Someone switches on a kettle. They put a tea bag in a cup, and in the next shot they’re pouring hot water. The tea bag helps, but it doesn’t solve the whole problem: that action takes a few seconds, not long enough for the kettle to boil.

For a short scene planned with Wan 3.0, I’d make the jump in time clear instead of trying to fill every second. Show the switch being pressed and the cup being prepared. Then cut to a later moment: the cup is ready, the person returns to the counter, and the kettle is no longer heating. Only then do they pour.

The scene doesn’t need a clock or a caption saying “a few minutes later.” A change in the person’s position and the kettle’s state can do that work. What matters is that the final shot feels like a new moment, not the next second of the same one.

I’d plan the sequence like this:

The person places the kettle on its base and presses the switch.

They put a tea bag in the cup and step away.

Cut to them returning to the counter after the kettle has finished.

They pour the water.

This is a shot plan, not a guarantee that a generated clip will follow it perfectly. Watch the result all the way through. Does the kettle appear to turn off before the pour? Do the cup and kettle stay in sensible places across the cut? If there’s sound, does the click line up with the switch?

That quick review can catch a jump the prompt didn’t prevent. Use only reference material you have permission to use, and treat the finished scene as storytelling—not a real demonstration of the kettle’s heating time.