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The buzzing phone
“{{MESSAGE_COUNT}} messages. One Thursday.”
Subject: Man, 44, white, sandy hair, rectangular black glasses, grey quarter-zip fleece. Setting: Driver's seat of a parked car in a school car park, afternoon, rain on the windscreen. Vertical 9:16 close-up handheld shot. a 44-year-old white man with sandy hair, rectangular black glasses and a grey quarter-zip fleece sits in the driver's seat of a parked family car in a school car park in the afternoon, rain on the windscreen, grey light, holding an iPhone that won't stop buzzing as group-chat bubbles stack up on screen. He turns it to the lens, deadpan, and says: "{{MESSAGE_COUNT}} messages. One Thursday." Rain streaks on glass, flat grey light, natural skin texture, shot on iPhone, handheld, unpolished, vertical 9:16. [Creator: Project manager who shares the school run with three families, mid 40s, natural and conversational]: "{{MESSAGE_COUNT}} messages. One Thursday."
- duration
- 5 s (trim to 3 s)
- aspect ratio
- 9:16
- mode
- Pro / 1080p
- cfg scale
- 0.5
- negative prompt
- subtitles, captions, on-screen text, watermark, logo, distorted hands, extra fingers, warped phone screen, morphing face, plastic skin, studio lighting
- elements
- creator, setting
- native audio
- on (voice reference optional)

