SnorriCam Ballerina Through Burning Theatre

Photorealistic. ARRI ALEXA 65. SnorriCam body-mount. Character always center frame. No music. Diegetic SFX only. SNORRICAM LOCKED [15s] - A prima ballerina in her 20s, full white performance tutu, pointe shoes, stage makeup, hair in a perfect bun - centered in frame, impossibly still relative to the chaos. She runs en pointe. The theatre burns behind her: the stage curtains become walls of fire, the fly system raining burning rope and scenery, the orchestra pit collapsing, the audience seats catching - all of it in the background, tilting and roaring as she moves through it. The specific surrealism of the SnorriCam here: she is perfectly composed in the frame - costume pristine, posture perfect, the trained stillness of a dancer's carriage - while the world behind her becomes an inferno. Her feet don't show in frame. She appears to float through the destruction. Her face: precise attention. Every exit triangulated. The fire is a choreography problem. She is reading the stage. CUT CLOSER [3s] - tight on her face, background pure fire - she makes a decision, eyes flicking left, and goes. The fire rushes toward the camera behind her. FINAL WIDE [3s] - she exits the stage wing into the cold air of the loading dock. Stops. One strand of hair has escaped. She tucks it back. [SFX throughout: fire roaring - the fly system burning - scenery crashing - her pointe shoes on stage board, precise - the curtain wall falling - the loading dock door - cold air - silence] Accent: white tutu, stage-fire orange, theatre red velvet burning.