Wong Kar-wai style rainy phone booth scene

A reusable AI video template for creative video, featuring vintage and retro film and people and characters, cityscapes and urban scenes. Adapt the prompt, shots, pacing, and aspect ratio for different video generation models.

Recommended model

bytedance/seedance-2-fast

Theme group

Cinematic Showcase

0:000:00

Prompt template

[Film Style]: 90s Hong Kong Art Cinema style, retro film feel, high ISO grain, ambiguous yellow-green tint, frame stepping effect, melancholic atmosphere. [Core Dialogue (for emotion control)]: "If memories were canned food, I hope they never expire." [Video Duration]: 10 seconds
[Script]: [00:00-00:04] Shot 1: Through the Glass Peeping.
Scene: A rain-covered red public telephone booth.
Character: A man (or woman) in a khaki trench coat holding the receiver tightly, not speaking, just listening.
Emotional Performance: Through the glass refraction, see his/her eyes hollow yet deeply emotional. Rain flows down the glass, distorting his face like an oil painting.
Subtitle/Narrative sense: The picture seems frozen, only the sound of rain. [00:04-00:07] Shot 2: Extreme Close-up & Micro-expression.
Scene: Focus on the character's lips and half face.
Action: He/She whispers softly into the receiver. Lips tremble slightly, seeming to want to say something but swallow it back.
Lighting: Street neon bokeh flows across his face, bright and dim alternately.
Dialogue Emotion Mapping: Shows the ultimate restraint and loneliness of "wanting to touch but drawing back". [00:07-00:10] Shot 3: Signature Slow-shutter Drag Shadow.
Scene: Character hangs up phone, turns around and walks into the rainy crowd.
Visual Effect: Using frame stepping effect (stop-motion feel), the character's back becomes blurred with trailing shadows (motion blur), as if the soul stayed in place while only the body walks away.
Environment: Background is flowing city car lights forming elongated light trails. [Technical Parameters]: Simulated handheld camera, shallow depth of field, color shift, emotionally intense.

Recommended model: bytedance/seedance-2-fast
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Quality: 1K
Quantity: 1

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