Vertical Social Hook Shot
Prompt Creek
Created August 21, 2026 · Updated August 22, 2026
Description
A vertical scroll-stopping opening shot with a spoken hook, designed as the first three seconds of a Reel, Short or TikTok.
Instructions
Hook shots have exactly one job, which is stopping the scroll inside the first second, so the movement has to be underway before the clip starts rather than building into it. Set aspect ratio to 9:16. Negative prompt (a Vertex AI parameter, written as plain nouns): subtitles, captions, text overlay, watermark, distorted face, extra limbs. Add your own captions in CapCut or your editor afterwards rather than letting Veo render them — generated on-screen text is unreliable and usually misspelled, which reads as low-effort to viewers. That parameter is undocumented in the Gemini API, so if you are generating in the Gemini app or Flow you may have no negative field at all — in that case lean on the positive description alone.
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