Concept: Seoul Summer, 1998 – Rainy Bus Stop
Prompt:
Create an authentic 15-second archival home video that appears to have been recorded in Seoul, South Korea, during the summer of 1998 using a consumer Hi8 or VHS-C camcorder. The camcorder is never visible. The audience only sees the footage captured through the camera, exactly as if watching a forgotten family videotape decades later. This is not a vlog, not a selfie, and not a cinematic film. The unseen camera operator casually documents an ordinary moment from everyday life.
The footage should faithfully recreate genuine late-1990s analogue camcorder characteristics: soft 480i resolution, subtle VHS tape grain, faint interlacing, mild colour fading, occasional autofocus breathing, slight exposure shifts, gentle handheld shake, imperfect framing, tiny zoom corrections, realistic motion blur, analogue colour bleed, and faint tape hiss. No HDR, no digital sharpening, no beauty filters, no stabilisation, no cinematic lighting, no slow motion, and no modern camera effects.
A light summer rain has just begun in a quiet Seoul neighborhood. A young Korean woman in her early twenties waits at a simple city bus stop beneath a clear plastic umbrella. She wears a pale blue oversized T-shirt tucked into relaxed-fit blue jeans, classic white sneakers, and carries a canvas shoulder bag, perfectly matching authentic Korean street fashion from 1998. Around her, commuters quietly wait while late-1990s Korean buses, sedans, and bicycles pass by on the wet street. Handwritten Hangul shop signs, overhead utility wires, convenience stores, and low-rise apartment buildings create an unmistakably authentic Seoul atmosphere.
As the rain becomes slightly heavier, a small orange tabby cat runs from beneath a parked car toward the bus stop. The woman notices it, crouches down with a warm smile, and gently shelters the cat under her umbrella. The cat calmly sits beside her while several nearby commuters smile at the unexpected moment. A city bus approaches in the background, its headlights reflecting across the rain-soaked road. The woman looks toward the arriving bus, softly laughs, gives the cat one gentle pat, and steps aboard as the doors close. The camera remains outside, lingering for a few seconds on the rainy street as the bus slowly drives away before the recording ends abruptly, exactly as if someone simply pressed the stop button on the camcorder.
Generation Requirements: Produce one continuous, uninterrupted 15-second recording with no cuts or transitions. Every detail must accurately recreate Seoul in 1998, including clothing, hairstyles, architecture, vehicles, signage, weather, and everyday behavior. Human movement must be completely natural with consistent facial identity, realistic anatomy, authentic hand movements, believable crowd interactions, and subtle environmental details such as rain, passing traffic, distant conversations, bus engine sounds, birds, and ambient city noise. Avoid AI artifacts, duplicated pedestrians, warped limbs, floating objects, unnatural expressions, perfect symmetry, or anything suggesting the footage was AI-generated. The finished result should be indistinguishable from genuine late-1990s home camcorder footage discovered in a family archive.