TALKING HEAD / SUNLIT ARMCHAIR — 5 SECONDS
REFERENCE: use the attached image for @subject's likeness, wardrobe, hair, glasses,
necklace, chair and room. Match it exactly — same frame, same lighting, same position.
Style: 8K photoreal. Physical cine lens, 50mm, T2.0, shallow depth of field.
No 3D render, no beauty-filter smoothing, no CG skin. Natural pores, natural flyaway hair.
Lighting: single large soft key from the window at frame left, cool daylight, mild
overexposure blowing the window out to white. Warm bounce from the curtain and lamp at
frame right filling the shadow side. Faint window reflection drifting across her left lens.
Color: 60:30:10 — dominant warm neutral (oatmeal walls, linen chair, beige curtain) /
secondary deep charcoal (her knit cardigan) / accent cool daylight white and silver.
Camera: locked-off medium close-up, 16:9, eyeline just above lens. Almost static —
a slow 2% push-in across the full 5 seconds, faintest handheld breathing.
NO whip, NO orbit, NO rack focus.
ACTION — ONE CONTINUOUS TAKE, 5 seconds, NO cuts:
0:00–0:01.5 Silent. Reclined against the chair back, relaxed, holding eye contact.
One slow blink. A soft breath in — she's about to speak.
0:01.5–0:04 Delivers the line straight to camera. One small head tilt off the chair.
Eyes soften rather than widen.
0:04–0:05 Silence. Mouth closes. The faintest warm half-smile. Hold. End.
DIALOGUE (lip-sync — the ONLY speech in the shot, nothing before, nothing after):
"H3 Max. Faster than real time."
0:00–0:02 Silent. Reclined, relaxed, soft eye contact. One slow blink. Soft breath in.
0:02–0:03.5 Speaks. Barely any head movement. Eyes soften.
0:03.5–0:05 Silence. Mouth closes. Faintest half-smile. Hold. End.
=== GLOBAL VOICE PROFILE (applies to all variations) ===
VOICE: a woman in her late forties to fifties. Low, warm, lived-in. Slightly husky and
resonant — chest voice rather than head voice, with a natural rasp at the low end and a
touch of dryness in the throat. Unhurried, spaced delivery with real air between phrases.
Narrow dynamic range, no projection, no brightness. Falling intonation at the end of every
phrase — never upspeak, never bright, never youthful-perky. The unbothered calm of someone
who has watched a lot of things get announced. Soothing, close-mic, intimate.
DO NOT: no girlish or breathy-young timbre, no rising energy, no upward inflection,
no announcer polish, no vocal-fry affectation used as a stylistic tic.