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A traditional hand-drawn FILM STORYBOARD SHEET for scene 1: one page divided into a clean 3x3 grid of NINE separate rectangular panels, three rows of three, each panel a 16:9 rectangle with a thin ruled black border and a small hand-written panel number in its top-left corner from 1 to 9. Thin white gutters between panels. Off-white paper background with faint tooth. MEDIUM, STRICT: rough graphite pencil drawing only. Loose confident director's sketch, visible pencil strokes, hatching and smudged shading for shadow, some construction lines left in. Monochrome grey graphite, NO colour anywhere, NO paint, NO digital rendering, NO photorealism. It must look drawn by hand on paper in a few minutes per panel. No named characters — stage the action with anonymous figures. Divide the following 6-second scene into NINE consecutive story beats yourself, in strict chronological order, and draw one panel per beat. Vary the shot size between panels — do not draw nine versions of the same framing. THE SCENE: LANGUAGE: All dialogue is spoken aloud in English, word for word as written, natural for a native English speaker; every spoken word is English. NON-NEGOTIABLE SCENE CONTRACT: - Place: a vast open fairy-tale sky at golden hour, pastel pink-and-gold light, filled edge to edge with slow-drifting, soft, rounded, candy-soft clouds; the frame shows only sky and clouds. - Acting in this shot: none. No cast; the moving subjects are the camera and the drifting clouds. - Not present in this shot: none. Every frame holds sky and clouds only. - Seat Cloud at 0:00: exactly one, small and far at frame center, softly glowing, empty, with a seat-like dip on top. Seat Cloud at the last frame: large, round, glowing warm gold at frame center, still empty, the dip clearly readable, exactly two small clouds still drifting past left to right. - Voice: one off-screen Narrator line; nobody is on screen and no mouth moves anywhere. BINDING: Speech (the only voice in the clip): - 0:01.0, Narrator, off-screen voiceover addressed to the audience, no mouth moves: "Рома сам выбирает своих будущих родителей." The line starts at 0:01.0 and is complete by about 0:03.8. Nothing is spoken after 0:04. The last two seconds carry only the diegetic sky sound. Staging: - Screen axis: the camera travels straight forward into depth, level, at cloud height. Every cloud drifts slowly from screen left to screen right in both shots, and the direction never reverses. - Who is where: nobody. The cast is empty. The subject of the clip is the Seat Cloud: the one distinctive large, round, softly glowing cloud with a gentle seat-like dip in its top, held by no one, floating free in the sky, always at frame center. - Relations: the Seat Cloud is the brightest, roundest and warmest cloud in every frame. The other clouds are paler pink and lilac, smaller, and drift around it. It is the goal the camera flies toward. - Objects with canon text: Seat Cloud = "large, round and softly glowing, empty with a seat-like dip on top, held by no one and floating at frame center in the sky". Count per shot: shot 1 has exactly two near clouds framing the path plus exactly one Seat Cloud far ahead, with soft distant cloud banks forming the horizon haze. Shot 2 has exactly one Seat Cloud plus exactly two small drifting clouds. - Opening state at 0:00: an open golden-hour sky, pastel pink-and-gold, with slow-drifting soft clouds. The camera is already gliding forward at steady speed. A near cloud sits at left and another at right, framing an open path of air. Far ahead at center floats the small glowing Seat Cloud. The frame is bright and warm, and nothing has happened yet. - Beats: 0:00 to 0:03 the camera glides forward between the two near clouds, which slide out of frame left and right; the Seat Cloud grows. 0:01 the Narrator line begins. HARD CUT at 0:03. 0:03 to 0:06 the camera pushes in on the Seat Cloud and eases toward it while two small clouds drift past. - Exit state: the Seat Cloud fills the center of frame, large, round, glowing, empty, its seat-like dip clearly visible on top like a soft cushion waiting. Two small clouds are still drifting left to right, the sky is warm and bright, and the Narrator line has finished. The camera is still creeping forward slowly in the last frame. 1. TEMPO & INTENT The opening of a warm, whimsical, gently funny fairy tale. The clip is six seconds and two shots joined by one hard cut at 0:03. The event is the discovery of one special cloud in an endless sky: the viewer flies through soft clouds and arrives at an empty, inviting seat made of cloud while a kind storyteller voice states the premise. The tempo is calm but always moving: steady glide in shot 1, easing push in shot 2, no frozen frame and no hold at the end. Something new for the viewer in each shot: shot 1 opens the sky and reveals a glowing cloud far ahead; shot 2 reveals its seat-like dip up close. The feeling is wonder, invitation and a small smile. 2. FORMAT & SETTING Vertical 9:16, exactly 6 seconds, native audio on. Two shots, one hard cut at 0:03.0. Setting: a boundless fairy-tale sky at golden hour. Light is a low warm sun off screen right, washing the clouds in pink and gold from one side. Cloud tops catch honey-gold rim light, and cloud undersides fall into soft lilac and peach shade. Above, the sky shades from warm peach near the horizon haze to soft rose and pale lavender at the top of frame. The lower third of the frame is a deep, soft sea of rolling cloud tops in pink and cream, so the view looks out across more clouds in every direction. The Seat Cloud carries its own gentle inner glow, a warm golden light breathing softly from within, brighter than the clouds around it. The first frame is bright and clear, and every shape reads at a glance. 