The Midnight Informant

The Midnight Informant — a ready-to-use structured/JSON prompt for Writing & Content. Copy it and paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or your preferred AI assistant.

How to use it

Copy the prompt as-is.
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The base prompt

{
  "title": "The Midnight Informant",
  "description": "A tense, film noir moment featuring a female private investigator waiting for a lead in a hazy, underground jazz club.",
  "prompt": "You will perform an image edit using the person from the provided photo as the main subject. Preserve her core likeness. Transform the subject (female) into a sharp-witted 1950s private investigator seated in a booth at a dimly lit, smoke-filled jazz club. The image must be Ultra-Photorealistic and Movie-Quality, evoking the golden age of Film Noir. Use dramatic lighting to highlight skin texture and fabric details. Keywords: photorealistic, cinematic lighting, highly detailed, shot on Arri Alexa, depth of field, volumetric fog, realistic physics.",
  "details": {
    "year": "1954",
    "genre": "Cinematic Photorealism",
    "location": "The Velvet Note, a crowded, subterranean jazz lounge in Chicago with red velvet booths and a small stage in the hazy background.",
    "lighting": [
      "Chiaroscuro",
      "Volumetric shafts of light cutting through smoke",
      "Warm tungsten table lamps",
      "Rim lighting on hair"
    ],
    "camera_angle": "Eye-level medium close-up, shallow depth of field focusing strictly on the subject's eyes.",
    "emotion": [
      "Suspicious",
      "Alert",
      "Melancholic"
    ],
    "color_palette": [
      "Deep shadow black",
      "Amber gold",
      "Burgundy red",
      "Tobacco brown"
    ],
    "atmosphere": [
      "Sultry",
      "Mysterious",
      "Claustrophobic",
      "Noir"
    ],
    "environmental_elements": "Thick swirls of cigarette smoke filling the air, a half-empty glass of amber whiskey on the table, blurred silhouette of a double bass player in the background.",
    "subject1": {
      "costume": "A structured beige trench coat worn over a dark cocktail dress, leather gloves, and a wide-brimmed fedora tilted slightly forward.",
      "subject_expression": "A piercing, guarded gaze, eyes scanning the room, lips pressed in a tight line.",
      "subject_action": "One hand rests on a manila folder on the table, the other hovers near her whiskey glass."
    },
    "negative_prompt": {
      "exclude_visuals": [
        "daylight",
        "modern technology",
        "smartphones",
        "casual clothing",
        "bright sunshine",
        "blue skies"
      ],
      "exclude_styles": [
        "cartoon",
        "3D render",
        "anime",
        "sketch",
        "impressionism",
        "oversaturated"
      ],
      "exclude_colors": [
        "Neon green",
        "Hot pink",
        "Cyan"
      ],
      "exclude_objects": [
        "cars",
        "weapons drawn",
        "animals"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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{ "title": "The Midnight Informant", "description": "A tense, film noir moment featuring a female private investigator waiting for a lead in a hazy, underground jazz club.", "prompt": "You will perform an image edit using the person from the provided photo as the main subject. Preserve her core likeness. Transform the subject (female) into a sharp-witted 1950s private investigator seated in a booth at a dimly lit, smoke-filled jazz club. The image must be Ultra-Photorealistic and Movie-Quality, evoking the golden age of Film Noir. Use dramatic lighting to highlight skin texture and fabric details. Keywords: photorealistic, cinematic lighting, highly detailed, shot on Arri Alexa, depth of field, volumetric fog, realistic physics.", "details": { "year": "1954", "genre": "Cinematic Photorealism", "location": "The Velvet Note, a crowded, subterranean jazz lounge in Chicago with red velvet booths and a small stage in the hazy background.", "lighting": [ "Chiaroscuro", "Volumetric shafts of light cutting through smoke", "Warm tungsten table lamps", "Rim lighting on hair" ], "camera_angle": "Eye-level medium close-up, shallow depth of field focusing strictly on the subject's eyes.", "emotion": [ "Suspicious", "Alert", "Melancholic" ], "color_palette": [ "Deep shadow black", "Amber gold", "Burgundy red", "Tobacco brown" ], "atmosphere": [ "Sultry", "Mysterious", "Claustrophobic", "Noir" ], "environmental_elements": "Thick swirls of cigarette smoke filling the air, a half-empty glass of amber whiskey on the table, blurred silhouette of a double bass player in the background.", "subject1": { "costume": "A structured beige trench coat worn over a dark cocktail dress, leather gloves, and a wide-brimmed fedora tilted slightly forward.", "subject_expression": "A piercing, guarded gaze, eyes scanning the room, lips pressed in a tight line.", "subject_action": "One hand rests on a manila folder on the table, the other hovers near her whiskey glass." }, "negative_prompt": { "exclude_visuals": [ "daylight", "modern technology", "smartphones", "casual clothing", "bright sunshine", "blue skies" ], "exclude_styles": [ "cartoon", "3D render", "anime", "sketch", "impressionism", "oversaturated" ], "exclude_colors": [ "Neon green", "Hot pink", "Cyan" ], "exclude_objects": [ "cars", "weapons drawn", "animals" ] } } }

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