scene preset · 1 recipe
Fog & Haze
A combined atmosphere design uses a denser local veil and a lighter distance gradient; their spatial roles remain distinct.
Selected recipe
Fog & Haze
This is the default recipe for the Layered Fog and Haze Setup family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Separate the drifting low fog ribbon from the stable distant haze gradient. Preserve a clear near gate, conceal the intended low bank and retain faint upper ridges; never collapse the layers into one overlay.
Fog & Haze: A combined atmosphere design uses a denser local veil and a lighter distance gradient; their spatial roles remain distinct. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Covering the low riverbank while retaining the upper ridge level, creating a multi-layered landscape.
- How it works
- First, it is divided into three belts: near the gate, low riverbank and high and distant mountains, and the density of smog is independently determined./Only let the low fog drift to the left, and the closing action of the character does not drag the prospective air layer.
- Common mistakes
- The near door is also covered with a homogeneous milk-white layer./The distant mountains and the near fog drift away at the same speed.
How to read this page
Fog & Haze is one technique in Atmosphere. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
The clip above is one reading, made with a third-party video model. Another model, or the same model on another day, can land on a different frame. It is an example, not a promise that a prompt will match it.
The free short prompt is a starter sentence. The shot card is the timed recipe: scene, start and end frames, action, light, and color. Three sample cards are free on the site. The rest are part of GrokCine Pro. A second name for the same shot keeps its own URL and points back at this definition.
When you write a prompt, keep the one mechanism in the definition, then name the subject, the motion, and why the light is there. Do not stack a neighboring technique into the same sentence. If the name or the example is wrong, send this page's URL from the contact page.
Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Maintenance worker at a river gate · misty valley
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A maintenance worker stands beside a riverside gate above a misty valley.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
Transylvania, 1893, at dawn: the old sexton closes the iron gate of the hillside cemetery above a misty river valley, glancing toward the ridge where the castle stands.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Fog & Haze is a shot card
The full recipe for Fog & Haze is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
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More in Atmosphere
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Fog
Wikipedia · Web
Visibility under 1 km; objects disappear with distance quickly, far before near.
Images & stills
- The Fog: backlit fog swallows the distance
@OnePerfectShot · 2021-03-18 · X
The Fog (1980, Dean Cundey): backlit fog swallows the distance while near figures stay in silhouette.
- The Lodger: fog as London city atmosphere
@OnePerfectShot · 2020-06-11 · X
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927): fog as city atmosphere; street lamps become haloed points.
- No Film School: turning smoke into thick fog
@nofilmschool · 2017-08-31 · X
How to turn smoke into thick, low-lying fog for a shoot.
- Landscape in the Mist: a low veil over the ground
@OnePerfectShot · 2014-08-29 · X
Landscape in the Mist (1988, Arvanitis): a low ground veil with faint distant layers.
- No Film School: five ways to use fog
@nofilmschool · 2019-04-10 · X
5 ways to use fog: depth, mystery, backlight separation.