Shoulder-Level Shot

{
 "output": "Full-screen live-action one single continuous shot from its very first frame, from Traders (2016): a handheld walking shot on a city pavement. Clean modern digital cinema look, muted cool-teal and beige grade, bright flat overcast daylight with soft shadowless light, a pale white sky, an Irish city street of two-storey terraced houses with small shops and green awnings receding into the distance, cars parked nose to tail along the kerb.",
 "characters": {
  "S1": {
   "name": "Vernon Stynes, played by John Bradley",
   "look": "heavy-set young man around thirty, round pale face, shaggy dark-brown hair to the collar swept to one side and tossed by the wind, a navy double-breasted wool pea coat buttoned over a navy hooded sweatshirt with the hood lying on his shoulders and a zip at the throat, a thin dark bag strap running down his chest from his left shoulder",
   "voice": "no words; only heavy breathing from walking fast"
  }
 },
 "shots": [
  {
   "shot": 1,
   "camera": "handheld medium shot, the operator walking backwards in front of him at his pace, the lens held at his shoulder height, a hand's width below his eyes, nearly level with a slight upward tilt; the far end of the street and its vanishing point sit at his chin and collar, his eyes in the upper third, the top of his hair just under the top edge, the frame cut at his belly; 35mm lens; gentle handheld sway; the camera keeps the same distance as he advances toward it for the whole shot, so he stays in the centre of the frame while the street slides past behind him",
   "action": [
    "BEGINNING: alive from the first frame, S1 is already striding straight toward the camera along the pavement in the centre of the frame, a silver hatchback parked at the kerb on screen left and a tall grey metal railing along a stepped wall on screen right; his lips are parted and he breathes hard, eyes flicking past the lens to screen left; his left hand, on screen right, hangs low by his coat pocket.",
    "THEN: without breaking stride he lifts his right hand, on screen left, presses the palm to his forehead with his eyes closing, and drags his fingers back through his hair, head tipping toward screen left.",
    "THEN: he flings that right hand out and down toward screen left in a short, frustrated flick, fingers spread, and it drops out of frame at his side.",
    "THEN: he glances over to screen right twice, brows raised, worried, lips parted, puffing; a dark-blue estate car parked on screen left slides past behind him.",
    "THEN: he faces forward again and looks just past the lens, mouth half open with quick breaths.",
    "THEN: his head turns toward screen left, to the road, and a small private smile crosses his face; a cream wall covered in spray-painted tags and a grey utility box slide in on screen right.",
    "THEN: the smile fades; he drops his chin and eyes to the pavement, cheeks puffed, lips pressed shut.",
    "THEN: he lifts his eyes and stares straight ahead past the lens, jaw set, determined; bicycles locked to a rack appear at the right edge of the frame.",
    "END: still walking toward the camera, he turns his head sharply toward screen left, over his right shoulder, looking at the road as if about to cross; his left hand stays low at his side and the lens stays at his shoulder height to the last frame."
   ],
   "voice": "silence: nobody speaks in this shot, no voice at all",
   "dialogue": []
  }
 ],
 "sound": {
  "ambience": "a busy city street around him: cars passing on the road, his footsteps on the pavement, his fast heavy breathing, a light wind",
  "speech": "no words in this video; the only human sounds are breaths and movement",
  "never_spoken": "no narration and no voice-over: the descriptions, performance notes and step words of this prompt are never spoken aloud",
  "music": "a film score under the scene, always below the voices: a restless low synth pulse with a ticking hi-hat over a dark bass drone, nervous and driving",
  "subtitles": "none"
 }
}Copy