Japanese Horror-Movie Date: 30-Second Phone-Style Short
Create a realistic 30-second, seven-cut live-action-style video of a Japanese couple watching a horror movie at home. The woman is the only person visible in the living room; the boyfriend films off-screen. The ghost appears only within the TV image.
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Create a 30-second live-action-style short made of seven clear cuts, filmed as if a boyfriend casually recorded it on his phone. The scene mixes a cozy date-night living room with a horror movie playing on the TV. Use no reference images: build every person from this written description.
CHARACTERS AND CONTINUITY
WOMAN: One Japanese woman in her mid-twenties, the only physical person visibly depicted in the living-room image. She has a soft oval face and clean jawline, clear brown eyes with subtle double lids, a small straight nose, full red-tinted lips, and bright skin with visible pores. Her dark-brown hair is tied low at the nape, with loose strands beside her face. She wears the same cream oversized knit sweater and grey blanket in every living-room cut. Keep her face, features, colors, and clothes consistent throughout; she never becomes a different person and no look-alike appears. Avoid doll-like smoothness.
GHOST: A separate person who appears only inside the horror movie on the TV. The ghost has wet, long black hair partly covering the face, a grime-stained white dress, bloodless pale skin, and bare feet. From 0:12 to 0:23, the ghost and every movement remain entirely within the TV image, inside the physical TV's black bezel.
CAMERA HOLDER: The woman's boyfriend films from beside the couch in first-person selfie style. He is present but never appears—not even a hand, arm, or shadow. Only his warm off-screen voice is heard; no lips are shown for his dialogue.
SETTING AND LOOK
The living room is a small Japanese 1LDK apartment, deep at night. The woman sits curled on a low fabric couch with cushions and a grey blanket over her knees; a popcorn bucket sits beside her. On the low wooden table are a convenience-store snack bag and a green-tea PET bottle. Across from the couch, a large TV on a low board is on, its blue-white light flickering across her face. Soft, out-of-focus string lights glow on the wall behind her, and the curtains are closed.
The living-room light comes only from the TV's blue-white glow and the warm string lights. Keep color and brightness consistent across all living-room cuts. Use a natural, unretouched phone-camera image with visible skin texture and pores, subtle grain, slight arm-breath sway, and no beauty filter or smoothing. The footage should feel genuinely phone-shot, not AI-generated. Her blinking and smile should look natural; expressions change gradually rather than all at once.
TV MOVIE
The horror film shows a wooden Japanese house at night: a narrow, dark hallway with sliding doors on both sides and one faint lamp at the far end. Keep most of the hallway dark. From 0:12 to 0:23, frame the physical TV with all four edges of its black bezel continuously visible, along with soft glass glare and fine pixel texture. The movie's dark look and ghost must stay inside the bezel and never bleed into the living room.
DIALOGUE AND SHOT LIST
All dialogue is casual spoken Japanese, delivered clearly in short phrases that fit one breath. The woman's lips are visible when she speaks; the boyfriend speaks off-screen.
0:00–0:04 — Living-room couch, handheld selfie medium shot at eye level. The woman sits curled up watching TV, blanket over her knees to her belly, with her upper body and face uncovered. She glances toward the camera with the corner of her mouth smiling. The man teases from off-screen: 「ねえ、映画はそっちだよ?」 The frame sways gently with the camera holder's breathing. Cut as she gives a small laugh.
0:04–0:08 — Same couch and selfie framing. She narrows her eyes at the camera and says: 「だって、そっちがずっとスマホ向けてくるじゃん」 The man laughs quietly off-screen. Cut as she starts turning her head toward the TV.
0:08–0:12 — She turns her eyes toward the TV and says: 「はいはい、いいから静かに観てよ」 At the same time, the camera swings past her shoulder in a short push-in toward the TV. The physical bezel and screen glare grow larger as the TV sound gets closer. Cut to an insert that retains all four bezel edges.
0:12–0:18 — Close insert of the physical TV, with all four black bezel edges, glass glare, and pixel texture visible. Inside the bezel is the dark hallway of the wooden house. At the far end, one sliding door is open a finger's width, with something faintly white stirring in the gap. The movie camera moves down the hallway in a very slow dolly forward. Floorboards creak with each step as a low rumbling hum gradually begins. Cut as it nears the door.
0:18–0:23 — Same TV insert; keep all four bezel edges, glass glare, and pixel texture visible. Inside the TV image, the ghost slides the door aside and stands far down the dark hallway, wet long hair partly covering its face and its grime-stained white dress visible. At 0:20.5, the hum stops and there is complete silence until 0:21. At 0:21, the ghost lunges toward the image in one move, its pale face filling the TV image as one short, strong horror-movie sting plays in full. From 0:21 to 0:23, hold on the close face inside the bezel while the sting decays. Hard cut at 0:23.
0:23–0:27 — Hard cut back to the living-room couch, selfie medium close-up. The woman flinches hard, shoulders jumping, and props a cushion beside her face so it hides only one cheek; her lips remain visible. Her fright breaks straight into laughter. She says: 「うわっ、もう!マジでびっくりした!」 The frame gives one large shake with her flinch. Cut as she catches her breath.
0:27–0:30 — Same couch. She gives the camera a playful, narrowed-eyed look and says: 「もう撮るのやめて、こっち座ってよ」 The frame lurches and drops lower as the couch sinks, suggesting that he sits beside her. She breathes out and presses her back into the couch. Hold the final frame on her profile as her eyes turn toward the TV. Do not clip the ending.
AUDIO
Use diegetic sound only. From 0:00 to 0:12, quiet muffled movie sound comes from the TV with blanket rustle; from 0:08 to 0:12, the TV sound grows louder as the camera approaches. From 0:12 to 0:20.5, floorboard creaks and a low rumbling hum rise gradually. From 0:20.5 to 0:21, complete silence. At 0:21, play one short, strong sting from inside the TV movie, in full without clipping or distortion; its short decay ends between 0:21 and 0:23. From 0:23 to 0:27, include blanket rustle and the woman's laughing breath. From 0:27 to 0:30, include the couch pressing down and the TV sound returned to a low level.
FINAL CONSTRAINTS
The woman is the only physical person visibly depicted in the living room. Her boyfriend is never visible in any cut. The ghost appears only within the TV image and never crosses the bezel or appears in the living room. Maintain the woman's same face, sweater, and blanket in every living-room cut. No subtitles, logos, or watermarks. The woman's expressions and gestures should feel spontaneous: her fright unfolds as a flinch, a caught breath, then laughter.
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