Analogue Futures(11)
Same Prompt, Different Visual Memory
I kept the subject fixed—a weary, high-ranking Roman general surveying a remote, fog-shrouded northern battlefield—and changed only the moodboard. That simple constraint turned the exercise into a direct comparison of how reference imagery influences the model's choices.
The Reference Becomes the Direction
The film-based boards pulled the prompt toward recognisable cinematic worlds. My analogue references did something quieter: they introduced grain, softened edges, muted colour and the feeling of found photography. Against the cleaner no-board baseline, the comparison showed that a moodboard does more than supply a look—it changes the image's atmosphere, visual logic and sense of time.
