6 shots, total 30s — 0.0-5.0s, 5.0-10.0s, 10.0-15.0s, 15.0-20.0s, 20.0-25.0s, 25.0-30.0s. Hard cuts, no dissolves. Normal speed throughout, no slow motion, no ramping.
CAPTURE CADENCE — CRITICAL: native 24fps, true 180-degree shutter, real 1/48s exposure every frame. Fluid, continuous motion blur. Never choppy, never juddering. No interpolation, no ghosting, no video look.
NO ON-SCREEN TEXT — CRITICAL: no text of any kind anywhere in frame. No captions, subtitles, titles, credits, watermarks, logos, timecode, UI overlays.
NOBODY ELSE IN FRAME — CRITICAL: no pedestrians, no other rooftop figures, no extras. Only the runner, the enforcer, and one drone are ever visible.
THE NEON FLARE — CRITICAL: neon signage below strobes the rooftops in hard magenta and cyan flashes throughout. The stepped quality of any lit moment comes entirely from this signage-flicker, never from broken footage — camera motion stays smooth throughout. Falling rain streaks diagonally, screen-right to left.
Subject Lock — the runner: lean wiry build, shaved head, sharp cheekbones, rain-slicked dark skin, clean face, no visible tattoos. Matte black tactical jacket over a compression base layer, fingerless gloves, worn parkour shoes. Carries nothing but bare hands. Sprints rooftop to rooftop toward the city's edge, never breaking stride mid-leap.
Subject Lock — the enforcer: bulky armored build, a featureless matte-grey full-face helmet with a single red visor slit, reinforced shoulder plating, heavy boots. Carries a stun baton crackling with blue arcs. Pursues in a steady mechanical stride, never sprinting, always closing distance.
World Plate: a dense cyberpunk rooftop skyline at night in rain — sheet-metal water tanks, tangled cable runs, a gap between towers spanned by a rusted service bridge, neon signage glowing far below through the haze. No other structures present.
THE ATMOSPHERE — CRITICAL, depth only: heavy rain-haze at high density — runner sharp near, enforcer softened mid-distance, distant towers near-erased far. Reads as thickened wet air only, never a fog-machine look.
SHOT 1 — 0.0-5.0s. THE SPRINT. Low camera at rooftop level, cant 15°, tracking the runner forward. Runner sprints across gravel rooftop, enforcer's baton-glow closing from behind. Runner screen-left sprinting, enforcer screen-right pursuing. Diegetic sound.
SHOT 2 — 5.0-10.0s. THE STRIKE. Camera orbits tight at chest height, cant swinging 15-35°, never square. Baton arcs crackle past the runner's shoulder, runner ducks and shoulder-checks the enforcer's plating. Both centered, rain scattering. Diegetic sound.
SHOT 3 — 10.0-15.0s. THE WATCHER. Cut to a small surveillance drone hovering between towers, its red scan-light sweeping as wind gusts rock it sideways. It corrects and holds position. Drone centered against the neon-lit haze. Diegetic sound.
SHOT 4 — 15.0-20.0s. THE COLLAPSE. Low static camera at the service bridge, whip-panning up as a rusted support strut gives way. The bridge section buckles and drops; the runner leaps clear across the widening gap. Bridge diagonal across frame, runner emerging low center. Diegetic sound.
SHOT 5 — 20.0-25.0s. THE SURGE. Camera drops to rooftop height, rockets forward through a rain corridor lit by a fresh neon flare. Runner sprints hard, jacket soaked, closing the last stretch toward the city's edge. Runner screen-left driving right. Diegetic sound.
SHOT 6 — 25.0-30.0s. THE AFTERMATH. Camera pulls back to a wide static rooftop frame, rain falling straight now, wind dying. The runner stands alone at the tower's edge, chest heaving, as the enforcer's red visor dims below the ledge and it stops advancing. Runner small and centered, collapsed bridge dark behind. Diegetic sound.
Cross-Frame Rules: runner's jacket and gloves never change. Enforcer's visor-glow never fully fades until Shot 6. Only runner, enforcer, and drone ever visible. Rain direction stays constant. Bridge keeps the same collapsed shape wherever it appears. Neon-flare applies only inside Shots 1, 2, and 5. No score enters at any point.
Last Frame: the runner stands alone at the rooftop's edge, rain falling straight down, the enforcer's dimmed red visor faint at the frame's edge below, the collapsed bridge looming behind under neon haze. No on-screen text, no logo, no watermark.
Sound Bed: diegetic only — heavy rain, the baton's electric crackle, boots pounding gravel, metal groaning and snapping, a drone's faint rotor whine. No score, no subtitles.
Camera & Capture Realism: ~32mm/68° FOV, vintage 2x anamorphic with oval bokeh and streak flares off the neon, shallow depth of field, color-negative rendition, fine grain. Violent handheld — cant swinging 15-45°, punching in and ripping back, every frame mid-move but smooth in its own travel, never locked, never gimbal-glide. No CGI look, no AI smoothness, no video-game HUD, no motion smoothing.