POV: You Are a Baker in Ancient Pompeii: History AI Video Prompt

Create a 30-second vertical (9:16) first-person POV video: "You are a baker in Pompeii, AD 79." Historically grounded, warm and immersive, photorealistic, like a high-end documentary reconstruction. We see through the baker's eyes; only their forearms and hands appear.

POV HANDS: strong forearms dusted with flour, a simple bronze ring, sleeves of an undyed wool tunic.
CHARACTERS: an apprentice boy of about 12 in a short brown tunic; a donkey turning a lava-stone grain mill; customers in tunics and simple cloaks.
SETTING: a Roman bakery (pistrinum) opening onto a cobbled street: a dome-shaped brick oven, two hourglass-shaped lava-stone mills, a wooden counter facing the street, round loaves scored into eight segments, amphorae, painted red-and-ochre walls, Mount Vesuvius visible at the end of the street under a clear sky. Same bakery throughout.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: first-person head-height camera with natural breathing motion, wide 24 mm lens, flickering firelight before dawn, then golden morning sun into the street, dust and flour in the air, realistic textures, documentary colour grade.

[00:00-00:05] BEFORE DAWN — Darkness; the hands light an oil lamp, revealing the cold oven and sacks of grain. A rooster crows outside.
[00:05-00:10] THE MILL — The apprentice leads the blindfolded donkey around the lava-stone mill; flour pours out; the hands scoop it into a wooden trough.
[00:10-00:15] THE DOUGH — The hands knead dough on a floured table, shape round loaves, score them into eight wedges and press a bronze stamp into each.
[00:15-00:20] THE OVEN — The hands slide loaves into the glowing dome oven on a long wooden peel; firelight on the apprentice's face as he grins.
[00:20-00:25] SUNRISE — Golden light floods the street; the hands stack steaming loaves on the counter as a queue of neighbours forms, coins clinking.
[00:25-00:30] THE MOUNTAIN — The POV glances down the street to Vesuvius, calm and green under a blue sky, a single thin wisp at the summit; hold, then cut to black.

SOUND: crackling fire, the stone mill grinding, a donkey's snort, Latin street chatter murmured indistinctly, coins, distant seagulls, a low ominous tone on the final shot.
RULES: historically plausible clothing and objects, no modern items, no text or subtitles, no gore or eruption, consistent bakery.

9:16 first-person POV, photorealistic documentary reconstruction: you are a baker in Pompeii, AD 79. Floury forearms light an oil lamp before dawn; an apprentice leads a blindfolded donkey around a lava-stone mill; hands knead and score round loaves into eight wedges and stamp them; loaves slide into a glowing brick dome oven; at sunrise steaming bread is stacked on the counter as neighbours queue with coins. Final look down the cobbled street at a calm Mount Vesuvius with a thin wisp at the summit. Fire crackle, mill grind, street chatter, no text, no modern objects.

Apprentice: Boy of about 12, short brown wool tunic, sandals, curly dark hair, flour on his cheeks.

modern objects, glasses, plastic, text, subtitles, gore, eruption, fantasy elements

POV: you bake bread in Pompeii, AD 79 🍞🌋

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