Analog Broadcast

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A family scene held in the same broadcast look, from the burned-in corner overlay to the softness of the picture.

A demonstration close-up, the same broadcast treatment carried onto hands and a countertop.

A presenter to camera, with the broadcast style holding the frame, the overlay and the picture damage together.

An industrial subject at wide scale, rendered with the same tracking damage, flat lighting and corner overlay.

Description

A hijacked-broadcast look: 4:3 tape footage worn down by tracking noise, scanlines and smeared colour, with a burned-in timestamp sitting over the flat, tungsten-lit calm of public-access television. It suits locked-off interiors, to-camera pieces and instructional set-ups where the damage to the picture carries more dread than anything happening inside it. Inspired by the analog videos that spread on YouTube from the mid-2010s and the 1980s broadcast and training tapes they imitate.

Colors

#9A856A28%Usage: Studio flats

#847A6418%Usage: Carpet and laminate

#5A3A2914%Usage: Wood veneer

#70736314%Usage: Upholstery and concrete

#B78E7010%Usage: Skin tones

#423B3410%Usage: Shadow areas

#1A4CBA3%Usage: Broadcast blue

#E5C51C3%Usage: Signal-bar accents

Palette Size

6–8 colors

Color Temperature

Tungsten

Saturation Range

Subdued

Contrast Strategy

Low contrast with abrupt white static blowouts

Color Dominance

Background-dominant

Black & White Point

Lifted blacks + Rolled-off highlights

Shadow Color

Hue-shifted

Inspiration Images

Mood & Personality

Dark, Serious, Mysterious, Documentary realism, institutional calm

Energy Level

Mellow

Emotional Bias

Tense

Tone Register

Observational

Real-world Accuracy

Loosely accurate

Narrative Allowance

Full scene

Characters

Allowed (detailed)

Camera and Motion

Camera Shot Size

Medium shot

Camera Vertical Angle

Eye level

Depth of Field

Deep, low-resolution tape softness; no cinematic shallow focus

Lens Type

Standard

Focal Length Feel

Normal

Point of View

Objective

Camera Movement

Static

Motion Intensity

Statuesque

Motion Implication

Static

Frame Rate Feel

Broadcast (30 fps)

Transition Type

Glitch, tracking interruption

Post-processing & Render Style

Tone Curve Shape

Film-emulation

Grain Character

Stylized

Sharpening Style

None

Halation

Subtle

Image Treatment

Full-color

Typography

Aa, Bb, Typography

Font FamilyMonospaced bitmap timestamp; heavy broadcast sans for titles and lower thirds

Font WeightsBold

Letter SpacingWide

Text Case

ALL CAPS

Text Presence

Required

Text Visual Role

Secondary visual element

Text Integration

Overlaid

Container / Boundary

Container presence

Explicit (shape mask)

Container shape

Soft CRT screen mask with barrel curvature

Corner treatment

Fully rounded

Container Dominance

Visual element

Edge behavior

Content fully contained

Surface, Material & Detail

Material Simulation

Aged institutional plastic, laminate, worn linoleum, veneer, acoustic fabric

Surface Treatment

Matte

Surface Texture Style

Visible scanlines, tape grain, crawling luma noise, chroma bleed, dropouts, CRT phosphor smear

Texture Usage

Photographic, Subtle noise

Imperfection Level

Used

Micro-detail Allowance

Minimal

Age of Surface

Aged

Abstraction Level

Realistic

References

Cultural References

Analog, Local 58, 1980s public-access television, institutional training tapes

Temporal Reference

1980s

Guardrails

Common Artifacts to Avoid

AI Gloss / Plastic Smoothing, Heavy Bokeh / Blur, Lens Flare, HDR over-processing, Over-saturation, Studio Post-processing, Stylistic filters

Avoided Visuals

real EAS/EBS graphics; government agency seals; real station identities; emergency alert cards; distorted grinning faces; hyper-real mouths; screaming stills; empty fluorescent corridors; dead malls; tiled poolrooms; polygonal game-render geometry; beauty-lit retro hardware

Avoided Words

THIS IS NOT A TEST; TAKE SHELTER; EVACUATE; DO NOT LOOK; FEMA; NOAA; National Weather Service; Civil Defense

Avoided Layouts

public-safety alert layouts; sharp vector overlays; modern UI cards

Allowed Visuals

invented station identity; fictional timestamp; centred presenter; municipal studio interior; instructional set-up; muted CRT frame; restrained scanlines; mild tracking noise; fictional lower thirds

Conditional Logic

Keep broadcast text fictional and non-directive; reserve clean saturated color for fictional signal-loss blue or generic test-bar imagery.

Output Format

Creative Discipline

Cinematography

Medium

Film

Delivery Mode

Sequence

Aspect Ratio

4:3 (Landscape)

Safe Area Strategy

Broadcast-safe

Cropping Priority

Center

Light & Shadow

Lighting Mood Style

Studio-flat

Key Light Style

Diffused

Light Source Type

Artificial

Lighting Direction

Top-lit, Front-lit

Light Source Count

Multiple

Shadow Type

Soft

Shadow Density

Light

Fill-light Ratio

Flat fill

Exposure Bias

Unreliable auto-gain; windows and practicals clip abruptly

Bloom / Glow Usage

Subtle

Lighting Presence

Explicit

Spatial Structure & Hierarchy

Perspective Style

Flat

Focal Structure

Single

Hierarchy Clarity

Strong

Symmetry

Near symmetry

Balance Type

Center-weighted

Layout Axis

Vertical

Plane Separation Method

Color/value shift, Shadow

Visual Density

Balanced

Background & Environment

Background Type

Scene

Environment Mood

Studio

Background–Subject Relationship

Contextual

Background Complexity

Simple

Prop / Set Styling

Curated

Custom Style Items

Signal Damage Hierarchy

Scanlines, soft chroma smear, timestamp, and mild tracking damage lead; glitches remain sparse and brief.

Chroma Failure

Reds and yellows bleed sideways; high-contrast edges carry red-blue misregistration and dot crawl.

CRT Boundary

Dark curved corners, faint phosphor bloom, and a head-switching jitter strip pinned to the bottom edge.

Institutional Framing

Flat-frontal centred subject, generous headroom, padded safe margins, and unexplained dead space or doorway placement.

Typography Degradation

Burned-in type is slightly clipped, glowing, scanlined, chroma-fringed, and never vector-crisp.

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