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3 ways to make phone photos look like film

A film-photography kid at a skate park counts down three ways to fake the film look on a phone, the third being the app, then admits he can't tell it apart from his real film scans.

Example product
Grainhouse — An AI app that gives phone photos the grain, colour and light leaks of real film stocks
Audience
Gen Z and young creatives who love the film look but not the cost
Creator
Film-photography hobbyist, early 20s

Variables — swap these for your product

{{APP_NAME}} = Grainhouse{{FILM_STOCK}} = the warm 400 look{{OFFER}} = free to try

01 · hook

Three ways to fake film

0–3s

“Three ways to fake film. Last one's cheating.”

Vertical 9:16 selfie video, medium close-up, phone at arm's length. a 22-year-old Korean-American man with a black bucket hat, short bleached-blond hair underneath, a vintage oversized olive windbreaker and a film camera on a strap around his neck stands in a concrete skate park at sunset, graffiti walls and a ramp behind him, warm low sun from the right. He holds up three fingers to the lens, then taps the film camera on his chest with a grin. He says: "Three ways to fake film. Last one's cheating." Handheld, warm golden backlight from the right, lens flare, natural skin texture, shot on iPhone front camera, vertical 9:16. No captions or on-screen text.
duration
3 s
aspect ratio
9:16
resolution
720p · 24 fps
audio
always on — normalise to −14 LUFS in the edit
image urls
creator, setting (guides look, doesn't lock frame 1)

Shot list

  1. 0.0–3.0sMCU. Three fingers up, taps the film camera

On-screen text (overlay in edit)

3 ways to fake film photos 📸

Audio

Skateboard wheels on concrete, no music

References

02 · demo

One and two

3–8s

2 shots, 3 model prompts, settings and captions in the full library.

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03 · proof

Three is the app

8–12s

1 shot, 3 model prompts, settings and captions in the full library.

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04 · cta

Cheaper than film

12–15s

1 shot, 3 model prompts, settings and captions in the full library.

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Why it works

Listicles promise a quick payoff and hold attention to the last item, which is where the product sits. Items one and two are the free methods the audience already tried, so dismissing them builds credibility for item three. The creator's real film camera is the authority prop.

Hook variants to A/B test

  • “Film is expensive. Here are three cheats.”
  • “Stop buying film. Do this instead.”
  • “Which one's real film? Comment your guess.”

Reference images

  • creator

    Waist-up photo of the creator in the bucket hat, olive windbreaker and film camera, sunset backlight

  • setting

    Concrete skate park with graffiti walls and a ramp at sunset

  • screen

    An over-warm edit, a heavy preset edit, and your app's before/after of the same ramp photo, as 9:16 PNGs

  • endcard

    App icon, app name, offer line and store badges (or URL) on a plain background

Creator look (paste into your image model)

Man, 22, Korean-American, black bucket hat, short bleached-blond hair, vintage oversized olive windbreaker, film camera on a neck strap. Concrete skate park at sunset, graffiti walls and a ramp behind, warm low sun from the right.

Model notes, last verified 2026-10-16: Provisional: written to Kling 3.0 conventions (3.0-compatible) until 4.0 publishes its own. 3, 5 or 10 s only; audio always on; add captions in post.

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