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A traditional hand-drawn FILM STORYBOARD SHEET for scene 1: one page divided into a clean 3x3 grid of NINE separate rectangular panels, three rows of three, each panel a 9:16 rectangle with a thin ruled black border and a small hand-written panel number in its top-left corner from 1 to 9. Thin white gutters between panels. Off-white paper background with faint tooth. MEDIUM, STRICT: rough graphite pencil drawing only. Loose confident director's sketch, visible pencil strokes, hatching and smudged shading for shadow, some construction lines left in. Monochrome grey graphite, NO colour anywhere, NO paint, NO digital rendering, NO photorealism. It must look drawn by hand on paper in a few minutes per panel. No named characters — stage the action with anonymous figures. Divide the following 6-second scene into NINE consecutive story beats yourself, in strict chronological order, and draw one panel per beat. Vary the shot size between panels — do not draw nine versions of the same framing. THE SCENE: LANGUAGE: All dialogue is spoken aloud in Russian, word for word as written, natural for a native Russian speaker; every spoken word is Russian. NON-NEGOTIABLE SCENE CONTRACT: - Place: an open autumn landscape in soft grey daylight, drawn as a pencil sketch, with exactly three trees and leaf-strewn ground. - Acting in this shot: none. The landscape is empty of people from 0:00 to 0:06; the only movers are falling leaves. - Not present in this shot: none (no person exists in this landscape). - Frame 0: gold and crimson leaves hang on all three trees, fallen leaves lie loosely on the ground, and the air is still. - Last frame: exactly one gold leaf lies settled on the leaf-covered ground; gold and crimson leaves still cling to the branches; two crimson leaves are still falling. BINDING: SPEECH (the only speech in the clip): - 0:01, Narrator, off-screen voice-over, no mouth on screen, nobody visible: "Для Эрика время теперь тянулось бесконечно." POSITIONS AND GEOGRAPHY: - Exactly three trees. - One large tree stands on the left third of the frame. Its thick trunk rises from the lower-left, and its crown of gold and crimson leaves spreads across the top-left of the frame. One low branch reaches toward the frame centre. - Two smaller trees stand in the right background, slimmer and fainter in the graphite haze, with gold leaves on their crowns. - The ground fills the lower third. It is a gentle open meadow lightly covered with fallen gold, crimson and brown leaves. Between the leaves, pale grass shows in soft pencil hatching. - The sky is a soft, even grey wash behind the trees, drawn with light graphite shading. - Leaves always fall top to bottom with a slow side-to-side sway. Any camera movement goes left to right only. The axis never reverses. OPENING STATE AT 0:00: - The exact plate described above: three trees, leaves on the branches, leaves loosely scattered on the ground, still air, soft grey light, no person. - Everything that moves starts from 0:01. BEATS: - 0:00–0:03: wide shot. Exactly five leaves drop one after another from the large tree's crown at top-left and fall the full height of the frame to the ground. The narrator's line begins at 0:01. - 0:03 HARD CUT. - 0:03–0:06: medium shot. Exactly one gold leaf lets go of the low branch of the large tree. It sways down through the frame and settles flat on the leaf-covered ground at 0:05. Two crimson leaves keep falling through the top of the frame to the last frame. EXIT STATE AT 0:06: - The single gold leaf rests settled on the ground. - The branches still hold gold and crimson leaves. - Two crimson leaves are mid-fall. - No person is in frame. - The clip ends in motion. 1. TEMPO & INTENT A quiet, melancholic autumn elegy that opens the film. The pace is slow and heavy with longing, yet never frozen: in every second at least one leaf is visibly moving through the air. The event of the clip is the fall of one gold leaf from a branch to the ground, filmed whole, from the moment it lets go to the moment it lies still. That single fall, stretched and swaying, makes the viewer feel time dragging, while the narrator names that feeling. Two shots with one hard cut at 0:03. Each shot completes one physical action: - Shot 1: leaves fall across the full height of the wide frame. - Shot 2: the one gold leaf falls and settles. The line is heard early, between 0:01 and about 0:04. The last seconds carry only the sound of the landscape and the still-falling leaves. 2. FORMAT & SETTING Vertical 9:16, exactly 6 seconds, native audio on. The setting is an open autumn landscape in calm grey daylight, outdoors under an overcast sky. The light is soft and even, with gentle shading falling from the upper-left onto the trunks and the ground. - Exactly three trees: one large tree on the left third, two smaller trees in the right background. - A meadow floor lightly strewn with fallen leaves. - Still air: the branches hold steady, and only the falling leaves move. Shot 1 (0:00–0:03), wide, level frame at eye height: - The tall vertical frame shows the large tree's trunk at lower-left and its crown spreading across the top-left. The two smaller trees stand in the right background, and the leaf-covered ground runs across the lower third. - The camera holds level, then drifts very slowly left to right, following the falling leaves. Shot 2 (0:03–0:06), medium, level frame: - The low branch of the large tree crosses the upper part of the frame from the left. Several gold and crimson leaves hang on it. - The leaf-covered ground lies below. - The camera tilts down slowly, following the one gold leaf from the branch to the ground. The tilt stops when the leaf lands. 