One hooded figure keeps a single walk and a single screen direction while the world changes three times around it. A gaslit period alley, a wet modern street, and a neon field are joined by two foreground wipes, and both wipes are native to the source. The published excerpt drops the first 36 frames of the master and opens on the subject mid-stride.
This is a Keyframe0 studio original, produced end to end in-house.
The finished work record presents the excerpt, held frame, timing strip, facts, decisions, and handoff.
What had to exist
The piece hangs on one continuous action. A hooded figure holds one walk and one screen direction from the first frame to the last. The world changes around the figure three times: a gaslit period alley, a wet modern street, and a neon field.
The master runs 204 frames, eight and a half seconds at 24 frames per second. It is silent.
Two wipes, native to the source
The three settings are joined by two foreground wipes, and both are native to the source. A foreground element crosses the frame and carries the change of world with it, the same trick as a column wiping a terrace into a corridor.
Nothing was added, replaced, smoothed, or regenerated in post to create the transitions. That boundary matters because the record describes continuous source passages. The six-frame timing strip ships beside the excerpt so both wipes can be inspected frame by frame against the source.
Where the excerpt starts
The first 36 frames of the master are absent from the published excerpt. The opening action pushes a dark mass that has no jamb, no handle, and no swing, so it cannot be published as a door. The head of the take comes off.
The exact excluded frame range and the reason for it stay on file with the studio, alongside the source hash and the verification run.
Start mid-stride
Cutting the head of the take leaves the excerpt opening on the subject mid-stride. A cleaner establishing beat sat at the start of the master, and using it would have restated the alley the viewer is already inside. The stride is the establishing shot.
That decision is recorded in the work record because it shaped what published: an excerpt that begins in motion and never stops.
What shipped
The handoff contains:
- The excerpt at 1920x824
- A landscape poster
- A 4:5 poster
- A six-frame timing strip
The excluded frame range and its reason stay on file with the studio. Together with the source hash they identify the master and preserve the reasoning behind the cut.
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