Write better Nano Banana Pro prompts for film: a reusable structure, three worked examples (a shot list card, a 3D animation still, a set photo) and tips.
Nano Banana Pro is Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, and it sits next to Nano Banana 2.1 in Cinemagiq's Generation Studio. Use it for the stills a film project runs on: concept art, storyboard frames, character sheets, posters, title cards, and first frames you will animate later. Having two Google models in the same picker is useful in itself. When a frame is not landing on one, run the same prompt on the other before you start rewriting.
This guide covers three kinds of prompt: a designed layout with text, a stylized animation still, and a photographic set.
Nano Banana Pro takes a written prompt plus a few optional inputs:
Write in full sentences, not keyword lists. Open with the medium, describe the content in concrete nouns, then the light and mood. If something must not appear, say so plainly at the end.
[Medium or image type]: [subject or layout] [key details, or the exact text to show], [setting], [light sources and their colors], [mood], [what to leave out].
For a layout, the "key details" slot holds the structure and the words: the columns, the rows, the labels. For a scene, it holds the action and the props.
Made in Cinemagiq. The exact prompt is under each one.
PromptA clean shot list card for a short film scene, designed as a table with the columns Shot, Framing, Camera move and Length, and four rows describing a chase through a fish market: 1 Wide, Static, 3s; 2 Medium, Handheld follow, 4s; 3 Close-up, Whip pan, 2s; 4 Wide, Crane up, 5s. Minimal design, readable text.
PromptStylized 3D animation still: a red fox carrying a small glowing lantern in its mouth walks through a snowy pine forest at night, blue moonlight, warm lantern glow on the snow, soft family-film lighting.
PromptCinematic photo of an empty soundstage: a 35mm film camera on a dolly track, a single spotlight, an empty director's chair, haze in the air, warm tungsten light, no people.
Example 1: a shot list card. This prompt treats the image as a document. It names the format ("designed as a table") and the exact column headings ("Shot, Framing, Camera move and Length"), then spells out all four rows, such as "2 Medium, Handheld follow, 4s". Nothing is left for the model to invent. The closing request, "Minimal design, readable text", tells it the words matter more than decoration.
Example 2: a stylized animation still. The medium comes first, "Stylized 3D animation still:", so the model knows this is not a photo. The light is described by source and color: "blue moonlight, warm lantern glow on the snow". Two named light sources with contrasting colors give the frame a clear lighting plan, and "soft family-film lighting" sets the overall mood.
Example 3: a photographic set. "Cinematic photo of an empty soundstage:" sets both the medium and the location. The rest is a prop list a set dresser could work from: "a 35mm film camera on a dolly track, a single spotlight, an empty director's chair". Atmosphere and light get one phrase each ("haze in the air, warm tungsten light"), and "no people" states the exclusion directly.
{{placeholders}}, for example a shot list card with {{scene}} and {{shots}}.Yes. Nano Banana Pro is Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model. In Cinemagiq you find it in the model picker on the Generation Studio's Image tab, next to Nano Banana 2.1 and the other image models, and it works with the same Camera Angle Control settings.
Describe the layout first (a card, a table, a poster), then write every word you want on it, exactly, and keep each label short. End with a plain request such as 'readable text'. Always proofread the result before it goes into a pitch deck or a production document.
Yes. It works on the Google image models, which includes Nano Banana Pro. Pick a preset such as Low Angle or High Angle, or a camera type such as Top-Down, and it steers the prompt. Check the result, because the angle is guided, not guaranteed.
Up to 6. Choose the references that carry the character, location or look you need, and say in the prompt what each one is for. If a generation needs more than 6 reference images, Nano Banana 2.1 accepts up to 10.
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