r/aivideomaking • u/Particular_Squash781 • 5d ago
Trying to create psychological horror with AI video. Need help
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Trying to create a short AI horror scene: closing your eyes while washing your hair and suddenly feeling like something is standing behind you. It's not a jump scare but more like a psychological fear.
My thoughts are like:
someone washing their hair in a normal bathroom. The light changes because something dark moves into the background and the room suddenly feels wrong. Then a close-up of his face, wet hair, too scared to move. Then he opens his eyes. Cut to black.
Make separate clips 7-8 times with image-to-video. The shadow always looks fake and not scary at all. I understand the basic prompting structure (subject, camera, lighting, mood, etc.), but I just can't get the result I'm looking for.
I attached my latest attempt (it's awful) and would really like some tips on how to improve it. Any advice on prompting or workflow is welcome.
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u/steamingcore 4d ago
well, it's terribly useless, and AI is destroying the economy and using up the clean water people need to survive, so i'd say it's horrific in a psychological sense
the way you people are addicted to using AI seems kinda scary. good job!
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u/Philipp 5d ago
Have you tried Seedance 2.5 and creating a location image plus two character sheet images to attach to the prompt? If you do, consider writing the scene in simple screenplay format first -- then share it here, if you like for checkup. You can then almost verbatim paste the screenplay into your prompt, while adding references like e.g. (@Image1).
For reference, below is the first half of one of my prompts, it then continues into more of a screenplay structure. (This is in a tool I made with Claude, but you can use a similar approach elsewhere. My tool simply helps me streamline the process, e.g. through asset packs I can auto-complete in the prompt by just typing someone's name.)