Identity: the face, skin, body and hair are the subject's own and never change. Where a hairstyle is described below, style the subject's own hair into it; never change the hair's colour, length or texture. Apply only the outfit, makeup, hairstyling, pose and setting described below.
Create a cinematic period interior portrait.
Subject: the subject reclined in an armchair, from the thighs up. Makeup applied to the subject's own face: a subtle winged liner, a
dark red matte lip. Long ornate gold drop earrings. The subject wears a cream silk blouse with full
gathered sleeves, a high collar and a deep pleated placket opening at the chest, tucked into a
high-waisted black skirt.
Action: sitting back into the chair with the subject's weight settled to the subject's right, shoulders open and
turned 15 degrees to the subject's left, the subject's right arm resting along the chair's arm and the subject's left arm laid
across the chair back. Head turned back to camera, chin slightly lowered, direct steady gaze into
the lens, lips closed and neutral.
Setting: an ornate period room. Carved wood panelling with gilded moulding fills the wall behind
the subject, patterned wallpaper and two gilt-framed pictures hang on the wall to the left, and the subject sits
in an armchair upholstered in a figured red and gold fabric. A polished round wooden table edge
crosses the lower quarter of the frame in soft focus.
Visual style: photoreal cinematic film photography, warm amber and deep brown palette, soft
atmospheric haze visible in the air, heavy film grain, lifted low contrast in the shadows, slight
lens softness.
Composition: vertical frame, camera at seated eye level and slightly low, subject centred, the
panelled wall filling the upper right, the framed pictures at the upper left, the table edge
crossing the lower quarter out of focus.
Lighting: a single warm low sun from the front left raking across the subject's face and blouse and
throwing a hard angular shadow shape across the panelling behind the subject, strong falloff into deep
shadow at the frame edges, the beam catching and glowing in the haze.
Text inside: none — picture content on the walls stays indistinct.
Constraints: never sit the subject upright or lean the subject forward, never lower or fold the arms into the subject's lap,
never look away from the lens, never smile or part the lips, never clear the atmospheric haze,
never soften or remove the hard shadow shape on the wall behind, never flatten the warm palette to
neutral or cool, never brighten the frame corners, never add people, modern objects or a second
light source, never change the subject's face, skin or body, and never change the colour, length or texture of the subject's hair — style it only as described.
Output: 9:16 vertical.
