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Emotion Sale Transaction at a Modern Counter

theatrical film clip, somber transaction · 16:9 · 33 shots, 8.3s average

33 cuts · 1 person has opened one · 24 views

Source strip · 33 shots3 open · 30 locked

Original caption — “붉힘 (IN BLOOM) — AI Short Film, 2026 Dir./Written/Produced by Subin Kim 사랑에 빠진 순간의 홍조가 '수확 타이밍'인 근미래. 20년간 얼굴을 붉히지 않은 여자가 마침내 사랑에 빠지지만, 그 남자는 그녀의 첫사랑을 팔러 온 수확꾼이었다. A near-future fable where the involuntary blush of falling in love is the signal it can be harvested and sold — and a woman who refused to feel for twenty years finally blooms, for the wrong man. — AI Pipeline (generative AI is central to this work): Stills: OpenAI gpt-image-2 · Image-to-video: Higgsfield Seedance 2.0 Lip sync: sync.so · Voice/Music/SFX: ElevenLabs · Edit: ffmpeg English subtitles burned in. Korean w/ EN subs. 4:35 · 1080p. #SpecialForAAIFF”

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S0535.00–43.00s · 8.00s longMSDownload this cut

A man counts money while a woman sits between him and a female employee who is handling small vials on a counter.

Sound & text

read off the cut
Audio
machine sound, ding sound, soft background music
Dialogue
감정 판매 절차 완료됐습니다. 다음에 또 사랑하시게 되면 찾아주세요.
On-screen text
Your emotion sale is complete. Come again when you fall in love.

Exposure

false colour · waveform
clip 95+85–95skin 52–58grey 38–453–8crush

Colour palette

measured off the pixels
#22262537.5%
#090e1235.9%
#3c3e3c18.3%
#5d64636.1%
Dominant
#222625
Shot
MS
Length
8.00s

Lighting plot

2:1
12 m18 m123
1keysoft · -45° · high · 5000K
2fillsoft · +30° · eye · 5000K
3backsoft · 0° · overhead · 5000K
Exposure
T2.8-T4

Staging

Three Shot
12 m18 mABC
A
man at counter
B
woman at counter
C
clerk at counter
Coverage
Single setup
Lens
35–70 mm
Camera height
1.55 m

Cast & locations

reusable across cuts
Reference sheet for ManA
Man
Reference sheet for Woman CustomerB
Woman Customer
Reference sheet for Female EmployeeC
Female Employee
Clean plate of Upscale Counter
Upscale Counter

Camera

static
7%net displacement
frame width7.14%
Camera
7%
Subject
8%

Lens

12mm3570mm · normal300mm
Mean luma
47.1
Contrast
45.7

PromptsS05

One to make the opening frame, one to make the closing frame, one to animate between them.

  • S0535.0043.00s · MS16:9
    1 · Opening framestill image

    A single photographic film still, 16:9 aspect ratio, MS shot. The opening moment of this shot: A man counts money while a woman sits between him and a female employee who is handling small vials on a counter. A man with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a dark shirt. He is holding a stack of money. (contemporary, casual styling). A young woman with long dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark gray tweed-like jacket over a light top. She has a somber expression. (contemporary, slightly formal styling). A woman with dark hair tied back, wearing a gray and black uniform jacket with a white collar. She is handling small vials. (contemporary, professional uniform styling). A modern, dimly lit interior space with a long, dark counter. Behind the counter are shelves with various items and a large, framed artwork. There are several small, amber-colored vials arranged on a white tray on the counter. Placement: man at counter at frame left, mid ground; woman at counter at centre frame, mid ground; clerk at counter at frame right, mid ground. shot on roughly 35–70mm, camera about 1.55m off the ground. Lighting: soft, key, from camera left, slightly in front of the subject, high height, 5000K; soft, fill, from camera right, slightly in front of the subject, eye height, 5000K; soft, back, from behind the camera, straight onto the subject, overhead height, 5000K. Key to fill ratio about 2:1. Colour palette drawn from #222625, #090e12, #3c3e3c, #5d6463. cool, desaturated grade with muted blues and grays, shadows are soft but deep. clean digital capture, shallow depth of field focusing on the central woman, minimal grain. No text, no captions, no watermark, no split screen — one continuous frame.

    2 · Closing frame

    This cut holds still, so it only needs the opening frame — a second frame would invent movement that is not in the original.

    3 · Videoanimates the frames

    SCENE CONTEXT — This cut runs 8s. A man counts money while a woman sits between him and a female employee who is handling small vials on a counter. A man with short dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a dark shirt. He is holding a stack of money. (contemporary, casual styling). A young woman with long dark hair pulled back, wearing a dark gray tweed-like jacket over a light top. She has a somber expression. (contemporary, slightly formal styling). A woman with dark hair tied back, wearing a gray and black uniform jacket with a white collar. She is handling small vials. (contemporary, professional uniform styling). A modern, dimly lit interior space with a long, dark counter. Behind the counter are shelves with various items and a large, framed artwork. There are several small, amber-colored vials arranged on a white tray on the counter. ACTION BEATS — Beat 1 (0.0–8.0s): shot begins with a man counting money, a woman looking forward, and another woman operating a device. Subject movement across this cut measures about 8.1% of frame width — the subject keeps moving through every beat and never freezes into the opening frame. ACTING — Micro-pauses before reactions, precise eye-line (never into the lens), wet living eyes with catch-lights, visible breath and chest rise, weight readable through the body. Physics respected throughout DIALOGUE — The speaker says: "감정 판매 절차 완료됐습니다. 다음에 또 사랑하시게 되면 찾아주세요." Only the lines inside quotes are spoken. No ad-libs. CAMERA — MS framing. shot on roughly 35–70mm, camera about 1.55m off the ground. Placement: man at counter at frame left, mid ground; woman at counter at centre frame, mid ground; clerk at counter at frame right, mid ground. LIGHT & PALETTE — Lighting: soft, key, from camera left, slightly in front of the subject, high height, 5000K; soft, fill, from camera right, slightly in front of the subject, eye height, 5000K; soft, back, from behind the camera, straight onto the subject, overhead height, 5000K. Key to fill ratio about 2:1. Colour palette drawn from #222625, #090e12, #3c3e3c, #5d6463. cool, desaturated grade with muted blues and grays, shadows are soft but deep. clean digital capture, shallow depth of field focusing on the central woman, minimal grain. Exact hues are inherited from the opening frame — do not impose any colour cast of your own. SOUND — Heard in this cut: machine sound, ding sound, soft background music. No subtitles, no captions. NEGATIVES — NO camera motion. NO blurry. NO text

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