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Team Selenite — "The Projection Booth"

Art Deco Backstage Drama • 37 shots • 78 storyboard frames • ~4:21 runtime • Deliberate silence as score in Scenes 4–5

Final Cut

Locked

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VO Stems

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Score + Ambient

~4 hrs

Production Time

Art Deco backstage drama ending on an unresolved solo clarinet that trails off mid-phrase. Pencil-sketch aesthetic for the film-within-film. Deliberate silence as score in Scenes 4–5.

Character & Style

The Projectionist

Sole character. First-person narrator. 40 years in the booth. Hand tremor progression across 6 emotional states — isolation, weight of memory, fragility. Never speaks on screen.

Art Deco Pencil-Sketch Style

Anti-photorealism mandate — all assets in Art Deco geometric pencil-sketch illustration language. Gold ornament, ivory ground, theatrical atmosphere. Two visual tracks: Art Deco primary + pencil-sketch film-within-film.

Character Details

Angular facial features — cheekbones as sharp planes, jaw as an edge. Metallic sheen on skin (brushed copper tone). Hands are the primary visual feature — large, lined, capable, trembling slightly.

Settings

Setting A — The Projection Booth

1920s cinema projection booth — teal walls, angular geometric moldings, large 35mm projector in brushed copper and brass. Dented film canisters on wooden shelves. Worn leather chair. The projector lamp cuts a strong diagonal beam of warm gold light through the film gate.

Setting B — The Auditorium (Through Booth Window)

Grand Art Deco cinema auditorium seen only through the rectangular booth window. Rows of faded velvet seats. Audience as angular silhouettes. Large screen glowing with projected light. Gold geometric proscenium arch — always viewed from above, never entered.

Key Objects

The Projector

The central object — 35mm projector in brushed copper and brass. Visible gears, threading mechanism, film gate, take-up reels. The mechanical heartbeat of the cinema.

The Cabinet

The dented grey cabinet with the stuck latch. Contains the unlabeled canister with eleven minutes of footage he's been editing for 40 years.

The Film Canister

Single unlabeled canister. Eleven minutes. Pencil sketches on rough paper. A face that might be his mother's. 40 years of cutting and reconsidering.

The Cinema Screen

The surface where the hidden film finally plays — warm graphite on cream stock, trembling lines, a hand reaching. The moment 40 years of avoidance ends.

Storyboard

78 frames across 7 scenes — Art Deco pencil-sketch geometric consistency throughout. The film-within-film shifts to warm graphite-on-cream in Scenes 5–7.

Scene 1 — The Last Night Opens

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Scene 2 — The Weight of the Booth

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Scene 3 — The Film in the Cabinet

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Scene 4 — The Decision (Silence as Score)

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Scene 5 — The Loading

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Scene 6 — The Screening

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Audio Design

Score

7 stems • Lyria 3

Unaccompanied clarinet as primary instrument — searching, wandering, never resolving. Ending on a solo clarinet that trails off mid-phrase. Silence serves as score in Scenes 4–5.

Narration (VO)

21 stems • Kore TTS

First-person character narrator — the Projectionist tells his own story. Single TTS voice for entire film. Never speaks on screen. VO-safe mandate strictly enforced: mouth always closed or in profile.

Dialogue

None — single character

Zero dialogue by design. Single-character, single-location concept. The Projectionist is alone. Exemption from 3-dialogue mandate granted at Step 0 by full team consensus.

Ambient

3 stems • Embedded in Veo

Steady mechanical projector rhythm — clicking gears, humming motor. Muffled audience sounds below. When applauding: warm sustained clapping that swells and fades naturally.