SCENE CONTEXT: A funny, lighthearted puppet-show scene around a campfire
in a blue misty forest at dusk. Fek is putting on a puppet show as if
for a crowd of very slow little children, wildly overdoing it. The dolls
are fake stuffed cloth toy puppets, it is all pretend and played for
slapstick comedy.
OUTPUT: 16:9, 5.8 seconds, 3 shots, hard cut between shots.
ACTIVE REFERENCES:
@Image1: the composition of shot 1 once the smoke clears at 0.5s. Fek, a
thin Imperial officer in a silver cuirass over a cream coat with gold
embroidery, sits on a stool facing the camera, holding up the two toy
dolls: the WHITE toy knight doll on the LEFT side of the frame and the
RED-HAIRED toy doll on the RIGHT side of the frame. Thump's giant bare
toes are in the foreground, a small goggled Bobo sits at the right edge.
@Image2: the framing reference for shot 3, and the Bobo reference. The
small goggled Bobo with a topknot and a cigarette crouched behind a
mossy rock with the white doll. This is the Bobo who runs in during shot
1. In shot 3 this pose is where he ENDS UP, not where he starts. Never
use it for shots 1 or 2.
@Image3: character sheet of Fek. Use for his face, slicked dark hair,
mustache, silver cuirass, cream coat with gold embroidery and black
gloves, in every shot he appears.
@Video1: AUDIO ONLY, Fek's voice and the audio cue for shot 1 and the
start of shot 2. Use only its sound, never any picture from it.
THE DOLLS: Fake toy puppets. The WHITE doll (gold star, X face, tan
scarf) is in shots 1 and 3 (in shot 3 the Bobo has it). The RED-HAIRED
doll is in shots 1 and 2.
DOLL MAP, READ THIS CAREFULLY: picture the frame split down the middle
into a LEFT HALF and a RIGHT HALF. The WHITE doll is ALWAYS in the LEFT
HALF of the frame. The RED-HAIRED doll is ALWAYS in the RIGHT HALF of
the frame. Fek faces the camera, so the hand on the LEFT of the frame is
his own RIGHT hand, and the hand on the RIGHT of the frame is his own
LEFT hand: his own RIGHT hand, on the LEFT of the frame, holds the WHITE
doll; his own LEFT hand, on the RIGHT of the frame, holds the RED-HAIRED
doll. The red-haired doll is on the SAME side of the frame as the seated
Bobo at the right edge. The white doll is on the SAME side of the frame
the running Bobo comes in from, the LEFT. The dolls NEVER swap sides and
never change hands.
SHOT 1 (0:00 to 0:02.1)
FIRST FRAME: the whole screen is COVERED in thick, drifting gray-white
campfire SMOKE, with only Fek's dim shape faintly glimpsed inside it,
and he is ALREADY SPEAKING his line in the very first frame, his mouth
moving and his voice audible from frame one. 0-0.5s: the camera PUSHES
IN THROUGH the smoke and it DISSIPATES fast, thinning and swirling away
to the edges of the frame; from the very first frame Fek is SAYING HIS
LINE, his shape and moving mouth growing clearer through the thinning
smoke; by 0.5s the smoke is completely gone, revealing exactly the
composition of @Image1, the WHITE doll on the LEFT of the frame and the
RED-HAIRED doll on the RIGHT.
OPTICS: 24mm look, low angle, shallow depth of field.
CAMERA: a SLOW PUSH-IN. The camera physically DOLLIES IN toward Fek the
whole shot, steady and continuous, subtly handheld, starting by pushing
through the smoke. It is a real dolly move, not a digital zoom.
ACTION: Fek is LEANED FORWARD on the stool the whole shot, bending
toward his audience like a children's puppeteer, posed as in @Image1,
holding the WHITE doll high on the LEFT side of the frame and the RED-
HAIRED doll on the RIGHT side of the frame, bouncing and wiggling both
dolls like a puppet show. 0-1.7s: from the very first frame, while he is
still hidden in the thick smoke and carrying on as it clears, Fek says
"BIG EXPLOOOOODE!" His performance is WILDLY OVERDONE and PANDERING, a
puppet show for a crowd of very stupid little kids: a huge, sugary,
sing-song kiddie voice, slow and painfully over-enunciated, his eyebrows
shooting way up, his eyes huge and bulging with fake excitement, his
mouth stretching into exaggerated shapes, his head bobbing and tilting
side to side, a giant, beaming, falsely sweet grin, utterly
condescending, as if explaining it to toddlers or cavemen, the last word
stretched long and huge, wildly shaking the RED-HAIRED doll on the RIGHT
side of the frame. At 1.4s the Bobo from @Image2 RUSHES INTO FRAME FROM
THE LEFT, darting in low and fast, LEAPS UP, and grabs ONLY the WHITE
doll on the LEFT side of the frame, yanking it free at 2.0s. THE INSTANT
the doll is yanked away, Fek is JOLTED out of his performance: his line
snaps off mid-word and his whole body flinches back, shoulders jerking,
head whipping around to follow the Bobo, his giant grin vanishing in a
single frame into a jarring flash of alarm and freak-out. His eyes snap
wide and track the Bobo, his brows crash together, and his mouth does
NOT hang open or go slack, it snaps tight and into the shape of the word
"Hey" with no pause at all. 2.0-2.1s: the Bobo is already streaking away
to the RIGHT with the white doll while Fek's now-empty hand on the LEFT
of the frame jerks after it, the "Hey" on the verge of bursting out. THE
SHOT ENDS HERE, mid-motion, on the cut. Fek keeps the RED-HAIRED doll on
the RIGHT side of the frame.
