# THE UNDERSTUDY — 8 scene prompts + the identity lock Render Department, Issue 07. One invented character held across eight worlds. Every scene call attached one accepted reference photograph of her face. The reference supplies the FACE only — expression, wardrobe and lip colour are overridden per scene, because a reference teaches a performance as readily as it teaches a person. ## The shared head (prepended to every scene) ```text Use case: photorealistic-natural. Create one extraordinarily beautiful, daring fashion advertising photograph, native vertical 4:5. NO graphic typography, NO layout panels, NO collage, NO borders, NO watermark. This is a photographic plate for an editorial Instagram carousel. THE WOMAN — take her FACE from the attached reference and nothing else. Call image_gen with referenced_image_paths set to the attached image. Adult woman early thirties, warm sun-kissed olive skin, beautiful natural freckles across the nose bridge and cheeks, realistic pores and fine facial hair, strong dark brows, warm brown eyes, sharp dark-brown chin-length bob with windblown strands. Unmistakably the same woman as the reference — same bone structure, freckles, brows, mouth. Do not beautify, smooth, slim or restyle her. Confident, magnetic, alive, NOT a generic stock model. IGNORE THE REFERENCE'S EXPRESSION, POSE AND WARDROBE. Her expression, mouth, gaze, lip colour and clothing in THIS picture are specified below and override the reference completely. COLOUR IS THE SUBJECT. One flat, saturated, evenly lit colour field must fill at least 65% of the frame — a painted wall, a tiled wall, a canvas — with her placed IN it as the accent. Think a graphic poster, not a portrait: the field first, the woman second. PALETTE LOCK — this campaign world is exactly four colours and nothing else: saturated COBALT BLUE, CHERRY RED, clean WHITE, and pale AZURE SKY. Every surface, garment, prop and background in the frame must be one of those four. No yellow, no green, no pink, no orange, no wood tones, no beige, no gold. Skin and hair are the only exceptions. ``` ## The shared tail (appended to every scene) ```text Crisp hard Mediterranean daylight. Fine analog grain, luminous unretouched pores, extremely real editorial beauty, cinematic intensity yet REAL photography — no CGI smoothness, no artificial plastic skin, no studio backdrop, no waxy retouching, no doll eyes. Anatomically impeccable hands with five natural credible fingers wherever hands appear. Strong asymmetry, bold perspective, close crop, palpable summer energy, high-fashion magazine beauty campaign. Entire canvas is photograph edge to edge. No typography, no logos, no watermark, no border, no blank bands, no design boxes. Generate the actual photograph now. ``` ## 01 — HERO ```text SCENE: she stands in front of a huge flat sun-blasted CHERRY-RED painted wall that fills the entire background edge to edge — no sky, no horizon, no texture but fine plaster. Hard noon sun from the upper left throws one clean sharp shadow of her onto the wall. Low-angle 35mm, she is placed in the LEFT 45% of the frame from the hips up, turned three-quarters to camera, one hand raised to shade her eyes so the forearm cuts a diagonal. EXPRESSION: mouth closed, a knowing half-smile, direct gaze down the lens. Cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a saturated cobalt-blue ribbed sleeveless knit — the one cobalt object against the red. COMPOSITION: the RIGHT 55% of the frame is pure uninterrupted red wall, flat and quiet, reserved for enormous typography. Nothing crosses it except the tip of her shadow. ``` ## 02 — STRIPES ```text Use case: photorealistic-natural. Create one extraordinarily beautiful, daring fashion advertising photograph, native vertical 4:5. NO graphic typography, NO layout panels, NO collage, NO borders, NO watermark. This is a photographic plate for an editorial Instagram carousel. THE WOMAN — take her FACE from the attached reference and nothing else. Call image_gen with referenced_image_paths set to the attached image. Adult woman early thirties, warm sun-kissed olive skin, beautiful natural freckles across the nose bridge and cheeks, realistic pores and fine facial hair, strong dark brows, warm brown eyes, sharp dark-brown chin-length bob with windblown strands. Unmistakably the same woman as the reference — same bone structure, freckles, brows, mouth. Do not beautify, smooth, slim or restyle her. Confident, magnetic, alive, NOT a generic stock model. IGNORE THE REFERENCE'S EXPRESSION, POSE AND WARDROBE. Her expression, mouth, gaze, lip colour and clothing in THIS picture are specified below and override the reference completely. PALETTE LOCK — this campaign world is exactly four colours and nothing else: saturated COBALT BLUE, CHERRY RED, clean WHITE, and pale AZURE SKY. Every surface, garment, prop and background in the frame must be one of those four. No yellow, no green, no pink, no orange, no wood tones, no beige, no gold. Skin and hair are the only exceptions. SCENE: shot from directly overhead. She lies on her back on a bold cherry-red and white striped beach towel spread over saturated cobalt-blue pool tiles, eyes closed, sunglasses pushed up into her hair, one arm folded behind her head. The stripes run at a clean 30-degree diagonal across the entire frame and are perfectly straight and evenly spaced — they will later carry lines of type, so they must be crisp, parallel and unbroken. EXPRESSION: eyes closed, mouth closed, sun-drunk and still. Cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a white sleeveless top. COMPOSITION: her head and shoulders occupy the upper-right third. The lower-left 55% of the frame is pure striped towel — no hands, feet, props or shadows crossing it — reserved as a clean field of red and white bands. ``` ## 03 — UMBRELLA ```text Use case: photorealistic-natural. Create one extraordinarily beautiful, daring fashion advertising photograph, native