Prompt
· English
Shot through a window pane with raindrops and faint reflections on the glass, a 25-year-old man movie director leans against a neon-lit diner counter, looking exhausted. He has a startled expression with shoulders jerked up and eyes wide, revealing light olive skin, an oval face, deep blue eyes, and thick straight eyebrows. His fine pin-straight hair is dyed cherry red, slicked straight back and ear-length, with a small line tattoo on the side of his neck and a short neatly trimmed beard. He wears denim overalls over a mustard turtleneck, fitting his lean wiry, very tall build. He holds a VHS tape in one hand. The 1990s-style set includes a faded poster for a 1994 movie on the wall, a glass of cola with a straw sweating on the counter, and a tangled mess of XLR cables coiled near his shoes. The instant film camera captures a small square frame with soft colors and a slight vignette. Split light from one side only illuminates one half of every face and object, leaving the other in shadow. A blurred object sits close to the lens in the foreground, keeping the main figure sharp in the middle distance. Shot on an instant film camera with characteristic soft focus, color shift, and square crop.
