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Halloween horror short starring you
Recipe by Pixel DojoStar in your own found-footage horror short, shot like a camcorder tape someone found the morning after Halloween. Give Sensei your photos and a spooky setting. It writes the scare, casts you and the monster, films every shot in the VHS look and cuts it to a tape-static ending. Made for Reels, TikTok and the group chat.
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What you provide
- Who stars (a saved character, or upload your photos)
- Where it happens (an abandoned farmhouse, your street)
- The thing in the reflection
What Sensei does
- The scare written as a camcorder tape
- You and the monster cast, likeness first
- Every shot filmed in the VHS look and checked
- Cut to a tape-static ending
The brief Sensei follows
Make a vertical 9:16 found-footage horror short, about 30 seconds, starring [Who stars] at [Where it happens] on Halloween night. Use Film Studio with look horror, quality final and the cast [Who stars] (their photos, likeness first), and write the idea as a camcorder tape: the star films themself and jokes that the place is not haunted, small wrong things build (lights flicker, pumpkins light themselves), the threat ([The thing in the reflection]) appears only in a reflection or behind them, they turn, the picture glitches and the tape cuts to static. Cast the monster from a portrait prompt with its face fully hidden by a mask. No gore, no injuries, the scare is in the reveal. Keep calling status until the film is finished, then a close look at the cut and redo one shot once if a face drifts or the monster changes.
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