vertical 4:5. NO graphic typography, NO layout panels, NO collage, NO borders, NO watermark. This is a photographic plate for an editorial Instagram carousel. THE WOMAN — take her FACE from the attached reference and nothing else. Call image_gen with referenced_image_paths set to the attached image. Adult woman early thirties, warm sun-kissed olive skin, beautiful natural freckles across the nose bridge and cheeks, realistic pores and fine facial hair, strong dark brows, warm brown eyes, sharp dark-brown chin-length bob with windblown strands. Unmistakably the same woman as the reference — same bone structure, freckles, brows, mouth. Do not beautify, smooth, slim or restyle her. Confident, magnetic, alive, NOT a generic stock model. IGNORE THE REFERENCE'S EXPRESSION, POSE AND WARDROBE. Her expression, mouth, gaze, lip colour and clothing in THIS picture are specified below and override the reference completely. PALETTE LOCK — this campaign world is exactly four colours and nothing else: saturated COBALT BLUE, CHERRY RED, clean WHITE, and pale AZURE SKY. Every surface, garment, prop and background in the frame must be one of those four. No yellow, no green, no pink, no orange, no wood tones, no beige, no gold. Skin and hair are the only exceptions. SCENE: shot from directly beneath a large cherry-red canvas beach umbrella against azure sky. The umbrella canopy fills the top 70% of the frame; its white radial ribs fan out from the centre pole like spokes, crisp and evenly spaced. Her face enters from the lower edge, looking straight up into the camera, lit from below by white sand bounce, a cobalt strap on her shoulder. EXPRESSION: mouth closed, brows slightly raised, curious, looking directly down the lens. Cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a cobalt-blue swim top, only the strap and shoulder visible. COMPOSITION: her face occupies the lower-centre 30%. The red canopy panels between the ribs in the upper 60% are flat, evenly lit, uninterrupted red — reserved so a headline can later follow the curve of one rib. ``` ## 04 — PRINTS ```text SCENE: she stands in front of a huge flat saturated COBALT-BLUE painted wall that fills the entire background edge to edge, holding up two large glossy photographic prints of her own face — one in each hand, same height, same size, close beside her real head. Hard sun, one clean shadow on the wall. Low-angle 35mm, three faces in one photograph. EXPRESSION: mouth closed, chin lifted, a level challenging look into the lens. Cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a white sleeveless knit. The prints have clean white borders. COMPOSITION: all three faces in the upper 60%, sharp and comparable. The lower 35% is flat uninterrupted cobalt wall, reserved for typography. Both hands fully visible, five credible fingers, cherry-red nails. ``` ## 05 — WATER ```text SCENE: a vast wall of small saturated COBALT-BLUE glazed pool tiles fills the entire frame. Clear water from a hose sprays across the tile from the upper left in hard noon sun, beading and running in sheets. She stands in front of the wet wall on the RIGHT 40% of the frame, fully dressed, turned to camera, one palm flat on the tile, hair slicked back, laughing as the spray hits the wall beside her. 50mm. EXPRESSION: laughing openly, mouth wide, teeth showing, eyes creased shut — the ONE open-mouth frame in the set. Strong cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a saturated cobalt-blue ribbed sleeveless knit and white trousers, dry. COMPOSITION: the LEFT 60% of the frame is pure wet cobalt tile with running water — flat, graphic, quiet — reserved for enormous typography with water beads crossing it. ``` ## 06 — MIRROR ```text SCENE: she stands in front of a huge flat saturated COBALT-BLUE painted wall that fills the entire background, holding a round hand-mirror with a glossy CHERRY-RED enamel rim up beside her face, arm raised. Her real face is in near-profile toward the mirror; the mirror shows her face full-on looking back at us. Her face appears TWICE in one photograph, correctly mirrored. Hard sun, one clean shadow of her and the mirror on the wall. 50mm. EXPRESSION: mouth closed in both. Real profile calm; reflection meets the camera with a level knowing look. Cherry-red lip. WARDROBE: a white sleeveless knit. COMPOSITION: both faces complete and sharp in the upper 60%. The lower 35% is flat uninterrupted cobalt wall for typography. Hand fully visible, five credible fingers, cherry-red nails. ``` ## 07 — LANE ```text SCENE: a huge flat sun-blasted CHERRY-RED painted wall fills the entire frame edge to edge, with one COBALT-BLUE painted wooden door set into it on the right third, its brass handle catching the sun. She is small in the frame, walking away from camera toward the door, turned fully away so her face cannot be seen, in the lower-right quarter. Hard late sun throws her long shadow across the red. Wide 28mm, camera low. EXPRESSION: not visible. This is the closing frame. WARDROBE: a white sleeveless knit and cobalt-blue trousers. COMPOSITION: the LEFT 60% of the frame is pure uninterrupted red wall, flat and quiet — reserved for enormous typography that will read as painted on it. ``` ## The lock — what actually holds her Written from the accepted reference photograph, not invented. Four things you can point at: ```text IDENTITY LOCK — the woman in the attached reference, in every frame: 1. Thick, dark, straight brows. 2. Freckles across the nose bridge and both cheeks — real, uneven, not decorative. 3. Full lips, cupid's bow, always cherry red. 4. A dark-brown bob that stops at the chin, with windblown strands. Plus: warm sun-kissed olive skin with visible pores; warm brown eyes; early thirties. ``` Attach the reference to every scene call. The reference supplies the FACE only — expression, gaze, wardrobe and lip finish are set per scene, because a reference teaches a performance as readily as it teaches a person.