3. CHARACTERS No person appears in this clip. The narrator is an unseen voice-over only, with no body, face or mouth on screen. The landscape itself is the only subject. Its acting elements are the leaves: - In shot 1, exactly five falling leaves. - In shot 2, exactly one gold leaf in focus, plus two crimson leaves falling at the end. The three trees stand fixed in their positions in both shots. 4. MOTION — PER-SECOND - 0:00: Wide shot. The exact opening plate: three trees with gold and crimson leaves, fallen leaves resting on the ground, still air, soft grey light. The camera is level and holding. - 0:01: The first gold leaf drops from the large tree's crown at top-left and starts to fall, swaying. The camera begins a very slow drift to the right. (line 1 is heard here) - 0:02: Four more leaves, gold and crimson, fall one after another through the middle of the frame. The first leaf reaches the ground in the lower third and lies flat. The camera keeps drifting slowly right. - 0:03: HARD CUT. Medium shot of the low branch of the large tree. Exactly one gold leaf on it trembles, lets go, and begins to fall at upper-left of frame. - 0:04: The gold leaf drifts down in slow wide sways, left then right, turning once so its pale underside catches the grey light. The camera tilts down with it. - 0:05: The gold leaf glides the last stretch and settles flat on the leaf-covered ground at lower-centre, landing on top of the brown leaves. The tilt stops. Two crimson leaves enter falling from the top of the frame and keep descending through to the clip's last frame at 0:06. 5. DIALOGUE There is one line, spoken by the unseen narrator as a voice-over. - It starts at 0:01 and ends by about 0:04. - Nobody is on screen. - It is spoken slowly and evenly, in Russian, exactly as written in the SPEECH block, with a slight lingering on the last word. There is no other speech. 6. VOICE / TIMBRE Narrator: a low, warm, unhurried baritone. Calm and close to the microphone, gently melancholic, clearly audible over the landscape sound. Steady volume, natural pauses, no echo. The same timbre is to be kept in every later clip of the film. 7. AUDIO Diegetic sound of the place only: - the faint dry rustle of leaves on the branches; - the soft papery flutter of the falling leaves; - a light dry tap as each leaf touches the leaf-covered ground, with one clear soft tap at 0:05 when the gold leaf settles; - a quiet open-air ambience of a still autumn day. The narrator's voice sits on top, clear and close. 8. STYLE / COLOUR Pencil sketch throughout. - Soft graphite strokes on warm off-white paper, with visible hatching and cross-hatching for the shading. Trunks and branches carry gentle smudged tones, and the ground and grass are built from loose pencil marks. - Leaves are coloured with soft coloured-pencil gold and crimson accents over the graphite, slightly textured by the paper grain. The fallen leaves on the ground mix gold, crimson and muted brown. - The sky is a light, even grey graphite wash. - The light is soft and grey, with gentle shading from the upper-left and no hard highlights. - Overall tone is muted and quiet, with the gold and crimson leaves as the only warm colour. - The first shot is bright enough that every falling leaf reads clearly against the grey sky and the pale ground. - Line weight and paper texture stay consistent across both shots. 9. NEGATIVES on-screen text, letters, subtitles, watermarks; style drift away from pencil sketch; photoreal rendering; flicker of line texture; tree count or tree position changing between frames; leaf count jumping; scale wobble; warped or doubled branches; axis flip or mirrored geography; camera shake. CONTRACT CHECKSUM (these override anything above that contradicts them): - Place: an open autumn landscape in soft grey daylight, drawn as a pencil sketch, with exactly three trees and leaf-strewn ground. - Acting in this shot: none. The landscape is empty of people from 0:00 to 0:06; the only movers are falling leaves. - Not present in this shot: none (no person exists in this landscape). - Frame 0: gold and crimson leaves hang on all three trees, fallen leaves lie loosely on the ground, and the air is still. - Last frame: exactly one gold leaf lies settled on the leaf-covered ground; gold and crimson leaves still cling to the branches; two crimson leaves are still falling. Draw camera arrows and simple motion lines in pencil where movement matters, and keep every panel's staging consistent with the one before it — this sheet is a shooting plan, so a person standing screen-left in one panel stays screen-left in the next unless the action moves them. NO text or captions anywhere except the small panel numbers 1 to 9. No title block, no handwriting in the margins, no speech bubbles, no subtitles, no watermark, no logo.