3. CHARACTERS No characters appear. The cast is empty, and the frame holds sky and clouds only from the first frame to the last. The single hero object is the Seat Cloud: large, round, plump and cushion-soft with rounded exaggerated DreamWorks-inspired volume and a smooth, puffy surface. A gentle bowl-shaped dip is pressed into its top, like the seat of an armchair made of cloud: an actual hollow in the cloud top, lit gold along its rim and softly shaded inside. It is empty and glowing. The Narrator is an off-screen voice only. 4. MOTION — PER-SECOND 0:00 — Shot 1, wide, level. The camera is already gliding forward at steady speed through the golden-hour sky. One near cloud fills the left third of frame and another fills the right third, leaving an open path of bright air between them. Far ahead at exact center floats the small glowing Seat Cloud, its dip just readable. All clouds drift slowly left to right. 0:01 — The glide continues. The left near cloud slides outward past the left frame edge as the camera passes it, and its soft pink edge sweeps across the left third. The Seat Cloud grows larger at center. (line 1 is heard here) 0:02 — The right near cloud slides outward past the right frame edge, crossing the right third. The path ahead is open, and the Seat Cloud is now clearly the largest and brightest cloud ahead, its golden glow and seat-like dip readable. The camera is still moving forward. 0:03 — HARD CUT. Shot 2, medium, same level axis, same forward direction. The Seat Cloud fills the center of frame at medium size, round and glowing, the empty dip in its top clearly visible. The camera pushes in. One small cloud begins drifting across the lower left foreground, left to right. The Narrator line completes. 0:04 — The push continues and gently eases. The Seat Cloud grows larger at center, and its inner glow breathes brighter for a moment. The foreground small cloud drifts across the lower third toward the right. A second small cloud drifts left to right behind the Seat Cloud, high on the right. 0:05 — The push has slowed to a gentle creep but is still moving. The large, round, glowing, empty Seat Cloud sits at frame center with its seat-like dip facing camera. The foreground cloud slides out past the right edge while the background cloud keeps drifting right. The sky stays warm and bright, and the clip ends in this drifting motion. 5. DIALOGUE One line, spoken in Russian by the off-screen Narrator. It starts at 0:01.0 and ends by about 0:03.8, carrying across the hard cut as continuous voiceover. The words are exactly: "Рома сам выбирает своих будущих родителей." Nobody is on screen, so no mouth moves. The voice sits close and clear over the sky ambience, spoken to the audience like the first sentence of a bedtime tale, warm and a little amused. It is spoken once, in full, with nothing added or shortened. 6. VOICE / TIMBRE Narrator: a warm, soft alto storyteller voice with a gentle, rounded, smiling tone. The pace is unhurried with clear diction, and the delivery is close to the microphone and clearly audible at normal speaking volume, never hushed. There is a slight lift of wonder on the final word. The timbre is fixed for the whole film. 7. AUDIO Diegetic sky sound only, under the Narrator voice: a light, airy wind across the whole clip; a soft rushing whoosh as each near cloud slides past the camera at 0:01 and 0:02; a gentle, low, warm hum from the glowing Seat Cloud, rising softly as the camera approaches in shot 2; and the Narrator line at 0:01. After the line, the wind and the soft hum carry to the last frame. 8. STYLE / COLOUR DreamWorks-inspired stylized 3D animation: rounded, exaggerated, appealing cloud shapes with soft volumetric depth and a slightly squashy, tactile surface. The palette is saturated but airy: rose pink, peach, honey gold, cream and pale lavender, with the Seat Cloud as the warmest gold accent in frame. Directional warm key light from screen right, soft lilac fill in the shadows, and luminous rim light on the cloud edges. The Seat Cloud glows gently from within. Atmospheric depth comes from soft haze on distant cloud banks. The look is clean, bright and polished feature animation with gentle depth of field in shot 2 that keeps the Seat Cloud crisp. The camera is always level and smooth. The same light direction, colour and brightness carry across the cut, so both shots read as one continuous flight. 9. NEGATIVES On-screen text, letters, captions, logos or watermarks; identity morph of the Seat Cloud between shots (shape, glow or dip changing); drift in the shape or colour of the Seat Cloud; warped or extra limbs or stray body parts forming in clouds; scale wobble or popping of cloud sizes; style drift toward photoreal or flat 2D; screen-axis flip or cloud drift reversing direction; camera tilt, roll or shake; frozen frames or stutter. CONTRACT CHECKSUM (these override anything above that contradicts them): - Place: a vast open fairy-tale sky at golden hour, pastel pink-and-gold light, filled edge to edge with slow-drifting, soft, rounded, candy-soft clouds; the frame shows only sky and clouds. - Acting in this shot: none. No cast; the moving subjects are the camera and the drifting clouds. - Not present in this shot: none. Every frame holds sky and clouds only. - Seat Cloud at 0:00: exactly one, small and far at frame center, softly glowing, empty, with a seat-like dip on top. Seat Cloud at the last frame: large, round, glowing warm gold at frame center, still empty, the dip clearly readable, exactly two small clouds still drifting past left to right. - Voice: one off-screen Narrator line; nobody is on screen and no mouth moves anywhere. Draw camera arrows and simple motion lines in pencil where movement matters, and keep every panel's staging consistent with the one before it — this sheet is a shooting plan, so a person standing screen-left in one panel stays screen-left in the next unless the action moves them. NO text or captions anywhere except the small panel numbers 1 to 9. No title block, no handwriting in the margins, no speech bubbles, no subtitles, no watermark, no logo.