REFERENCES Image 1 defines the hero's face, curly hair, build and outfit: navy nylon hooded windbreaker over a navy tee, grey shorts, black

REFERENCES Image 1 defines the hero's face, curly hair, build and outfit: navy nylon hooded windbreaker over a navy tee, grey shorts, black socks, worn trail sneakers. Do not use its grey background. Image 3 is the SAME person as Image 1 in motion — use only for running posture and rim light; one character, never two. Image 2 defines the location: alpine slope under a low sun, deep green grass, mossy granite boulders, a grazing flock, a dark ridge. Do not use its grid layout or dividers. Image 4 defines the creature: charred black bark, hollow empty sockets, moss on the shoulder. Do not use its blurred background. Image 4's arms are enormous braided root-limbs, each forearm as thick as a tree trunk, with heavy knuckled fingers of woven wood — never thin threads or tendrils. SCENE Image 4 stands rooted in one spot and hunts Image 1 entirely through the ground, while Image 1 crosses the slope leaping boulder to boulder so his feet never touch the ground; after one fall he gets back onto the stones and escapes onto a sheep's back, riding it downslope standing upright. GLOBAL SETTINGS Photoreal cinema, ARRI Alexa 35 look, anamorphic lenses, shallow DOF, fine grain. The low sun sits in a ridge notch behind and right, rim-lighting Image 1's hair and shoulders, long shadows. Palette: deep emerald green and cold grey granite against a warm amber sky. Fast hard cuts, every shot 0.5-2 seconds, constantly changing angles. Camera moves in every shot, no static frames. Framing rule: keep Image 1 in close and medium framing only. No wide shots containing Image 1, never a frame where his face is under a third of frame height. Exclude: no on-screen text, no cross dissolves, no fade to black, no limb deformation. LOCATION MAP (stable across all shots) The slope runs from upper left down to lower right. A chain of about fifteen granite boulders lies diagonally across it, gaps of 1.5-3 metres, flat mossy tops. Image 1 travels it from lower left to upper right. The last boulder stands alone; beyond it, open grass, and fifteen metres uphill on a gentler shelf about thirty sheep graze. Image 4 stands far below and right by the rocky path and never leaves that spot. The sun sits in the ridge notch behind the direction of travel. SHOT SCRIPT (CU = close-up, ECU = extreme close-up) 1 (0.0-1.0) ECU of Image 4's bark face: deep charred grain, two hollow sockets, heavy wooden ridges around the mouth slit. The head lifts and draws in air, chest bark flexing. Slow push in. 2 (1.0-2.0) CU of one massive root arm of Image 4 at his side: braided coils of wood as thick as a trunk, heavy fingers flexing and creaking. Lateral slide along the forearm. 3 (2.0-2.8) CU of Image 4's shoulder and neck: the head turns uphill in stiff wooden jerks with a crack, shoulder moss settling a beat after it stops. The body does not shift. Low angle, tilt up. 4 (2.8-3.6) CU of Image 4's base: his legs merge into the turf as thick anchor roots, the ground around them undisturbed. He is fixed in place. Slow orbit. 5 (3.6-4.4) Side CU: Image 1's sneakers slam onto a mossy boulder top, dry moss and dust bursting out. Parallel move, shoes sharp. 6 (4.4-5.6) Three-quarter CU of Image 1's face, sun rimming his curls. Breathing ragged, brows drawn, eyes locked on the next boulder. Through his teeth in English: {Okay - just don't touch the ground.} Handheld. 7 (5.6-6.4) Ground-level low angle: Image 1's legs drive off the boulder, front knee snapping up, foreground grass smeared by speed. Lift with the push-off. 8 (6.4-7.2) CU: Image 1's sneakers slam back onto a mossy boulder top, moss bursting. Low, parallel. 9 (7.2-8.0) Tight overhead of three boulders: mossy tops and the gaps between them as Image 1's shadow flies across the first. Slow tilt down. 10 (8.0-8.9) CU of Image 1's face: jaw set, eyes flicking stone to stone, breath sharp and rhythmic, one hand grazing a boulder edge for balance. Handheld push in. 11 (8.9-9.6) CU from below the stone: Image 1's soles land, wet moss compressing and squeezing water out under the tread. Rise with the landing. 12 (9.6-10.3) Low angle from behind a boulder: Image 1 lands and instantly coils his knees for the next jump without pausing. Swing around the stone. 13 (10.3-10.9) ECU of Image 4's hollow sockets snapping toward Image 1 in one instant move, no wind-up. 14 (10.9-11.8) Medium low angle: Image 4, feet still rooted in the same spot, drives one enormous root arm shoulder-deep into the soil, turf tearing up in a ring around it. Drop hard with the arm. 15 (11.8-12.6) CU skimming the grass: a raised ridge of turf races toward the boulder chain like a wake, grass parting and closing above it. Fly backward ahead of it. 16 (12.6-13.7) CU at the base of a boulder: the ground bursts open and a huge root hand shoves the stone hard from beneath. The boulder lurches and tips sideways, grinding. Rock hard with the stone. 17 (13.7-14.5) CU of Image 1 on the tipping stone: his footing goes, arms swinging out for balance, and he drops off the side. Fall with him. 18 (14.5-15.3) CU as Image 1 hits the grass: hip and shoulder take the impact, knee folding first, turf, dew and seed heads bursting up around him. Camera on the ground. 19 (15.3-16.0) CU of the huge root hand: heavy wooden fingers uncurl and the hand pivots toward Image 1 on the ground. Push in on the knuckles. 20 (16.0-16.8) Medium: the root hand sweeps down at Image 1, soil pouring off its fingers. Whip down with it. 21 (16.8-17.7) CU: Image 1 rolls sideways over his shoulder as the hand slams into the turf where he lay, throwing a wall of dirt across frame. Roll with him. 22 (17.7-18.5) Low CU: Image 1's palms plant in the grass and he drives up onto his feet, blades tearing under his soles. Rise with him. 23 (18.5-19.5) Medium from behind and side: Image 1 takes three hard strides and launches off the grass as the root hand closes on empty air behind him with a hollow wooden snap. Lift with the jump. 24 (19.5-20.2) ECU of Image 1's eyes: focus jumps forward, pupils tighten as he sees the boulder chain end. Fast push in. 25 (20.2-21.3) Medium: Image 1 straightens up on the last boulder of the chain, weight on both feet, looking at the open grass ahead. He breathes out in English: {Damn. No more rocks.} Slow push in. 26 (21.3-22.1) Medium from grass level: the flock grazing on the shelf, the nearest sheep lifting its head, low sun burning through the wool. Slide sideways. 27 (22.1-23.2) CU of Image 1's face, still on the stone: eyes darting to the flock and back, brows lifting, the corner of his mouth twitching as the idea lands. In English, half to himself: {Well... guess today's my lucky day.} Push in. 28 (23.2-24.0) Low angle from below the boulder: Image 1 drops into a deep crouch on the stone, hands loose, coiling to jump. Tilt up his body. 29 (24.0-24.9) Medium from behind and side: Image 1 launches off the boulder in a long flat jump over the grass, arms wide, windbreaker ballooning. Lift with him. 30 (24.9-25.8) Rear CU: Image 1's soles land square on a sheep's back, wool compressing and springing, the animal dipping onto its forelegs before straightening and bolting. Low at hindquarter level. 31 (25.8-26.9) Medium side: Image 1 stands upright on the sheep's back on both feet, feet apart across the spine, knees soft, arms spread in a surfer's stance, never seated, never straddling. The sheep sprints downslope, wool and grass smearing with speed. Fly parallel at matching speed. 32 (26.9