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🎬 Behind the Scenes: How I Made This Wild VEO Video! 🦍😂

Hey friends! 👋

You just watched that hilarious 7-second cinematic clip with our two jungle comedians — and YES, it was made using Google VEO 3 with just one prompt. Here's how I did it… and how you can too. 👇

🧠 The Magic Prompt:
"7-second cinematic, selfie-style, medium shot, giving a unique perspective. The location is a wooded trail path, on a summer's day, highly detailed, with large trees, mountains in the background, grass, stones and rocks on the ground.
A Silverback Gorilla, wearing black hiking shorts, white T-shirt, is holding the GoPro stick in his hand, giving the audience a view from the camera. He is about to tell a joke. Standing next to him is a brown ape, wearing blue shorts, yellow t-shirt and gold aviator sunglasses.
The Silverback Gorilla in a booming, male American accent asks: 'What is it called, when a chameleon can't change colors?'
We get a pause, then the Silverback Gorilla delivers the punchline: 'A reptile dysfunction.'
The brown ape laughs like he's heard the best joke ever."

🧩 Why This Prompt Works:
✅ Cinematic style + camera type + framing — “7-second cinematic, selfie-style, medium shot” tells VEO how to shoot the video.

✅ Setting the vibe — “wooded trail path, summer’s day, mountains, rocks, trees” gives detailed environmental context.

✅ Character design — Describing the Silverback and brown ape with their clothes, accessories, and posture sets a clear visual image.

✅ Action + dialogue — Including the joke setup and punchline, and even how the characters react, creates a full story arc in just 7 seconds.

🔧 Make It Your Own - Here's how to remix it:

🎥 Change the scene: Forest, beach, city street, alien planet — go wild!

🦍 Switch characters: Use animals, robots, pirates, astronauts… or YOU!

🎤 New jokes or messages: Have them say something funny, inspiring, or mysterious.

🧥 Style them out: Clothes, props, accessories = personality!

🚫 When VEO 3 Said “No” to the Joke:

So here’s a funny twist... apparently VEO 3 didn’t like the punchline! 😅
It refused to add the audio on 3 attempts and probably flagged the line “King Dong” or maybe "12 Inch Sausage" as a little too cheeky for their Terms & Conditions - TBH it was just a dad joke.

Rather than burn through even more video generation credits trying to sneak it past the filter, I pivoted. 🔄

🛠️ The Workaround: ElevenLabs to the Rescue

I took the clean, voiceless video from VEO and added the dialogue myself using a free trial on ElevenLabs.
💬 It let me generate that booming American voice for the gorilla and the hilarious laugh for the ape.

✅ Was it perfect? Nope
🎯 Was it good enough if you're still learning? Absolutely!

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