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sc03_0010

As a pickup truck speeds through a darkening, rain-swept landscape, the camera tilts down to reveal snail desperately inching her way toward the dry concrete beneath a gas station overhang, seeking refuge from the sudden downpour.

Preview

Latest Kitsu preview (revision 1, source: osc_sc03_0010_comp_gen_a002_v001_kc_gas_station_rainbow.1001).

Shot data (kitsu)

  • Kitsu: open in Kitsu
  • sequence: sc03
  • status: running
  • canceled: no
  • kind: composite
  • reference_archive: cmp
  • beat: SCENE-03-B01
  • beat_summary: Heavy rain forces the snail to seek shelter under a gas station overhang.
  • beat_shift: steady progress -> forced pause
  • tempo: brisk
  • transition: Cross Dissolve

Camera

  • shot_size: Medium Wide Shot
  • camera_angle: High Angle
  • camera_movement: Tilt
  • lens: Wide Angle Lens

Timing

  • fps: 25
  • frame_in: 1
  • frame_out: 103
  • nb_frames: 103

Continuity

  • composite 1/4 in a row - interleave an archive or synthetic beat so the cut stays easy to follow and cheaper to make

movielabs export (JSON)

Generation brief (001__generation_briefs_v0.3.0_r02.json)

  • scene_heading: EXT. GAS STATION, ROUTE 66 - LATE AFTERNOON INTO EVENING
  • kind: composite
  • method: Composite - generate the authored subject and fuse it onto the cited real archive plate.
  • duration_s: 4.12
  • reference_archive_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA
  • style: Era/look: 1969. mood: Atmospheric, Transformative, Awe-struck. time of day: late afternoon into evening.
  • camera: Medium Wide Shot; High Angle; Tilt; Leading Lines; Single Shot; Deep Depth of Field; Wide Angle Lens; Frame Rate
  • prompt: Composite a tiny, desperate snail inching toward dry concrete beneath a gas station overhang onto the provided archive plate of a pickup truck speeding through a darkening, rain-swept landscape. The camera tilts down to reveal the snail. Match the 1969 late afternoon/evening atmospheric, awe-struck mood. Medium Wide Shot, High Angle, Deep Depth of Field, Wide Angle Lens.
  • negative_prompt: cartoon snail, mismatched lighting, dry environment, modern vehicles, shallow depth of field, static camera, wind turbines on screen
  • reference_summary: The sequence begins with a panoramic view of wind turbines in an arid landscape, then moves to a pickup truck traveling through a wooded area, ending with a progressive distortion and blurring of the image, until a complete loss of definition.
  • brief notes: composite 1/4 in a row - interleave an archive or synthetic beat so the cut stays easy to follow and cheaper to make

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

  • beat_id: SCENE-03-B01
  • beat_summary: The snail takes shelter under a gas station overhang during a sudden, heavy downpour.
  • beat_shift: Exposure -> Cautious safety
  • kind: composite
  • tempo: rapid
  • duration_s: 2.32
  • editorial_note: Shifts the era to 1969 with a smooth transition into the sudden, heavy downpour.
  • archive_segment_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0020
  • source_archive_id: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA
  • archive_in: 106.0
  • archive_out: 107.6
  • archive_tc_in: 00:01:46:00
  • archive_tc_out: 00:01:47:15
  • origin_code: cmp
  • notes: Augment archive F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA with AI/VFX (score 0.519) | [4.6 re-select] plate re-selected -> F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0020 (score 0.5)
  • description: Composited onto the edge of a weathered ‘Old 66 Life’ road sign, the snail clings tightly to the metal surface as the camera tracks past, finding a momentary anchor amidst the passing blur of a silver caravan on the rural road.
  • archive_summary_en: A static sequence showing a white truck with a cylindrical tank parked along a road, with a background of bare trees and a light-colored building under an overcast sky. There are no changes between the scenes, nor any detectable movements or actions.
  • revised: True
  • reselection: F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0326 -> F157301_DREAMS_ROADS___STREET_OF_AMERICA#0020

OMC sidecar (001__osc_sc03_0010_comp_gen_a002_v001_kc_gas_station_rainbow.1001.omc.json)

  • asset: osc_sc03_0010_comp_gen_a002_v001_kc_gas_station_rainbow.1001.png
  • deliverable stem: osc_sc03_0010_comp_cmp_a003_v001_kc_gas_station_rainbow.mov
  • era: era-locked-look 1969
  • model: fal-ai/nano-banana-2 (Gen-Image)
  • model_foundation: Google gemini (Nano Banana 2)
  • provider: fal
  • seed: 1859936254
  • aspect_ratio: 16:9
  • resolution: 1K
  • generated_at: 2026-06-29T10:46:17.987Z
  • generation_seconds: 14
  • task_id: 019f12fc-3a83-72f0-ab0b-9ebe8761454d
  • 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 sc03 in production one-small-crawl.
  • Origin: Composite of archive + generated layers.
  • Kitsu preview file id: c6980234-0e80-4d30-9d8f-52a27a5175d9
  • Kitsu entity id: 8d7b55ec-d367-46d6-a3bc-e5cc5a589baa (type 4b39ab64-70e8-4f53-aac4-e01f4878921a); created 2026-06-19T09:19:51.