Red-Haired Bad Boy High School Dance VIDEO Breakdown (Prompts Included)
AI Generated Video
Step 1
Open pollo.ai, select Image Generation, upload your reference image as source material, paste the image-to-image prompt below and click Generate. Set GPT Image 2/GPT Image 2.5/Nano Nanana as the default image model. Adjust the aspect ratio according to your video needs; multiple sizes including 16:9 and 9:16 are supported.
Image Generation Screen
Image Prompt
REFERENCE LOCK: Create a high-resolution photorealistic character reference sheet using the uploaded image as the only character reference. Preserve the exact same adult male’s facial structure, recognizable facial features, age range, overall identity, head shape, body proportions, and natural likeness from the reference image. Do not change his race or core facial identity.
HAIR COLOR CHANGE: Change the character’s hair color to vivid bright red in all views while preserving his original hairstyle length, hair shape, silhouette, texture, hairline, and individual styling details from the reference image. Keep his eyebrows naturally dark or subtly reddark to match the red hair. Maintain the same facial expression style and confident look from the reference image. If the character has an earring or other subtle facial accessories visible in the reference image, preserve them consistently.
WARDROBE: The character must wear a crisp white dress shirt, neatly fitted, long sleeves, buttoned properly, paired with a clean necktie. Lower body: simple tailored black trousers and black dress shoes. No jacket, no blazer, no outerwear.
MULTI-VIEW LAYOUT: Create a clean multi-view layout on a pure white seamless studio background. Include four views of the exact same person: one full-body front view facing directly forward, one full-body side view as a true 90-degree profile, one full-body back view as a true rear view, and one large portrait close-up showing the head and upper shoulders. All views must match in red hair color, hairstyle silhouette, facial features, skin tone, proportions, outfit, and styling.
PORTRAIT CLOSE-UP: The portrait close-up should emphasize the character’s recognizable face, bright red hair, confident expression, bone structure, and any subtle accessories preserved from the reference image.
COMPOSITION: Arrange the three full-body views and one facial close-up clearly on the same sheet with balanced spacing and a professional character-reference layout.
STYLE & QUALITY: Studio lighting, even illumination, crisp focus, realistic skin texture, realistic individual hair strands, accurate clothing folds, clean silhouette, high-definition, sharp details. Pure white background only. No props, no furniture, no scenery, no text, no watermark.
Reference image and AI generated image
Step 2
Once your character 4-view sheet is generated, move to Video Generation. A reference video is required for this step; select the reference video from my tutorial as the asset. Upload both the reference video and your character reference images as assets, select Reference-to-Video mode, paste your video prompt, set video duration and aspect ratio, then click Generate.
Reference Video
Video Generation Screen
Video Prompt: Red-Haired Bad Boy High School Dance
REFERENCE SETTINGS: Only reference the reference video for framing, vertical 9:16 composition, tracking camera movement speed, and choreography synchronization. Strictly do not reference the character faces, ethnicities, or ages from the reference video. Main character appearance is strictly based on Image 1.
SUBJECT & ROLES:
Central Character (@CentralCharacter): Reference image 1. A rebellious high school bad-boy with spiky bright red hair and a cheeky smirk. He wears a crisp white dress shirt with the top button unbuttoned, a slightly loosened black tie, black trousers, black dress shoes, and no suit jacket. He holds a lit cigarette between his fingers, casually puffing and blowing smoke, exuding a cool, dominant boss-like aura.
Surrounding Characters (@SurroundingCharacters): A large ensemble of American high school male students with diverse skin tones and ethnicities (Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Asian, etc.). They are dressed in formal school uniforms featuring matching black blazer suit jackets (same black color as the protagonist's trousers), white dress shirts, and neatly fastened black ties. Only the central protagonist is without a jacket. Strictly forbidden to copy the faces, ages, or ethnicities of the actors in the reference video.
ENVIRONMENT: Grand outdoor staircase in front of a classic red-brick American high school campus building.
TIMELINE & CHOREOGRAPHY:
[0:00 - 0:04]: Close-up tracking shot following the reference video camera path. The red-haired protagonist with unbuttoned collar walks forward through the crowd with a confident, rebellious swagger, holding a cigarette between his fingers with smoke swirling around.
[0:04 - 0:18]: The camera slowly and incrementally pulls back into a vertical 9:16 wide symmetrical shot, precisely matching the slow backward tracking speed and pacing of the reference video so the full scene is revealed gradually over 14 seconds without exposing the full wide framing too quickly. The protagonist stops at the center, standing coolly without a jacket, slowly exhaling a plume of smoke. Rows of surrounding diverse multi-ethnic teenage students in black blazers stand completely static in tight, structured formation.
[0:19 - 0:26]: Replicate the exact dance rhythm from the reference video. All surrounding students in blazers synchronously bow deep toward the ground in unison, then snap back up into fast, energetic head-tilting and chest-thrusting dance movements. The central red-haired protagonist stays completely motionless, calmly smoking while staring coolly and rebelliously straight into the camera.
NEGATIVE PROMPT: AVOID: referencing character faces, ethnicities, or ages from the reference video; copying faces, ages, or ethnicities of actors in the reference video; central character wearing a jacket; inconsistent protagonist appearance; extra limbs; duplicated people; text; subtitles; watermarks.
Final Summary
Create a two-stage reference-based workflow: first generate a high-resolution photorealistic character reference sheet using an uploaded image as the only character reference, preserving the exact facial structure and identity while changing the hair to vivid bright red, then use that reference to drive a vertical 9:16 cinematic video set on a grand outdoor staircase in front of a classic red-brick American high school.This tutorial covers the updated character reference sheet prompt and the main video prompt. The video prompt references only the framing, 9:16 composition, tracking camera speed, and choreography synchronization of a reference video. The protagonist’s appearance is strictly based on the generated reference image, while surrounding students wear black blazers and perform synchronized bowing and dance movements.