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sc02_0020

First-frame thumbnail shows the slug-like snail character (orange body, white shell, blue eye, buck-toothed mouth) on cracked asphalt road surface, with a red Mobilgas shield visible in the upper left and warm golden-hour lighting. Wide-angle composition emphasizing the textured road shoulder and the small scale of the character against the broad pavement.

Preview

Latest Kitsu preview (revision 2, source: osc_sc02_0020_comp_gen_a002_v002_nr_snail_roadside.1001.png).

Shot data (kitsu)

  • Kitsu: open in Kitsu
  • sequence: sc02
  • status: running
  • canceled: no
  • kind: synthetic
  • reference_archive: gen
  • beat: SCENE-02-B01
  • beat_summary: The snail travels along the shoulder as confident mid-century traffic, including Cadillacs and a Harley, roars past.
  • beat_shift: isolation -> rhythmic persistence
  • tempo: measured
  • transition: Cut on Action

Camera

  • shot_size: Full Shot
  • camera_angle: Low Angle
  • camera_movement: Dolly Shot
  • lens: Wide Angle Lens

Timing

  • fps: 25
  • frame_in: 1
  • frame_out: 125
  • nb_frames: 125

Continuity

  • big framing jump (Medium Close-Up Shot -> Full Shot) - add an intermediate size or motivate the cut

movielabs export (JSON)

Generation brief (001__generation_briefs_v0.3.0_r02.json)

  • scene_heading: EXT. ROUTE 66, MIDWEST - DAY / EXT. GAS STATION - DUSK
  • kind: synthetic
  • method: Generate (image/video-to-video) - archive-grounded: the cited clip is a visual reference for look and period detail, not reused on screen.
  • duration_s: 5.0
  • reference_archive_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA
  • style: Era/look: Mid-Century (1940s-1950s). mood: Bustling, Confident, Rhythmic. time of day: day / ext. gas station - dusk.
  • camera: Full Shot; Low Angle; Dolly Shot; Rule of Thirds; Single Shot; Deep Depth of Field; Wide Angle Lens; Frame Rate
  • prompt: Full shot from a low angle dollying alongside a snail making steady progress across rocky, arid roadside terrain. In the deep depth of field background, a 1950s motorcycle speeds by against a vast, transitioning desert landscape. Wide Angle Lens, Rule of Thirds, mid-century 1950s aesthetic, dusk lighting.
  • negative_prompt: shallow depth of field, static camera, modern motorcycles, lush green forest, interior car view, window frame, text, human faces
  • reference_summary: The sequence shows a view from the front window of a moving car through a green natural environment, which then transforms into an arid and rocky landscape, with an increase in visual disturbances in the last scene.
  • brief notes: big framing jump (Medium Close-Up Shot -> Full Shot) - add an intermediate size or motivate the cut

Shot list (001__shot_list_v0.2.0_comment_v1_r06_revised.json (AGT-021 revised))

  • beat_id: SCENE-02-B01
  • beat_summary: The snail crawls along the shoulder as confident mid-century traffic roars past.
  • beat_shift: Isolation -> Immersion in the flow
  • kind: synthetic
  • tempo: measured
  • duration_s: 5.38
  • editorial_note: Maintains her continuous crawling motion as the camera shifts from tracking to a dolly move.
  • origin_code: gen
  • notes: No suitable archive match; generate synthetically per era lock.
  • description: Dollying forward with snail as she navigates the dusty shoulder, the shallow depth of field keeps her in sharp focus while the bustling, sunlit Americana of a roadside store’s exterior blurs warmly in the background.

OMC sidecar (001__osc_sc02_0020_comp_gen_a002_v001_nr_roadside_signs.1001.omc.json)

  • asset: osc_sc02_0020_comp_gen_a002_v001_nr_roadside_signs.1001.png
  • deliverable stem: osc_sc02_0020_comp_cmp_a003_v001_nr_roadside_signs.mov
  • era: Newsreel 1950s-60s
  • model: fal-ai/nano-banana-2 (Gen-Image)
  • model_foundation: Google gemini (Nano Banana 2)
  • provider: fal
  • seed: 1134065543
  • aspect_ratio: 16:9
  • resolution: 1K
  • generated_at: 2026-06-29T10:09:13.897Z
  • generation_seconds: 14
  • task_id: 019f12da-15cb-74c3-bc1b-f179345d1b4e
  • governor agents: Narrative, Style, Temporal
  • reproducibility: Outputs from the gemini-family model (Nano Banana) are close but NOT bit-identical between runs, even with a fixed seed - expect minor variation when regenerating. Every generated image carries an invisible SynthID watermark marking it as AI-generated. Reference conditioning is text-mediated: …

Notes

  • Part of sequence sc02 in production one-small-crawl.
  • Origin: AI-generated / synthetic content (gen). See ai-agent-pipeline.
  • Kitsu preview file id: cd4c4248-9ccc-4a9f-871e-af309b0aba38
  • Kitsu entity id: 14d7943a-59bd-4146-9608-733c0e9e5786 (type 4b39ab64-70e8-4f53-aac4-e01f4878921a); created 2026-06-19T09:19:51.