HALLOWEEN AI VIDEO PROMPT 1 OF 4: CANDLELIT PORTRAIT
Source: https://gauravtiwari.org/halloween-ai-video-prompts/

SETTINGS
- Aspect ratio: 9:16 (vertical)
- Length: the shortest option the tool offers for a first try
- Audio: off, or generate it and replace it later with licensed music in Instagram or YouTube
- Change one line at a time when you regenerate

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SCENE 1: CANDLELIT PORTRAIT
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SCENE (image prompt for the starting frame):
Vertical 9:16 photograph of a woman in her 30s with dark curly hair, dressed as a gothic
Victorian widow in a black lace high-necked dress, seated at an old wooden table and
looking calmly into the camera. Chest-up framing with her face in the upper third of the
frame and space above her head. Three lit white candles in brass holders stand on the
table in front of her, the only light source, giving warm flickering light on her face
and soft shadows on a plain dark plaster wall behind her. Shot on a 50mm lens at eye
level, natural skin texture with visible pores, realistic light falloff, true-to-life
colors. Keep the background simple and still. No text, no logos, no other people.

MOTION:
The woman stays seated and keeps looking into the camera. She blinks slowly once and
breathes gently, so her shoulders rise and fall a little. The three candle flames
flicker softly and their warm light moves across her face and the wall. Her hand stays
resting under her chin. Nothing else in the room moves.

CAMERA:
Static camera on a tripod at eye level. No zoom, no pan.

REPAIR:
Keep her face, eyes, hair and expression exactly as they are in the first frame. Keep
exactly three candles. No new people, no text.

WHAT EACH LINE IS DESIGNED TO CONTROL:
- Motion: gives the face one small action, a blink and a breath, and hands the rest of
  the movement to the candle flames, which can flicker freely without changing who she
  is.
- Camera: keeps the frame locked, so the model only has to redraw small areas of the
  image instead of the whole scene.
- Repair line: names the two things a portrait clip usually loses first, the likeness
  and the object count.

WATCH FOR:
The hand under her chin is the riskiest part of this frame. If the fingers start
blending into the jaw, add "her hand stays completely still" to the motion prompt, or
regenerate from a version of the image with the hand lowered.
