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Softer and more human than the ring light, and the offset framing leaves room for on-screen text without covering the face.
The recipe
The shot never describes the person. It describes what is happening to them, which is what keeps the face out of the variables.
Getting it right
Composed
The locked line comes from the character sheet; everything after it comes from the recipe above. Swap in your own line and nothing else changes.
Midjourney
Vertical video of a man, late forties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a cleft chin, buzzed tightly coiled salt-and-pepper hair, deep brown skin, sun-weathered with fine lines, tall with an average build. Wearing technical athleisure, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a bare studio with a seamless backdrop, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Chest up, offset to the right third, camera at eye height. Daylight from camera left, speaking to camera, occasional glance away and back on the turn of a sentence. A little of the room visible on the right, shallow depth, static camera --ar 16:9 --style raw --seed 3774038466 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
Vertical video of a man, late forties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a cleft chin, buzzed tightly coiled salt-and-pepper hair, deep brown skin, sun-weathered with fine lines, tall with an average build. Wearing technical athleisure, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a bare studio with a seamless backdrop, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Chest up, offset to the right third, camera at eye height. Daylight from camera left, speaking to camera, occasional glance away and back on the turn of a sentence. A little of the room visible on the right, shallow depth, static camera negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, smooth chin, youthified skin, wrinkle removal, de-aged face seed: 3774038466 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
Vertical video of a man, late forties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a cleft chin, buzzed tightly coiled salt-and-pepper hair, deep brown skin, sun-weathered with fine lines, tall with an average build. Wearing technical athleisure, an earth-tone palette of clay, moss and rust, in a bare studio with a seamless backdrop, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Chest up, offset to the right third, camera at eye height. Daylight from camera left, speaking to camera, occasional glance away and back on the turn of a sentence. A little of the room visible on the right, shallow depth, static camera Keep identical: a man, late forties, East African features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a cleft chin, buzzed tightly coiled salt-and-pepper hair, deep brown skin, sun-weathered with fine lines, tall with an average build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
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