Screenlife

{
 "output": "Full-screen live-action film shot from Machete (2010), one continuous shot from its very first frame, no cuts. Night interior: an open silver laptop on a dark wooden desk seen from above, its screen filling most of the frame and playing a recorded confession video; warm amber lamplight on the desk, cool blue glow from the screen, 35mm grain, deep brown, amber and teal palette.",
 "characters": {
  "S1": {
   "name": "Michael Booth, played by Jeff Fahey",
   "look": "seen only inside the video on the laptop screen: man in his fifties, swept-back grey-streaked hair, grey goatee and moustache, light beige jacket over a dark red shirt and dark red tie, sitting in a confessional booth between carved dark wooden lattice panels, warm light grazing his hair from the upper left",
   "voice": "low, gravelly male voice with a drawl, hushed like a confession, slightly tinny through the laptop speakers"
  },
  "S2": {
   "name": "Sartana, played by Jessica Alba",
   "look": "never seen in the frame; only her voice from just off screen, close to the camera",
   "voice": "calm, low, curious female voice"
  }
 },
 "shots": [
  {
   "shot": 1,
   "camera": "static camera, locked off, high angle looking down onto the open laptop, 35mm lens; the screen is turned slightly so its top edge slopes down toward the right and fills about four fifths of the frame; a corner of the keyboard at the bottom left, the dark desk edge and a stack of magazines at the left edge, a red disc sleeve with a silver disc and loose papers at the right edge; focus on the screen",
   "action": [
    "BEGINNING: alive from the first frame, the video already playing full screen in a media player with a thin toolbar of small icons along the top and round cyan play buttons at the bottom left; Booth fills the centre-right of the video from chest up, filmed from slightly below, head tilted back and turned a little toward screen right, eyes raised to the upper right toward an unseen priest behind the lattice, brows pinched upward, forehead creased; an out-of-focus hand pokes in from the bottom-left corner of the frame in front of the screen, index finger pointing at his face, a small clear glass held in its other fingers",
    "THEN: Booth starts speaking, lips moving, head still, eyes still raised; the blurred hand drifts right along the bottom edge and lifts a little, the glass catching the blue screen light",
    "THEN: Booth goes on in the same pleading look; the hand rises toward the lower centre of the screen, then swings away to the left and leaves the frame past the left edge",
    "THEN: Booth finishes his question, brows lifting higher, mouth half open; the blurred glass passes once low across the bottom of the frame and is gone, the screen clear of any hand",
    "THEN: the video window shrinks in one quick move into a smaller window on the right half of the screen, Booth still talking inside it, and a bright blue desktop shows around it; at the same moment a folder window opens on the left half, a dark panel holding a neat grid of twelve identical file icons in three columns and four rows, each icon a red circle with a diagonal slash",
    "END: the hand touches down for a moment at the bottom-left corner near the trackpad and withdraws; the frame holds on the split screen, the folder of red icons on the left and the small confession video on the right, the camera never moving"
   ],
   "dialogue": [
    {
     "speaker": "S1",
     "on_screen": true,
     "when": "from the first second, spoken by Booth inside the video",
     "delivery": "hushed, pleading, self-justifying",
     "line": "<d>[English] There's no commandment against,</d>"
    },
    {
     "speaker": "S1",
     "on_screen": true,
     "when": "right after, after a short breath",
     "delivery": "quoting the scripture with a wry weight",
     "line": "<d>[English] \"Thou shalt not wing a man,\"</d>"
    },
    {
     "speaker": "S1",
     "on_screen": true,
     "when": "straight after, just before the video window shrinks",
     "delivery": "soft, almost asking forgiveness",
     "line": "<d>[English] is there, Padre?</d>"
    },
    {
     "speaker": "S2",
     "on_screen": false,
     "when": "as the video window shrinks and the folder of red icons opens, never before",
     "delivery": "calm, low, pointed",
     "line": "<d>[English] But these files over here you got from Booth's office?</d>"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "sound": {
  "ambience": "a quiet room at night, faint laptop fan hum, the confession's hollow church room tone heard through small laptop speakers, one soft trackpad click as the window shrinks",
  "speech": "exactly these spoken phrases, each said once, in this order",
  "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 low brooding string drone with a muted twangy electric guitar and a slow pulse",
  "subtitles": "none"
 }
}Copy