SCENE CONTEXT: A dark-comedy medieval fantasy battle in a misty mountain
valley. Thump, a huge red-skinned rebel riding his Thunderkin, watches
his trap unfold and loses his mind with joy, screaming and cheering
with bloodlust in his eyes. Five fast close-ups of his face from very
different angles. Photoreal, cinematic, energetic handheld. 5 shots
joined by HARD CUTS.
OUTPUT: 16:9, 10 seconds, 5 shots, 2 seconds each, hard cuts between
every shot. Real-time motion, 24fps.
ABSOLUTELY NO MUSIC: no score, no soundtrack, no background music, no
musical tones or beats of any kind. No subtitles.
ACTIVE REFERENCES:
@Image1: environment reference: misty alpine valley, grassy meadow,
giant ancient trees, forested mountains, waterfall, blue haze. Use for
the soft, out-of-focus background behind him.
@Image2: a grid of six reference frames of Thump in the misty valley:
face close-ups, a low-angle profile, a torso and fist view, and low-
angle full-body views. A huge, broad, red-skinned rebel with deep
wrinkles, wide pale eyes behind thick round brown cracked-leather
goggles with a strap, a bulbous red nose, a small white tusk at the
corner of the upper lip, a full dark beard strung with wooden and red
beads, dark braided hair with feathers, bone toggles in his earlobes, a
thick brown fur mantle over his shoulders, a riveted leather chest plate
over a rough cloth shirt, a bone-and-claw necklace, leather bracers and
braided wrist cords. Use it for his face, skin, beard, goggles and
costume, and for the soft hazy backlit look of the light on him. Never
copy a frame's composition, and never render the grid or the panel
borders.
@Image3: Thump's mount, the Thunderkin. A heavy gray-brown beast with a
domed head pitted with round holes, a hooked beak and long hollow
tentacle tubes hanging from its chin. Only glimpsed at the frame edge.
@Image4: the Imperial soldiers. Armored knights in polished silver plate
with closed helmets and cream tabards with gold star emblems. Only seen
as soft blurred shapes streaking past far behind him.
@Image5: the Imperial camp. Cream canvas pavilions with gold trim and a
tall lantern tower, small, distant and blurred in the haze.
@Image6: a close-up of Thump's face, STRICTLY a FACE REFERENCE ONLY. It
must NOT be used for composition, framing, camera angle, camera
position, lens, pose, head turn or expression of any kind. Use it ONLY
for the detail of his face: the deeply wrinkled, weathered red skin,
the pale wide eye magnified behind the thick round lens, the stitched,
cracked dark-brown leather goggle frames and black strap, the bulbous
red nose with pale dusty flecks, the small white tusk at the corner of
the upper lip, the uneven yellowed teeth, the coarse dark beard going
lighter and frizzy at the edges, the wooden and red beads strung
through it, and the pale bone toggle in his earlobe.
@Video1: Thump's voice. Use it for the sound, tone and character of
his voice in every line.
THE CAMERA: a third-person cinematic camera, never a POV. Energetic
shoulder-mounted handheld in every shot: lively shake, small jolts and
reframes, always alive, but with clear, readable framing of his face.
Every shot is a THREE-QUARTER CLOSE-UP or tighter, never front-on and
never wider than his head and shoulders. Each shot uses a very
different angle. Each shot HARD CUTS to the next.
THE PERFORMANCE: Thump is CRAZED with joy and bloodlust from the first
frame of Shot 1 to the last frame of Shot 5, with no calm moment. Eyes
wide, gleaming and blazing with glee and rage behind the goggle
lenses, brows hiked high, nostrils flared, lips peeled back from his
yellowed teeth in a huge deranged grin through the dark beard, veins
standing out in his neck and temple, spit flying, beard and beads
shaking, his whole face trembling with manic intensity. He bounces in
the saddle and shakes his clenched fists at the edges of frame.
THE LINE: he screams, over and over, in the voice from @Video1: "Yes!
Yes! More! More! More! Release! Release!" Every word is a loud,
ragged, gleeful, bloodthirsty scream, pronounced as plain English
words.
SHOT 1 (0:00 to 0:02)
OPTICS: 35mm look, shallow depth of field, hazy valley soft behind.
CAMERA: THREE-QUARTER CLOSE-UP from his LEFT side, slightly LOW and
tilted up, his face angled a little away so we see more of his left
cheek and ear. A fast, punchy push-in toward his face.
