Cinematic 9:16 Composition Master Prompt

Format

Markdown Parameterized

Inputs

reference_sheet (image) · Required scene_specifications (text) · Required

Outputs

cinematic_vertical_image (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

# Cinematic 9:16 Composition Master Prompt

Use the supplied **REFERENCE SHEET** as the master reference for consistent character identity, appearance, and visual continuity across scenes.

For each scene, append directions under these headings:

**SCENE / OUTFIT / POSE / ENVIRONMENT / LIGHTING**

${scene-specifications}

Create a refined vertical **9:16** cinematic image. Apply mathematical and perceptual design principles subtly: the composition must feel natural, photographic, elegant, and visually intuitive—not visibly constructed from formulas.

## Composition

- **Golden-ratio proportions:** Use approximately 1:1.618 proportions as a subtle guide. Place the main focal point near a meaningful golden-ratio region rather than defaulting to the center. Let the face, eyes, hands, accessories, or other storytelling details occupy significant positions. Relate the subject proportionally to the architecture, foreground, middle ground, and background.
- **Fibonacci-inspired flow:** Guide the eye from secondary details toward the primary subject and finally the face or main storytelling element. Use the direction and curvature of hair, fabric, silhouette, limbs, architecture, light, and environmental details to create an organic visual journey, never a literal spiral.
- **Rule of thirds:** Use the vertical frame's thirds intentionally. The face or eyes may sit near the upper third; use the lower third for grounding elements such as clothing, legs, floor, architecture, shadows, or foreground. Reserve other areas for atmosphere, scenery, light, or negative space. Avoid central placement unless the scene calls for symmetry.
- **Geometric balance:** Use subtle triangles, diagonals, verticals, horizontals, curves, arcs, circles, rectangles, and proportional spacing. In portraits, relate the face, shoulders, hands, and posture; in fashion scenes, use the garment silhouette; in architectural scenes, use structural forms. Geometry should support—not compete with—natural anatomy and the subject.
- **Perspective and depth:** Establish believable foreground, middle ground, and background with natural converging lines and vanishing points. Use architecture, floors, roads, corridors, furniture, or other environmental structures to establish depth where appropriate. Keep lens perspective, scale, anatomy, and spatial relationships realistic; avoid distortion.
- **Gestalt organization:** Clearly separate figure and ground through contrast, depth, light, color, texture, or atmosphere. Group related elements; repeat selected forms, materials, textures, or lighting motifs for coherence. Use lines, curves, posture, fabric, architecture, and light to guide the eye. Keep partially obscured forms understandable, and use spaces, shadows, framing, and lighting zones to organize visual elements.

## Visual hierarchy and frame

Maintain this hierarchy:
1. Primary focal point
2. Secondary subject details
3. Supporting compositional elements
4. Environmental details
5. Atmospheric background

Keep the face or primary storytelling element dominant. Use depth of field, light direction, contrast, scale, sharpness, and negative space to prevent the background from competing.

Treat the 9:16 frame as a tall cinematic canvas. Use the top for atmosphere, architecture, sky, ceiling, context, or negative space; the upper-middle for the face and principal focal point; the middle for torso, hands, clothing, or interaction; the lower-middle for the garment silhouette and movement; and the bottom for grounding, floor, shadows, reflections, or foreground. Do not fill every region automatically.

Balance the subject, architecture, light, shadow, color, texture, negative space, and environmental objects. Use asymmetrical balance for cinematic energy, or bilateral/radial symmetry only when it strengthens the narrative. Create clear depth layers: optional soft or blurred foreground, subject and key details in the middle ground, and controlled environmental context in the background. Maintain realistic depth of field and atmospheric perspective.

## Lighting

Treat light as compositional structure. Use directional light for leading lines, facial emphasis, rim separation, architectural framing, shadow geometry, and visual pathways. Let highlights reinforce the focal point; use shadows to form secondary geometry without obscuring important facial details. Keep lighting believable and integrated with the composition.

## Final constraints

Combine golden-ratio guidance, Fibonacci-inspired flow, rule of thirds, geometric structure, perspective, and Gestalt principles into one coherent composition. The result should feel natural, balanced, cinematic, three-dimensional, photorealistic, elegant, and intuitively pleasing. Keep all mathematical principles invisible: do not depict grids, golden-ratio diagrams, literal spirals, numbers, or artificial geometric overlays.

Avoid unnecessary symmetry, chaotic layouts, competing focal points, distorted perspective, warped architecture, unnatural body proportions, floating objects, impossible spatial relationships, excessive background clutter, accidental cropping of important body parts, cramped framing, and excessive empty space unless intentionally requested.