# POV Historical Era — Strong Background Replacement Prompt
**CUSTOM HISTORICAL SETTING: 1800s New York
Use the uploaded image **ONLY as a reference for the main person**.
The uploaded image is **NOT a background reference**.
**Completely remove, ignore, and replace the original background.**
Do not preserve the original location, architecture, furniture, street, landscape, lighting, or environmental objects from the uploaded image.
The entire video environment MUST be rebuilt specifically as:
**[FILL IN THE ERA / LOCATION HERE]**
Create a **6-second vertical cinematic video** in which the uploaded person has suddenly been transported into this exact historical setting.
## Highest Priority
The requested historical setting must dominate the entire frame.
For example, if the user enters:
**“Victorian London, 1880s”**
the background must visibly contain recognizable Victorian London elements such as period architecture, cobblestone streets, gas lamps, horse-drawn carriages, foggy streets, Victorian storefronts, pedestrians in period clothing, and absolutely no modern objects.
If the user enters:
**“Tang Dynasty Chang'an, China”**
the environment must clearly become Tang Dynasty Chang'an, with historically inspired Chinese architecture, traditional streets, wooden buildings, lanterns, period clothing, markets, carts, and appropriate historical atmosphere.
**Do not generate a generic historical background. Interpret the exact location and era entered by the user and build the environment around it.**
## Person
Preserve the uploaded person’s:
* exact facial identity
* facial structure
* skin tone
* hairstyle
* body proportions
* age
* recognizable appearance
Do not replace the person with another character.
The person should remain the clear protagonist of the video.
Their clothing may be **naturally adapted to match the requested historical era**, while keeping their face and identity unchanged.
## Scene
Start immediately inside:
**[FILL IN THE ERA / LOCATION HERE]**
Do NOT begin in the original uploaded location.
Do NOT show a transformation from the original background.
The historical world should already be fully established in the first frame.
The person stands naturally inside the historical environment and looks around with subtle curiosity and surprise, as if they have unexpectedly traveled back in time.
They slowly take one or two steps forward while observing the world around them.
Include environmental movement appropriate to the requested setting, such as:
* pedestrians moving naturally
* cloth or flags moving in the wind
* carts or historical transportation passing
* smoke, fog, dust, leaves, lanterns, or atmospheric particles
* natural activity in streets or markets
The world should feel **alive and inhabited**, not like a static backdrop.
## Camera
Use one continuous cinematic shot.
The camera gently tracks backward or sideways while following the person.
Show enough of the environment to make the requested historical location immediately recognizable.
Avoid extreme close-ups. Keep the person roughly medium-full-body or full-body so the historical setting remains visible.
During the final second, the person slowly looks toward the camera as if realizing:
**“I’m actually in the past.”**
## Environment Accuracy
Every visible environmental element should support:
**[FILL IN THE ERA / LOCATION HERE]**
Replace modern elements with historically appropriate alternatives.
Remove:
* modern cars
* modern buildings
* modern street signs
* smartphones
* LED screens
* contemporary furniture
* modern advertisements
* modern road markings
* modern infrastructure
Do not mix different historical periods.
Do not preserve recognizable elements from the uploaded photo’s original environment.
## Visual Style
Photorealistic historical cinema, immersive time-travel POV, realistic period architecture, detailed historical environment, natural crowd movement, atmospheric depth, cinematic lighting, subtle film grain, realistic textures, believable human movement.
The result should feel like:
**the exact person from the uploaded photo has physically traveled into [FILL IN THE ERA / LOCATION HERE], and the camera is documenting their first few seconds inside that world.**
## Critical Rules
**PERSON = derive from uploaded image.**
**BACKGROUND = derive ONLY from FILL IN THE ERA / LOCATION HERE
Do not use the uploaded image as environmental reference.
Completely replace the original background.
The requested historical era and location must be clearly recognizable from the first frame to the last frame.
**Camera:** one continuous shot
**Background replacement strength:** maximum
**Character identity preservation:** high