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Streetcar and pigeons, shot 3

From MiniMax H3 long takes from chained renders

Frame from the Streetcar and pigeons, shot 3 clip
Watch it in the video at 2:53
Resolution
1376×768
Length
243 frames, 10.12s
Handoff
Opens on the last 39 frames of the render before it
Steps
20
Seed
1078725334556067
Ran on
RTX 5090 on RunPod

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What was wired in

  • Block 3
    <Picture 1>
    Block 3Aerial photograph of that block
  • Amber
    <Picture 2>
    AmberCharacter plate
  • No tagMiniMaxH3AddGuide: the last 39 frames of the previous render, plus its audio

The prompt

subject_definitions:
<Subject 1> is the young woman in <Picture 2>, in her early twenties, with long thick copper-orange curly hair falling well past her shoulders, pale freckled skin, blue-grey eyes and a slim build, wearing a plain cream short-sleeved crew-neck t-shirt, a long dark iron cross pendant on a thin dark chain, blue denim jeans, a wide tan leather belt with a brass buckle, a small tan leather belt pouch on her right hip, dark braided rope bracelets on both wrists and thin silver rings. Only her face, hair, body and clothing are taken from <Picture 2>; the snow, cliffs, green aurora and wooden sailing ship behind her in that image are not part of the target video.
<Subject 2> is the block of Market Street in San Francisco photographed from directly overhead in <Picture 1>: the avenue widening beside a sunken plaza, a tall dark bronze-glass slab tower on the right with a low circular glass pavilion and a fanned metal canopy at its base, mature broad-leaved trees lining the brick-red sidewalks, steel streetcar rails in the roadway and wide white-striped crosswalks meeting at the intersection. Only the street layout, building shapes, materials and colours are used; the overhead aerial viewpoint and map-like flattening of <Picture 1> are not retained, and the target video is filmed at street level.

summary:
[reference generation + keyframe completion] The target video opens on an exact replay of the closing moments of the preceding segment and continues the walk alone past the sunken plaza of <Subject 2>, an antique streetcar crossing behind <Subject 1> and pigeons lifting off the paving as she goes.

retention_analysis:
<Subject 1> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - her face, freckles, blue-grey eyes, long copper-orange curls, cream t-shirt, iron cross pendant, tan leather belt and belt pouch, denim jeans, braided rope bracelets and silver rings are retained exactly.
<Subject 2> (appears in [Shot 1]): partially_preserved - the widened avenue, the sunken plaza, the dark bronze-glass slab tower, the low circular glass pavilion with its fanned metal canopy, the mature street trees, the streetcar rails and the brick-red paving are retained; the overhead aerial viewpoint is replaced by a street-level camera at chest height.

detailed_description:
The target video is photorealistic live-action in a naturalistic documentary-cinematic style, filmed on a stabilised gimbal with a 35mm-equivalent lens held at chest height, in clear late-afternoon San Francisco light, with no on-screen text and no subtitles anywhere.
[Shot 1] The segment opens on an exact replay of the closing moments of the preceding take and carries that motion straight through with no join. She holds the exact body pose, head angle, gaze direction and facial expression carried in by the replayed opening frames, continuing them without any reset. The camera sits in front of <Subject 1> and faces back toward her in one continuous fifteen-second take, matching her speed exactly so her size and position in the frame stay constant; she is centred and framed from mid-thigh up, and there is no cut at any point. The camera holds its distance and never pushes in, pulls out or zooms. When she slows or stops, the camera slows and stops with her, holding the same gap, and picks up again at the moment she does. <Subject 1>, the young woman with long copper-orange curls, the cream crew-neck t-shirt, the iron cross pendant, the tan leather belt with its small pouch and blue denim jeans, walks on toward the lens at the same unhurried cadence she carries out of the replayed opening, alone in the centre of frame. Between the scripted beats her face is relaxed and unselfconscious, the ordinary expression of someone walking a route she knows well: lips closed, jaw loose, eyes moving over the buildings, the traffic and the pavement ahead, narrowing now and then against the low sun. She does not smile at the lens and does not perform for the camera. Any change of expression is a brief, specific reaction to something in the scene and settles back to that neutral walking face within a second or two. The avenue of <Subject 2> opens out behind her: the sunken plaza drops away on her right beyond a low railing, the tall dark bronze-glass slab tower rises the full height of frame on that side with the low circular glass pavilion and its fanned metal canopy at its foot, and mature broad-leaved street trees pass through the upper corners, throwing moving dapples of shadow across her face and shoulders. The low sun stays behind her far up the avenue, rimming her copper curls, flaring softly into the lens and pushing her long shadow forward past the camera. At about the four-second mark an antique streetcar in dark green and cream livery rolls across the background from left to right along the steel rails behind her, its bell ringing twice; she turns her head to follow it for two full seconds, watching it pass with mild interest, then faces forward again and her expression settles. Near the eight-second mark her approach disturbs a cluster of pigeons feeding on the brick paving to her left; they clatter up into the air past her shoulder and she checks her stride for half a step, shoulders flinching, then walks on. Around the eleven-second mark she passes a folding sandwich board on the sidewalk and steps around it without looking down, hooking her right thumb under the wide tan belt beside the pouch and letting the hand drop back into rhythm. Pedestrians pass in soft focus along both edges of the frame, walking the other way. Through the final two seconds she is centred, mid-stride, walking straight into the lens at the same steady pace with a neutral, self-contained expression.

overall_soundscape:
The open-air street ambience carries straight on from the preceding segment without interruption: traffic along the avenue, wind moving through the street trees and the murmur of pedestrians passing on both sides. A streetcar rumbles across the background on steel rails and rings its bell twice, a burst of wingbeats and pigeon calls rises close to the camera, and her even footsteps on the brick paving continue unbroken throughout.

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Notes

An F-line streetcar crosses behind; pigeons scatter