Prompts used in The Kiss

Here are three examples: (Not all of it was necessarily done by hand, because sometimes even the text prompts are generated.) # Promt for Noah (image 1): `Three studio photographs of the same 9-year-old American boy arranged side by side on a flat neutral mid-grey studio backdrop, a film character sheet: full-body front photo on the left, full-body back photo in the middle, close-up portrait photo on the right, the same real boy in all three, consistent across panels. Soft directional cinematic studio lighting from one side, gentle natural shadow falloff, clean neutral cinematic look. The boy: 9 years old, slim, fair skin with light freckles across the nose, warm hazel eyes, tousled sandy light-brown hair, round thin-framed glasses, a gentle open friendly face. He wears a plain royal-blue cotton t-shirt, denim shorts, and white sneakers, consistent in all panels. On the left panel he stands straight facing the camera in a neutral pose, arms relaxed at his sides, full figure head to feet. In the middle panel the same standing pose is seen from behind. On the right panel a close-up head-and-shoulders portrait, calm friendly expression, glasses clearly visible. Palette of 60% soft neutral grey, 30% warm skin and sandy hair tones, 10% royal blue. Shot on Kodak Portra, natural fine grain, true-to-life skin texture, sharp clean focus.` # The promt for his brother is just the same character with some changes (image 2): `Edit the image. CHANGE: - Change the boy's t-shirt from blue to warm red. - Remove the round glasses completely, showing his eyes clearly with clean skin where the frames were. - Change his closed smile to a slight open smile that reveals small metal orthodontic braces on his teeth. - Adjust his hair to match his twin's exactly: the same sandy light-brown golden tone (not auburn or copper), the same longer length, the same soft side-swept style with a gentle flip at the ends. PRESERVE EXACTLY: - The exact same face: same facial structure, same eyes, same nose, same freckle pattern, same eyebrows, same jaw and cheeks — identical boy. - The same age, skin tone, build, and proportions. - The studio backdrop, lighting, shadows, camera angle, framing, color grade, and grain. ONLY CHANGE: shirt color to red, remove glasses, add braces with a slight open smile, and match the hair color/length/style to his twin. This must look like the exact same boy — his identical twin. 100% identical otherwise.` # Living room scene prompt: `SCENE CONTEXT One continuous take carrying us from reality into the game. Jack lowers his VR headset in the warm living room; we slip into his point of view as the real room fades to darkness; a dreamy magical pre-game space blooms with a floating game menu; he selects PLAY; a wormhole of light and color opens and pulls us through into a bright sky-island game world. Reality dissolves into game across one unbroken flow. ACTIVE REFERENCES image_2: 9yo boy, sandy-blond short hair, metal braces, warm-red t-shirt. 100% matches the reference. image_1: 9yo boy, identical twin face, round glasses, royal-blue t-shirt, blue VR headset on. 100% matches the reference. image_4: chunky dimpled red VR headset with black strap. 100% matches the reference. image_3: warm family living room, golden-hour sunset light with dappled window-gobo shadows, grey couch, TV ahead. 100% matches the reference. @SKYWORLD: bright magical sky-island world — floating grass-and-stone islands with glowing crystal undersides and small waterfalls, vast blue sky, sunlit clouds, a glowing golden finish gate high above. 100% matches the reference. LOCATION MAP Beat 1 (reality): over image_2's shoulder on the couch, the warm room and TV beyond him, image_1 to the left with his headset on. Beat 2 (POV): Jack's first-person view of the room and TV. Beat 3 (darkness): black void as the headset covers his eyes. Beat 4 (dream-space): a soft glowing magical pre-game space with a floating menu. Beat 5 (portal): a wormhole tunnel of light opening toward the sky-island world. FIRST FRAME AND SPATIAL BLOCKING The first visible frame is an over-the-shoulder shot from behind image_2's shoulder — the back and side of his head, his hands raising the red headset, the warm living room