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Selfie without stopping, shot 4

From MiniMax H3 long takes from chained renders

Frame from the Selfie without stopping, shot 4 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
1078725334566040
Ran on
RTX 5090 on RunPod

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What was wired in

  • Block 4
    <Picture 1>
    Block 4Aerial photograph of that block
  • Amber
    <Picture 2>
    AmberCharacter plate
  • Allie
    <Picture 3>
    AllieCharacter 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>: a dark red-brown triangular flatiron tower with a rounded white crown on the right side of the intersection, flanked by a pale grey stone tower and sheer dark glass high-rises, leafy street trees filling a landscaped median, brick-red paved sidewalks and several wide white-striped crosswalks meeting at the junction. 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.
<Subject 3> is the young woman in <Picture 3>, in her mid-twenties, with long wavy ash-blonde hair, fair freckled skin, blue eyes and round thin gold-rimmed glasses, wearing a plain white spaghetti-strap slip dress and small stud earrings.

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 past the flatiron tower of <Subject 2>, where <Subject 3> falls in beside <Subject 1>, the two slow to a stop for a phone selfie, and <Subject 1> then walks on alone.

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 dark red-brown triangular flatiron tower with its rounded white crown, the pale grey stone tower, the dark glass high-rises, the leafy landscaped median, the brick-red paving and the wide striped crosswalks are retained; the overhead aerial viewpoint is replaced by a street-level camera at chest height.
<Subject 3> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - her appearance and clothing as defined are retained.

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 ten-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. 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. Behind her the junction of <Subject 2> opens up, the dark red-brown triangular flatiron tower with its rounded white crown standing tall over her right shoulder, the pale grey stone tower and dark glass high-rises stacked behind it, and the leafy landscaped median running away up the avenue. The low sun holds behind her, rimming her curls in warm orange and flaring gently into the lens. At about the two-and-a-half-second mark <Subject 3>, the young woman with long wavy ash-blonde hair, round thin gold-rimmed glasses and a plain white slip dress, steps out from beside a tree in the median on the left and into her path with both hands raised in mock surprise. <Subject 1> slows sharply and stops, the camera stopping with her at the same distance. <Subject 1> (S1), her body and face angled about forty-five degrees toward the lens so her mouth stays clearly visible in three-quarter profile, but her eyes and attention held on <Subject 3> throughout the line and never on the camera, her delight showing plainly in her eyes, raised brows and lifted cheeks rather than in her mouth, which stays free to work so her jaw and lips open and close distinctly on each syllable instead of settling into a fixed open smile or a laugh, says in a mid-pitched, clear young female voice with a faint warm rasp low in it, an unhurried and evenly measured delivery, and a neutral American accent, <d>[English] Allie!</d> Only as the line ends does her face break into a delighted grin. <Subject 3> (S2), her body and face angled about forty-five degrees toward the lens so her mouth stays clearly visible in three-quarter profile, but her eyes and attention held on <Subject 1> throughout the line and never on the camera, her delight showing plainly in her eyes, raised brows and lifted cheeks rather than in her mouth, which stays free to work so her jaw and lips open and close distinctly on each syllable instead of settling into a fixed open smile or a laugh, her hands still down at her sides, replies in a low, soft, noticeably breathy young female voice with an unhurried delivery and a slight rising lilt at the end of each phrase, <d>[English] One quick one, then I will let you go.</d> Only after the line does she lift a plain dark phone up and forward at arm's length toward the camera side. At about the five-and-a-half-second mark the two of them lean their heads together, <Subject 1>'s copper curls falling against <Subject 3>'s ash-blonde hair, both smiling up into the raised phone; the screen brightens for an instant as the picture is taken. <Subject 3> lowers the phone, tips it toward <Subject 1> so they can both look at the result, and the two laugh briefly. At about the seven-and-a-half-second mark <Subject 3> pockets the phone, squeezes <Subject 1>'s arm and turns away to the left. <Subject 1> steps off and rebuilds her pace over the following second, the camera picking up with her. Through the final two seconds she is centred and alone, mid-stride at the original steady pace, expression settled back to neutral.

overall_soundscape:
The open-air street ambience carries straight on from the preceding segment without interruption: traffic crossing the junction, wind in the median trees and the murmur of pedestrians. A second set of lighter footsteps joins hers and both slow to a halt, a short synthetic camera-shutter click sounds from the phone, two overlapping laughs follow, and after they part a single set of even footsteps builds back up and continues alone.

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Notes

A selfie taken without either of them stopping