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EXT. ROAD — DAY — FULL FIGURE

His legs have gone from under him. Falling backwards, one leg folded beneath, arms dead at his sides, head tipped back.

HALF OF THE FILM’S BOOKEND. Cut this against 1-3-A at the far end of the scene: identical frame, identical man, one destroyed and one fresh. Everything between them is the reason.

KEY FRAME 3 of 3, AND HALF OF THE FILM'S BOOKEND. His legs have gone from under him and he is falling backwards, one leg folded beneath him, arms dead at his sides, head tipped back. THE POSE COMES FROM V7 SHOT 1.2 at Baba's instruction, replacing an invented crouch that read as neither running nor collapsing. Cut against shot 1.3 phase 1 at the far end of the scene: same man, same frame, one destroyed and one fresh. Frame rate here is the slowest in the film, two to three a second. FILED AS 1-3, 3.9.2026, in the reset that gave scene one its final names. Before the reset it was 1-0-C-v2, and every name mentioned in this note is a pre reset name.

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The prompt it was made from

Not recorded. This frame predates prompts being kept in the catalogue, or it was made by hand.

The references it came from

Not recorded.

Rejected takes, kept on purpose

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Superseded by the 1-3-A and 1-3-B pair. This was the sprint before the muscle activation existed. The run now begins as a dissolve out of the flayed f...
Prompt not recorded.

A rejected take is not rubbish. Some were rejected for one thing only, an aspect ratio or a colour, and are the better drawing otherwise. They are here so a later session can see what was tried before trying it again.

The DNA of this frame

Phase. Phase 2 of 15, THE RUNNER.

Hero’s journey. THE ORDINARY WORLD, and inside it THE CALL. A boy on an ordinary road, and a question that will not leave him alone.

The music, for Suno

Not written yet. Every shot needs two: the scene bed it sits in, and this shot’s own arrangement of it. The instruments come from the element in the DNA above.

What it means, and what it does

Not written yet. This frame needs its meaning set down: where it sits in the film, what it carries, how it moves the story on, and what it is doing to the audience. Ask before animating it rather than guessing from the picture.

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