Capture guide
The practices are a live person on camera — sitting with you, breathing, audible. This is the brief for the photographer and videographer who shoot that person, and the prompt for generating stills before the shoot. One soft light, a dark ground, monochrome, breath-paced motion — so the footage lands in the lunar language and looks beautiful in the app.
Real stills, generated with the prompt below (GPT-image via OpenRouter) straight from this brief — a live person on camera, mid-breath. The same frames drive the Practice player. Swap in shot footage the same way.
- One soft key, low and to the side — a window or a single diffused source. Everything else falls to near-black.
- Keep the subject 1–2 stops above the fog; let the background go dark.
- No on-camera flash, no hard speculars. Bounce, don't blast.
- A single round soft source may sit in frame as the brand's moon.
- Shoot the night palette: dark room, dark wardrobe — skin and light do the speaking.
- Generous negative space; subject off-centre, room to breathe above the head.
- 16:9 for the web player; keep a 9:16 centre-safe crop (subject within the centre 60%) for the app.
- Locked-off or very slow moves only. Tripod. No handheld shake.
- Monochrome — warm off-white, greys, charcoal. No saturated colour in frame.
- Matte, not shiny: linen, wool, skin. Remove logos and bright props.
- One muted ember is allowed only as a true accent, never decoration.
- Everything paces to breath (4 : 6 : 6). Cut on the exhale, not the inhale.
- Slow push-ins over ~16s feel like a breath. No whip pans, no speed ramps.
- Loops seamless and unhurried — 12–20s is plenty.
- Soft drone or room tone; breath audible but not theatrical. No music stings.
Do — one light · dark ground · slow · monochrome · grain · breath-paced · negative space.
Don't — colour gels · bright sets · fast cuts · on-camera flash · busy backgrounds · visible logos.
- Cast calm, unposed presence over looks. Real breath, not performance — the camera is a quiet companion, not an audience.
- Breathe the protocol on set (4 : 6 : 6). Roll long takes; the usable loop is one full, unhurried cycle.
- Eyes closed or softly downcast. Micro-movement only — the rise and fall of the chest, a hand settling.
- Record real breath audio close and clean; no music on set. Sound is half the practice.
Generation prompts
The same brief, ready to paste into an image or video model. They encode the rules above so generated stills and loops match the shot footage — and the players on the Practice player page.
Editorial wellness photograph, photorealistic, strictly MONOCHROME (no colour at
all, only tone and light), deep charcoal near-black background, one soft low key light
like a window, fine 35mm film grain, soft low fog, shallow depth of field, calm and
meditative, cinematic, premium, generous negative space. A woman in her early 30s seated
cross-legged in near-darkness, eyes gently closed, mid-breath, one hand resting on her
chest; the key light lays a warm off-white highlight on her cheekbone, collarbone and
hand while the rest falls to near-black. Matte warm-grey linen. Horizontal 16:9, subject
on the right third.Static, locked-off camera. A person breathing slowly in near-darkness, lit by
one soft low key light. The chest and shoulders rise over ~4 seconds, hold, then
settle over ~6 — paced to breath. Drifting low fog, faint film grain, monochrome.
Extremely slow, almost-still motion; no camera movement. Seamless 16-second loop.
Calm, cinematic, no colour. Aspect 16:9 (also export a 9:16 centre-safe crop).colour, saturation, vivid, bright/even lighting, hard shadows, lens flare, bokeh
balls, fast motion, camera shake, zoom, whip pan, text, captions, logos, watermark,
busy background, multiple light sources, mixed warm/cool colour temperature.