15s image-to-video, 2.39:1, photorealistic dance film.
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Preserve the reference stage: symmetrical black room, red spotlights, haze and reflective floor. Three dancers in matte-black clothing share its red light, shadows and reflections. Contemporary dance: fluid torso phrases, arm strikes, head snaps and hard stops.
VFX — one effect per beat, no overlap.
Interlaced Scan Reveal: dancer builds upward from the floor reflection, alternate 2px scanlines arriving one field late, feet complete before knees start, last line at the crown. Reflection fully resolved before the body begins. Eyes never scanline.
Body-Slice Glitch: seven horizontal bands, top shifts 15cm left, next 15cm right, alternating downward over four frames, each band dropping to black one frame after its shift. Chest band vanishes last. Floor light dims band by band.
Chronophotographic Strobe: five solid poses printed along the path, all exposures on one plate, none moves after printing, all vanish on the same frame the dancer stops.
Datamosh: cut lands, next dancer's pixels carry the previous dancer's motion vectors for eight frames — limbs smear along the old path, head holds a clean edge — then resolve.
0.0–3.0 — Empty wide. The central beam brightens. Dancer A scans upward into existence, rising into stance. Cut closer as the face resolves.
3.0–6.0 — A drives a circular torso-and-arm sweep; five poses print along its arc. They compress into A at a violent foot strike. Impact cut on contact to a low angle.
6.0–10.0 — A sweeps an arm right. At peak speed, match-action cut: datamosh carries the unfinished gesture into the right spotlight, where B completes it in the same direction. A splits into bands and disappears. B drops to one knee; impact cut reveals C under the opposite light, inheriting B’s upward head snap.
10.0–15.0 — Rapid pose relay: A’s torso contraction transfers to B, B’s arm strike to C, and C finishes in full extension. Every cut lands on a movement peak or impact. All three scan into separate lights and strike the floor together. Stroboscopic poses fill the stage, compress into them, then all three split into bands and collapse into darkness. End on the empty set.
Preserve identity, anatomy, wardrobe, geography and screen direction. No transparent ghosts, clones, facial melting, limb distortion or camera orbiting.