Paper Cut-Out Cinematic Narrative Template

{ "archetype": "Cinematic Narrative", "duration": "15s", "prompt": { "concept": { "title": "THE EXTINCTION", "description": "15-second pure motion-graphics explanation of the extinction of the dinosaurs told in exactly four visual acts. No voice-over. Everything is built from tactile paper cut-outs, cardboard, ink silhouettes and layered collage. Transitions between the four acts are hard stop-motion style jumps: elements are abruptly repositioned frame-by-frame as if moved by hand.", "duration": "15-second continuous paper cut-out sequence" }, "camera_direction": { "shot_type": "Mostly locked wide with occasional slow lateral drifts", "forbidden": ["No smooth cinematic camera moves", "No morphing transitions", "No dissolves", "No fancy digital effects"], "camera_journey": "Starts locked on a lush prehistoric landscape. Between each act the frame freezes and the entire composition jumps in hard stop-motion steps to the next configuration. Final act ends on a static wide of a dark, ash-covered silent world." }, "visual_style": { "overall": "Tactile stop-motion paper theater - everything feels hand-cut and physically moved", "inspired_by": [ "Classic stop-motion cut-out animation", "Paper collage natural history sequences", "Graphic scientific storytelling rendered in physical materials" ], "color_palette": [ "Lush greens and warm earth tones for the living world", "Fiery orange and white-hot for the impact", "Deep charcoal and ashen greys for the aftermath", "Sickly yellow-brown dust layers" ], "materials_and_texture": "Torn paper edges, visible cardboard corrugation, thick ink silhouettes, layered overlapping cut-outs, glowing translucent paper for the asteroid and explosion, soft paper shadows, slight hand-made imperfections, fine film grain" }, "storyboard": { "total_beats": 4, "beats": [ { "id": "01", "time": "0.0-3.5s", "description": "Wide shot of a lush paper landscape. Several dinosaur silhouettes of different sizes move slowly in stop-motion across green layered hills and forests. The world feels alive and calm under a bright paper sun." }, { "id": "02", "time": "3.5-7.5s", "description": "Hard stop-motion jump. A large glowing white-orange paper asteroid appears in the upper sky and begins falling in sharp, accelerating frames. The dinosaurs stop and look up. The shadow of the object grows across the land." }, { "id": "03", "time": "7.5-11.5s", "description": "Hard stop-motion jump. The asteroid hits the horizon in one violent frame. A massive circular shockwave of torn paper and fire expands outward. Dinosaur silhouettes are thrown and disappear. Trees and land are ripped apart in stepped bursts of debris." }, { "id": "04", "time": "11.5-15.0s", "description": "Hard stop-motion jump to darkness. The sky is now thick with black and grey ash layers. Faint silhouettes of fallen dinosaurs lie still under falling paper dust. The sun is completely obscured. Final static hold on a silent, grey, lifeless world." } ] } } }