The present disclosure provides a video generation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: playing a first video for prompting a video taking style on a video taking page in the form of a floating window, wherein the video taking page presents a taken image preview region for presenting a taken image in preview and a video taking control; recording, in response to a triggering operation on the video taking control, the taken image in the taken image preview region to generate a second video, wherein the second video and the first video have a same style. In this way, the second video is taken by playing, on the video taking page, the first video used for prompting the video taking style, so that an ordinary user can be guided to take a high-quality video, and the video taking experience of the user is improved.