Elon Musk Lights a Cigarette With Camera Zoom
A short clip showing Elon Musk lighting a cigarette, with a camera zoom effect applied. The prompt references a social media post and Grok branding, suggesting a meme-style or social media video.
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Clip specifications
| Model | Grok Imagine — xAI |
|---|---|
| Duration | 30s |
| Aspect ratio | 9:16 |
| Camera | zoom |
| Lighting | Not specified |
| Mood | Not specified |
| Difficulty | intermediate |
| Prompt language | English |
| Creator | Alex Patricio (@alexpatricio204) |
What makes this clip work
- CAMERA
- "zoom" is a core cinematic technique for establishing spatial immersion and subject framing.
- DURATION
- At 30s this clip is sized for high temporal coherence — long enough for a motion beat, short enough to stay loopable.
- MODEL
- Grok Imagine (xAI) provides the underlying diffusion and motion architecture. Camera, lighting and duration cues transfer across models — what differs is how literally each model interprets motion.
- PROMPT LANGUAGE
- The prompt is written in English. Every prompt is kept in its original language rather than translated, because the exact words are what was conditioned during generation.
Benchmark methodology is documented in our prompt statistics breakdown.
How to reuse this clip's prompt▾
- Open the full prompt page — the verbatim prompt text lives on the companion prompt page for this clip.
- Copy the text unchanged. Don't paraphrase: the phrasing here is what produced this exact motion and lighting.
- Paste into Grok Imagine with aspect ratio 9:16 and clip length 30s, then generate.
- Remix one variable at a time — swap the camera move or the lighting word, keep the rest, and compare the two renders side by side.
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