00:09Shot 2: a tight single in the doorway
Use Hallwayas the visual reference for the setting and the doorway. use Beat 1: Prop phoneas the phone. Use Cole Character S1 Rehash as the visual reference for Cole. Use Mom Better as the visual reference for Mom. Use Dad Better4 as the visual reference for Dad. Use Yellow Luggage as the visual reference for the yellow luggage. use Hf 20260722 030402 1a8026e3 3daf 403c 8756 Aa51025e3ff7 as the car. use Cole Eyesas exactly what cole's eye color looks like. Use Cole's Voice as what Cole's voice sounds like. Use Mom Voice as what Mom's voice sounds like. Identity lock — Cole has heterochromia: his right eye (on the viewer's left) is blue-grey, his left eye (on the viewer's right) is brown. Do not normalize both eyes to the same color. Prop note — the yellow luggage from Yellow Luggage is automatic self-rolling luggage that moves on its own wheels, following its owner autonomously along the ground. No one touches, carries, or pulls it. Single continuous shot. Action: handheld, shaky Tight single medium on Cole standing in the open doorway, very shallow depth of field. Focus stays locked on Cole for the entire shot — his face and body sharp at all times; the background (Mom, Dad, and the car in the street) is completely out of focus and never racks into focus, not once. Cole is turned sideways to camera, facing frame-right, staring down at the phone in left hand, the farthest hand from camera, with disbelief. He is reading a text on his phone, not typing on it. Deep in the soft background, out of focus Dad is actively loading extra bags into the open backseat of the car. Mom stands in front of him, facing towards camera. fuzzy and out of focus, Mom screams loudly with irritation, "Cole!" Cole snaps out of staring at his phone and turns his head away from camera toward her, pocketing the phone. He says, "Coming!" Then he turns toward camera with a slightly downward gaze and says, "Follow," and immediately walks off away from camera, his back to the lens, out through the doorway. After Cole is completely out of the door, Then subsequently from the bottom of frame, the yellow automatic self-rolling luggage enters on its own, vertical and rolling on all four wheels after Cole, following him toward the car. Blocking: Cole tight and sharp, sideways then turning to camera; Mom, Dad, and car soft and unfocused deep in the background; luggage kept out of frame until Cole walks away, then rolling in from bottom-frame on its own to trail him. Performance: Cole is absorbed in his phone, only half-present until his name pulls him out — the head-turn is mild reflex, being caught, not alarm. "Coming!" is casual, a touch dutiful. "Follow" is offhand and habitual, a command he's given a hundred times, the downward gaze half-attentive — he's already moving as he says it. Camera: tight single medium on Cole, shaky handheld, focus pinned to Cole throughout — following him as he turns and walks away, background never in focus. Style: handheld, shaky camera, cinéma vérité. 35mm film emulation, halation, bloom, shallow depth of field with hexagonal bokeh. Audio: no music, no score. Quiet night street ambience, faint luggage-loading from the car, Mom's impatient call, Cole's replies, the soft mechanical whir of the luggage's wheels as it rolls itself after him.
Gertywood, director of Xenogenesis
