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The shoebox dump
“Six hundred flashcards. I remember maybe ten.”
Subject: Woman, 38, white, fair skin, chin-length auburn bob, black rectangular glasses, oatmeal crew-neck sweater, thin gold wedding band, short unpainted nails.
Setting: Dining table at night under a warm pendant lamp, wooden tabletop, a cardboard shoebox, a mug of tea, dim kitchen behind.
Vertical 9:16 top-down handheld shot over a wooden dining table at night under a warm pendant lamp. The hands of a 38-year-old white woman with short unpainted nails and a thin gold wedding band, oatmeal sweater sleeves pushed up, tip a cardboard shoebox over and hundreds of handwritten paper flashcards cascade across the table, some sliding off the edge. Camera tilts up to her face: chin-length auburn bob, black rectangular glasses, deadpan. Warm lamp light, realistic paper texture and motion, natural skin texture, shot on iPhone, vertical 9:16.
[Creator: Organised project manager learning Mandarin, late 30s, natural and conversational]: "Six hundred flashcards. I remember maybe ten."- 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)


