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sc02_0040

First-frame thumbnail shows a low-angle, eye-level shot from behind snail character: foreground is dominated by the underside of a large vehicle (tractor-trailer or truck with visible wheel treads), silhouetted against a warm desert horizon, with a small scrub bush visible on the left. Golden-hour lighting, dust on the road shoulder, no diner visible yet.

Preview

Latest Kitsu preview (revision 2, source: osc_sc02_0040_comp_gen_a002_v002_nr_wagon_wheel.1001.png).

Shot data (kitsu)

  • Kitsu: open in Kitsu
  • sequence: sc02
  • status: running
  • canceled: no
  • kind: synthetic
  • reference_archive: gen
  • beat: SCENE-02-B02
  • beat_summary: The snail slows down to listen to music drifting out from a roadside diner.
  • beat_shift: relentless motion -> fleeting connection
  • tempo: rapid
  • transition: Cross Dissolve

Camera

  • shot_size: Macro Shot
  • camera_angle: Eye Level
  • camera_movement: Push In
  • lens: Telephoto Lens

Timing

  • fps: 25
  • frame_in: 1
  • frame_out: 62
  • nb_frames: 62

Continuity

  • big framing jump (Medium Shot -> Macro 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: 2.5
  • 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: Macro Shot; Eye Level; Push In; Centered; Single Shot; Bokeh; Telephoto Lens; Slow Motion
  • prompt: Macro shot pushing in gently on a snail at eye level as it halts its crawl, antennae perking up. The background is a heavy bokeh of warm, neon-lit glows from a distant 1950s roadside diner, with colors reminiscent of vintage Americana. Centered composition, Telephoto Lens, slow motion, mid-century dusk aesthetic.
  • negative_prompt: sharp background, deep depth of field, wide angle, fast motion, clear text, American flag on screen, modern neon, daylight
  • reference_summary: A static sequence showing a ‘ROUTE US 66’ road sign against a blurred American flag background. There are no changes between the scenes, maintaining a fixed and repetitive composition with slight digital artifacts visible.
  • brief notes: big framing jump (Medium Shot -> Macro 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-B02
  • beat_summary: She pauses by a diner, closing her eyes to listen to the drifting radio music.
  • beat_shift: Relentless motion -> Momentary peace
  • kind: archive
  • tempo: rapid
  • duration_s: 2.69
  • editorial_note: Drops into a rapid close-up to match the sudden pause in her movement by the diner.
  • archive_segment_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0527
  • source_archive_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA
  • archive_in: 2986.04
  • archive_out: 2989.92
  • archive_tc_in: 00:49:46:01
  • archive_tc_out: 00:49:49:23
  • origin_code: arc
  • notes: Strong archive match (score 0.5174); relations: conceptual, lexical, narrative | [4.6 re-select] plate re-selected -> F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0527 (score 0.516)
  • description: A static, centered close-up of a classic ‘ROUTE US 66’ sign standing proudly against a softly blurred American flag, evoking the nostalgic, patriotic atmosphere of the era’s roadside culture.
  • archive_summary_en: The sequence shows a beige car and a silver caravan parked on arid ground, with a scratched wall in the background. The camera pans from left to right, progressively highlighting the caravan, which becomes the main object of the final scene.
  • revised: True
  • reselection: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0009 -> F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0527

OMC sidecar (001__osc_sc02_0040_comp_gen_a002_v001_nr_snail_listen.1001.omc.json)

  • asset: osc_sc02_0040_comp_gen_a002_v001_nr_snail_listen.1001.png
  • deliverable stem: osc_sc02_0040_comp_cmp_a003_v001_nr_snail_listen.mov
  • era: Newsreel 1950s-60s
  • model: fal-ai/nano-banana-2 (Gen-Image)
  • model_foundation: Google gemini (Nano Banana 2)
  • provider: fal
  • seed: 1401098916
  • aspect_ratio: 16:9
  • resolution: 1K
  • generated_at: 2026-06-29T10:19:45.314Z
  • generation_seconds: 13
  • task_id: 019f12e3-ddc6-7791-b931-f5786ca1eeee
  • 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: 2b8116c8-26ed-4039-a5a5-fc936904ad5b
  • Kitsu entity id: a1d32759-434d-4e8c-9bcd-433f0da42e7b (type 4b39ab64-70e8-4f53-aac4-e01f4878921a); created 2026-06-19T09:19:51.