Example: "Canal 9" by ÍRIS (made-up artist)
Old CRT TV
A signal from another time.
electrónicaR&Balternativo
Why it works
The TV is a frame within the frame: the face sits framed with real video texture. One background color makes it pop instead of 'generic nostalgia'.
How to adapt it to your song
Swap the TV for an old phone, a handheld console or a cinema screen.
The prompt
Professional music album cover art, square 1:1 format. The artist's idea decides the scene, pose, props and composition (the style only adds camera, light and color): An old CRT television with a wood-grain case sitting on a flat bright orange floor against an orange wall, its screen showing the artist's face with scan lines and a soft glow, an antenna on top, a tangle of cable. The title "Canal 9" displayed on the TV screen at the bottom as an old on-screen caption in white blocky video letters. "ÍRIS" in small black caps on the floor area.. Camera, light and color in this style, keeping the scene above: hyper-realistic high-fashion editorial cover, medium format camera with an 85mm lens at f/1.8, the artist facing camera, real skin texture, large soft key light with a crisp rim light, shallow depth of field with creamy bokeh, deep teal shadows and warm amber highlights, luxury magazine cover energy. The background: pure void black background, minimal negative space. The song title "Canal 9" appears ONLY where the scene places it, spelled exactly, once; do not add it again anywhere else. Artist name on the cover, spelled exactly, small and shown once: "ÍRIS". The title appears EXACTLY ONCE, only where the scene above places it and made of the material the scene describes; do NOT add a second title, logo or headline anywhere else (no chrome or metallic logo at the top). The artist name appears once, small, where the scene says. Every letter perfectly spelled and fully visible. No other readable text anywhere. Pop graphic art direction: one clear idea, a short bold color palette, a simple or flat background, readable as a phone thumbnail. People look natural and real, with personality or humor, dressed as described; never a generic glamour or swimsuit pose. Finish the whole image, lettering included, like this: analog camcorder and VHS artifacts: scan lines, chromatic aberration splitting red and blue at the edges, a slight datamosh glitch over part of the image, crushed color, nostalgic 2000s music video still. It must look like a real photo, not AI: skin with pores and small imperfections, no plastic or airbrushed skin, real lens depth of field and vignetting, correct reflections and shadows, organic film grain, no generic HDR look, a single captured moment.
This is the exact prompt Vanta uses (GPT Image 2). It works in other generators too, but results vary by model.
Make it with your face
In Vanta you upload your photo and the recipe keeps your identity, with cinema-grade lettering and finish. Also from ChatGPT or Claude: ask to "use the recipe Old CRT TV" with the Vanta Label connector.
