UNDERGROUND TEMPLE. ONE EXPLORER. FIFTEEN SECONDS. 16:9. ASSET MAP - every reference is bound here and cited by tag below: @avatar_1 - the explorer, and the only person in the film. Face, hair, hair length, hair colour, skin, age, build and every physical characteristic come entirely from @avatar_1 and never from this text. IDENTITY LOCK - HIGHEST PRIORITY: the explorer is exactly the person in @avatar_1 and stays exactly that person in every shot. Do not restyle the face, do not change the hair colour or length, do not age them up or down, do not slim or reshape the body, and never swap in a different person. ONE BODY ONLY - COUNT THEM: exactly one human being exists in this film. There is never a second figure, never a companion, never a double, never a reflection or silhouette of another person, and never a second body in the foreground of a shot. Any shoulder, arm, hand or back of a head that appears in frame belongs to @avatar_1 and to nobody else. If a framing would normally need a second person to stand in front of the camera, do not use that framing. ATTACHED REFERENCES ARE MANDATORY AND FINAL: if a reference is attached, that is the explorer - reproduce them exactly, in every shot, and never invent a different one. The attached reference outranks every word written below it. WARDROBE LOCK: a plain dark sleeveless top, fingerless leather gloves worn to the knuckle, a wide belt with small pouches, cargo trousers tucked into worn lace-up boots. No jewellery, no badges, no lettering and no logo anywhere on the clothing. This list is clothing only and says nothing about hair. THE HAIR COMES FROM THE REFERENCE, NOT FROM THIS TEXT: whatever hair @avatar_1 has is the hair in the film - the same length, the same colour, the same texture, from the first frame to the last. If it is short it stays short, if it is long it stays long, if it is tied up it stays tied up, if there is none there is none. Never add length, never add a ponytail or loose strands that the reference does not have, never restyle it to suit the scene, and never let dust, movement or the action change what kind of hair it is. THE PLACE: a buried stone temple, long abandoned. Carved pillars and low arches, walls cut with deep interlocking relief, roots and pale green creeper coming through the joints, standing water in the dips of a cracked flagstone floor, drifting dust. The only light is a scatter of stubby candles burning low on the stones, plus one narrow shaft of daylight from far above. Warm candle flame against cold blue shadow, everything else near-black. THE LOOK: photographic and close, shot on a fast prime wide open - very shallow focus, strong bokeh on the candle flames, handheld with a live but controlled wobble, fine grain, no gloss. Warm amber on skin, deep blue-green in the dark. THE CUTTING: exactly five shots, hard cuts between them, with the lengths given below. Each shot is its own framing - never let two of them run together as one continuous move. THE CARVING: one panel of the wall is cut with a dense spiral pattern. When a hand touches it, thin lines of warm light run along the grooves and spread outward from the touch, then fade. The light is inside the carved lines only - it never becomes a glow in the air, a hologram or a magical effect. Shot 1 (2.8s) Medium-wide, and @avatar_1 is the subject of this shot from the very first frame - already large in the picture, not a distant figure in the depth. @avatar_1 steps out of the dark between two pillars into the shaft of daylight, one hand trailing the wall, and stops. A few candles sit low at the edge of frame, well out of focus and never filling the foreground. The camera holds handheld. Shot 2 (2.6s) Medium close, from behind and slightly to one side of @avatar_1, the camera just past their own shoulder and nobody else in the frame. @avatar_1 leans in toward the carved panel, face lit from the side by candlelight, and reads the pattern with the eyes before touching anything. The camera drifts in slowly. Shot 3 (2.4s) HARD CUT to a macro insert, a separate shot of its own: nothing but the hand and the stone, framed so tight that no face and no shoulder are anywhere in the picture. The fingers settle into the carved spiral and thin lines of warm light run out along the grooves from under the fingertips. This must not be a continuation of the previous shot - it is a clean cut to a new, much closer framing. Shot 4 (2.6s) Close on the face of @avatar_1, lit now from the wall itself, the expression turning from concentration to understanding to alarm in one continuous take. The eyes go to something off to the side. The camera holds on the face. Shot 5 (4.5s) Wide, pulling back. @avatar_1 straightens up fast and steps away from the wall as the lines of light in the carving keep spreading past the panel and out across the stones of the whole chamber, running along the joints toward the camera. @avatar_1 backs out of frame and the temple is left lit by its own lines. Hold to the last frame. DIALOGUE: @avatar_1 speaks twice, quietly and to themselves, and these are the only words in the film: In Shot 2, half under the breath: <Someone got here first.> In Shot 4, barely voiced, as the understanding lands: <That's not a trail.> SOUND: a deep buried-room tone with a long slow reverb. Water dripping into a pool somewhere off to the side, grit under a boot, the small dry crackle of candle flames, cloth and leather as they move, one slow breath before the first line. Under all of it a low sustained bass note that sits quietly through the first four shots and then swells and opens out as the light spreads in the final shot - the only moment the score makes itself felt. Do not generate subtitles, captions, on-screen text, a title card, a logo, a wordmark, a watermark or any readable lettering or numerals anywhere in frame. The two spoken lines are heard, never written on screen. No second person, no torch, no flashlight, no modern equipment, no magical glow in the air, and no change to the explorer's face, hair or build at any point.