AUDIO: Fek's voice from @Video1, sugary, over-the-top, sing-song kiddie
delivery, starting on the very first frame, crackling campfire, the soft
hiss of drifting smoke at the start, the quick patter of small feet.
LOCK: the shot opens fully covered in smoke, which clears completely
within 0.5s as the camera pushes in through it, revealing @Image1; Fek
starts "BIG EXPLOOOOODE!", his only line before the "Hey", on the very
first frame, already speaking from inside the smoke. The WHITE doll is
on the LEFT of the frame and the RED-HAIRED doll is on the RIGHT of the
frame, never the other way around. The Bobo takes only the WHITE doll
from the LEFT. The RED-HAIRED doll stays on the RIGHT side of the frame.
The shot cuts to the close-up right on the grab, mid-motion. Fek's
performance is hugely overdone and pandering until the grab. His
reaction is a fast, sharp jolt and flinch. He never freezes, never
stares blankly and never lets his jaw drop slack.
CUT TO:
SHOT 2 (0:02.1 to 0:03.3)
A HARD CUT, landing right on the Bobo's grab, that punches in to a
CLOSE-UP of Fek on his stool, head and shoulders filling the frame, the
RED-HAIRED doll in the hand on the RIGHT side of the frame, at the right
edge of frame. This is a plain cut to a tighter shot, not a zoom or push
of any kind.
OPTICS: 35mm look, shallow depth of field.
CAMERA: handheld and very active, shaky and alive.
ACTION: This continues the jolt from shot 1 with NO pause: Fek is
already mid-flinch and rattled, and the word comes out at once. Fek's
eyes and head are angled DOWN AND TO THE RIGHT of frame the whole shot,
because the Bobo is tiny and on the ground below him. 0-0.4s: Fek shouts
"Hey!" the instant the shot begins, sharp, loud and freaked out, wide
eyes locked on the Bobo, brows up, his body still recoiling. 0.4-1.2s:
alarm curdles into outrage and frustration, his jaw clenching, still
looking down and to the right after the Bobo, still holding the RED-
HAIRED doll on the RIGHT side of the frame.
AUDIO: Fek's voice from @Video1, the "Hey!" starting right on the cut,
campfire crackle.
LOCK: Fek's mouth is never slack or hanging open before the word. The
RED-HAIRED doll stays on the RIGHT side of the frame. No white doll in
this shot.
CUT TO:
SHOT 3 (0:03.3 to 0:05.8)
FRAMING: the composition of @Image2: a mossy rock in the middle, Fek's
boot at the left edge, Thump's feet at the right edge, a dark wagon
blurred behind. The Bobo is NOT crouched at the rock yet when the shot
begins. He is still mid-run, finishing the action from shot 1.
OPTICS: 28mm look, shallow depth of field.
CAMERA: very handheld and very active, shaky and energetic.
ACTION: 0-0.9s: the Bobo from @Image2 SCURRIES INTO FRAME FROM THE LEFT
and runs LEFT TO RIGHT, low and fast, the white doll clutched in his
hands, still carrying the momentum of his leap and grab. He skids to a
stop crouched behind the mossy rock beside the fire, landing in the pose
of @Image2. 0.9-1.1s: he hoists the fake white toy puppet fully up over
his head. 1.1s: he SMACKS the toy puppet's head down on the mossy rock
EXTREMELY HARD, a big cartoon slapstick whack. 1.1-2.5s: he keeps going,
raising the puppet FULLY OVER HIS HEAD every time and bringing it ALL
THE WAY DOWN onto the rock, over and over, as hard as he possibly can,
with ALL HIS MIGHT, wild, gleeful and relentless, cigarette still in his
mouth, shrieking a squeaky gremlin laugh. The soft puppet flops and
bounces off the rock each time, silly and limp.
AUDIO: loud cartoon whacks and thumps of the stuffed puppet on the rock,
a squeaky gremlin shriek-laugh, campfire crackle. No music.
LOCK: the Bobo is in motion from the first frame, running left to right,
and arrives at the rock. He is not already standing there. The white
doll is a fake stuffed cloth puppet, the whole thing is pretend and
played for laughs. The white doll is the one he carries, from the LEFT.
GLOBAL LOCK: Fek matches @Image3 in every shot. Keep Fek, the Bobo,
Thump, the dolls and the campfire clothing and colors identical to the
start frames. In shots 1 and 2 the WHITE doll is on the LEFT of the
frame and the RED-HAIRED doll on the RIGHT. No white, blue or green
placeholder shapes or markers rendered. No subtitles, no text, no logos.
Fek never makes sniffing or inhaling sounds.
LIGHTING: blue dusk mist, warm orange firelight from the campfire on
faces and rock.