and TV soft beyond him. No empty establishing frame. FORMAT MODE Single continuous take, ~15 seconds, real-time motion. No hard cuts — each beat flows into the next. OPTICS Begins 50mm over-the-shoulder, shallow depth (Jack sharp, room soft). Shifts to a first-person POV lens for the headset view. Opens to a wide immersive field for the dream-space and wormhole. CAMERA One continuous move: start locked over Jack's shoulder → glide forward INTO his point of view as the headset lowers → hold in the darkness → drift forward into the dream-space toward the floating menu → then rush forward through the wormhole portal toward the sky world. Smooth, motivated, dreamlike acceleration at the end. ACTION TIMING 0:00 BEAT 1 — OTS on image_2: his hands raise the red headset toward his face, warm room and TV visible past him, image_1 to the left already wearing his blue headset. 0:02 BEAT 2 — the camera glides into JACK'S POV: now we see the warm living room and the TV ahead from his eyes, his own hands bringing the headset frame up into view at the edges. 0:03 BEAT 3 — the headset lowers over his eyes: the warm room view is swallowed from the edges inward as the padding seals around, the image darkening to black. A soft low powering-on hum. 0:05 BEAT 4 — out of the darkness a dreamy magical pre-game space blooms: soft floating motes of light, faint drifting clouds, a calm glowing threshold. A stylized game menu fades in — a glowing title and a large softly-pulsing PLAY button floating in the space ahead. 0:08 the view settles on the floating PLAY button, glowing invitingly in the dream-space. 0:10 BEAT 5 — the PLAY button is selected: it flares bright with a soft confirming chime, and a WORMHOLE PORTAL opens ahead — a swirling tunnel of light and color spiraling inward. 0:11 the camera RUSHES forward into the wormhole, streaks of warm light and color rushing past, accelerating through the tunnel. 0:14 the far end of the tunnel opens into bright blue sky — and we BURST OUT into the @SKYWORLD: floating sunlit islands, clouds, the golden finish gate glowing high above. 0:15 FINAL FRAME: emerging into the bright sky-island world, open air and floating islands ahead — ready for the game to begin. PERFORMANCE (acting) image_2 (Beat 1 only): subdued, quiet, the leftover ache from the missed kiss still in him — he puts the headset on a little heavily, without excitement. Small, internal, real. PHYSICS Real plastic weight to the headset and natural hand movement in Beat 1. The POV darkening is a smooth physical seal of the headset padding, not a cut. The dream-space and wormhole move with smooth dreamlike momentum — floaty is correct HERE (this is inside the headset), but coherent and controlled, not chaotic. LIGHTING Beat 1–2: warm golden-hour sunset light with dappled window-gobo shadows, warm and cinematic. Beat 3: to black. Beat 4: soft magical glow, gentle cool-and-gold dream light. Beat 5: bright rushing light of the wormhole, then the brilliant warm daylight of the sky-island world. AUDIO Beat 1: warm room tone, the headset settling, faint distant mother-on-phone. Beat 3: a soft low electronic powering-on hum as the room goes dark. Beat 4: a gentle magical shimmer, a soft UI tone as the menu appears. Beat 5: a confirming chime as PLAY is selected, then a rising whoosh as the wormhole pulls us through, opening into bright airy sky-world ambience. No dialogue. No music, or only a subtle rising tone into the game. POSITIVE CONSTRAINTS One continuous take, no hard cuts — reality flows into the game through Jack's POV. Begins over image_2's shoulder (red shirt, braces) with image_1 to the left (blue headset on), in warm golden-hour gobo light. Moves into Jack's first-person view of the room and TV, then the headset seals to darkness, then a dreamy pre-game space with a floating glowing PLAY button, then a wormhole tunnel of light pulling through into the bright sky-island world. Jack is subdued in the opening beat. The dream-space and game world are original stylized designs, magical and bright — not neon, not scary, no real brand or game references. Ends bursting into the sky-island world. Sharp where real, dreamlike where inside the headset. Stable, coherent picture throughout.` Seems easy ey?