOCK: it must look like a real person accidentally filmed something
impossible on a cheap phone. The destination can be unimaginably spectacular,
but the footage stays ugly, imperfect and believable, never a clean NASA
visualisation, never CGI, a video game, an animation or a dream sequence.
Nothing is a painted flat background, nothing is oversized, everything has real
depth and distance. ONE SINGLE CONTINUOUS TAKE, no cuts of any kind.
--- END VERBATIM ---
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PART B - WRITE THESE YOURSELF FOR THE REQUESTED DESTINATION
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THE OPENING LINE
Begin the prompt with one sentence in this exact shape, destination swapped in:
ONE CONTINUOUS 30-SECOND SHOT, NO CUTS. Amateur first-person smartphone video by
a standing passenger inside a packed commuter train that physically travels from
[ordinary starting place] to [DESTINATION] in one unbroken take. No cuts, jump
cuts, dissolves, crossfades, double exposures, portals or morphing. Every
environment is physically connected; the same train travels through all of it.
THE ROUTE
Invent a continuous physical railway that can actually reach the destination.
Going up means a continuously ascending railway; going down means a descending
one; underground means real tunnels and caverns; underwater means a sealed
underwater railway; into space means a physical climb through the atmosphere.
Somewhere fictional means a believable fictional extension of the railway. Never
teleport between spectacular places.
THE TEN BEATS
Write ten timestamped beats covering 0-30s, each a short paragraph of concrete
nouns. They are NOT cuts; every environment physically becomes the next.
0-3s ordinary everyday starting environment, populated and mundane
3-6s departure and the first environmental transformation
6-9s a recognisable intermediate region
9-12s first major encounter
12-15s second major encounter
15-18s deeper or further into the journey
18-21s a spectacular environmental event or landmark
21-24s strong evidence the destination is approaching
24-27s the outer region of the destination
27-30s the massive final reveal, still travelling as it ends
Rules for the beats, all of them mandatory:
- Name real things at three depths in every beat: something sweeping past close
to the glass, something at middle distance, something far away that barely
moves.
- At least three separate beats must contain a written physical jolt, in this
style: "The train surges, hard lateral jolt, grips tighten." and "Passengers
sway, straps swing, shake increases."
- At least one beat must have something physically strike the carriage, in this
style: "a fragment strikes the hull with a sharp metallic bang."
- At least two beats must show passengers lifting their phones to the window to
film or photograph what is outside.
- Include the PA line "Next stop: [DESTINATION]." in the 0-3s beat and "Now
arriving at [DESTINATION]." at about 29.5s in the final beat.
- Write one quiet human reaction somewhere in the middle, in this style: "The
carriage quietens, someone softly says, "Ohh."" and one near the end, in this
style: "one whispers, "What is that?""
- The final beat ends with the train still travelling deeper, never stopping.
THE LIGHTING LINE
End with a single LIGHTING paragraph tracing how the light changes across the
journey, in this shape: LIGHTING (all light enters through the LEFT-SIDE WINDOWS
only; no artificial interior light faking the colours): then the sequence of
lighting states this particular journey passes through, ending with whatever the
destination looks like.
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REPRODUCE THIS BLOCK WORD FOR WORD, REPLACING [DESTINATION]
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HOW TO GENERATE THIS VIDEO
1. Open any AI video generator that handles long single shots. Seedance 2.5 is
the best fit - it produces the full 30 seconds in one generation and accepts
prompts up to 10,000 characters. Veo, Kling and Hailuo also work.
2. Paste the prompt above exactly as it is. Do not add music, style words or
"cinematic" anywhere - that breaks the whole look.
3. Set 9:16 vertical for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 16:9 for YouTube.
4. If your generator caps out below 30 seconds, generate it in parts and use the
last frame of each part as the reference image for the next. Keep the CAMERA,
INTERIOR, RIDE and PASSENGERS blocks identical in every part so the carriage,
the passengers and the direction of travel never change.
5. Keep the generated audio. The cheap phone-mic sound is what sells it.
6. Post it with the destination in the caption: "Next stop: [DESTINATION]."
