System and methods for evoking authentic emotions from live photographic and video subjects

A system for a user taking photographs or videos with a camera to help evoke genuine and authentic emotions of one or a plurality of live camera subjects before the photo or video is captured, comprising:

• a digital device with a processor, a display, and system memory;
• a software application with a graphical user interface installed on the digital device or a remote server;
• wherein said application is used to store, manage, access, and view metadata tagged prompts;
• a pre-loaded library of metadata tagged prompts;
• wherein said prompts being emotive phrase(s), direction(s), image(s), sound(s), and/or animation(s) to help evoke genuine and authentic emotions of one or a plurality of live camera subjects;
• wherein said application has a two-stage filter to successively refine the list of said prompts to be presented to the user;
• wherein a first stage filter comprises an organized list of a plurality of live camera subject types;
• wherein a second stage filter comprises an organized list of emotions to be evoked;
• wherein a set of selectable top-level options shown in the graphical user interface for the first stage filter comprises the system user or self, someone else, and a group type of live camera subjects;
• and a prompt delivery system to convey prompts to one or a plurality of live camera subjects.