12 seconds, 16:9. Deadpan documentary scene at a weather-testing institute, five shots with hard cuts, played completely straight.
REFERENCES: @Image1 is the technician: keep her face, short grey hair, tortoiseshell glasses, white lab coat, navy roll-neck and black rubber boots identical in every shot. @Image2 is the umbrella: keep the mustard-yellow eight-panel canopy, cream edge piping, walnut shaft and crook handle identical. @Image3 is the test chamber: keep the green tiles, centre drain, ceiling sprinkler grid, the caged wall fan on the left and the observation window. @Image4 is the final frame of the film: the last shot ends exactly on this picture.
SCREEN DIRECTION: every shot is filmed from the front, on the same axis as the wide shot, so the wall fan is always on the left of frame. The fan blows from left to right: rain, lab coat, hair and umbrella are always pushed to the right of frame, away from the fan.
Shot 1, 0-3 s: wide, static, symmetrical frame of the chamber from @Image3. The technician stands dead centre on the drain, holding the open umbrella upright in her right hand, clipboard tucked under her left arm. The sprinkler grid opens: heavy rain pours straight down from every nozzle in thick, clearly visible streaks, splashing up off the tiles and drumming on the canopy.
Shot 2, 3-4.5 s: hard cut. Close-up from slightly above of the mustard canopy: big drops hammer the fabric, bounce off and stream down over the cream piping in sheets.
Shot 3, 4.5-6 s: hard cut. Close-up of her face under the umbrella edge, drops on her glasses, completely expressionless. The fan starts to roar; her eyes move to the left of frame, towards it, and back.
Shot 4, 6-7.5 s: hard cut. Close-up of her right hand on the walnut crook handle: her grip tightens, the shaft trembles, the rain now flies sideways from left to right across the frame.
Shot 5, 7.5-12 s: hard cut back to the wide symmetrical frame. The rain keeps falling and blows to the right, her lab coat flaps to the right. A strong gust from the fan pushes the canopy to the right and turns it inside out in one clean snap: the shaft stays straight and tilts to the right, and the canopy opens into a smooth cone pointing up and to the right, away from the fan, exactly as in @Image4. She keeps hold of the handle and does not move. The fan winds down, the rain stops, the last drops fall. The film ends holding exactly on @Image4: same framing, same pose, same inverted umbrella, she looks straight into the camera.
Audio: no dialogue. Hum of fluorescent tubes, a heavy click as the sprinklers open, dense rain drumming on taut fabric, loudest in the canopy close-up, the rising roar of the fan, one sharp snap of the umbrella frame, the fan winding down, dripping water.
Look: flat cool fluorescent light, muted institutional green with the mustard-yellow umbrella as the only strong colour, 35mm film grain, real unglamorous people, serious focused expression.
AVOID: mist or fog instead of rain, side or reverse camera angles, the umbrella or the rain moving towards the fan, the umbrella twisting, crumpling or folding sideways, a bending shaft, the umbrella leaving her hand, smiling, slow motion, a second person, text or numbers anywhere, logos, cartoon look.
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