ACTION: he throws his head forward and screams, a clenched fist
shaking at the bottom-left edge of frame.
TIMING: 0-1.0s: "Yes!" 1.0-2.0s: "Yes!", louder.
AUDIO: Thump's two screams of "Yes!", wind, a distant rumble of boots.
LOCK: three-quarter, never front-on.
SHOT 2 (0:02 to 0:04)
OPTICS: 50mm look, shallow depth of field.
CAMERA: THREE-QUARTER EXTREME CLOSE-UP from his RIGHT side and slightly
ABOVE, looking down across his goggles, nose and gaping mouth, the
beads in his beard swinging in the foreground. A quick arc around his
face toward the front.
ACTION: he bounces in the saddle with each word, head jerking forward,
spit flying from his mouth.
TIMING: 0-0.6s: "More!" 0.6-1.2s: "More!" 1.2-2.0s: "MORE!", the
loudest.
AUDIO: Thump's three screams of "More!", building, plus wind.
LOCK: three-quarter, from his right and above.
SHOT 3 (0:04 to 0:06)
OPTICS: 85mm look, very shallow depth of field.
CAMERA: a near-PROFILE THREE-QUARTER EXTREME CLOSE-UP from low on his
LEFT, tight on his mouth, tusk, beard and jaw, the goggle lens edge
at the top of frame. A slow push in toward his mouth.
ACTION: his mouth stretches open as far as it goes, the tusk and
yellowed teeth bared, the beard and beads shaking violently with the
force of the screams, the veins in his neck standing out.
TIMING: 0-1.0s: "Release!" 1.0-2.0s: "Release!", held long and ragged.
AUDIO: Thump's two screams of "Release!", plus wind.
LOCK: tight on the mouth and beard, three-quarter from the left.
SHOT 4 (0:06 to 0:08)
OPTICS: MACRO look, razor-thin depth of field.
CAMERA: an almost MACRO EXTREME CLOSE-UP of ONE EYE, seen at a
three-quarter angle through the thick round goggle lens: the cracked
leather rim, the scratched glass, the pale wide eye magnified behind
it, deep wrinkles and red skin around it. A small, slow drift in
toward the eye, with fine handheld tremble.
ACTION: the eye FLARES wide open with glee and rage, the pupil fixed,
gleaming wet, bloodshot veins standing out in the white, the brow
above it hiking up and trembling, the lids twitching, the skin around
it creasing with the force of his scream off screen.
TIMING: 0-0.7s: "Yes!" 0.7-1.3s: "Yes!" 1.3-2.0s: "More!", all heard
off screen.
AUDIO: Thump's screams of "Yes! Yes! More!", close and raw, plus his
ragged breathing between them.
LOCK: only the eye, the lens and the skin around it fill the frame.
SHOT 5 (0:08 to 0:10)
OPTICS: 24mm look, shallow depth of field, hazy sky behind.
CAMERA: THREE-QUARTER CLOSE-UP from LOW on his RIGHT, tilted up at
him, his head and raised fist against the misty sky, blurred soldiers'
helmets (@Image4) streaking past far below at the bottom edge. A fast
push up toward his face.
ACTION: he throws his head back and screams up at the sky, one fist
thrust high and shaking, then snaps his head forward for the last
word.
TIMING: 0-0.5s: "More!" 0.5-1.0s: "More!" 1.0-1.5s: "Release!"
1.5-2.0s: "RELEASE!", the biggest scream of all.
AUDIO: Thump's screams of "More! More! Release! RELEASE!", wind,
pounding boots and clanking armor below.
LOCK: three-quarter from low right, never front-on.
GLOBAL LOCK: five 2-second shots, joined by HARD CUTS only. Every shot
is a three-quarter close-up or tighter from a different angle, never
front-on, never a wide shot, never a POV. Thump is crazed with joy and
bloodlust in every frame. His only words are "Yes", "More" and
"Release", screamed in the order given, in the voice from @Video1.
Never render the six-panel grid of @Image2 or any panel borders.
@Image6 is a face-detail reference only and never sets the
composition, camera angle, head angle, pose or expression. NO MUSIC AT
ALL: no score, no soundtrack, no background music, no musical tones or
beats of any kind, only his voice, breath, wind, boots and armor.
LIGHTING: Soft, diffuse daylight through valley mist, cool gray-green
ambient with a faint warm rim from the sun on his skin, beard, goggles
and the wet gleam of his eyes and teeth.