Footsteps Beside the Bed

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MAKE IT YOUR OWN
The prompt behind the perspective.

Adapt the subject, keep the camera. These reusable prompts are based on the examples; your results will vary.
REFERENCE INPUT
The attached character sheet is the identity and original clothing reference for the main subject. Depict that same person once, preserving their face, apparent age, hairstyle, proportions, clothing, footwear, and accessories wherever visible. The scene determines their pose and expression. Do not reproduce the sheet's three-person layout, white background, studio lighting, or color treatment. A hidden face stays hidden and a distant figure stays small.

Create one photorealistic 16:9 cinematic film still, edge to edge.

SUBJECT
Choose the main subject's appearance and clothing, or optionally attach an identity reference. When a reference is supplied, preserve that person's identity and original outfit without copying its background or layout. The scene and camera placement below take priority over showing facial detail.

SCENE AND CAMERA
Hide the camera beneath a low wooden bed in a dark bedroom at night. Set the lens 3 cm above worn floorboards, about 70 cm inside the bed's edge, looking horizontally outward with an 18mm rectilinear wide lens. The black underside of the bed fills the upper half of the frame; a heavy bed rail and a hanging blanket edge form a low horizontal viewing slot. The perspective must feel physically trapped beneath the bed.

Beyond the slot, show only the subject's feet or footwear, the lowest visible part of their clothing, and one lowered hand gripping a sledgehammer's wooden handle. No face, torso, upper arm, or full standing figure is visible. The person is bent slightly at the waist outside the bed, placing the gripping hand about 15 cm above the floor so it can be seen through the low opening. The hand holds the handle close to the heavy steel head; the rest of the handle angles upward behind the bed rail and disappears. The entire metal head rests flat on the wooden floor beside the nearer foot, with clear weight, contact shadow, and a faint scuff. It is not lifted or swinging.

Preserve the reference footwear and visible clothing when supplied. Without a reference, worn boots are one possible wardrobe choice. An open bedroom door stands behind the person, its upper portion hidden by the bed. A narrow strip of warm hallway light crosses the floor between the feet and catches the steel head. Cool weak window spill gives the floorboards just enough detail. Focus on the hand, feet or footwear, and hammer head; the closest dust and splinters soften. Hold the room in deep shadow. No second person, visible hiding body, blood, or extra limbs.

Photographic take 02: make a fresh photograph of this same scene, with a small natural variation in posture or expression where visible and subtle differences in framing within the specified viewpoint. Preserve the required action, occlusion, prop placement, subject scale, and lighting.

COLOR GRADE
Apply a rich, naturalistic cinematic grade: deep steel-to-slate blues, luminous golden accents, grounded olive greens and warm stone neutrals where those colors occur. Preserve the scene's light sources and time of day, natural skin tones and recognizable garment colors. Keep firm contrast, deep readable blacks, detailed midtones, controlled bright highlights and crisp photographic texture. Use only subtle grain. Avoid washed blacks, artificial teal-orange separation, excessive HDR, plastic skin, heavy grain, broad bloom and diffusion haze.

IMAGE CONSTRAINTS
No writing, letters, numbers, signage, branding, logos, labels, watermarks or captions anywhere in the image. Keep relevant surfaces plain and unlettered. One separate photograph only; no border, montage, split screen or contact sheet.
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