This piece from Exposed Magazine offers guidance on using AI video generation tools, specifically MakeShot, to construct a simple visual comedy scene: a grand silver serving dome being lifted to reveal just a single pea. It argues that the humour relies entirely on setting up a convincing sense of expectation before the anticlimactic reveal, meaning the creative choices made in the prompt matter more than the AI tool's technical capabilities. This matters as a practical illustration of how deliberate creative direction, rather than the software itself, determines whether AI-generated content actually lands as intended.

The article breaks the process into two stages: establishing a plausible, formal setting (clean tablecloth, centred platter, heavy dome) so the pea's smallness reads as a deliberate disappointment rather than random strangeness, and then generating the reveal itself, ideally as a single, simply described event rather than a cluttered multi-action prompt. It recommends checking framing at the eventual viewing size, using image-to-video from a prepared still where useful, and reviewing generated clips carefully for distortions, such as the pea changing size or shape, that could undermine the joke.