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Halloween in Ancient Egypt ๐
One character sheet. One prompt. A 15-second Halloween film with five shots, made inside PixVerse.
- Make a character sheet from your photo in Create, then Image.
- Add it as a reference in Video and turn MultiShot on.
- Paste one prompt and generate all five shots at once.
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Step 1 โ Make your character sheet ๐ง
Go to Create, then Image. Upload a clear, front-facing photo of yourself and paste the prompt below. You want four views on one image: front, side, back and a face close-up. This one sheet keeps your face and outfit the same in every shot.

Character reference sheet of the person in the uploaded photo, same face, hair and glasses (if any), dressed as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh: striped blue-and-gold nemes headdress, broad gold and blue Egyptian collar, white linen robe with a gold belt, gold arm cuffs. Their upper canine teeth are slightly longer than normal, their own natural teeth in the same off-white colour as the rest, realistic, not plastic. Calm, deadpan expression. Layout: four views on one image: full-body front, full-body side, full-body back, and one close-up of the face. Plain warm sandstone-beige background, soft even daylight. Realistic photographic look, warm golden-sepia colour, shallow depth of field, light film grain. Same face, glasses and outfit in every view. No text, no logos, no gods.
Steps 2 + 3 โ Add it, then paste one prompt ๐ฌ
Go to Video, add your character sheet as the reference, turn Reference on and MultiShot on, and set 9:16 and 15 seconds. Then paste the prompt below. Button names can look a little different in your app.
@image1 Using the reference image for the person's face and outfit: keep every outfit detail identical, including glasses. 9:16, 15 seconds, five shots with hard cuts between them. Found-footage style, filmed on a MiniDV camcorder from 2002, shaky handheld throughout, never smooth, no gimbal. Halloween in ancient Egypt, and everyone treats it as completely normal. The person from @image1 is always dressed as a pharaoh in a blue-and-gold striped nemes headdress, wide gold collar, loose white linen robe and gold belt, deadpan. Their upper canine teeth are slightly longer and pointier than normal, only a few millimetres, their own natural teeth in the same off-white enamel colour as the others, slightly uneven, realistic, not bright white, no plastic look, no cartoon fangs. Their friends are a mummy in bandages, a vampire count in a black cape with a high collar, and a witch in a pointed hat. Shot 1 (0-3s): in a sunlit ancient Egyptian stone tomb, two attendants in white linen kilts pull open an upright sarcophagus mounted on the wall. Inside, the pharaoh stands holding a glowing carved Halloween pumpkin, studies it, then steps out. Dust in a shaft of daylight, slow handheld push-in. Shot 2 (3-6s): bright golden daylight in a dry desert temple courtyard with sand dunes, a sandstone temple wall and a tall hieroglyph-carved sandstone pillar in the right foreground. Wide, the pharaoh stands by the pillar talking on a plain black unbranded modern smartphone. A fast hard zoom to a head-and-shoulders close-up. They look at the camera, pull the corner of the upper lip back with one finger to show one canine, grin and wink. Shot 3 (6-9s): a busy mud-brick market street in golden backlit daylight decorated for Halloween with glowing pumpkins, papyrus bats, ghosts and orange lanterns. Mummies and villagers shop and never look up. The pharaoh rides in on a plain grey-and-black unbranded dirt bike, skids to a stop in a cloud of dust at a pumpkin stall, points at the biggest pumpkin and holds up one finger. The mummy vendor hands it over without looking up. Shot 4 (9-12s): a sunlit stonemason's yard with half-carved hieroglyph slabs, a rope-and-pulley hoist and stone dust in sun shafts. The pharaoh and friends carve giant pumpkins with stone chisels and mallets. The mummy's bandage catches on a chisel and he calmly unwinds it. Camera drifts in, handheld. Shot 5 (12-15s): evening at the end of golden hour in a narrow mud-brick village lane, low orange sun, lanterns and pumpkins glowing against the dusk. The group walks to a door chatting. The pharaoh knocks twice, a villager opens it deadpan and drops sweets into their small hollowed-pumpkin baskets. A small satisfied nod, and they walk on. Look: shot on a 2002 MiniDV camcorder with a vintage lens, transferred from tape to standard definition. Soft 480-line resolution, visible tape noise and heavy film-like grain, blocky DV compression, glowing blown-out highlights, milky lifted blacks, faded warm sepia-gold cast, low contrast, dusty haze, slightly smudged lens, heavy motion blur on fast moves. Dust drifts through the air. Autofocus hunts, exposure flickers, warm light leaks. No sharpening, no text, no logos, no watermark. No brands anywhere. Sound: low stone scrape, desert wind, a faint phone murmur, engine rev and dust skid, chisels tapping, soft friendly chatter, sweets rattling, faint drums.
If something looks off ๐ง
- Teeth look fake? Edit only the teeth line in the prompt. Ask for natural, slightly longer canines in the same colour as the other teeth, then run it again.
- Face drifting? Use a clear, front-facing photo for the sheet, and keep the same sheet as the only reference.
- Too busy? Delete shot 4 and spread the other four shots over 15 seconds.
- Keep it brand free. Leave out real logos, brands and gods, and keep any props unbranded.
- Keep the camera look. The shaky handheld, soft tape-style look and the dust are what make it feel like real found footage.
Links ๐
- PixVerse 20% off โ subscription plans only ยท new users only, one use per user
- ๐ฌ Watch the reel โ Instagram โ @adam.godigital
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