When the Streets Turn Upside Down: City of Falling Shadows


Romen Roy
10 Sept, 2025
When the Streets Turn Upside Down: City of Falling Shadows

Great — (a dramatic, wide-angle falling-through-a-city action scene with a terrified man reaching toward the camera, debris, a flying taxi and a police officer), here are four ready-to-use prompts you can copy-paste depending on your goal.

Image-generation prompt (Midjourney / Stable Diffusion, cinematic photoreal)

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Hyper-realistic cinematic action scene: a young Black man falling through a collapsing city street, reaching toward the camera with a terrified expression, debris and concrete chunks swirling around, a yellow taxi careening past and a police officer also falling in the background. Extreme wide-angle fisheye perspective, motion blur on background elements, razor-sharp facial detail, dramatic rim and top lighting, muted desaturated teal-and-amber color grade, volumetric dust and particles, high dynamic range, photoreal, 35mm-equivalent dramatic lens, ultra-detailed skin texture, dynamic composition, high contrast — cinematic blockbuster poster.
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(Options/tweaks for models: Midjourney: --v 6 --ar 3:4 --q 2. Add “--stylize 50” for more artistic flair. SDXL: set guidance_scale high (10-14) and seed for reproducibility.)

Concept / 3D / matte-painting brief (artist / VFX) 

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Create a dynamic matte-painting/VFX concept: foreground subject — young man mid-fall, screaming, hands outstretched toward the viewer. Environment — collapsing urban canyon with skyscrapers tilted, flying rubble, a yellow taxi mid-air, and a police officer further back. Emphasize extreme foreshortening and motion, volumetric dust, directional rim light from top-left, and subtle lens artifacts (chromatic aberration, vignette). Color palette: teal shadows and warm amber highlights. Provide layered PSD: separate passes for foreground subject, midground debris, taxi, background city, dust/particles, and light/grade pass.
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Retouch / composite edit prompt (Photoshop / retoucher brief) "Composite and retouch to create a blockbuster poster look. Key actions: enhance facial expression detail (eyes, mouth) and add catchlights; increase contrast and local clarity on hands and face; add motion blur and radial blur to background elements to emphasize speed; clean/paint extra debris for compositional balance; refine taxi and officer silhouettes so they read at a glance; apply cinematic teal/amber color grade, add volumetric dust layers and subtle film grain; final sharpen on subject, export high-res TIFF and JPG optimized for print/web.

Short social caption + hashtags "Plummeting into chaos — catch me if you can. 🚕🌀 #ActionPoster #Cinematic #BlockbusterVibes #EpicFall"

Concise alt-text (accessibility) “Extreme wide-angle scene of a young man falling through a collapsing city, screaming and reaching toward the viewer; debris, a yellow taxi, and a police officer tumble around him against tilted skyscrapers.”

Convert the generation prompt to a specific model format (Midjourney v6, SDXL, or DALL·E)?

Produce JSON tags & bounding-box-like labels for the image elements (subject, taxi, police officer, debris)?

Generate step-by-step Photoshop actions for the retouch brief?

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