16:9 HORIZONTAL | 15 SECONDS | PHOTOREALISTIC NIGHTTIME SELFIE PHONE FOOTAGE | ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE
Use the uploaded image as the sole identity reference for the main subject. Preserve their exact face, facial structure, skin tone, apparent adult age, hair color, hairstyle, body proportions and distinguishing features throughout. Keep them unmistakably the same person in every frame, including while shouting and laughing.
SCENE
A wild birthday celebration on a wide multi-lane highway at night. The subject stands up through the open sunroof of a boxy, high-end luxury SUV in deep metallic burgundy with chrome trim, cruising steadily down the road. Tall orange sodium streetlights stream past overhead, the asphalt is wet and reflective, and the sky is dark and lightly hazy. Other cars' headlights and taillights glow in the distance.
SUBJECT
The subject is visible from the chest up, wearing a fitted mint-green top. Their hair whips wildly in the wind from the moving car. Mood is euphoric, loud and carefree.
CAMERA — SELFIE RECORDING, LANDSCAPE
The subject films themselves with a phone held sideways in landscape at arm's length, using the front camera. Classic selfie angle, slightly above eye level, with the subject's face and shoulders on one side of the wide frame and the SUV roof, the highway lanes, passing streetlights and night sky filling the rest. Natural arm wobble, wind buffeting the phone, small framing shifts as they move, and occasional tilts or off-center drifts. Realistic front-camera night look: grain, slight wide-angle distortion, orange streetlight glow on the face, motion blur on the background lights, lens flare from passing streetlights.
ACTION
0–2s: The subject holds the phone toward their face with one hand and a large open champagne bottle in the other. They grin into the camera, then throw their head back and let out a loud joyful scream, hair flying in the wind.
2–4s: They tip the champagne bottle up and take a big swig, a little champagne spilling down their chin. They pull the bottle away, laugh and shout "WOOO!" at the camera.
4–5s: With a celebratory yell, they toss the bottle up and backwards behind the SUV. It tumbles out of frame into the darkness behind them.
5–7s: A car pulls up in the next lane. The subject swings the phone sideways to show it: a few adult friends lean out of the windows cheering and waving, one of them honking the horn in rhythm. The subject whips the phone back to their own face and screams "THAT'S MY CREW!"
7–8s: They reach down into the sunroof opening and grab a handheld firework fountain passed up from inside the car, already lit and crackling.
8–11s: They raise the firework high above their head with their free arm while keeping the selfie framed on their face. A brilliant fountain of white-gold sparks erupts upward and streams back in the wind, lighting their face with flickering bright light. They scream with pure joy, mouth wide open, eyes squeezed half-shut with laughter, then look up at the sparks and yell again.
11–13s: As the car passes under a highway overpass, the sparks reflect off the concrete above in a flash of gold. The subject ducks slightly out of habit, then bursts out laughing. Coming out the other side, they dance in the sunroof, bouncing their shoulders to the music thumping from inside the car, waving the firework side to side like a glowing baton.
13–15s: The firework fizzles out with a final burst of sparks. They bring the phone close to their face, breathless and grinning, and shout "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!", then blow a kiss at the lens and let out one last scream as the streetlights stream past behind them. End mid-celebration.
LIGHTING AND ATMOSPHERE
Warm orange sodium streetlight washing over the subject at regular intervals as the car passes under each light. Cool blue night sky behind. The friends' car adds headlight glow and interior light in the next lane. Once lit, the firework becomes the brightest light source, casting flickering white-gold light across the subject's face and hair, with a brief golden flash under the overpass. Light haze and drifting spark smoke.
AUDIO
Loud wind rush distorting the phone mic, engine hum, tires on wet road, the subject's joyful screams, laughter and shouting close to the mic, the champagne slosh, the friends cheering and the rhythmic horn honks from the next lane, the firework hissing and crackling, a booming echo of wind and engine under the overpass, upbeat party music thumping from inside the car.
REALISM
Authentic, spontaneous selfie phone footage of a real celebration. Natural facial expressions while screaming and laughing, correct mouth and teeth during shouting, physically accurate champagne pour, a believable bottle-toss arc, and sparks blown back by the wind. The SUV, outfit and identity stay consistent throughout.
AVOID
Identity drift or face distortion while screaming, changing outfit, extra people in the sunroof, the phone itself visible in frame, third-person camera angles, vertical framing, the bottle hitting the camera or the friends' car, sparks moving against the wind, the friends' car swerving dangerously, cartoon effects, slow motion, cuts, captions, logos or watermarks.