SEEDANCE 2.5 — SCENE 2: MAX AT THE BAKERY FORMAT Vertical 9:16,…

SEEDANCE 2.5 — SCENE 2: MAX AT THE BAKERY FORMAT Vertical 9:16, exactly 6 seconds, 24 fps, native audio. Photorealistic documentary footage, ONE uninterrupted take. No edits, transitions, time jumps or artificial camera effects. REFERENCE LOCK @Image1 — Max: preserve his exact facial proportions, grey-blond hair, beard, glasses, age, skin tone, wrinkles, body proportions, dark plaid shirt, jeans and shoes. His appearance must not drift. @Image2 — bakery: preserve its exact architectural layout, glass pastry display, timber counter, cash register, windows, furniture, materials and decorative details. @Image3 — the ONE brown paper bag containing sourdough: identical shape, size, paper colour, folds, and loaf. @Audio1 — Max's established voice: same timbre, mature Australian accent, pitch, texture and delivery. LOCATION AND ATMOSPHERE Sunny Saturday morning in a busy independent neighbourhood bakery in West End, Brisbane, Australia. The bakery must look like @Image2, not a redesigned location. The glass case contains realistically imperfect sourdough loaves, croissants, meat pies and pastries. A register and open wooden pickup section sit beside the glass display. Sunlight enters through large panoramic windows, with a glimpse of a leafy Brisbane street. THIS IS A BUSY WORKING BAKERY. Several customers are visible seated behind Max and the cashier, drinking coffee, eating breakfast, shifting in their chairs and talking quietly. Others make small movements deeper inside. Background patrons move naturally, never stare into the lens or obstruct the exchange. CRITICAL 9:16 MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITION Shot on Sony FX3 with Sony FE 50mm f/1.4 GM lens. Eye-level human-operated camera, approximately 155–160 cm high, from the CUSTOMER SIDE of the counter. A diagonal three-quarter angle—not a flat frontal view. FOREGROUND: Max stands nearer the lens, a little LEFT of centre. Frame him closely FROM WAIST TO TOP OF HEAD, with his hands visible. MIDGROUND: The cashier is positioned slightly FARTHER FROM CAMERA on the RIGHT behind the counter, visibly including face, upper body and BOTH hands. Max and cashier share an unobstructed open pickup area, not a glass barrier. BACKGROUND: Keep the real bakery, pastry case, windows, tables and MULTIPLE recognizable customers visible behind the interaction. Use natural layered depth and moderate background softness, not extreme bokeh that erases the people. Start far enough away to allow a short forward move. Keep Max waist-up throughout, and both faces, hands and bag visible. No lens changes or wide-angle distortion. SIX-SECOND BLOCKING — EXACT ORDER 0.0–1.5s — GREETING: Max is already standing beside the pastry display. He looks toward the cashier and gives a small familiar wave. The cashier notices, smiles and returns a brief wave. No one speaks on camera. Both gestures are easy, ordinary, not theatrical. 1.5–3.0s — PICKUP: The cashier lowers their waving hand and reaches toward ONE prepared @Image3 paper bag, already resting on the cashier's side of the wooden pickup counter from the first frame. They grasp it with their fingers, lift it completely off the surface and extend it toward Max through the open handover space. Keep the bag continuously visible; it cannot materialize suddenly. 3.0–4.8s — HANDOFF, TOP PRIORITY: The cashier continues firmly HOLDING the bag while offering it. Max reaches forward and closes his fingers around a free portion of the SAME bag. For a brief instant BOTH people hold the bag SIMULTANEOUSLY. Only AFTER Max has secured a proper grip does the cashier open their fingers, RELEASE the bag and draw back their now-empty hand. Its weight transfers naturally; paper creases. No intersecting hands, early release, teleportation or duplicated bags. 4.8–6.0s — FINISH: Max settles the bag comfortably near his waist, smiles modestly and gives an appreciative nod. The cashier smiles back and resumes a natural working posture. Customers keep quietly moving in the background. CAMERA MOVEMENT — GENTLE REAL DOLLY-IN BY WALKING The operator is holding the Sony FX3 by hand, NOT on a tripod. At first the camera is nearly still, with tiny body sway and natural breathing movements. Starting around 2.0 seconds, as the cashier lifts and offers the bag, the camera operator makes a VERY SMALL, SLOW, PHYSICAL FORWARD STEP TOWARD MAX OF ONLY 20–30 CM. Finish this movement gently around 4.5 seconds, then hold the composition until the final frame. This is a REAL OPERATOR APPROACH, not an optical or digital zoom. Include subtle real-world parallax, gentle start and stop, tiny handheld corrections and realistic inertia. No whip-pan, orbit, snap, gimbal glide or exaggerated shake. CRITICAL: The move must NOT crop Max, the cashier's hands, the bag or the busy background. If needed, reduce the approach to preserve framing. IMAGE CHARACTER — MATCH PREVIOUS SCENE Sony FX3 full-frame photographic realism; Sony FE 50mm f/1.4 GM optics, 24 fps, 180-degree shutter (~1/48 sec). Naturally rendered hand motion, credible depth of field, realistic focus falloff, soft optical bokeh; sufficient depth to see BOTH people and the bag sharply enough. Do not blur the cashier excessively. Warm, restrained 1990s documentary colour aesthetic: fine ORGANIC film grain, very subtle atmospheric haze, gentle optical softness, softly rolled-off highlights, slightly raised blacks and natural moderate contrast. Warmth comes from real sunlight, not orange filtering or glossy advertising. LIGHT AND PHYSICAL DETAILS Directional sunlight from the panoramic windows lights the bakery. Natural bright patches and soft uneven shadows fall on Max's face, clothes, counter, walls and floor. Pendant lamps provide modest interior fill. Shadows and glass reflections must follow real physics. Preserve skin pores, deep age-related wrinkles, facial hairs, fabric weave and moving folds, worn wood grain, tiny scuffs, textured bread crust and paper creases. Avoid plastic faces, beauty smoothing, excessive sharpness, heavy HDR, CGI reflections, perfectly symmetrical food, artificial bloom and pristine synthetic surfaces. Background customers remain anatomically real. VOICEOVER — EXACT, CONTINUOUS Use @Audio1 as the voice identity reference. Warm, slightly gravelly mature Australian voice, relaxed conversational tone, understated dry humour and familiar local character. This is strictly OFF-SCREEN NARRATION: Max does not lip-sync or visibly speak, and the cashier has no dialogue. Say EXACTLY: “They put a sourdough aside for me every Saturday. I've never once asked. They just know.” Start at the beginning and finish within the six-second scene. Delivery is brisk yet natural, with very short organic pauses. Do not add, repeat, remove or substitute words. Do not turn the voice into exaggerated advertising narration. PRODUCTION SOUND The voiceover is prominent and intelligible, over a believable lively bakery bed: soft UNINTELLIGIBLE customer chatter, espresso machine hiss, ceramic cups and saucers, muted footsteps, slight chair movement and a crisp paper-bag rustle at the moment of transfer. No music or extra dialogue. FINAL CHECK Max waist-up, cashier and bag visible, active patrons behind. Cashier releases only after Max grips the bag. A slow 20–30 cm operator step, never a zoom. No extra fingers, morphing faces, disappearing people or objects, cuts, subtitles, watermarks or CGI.