SCENE CONTEXT
A 30-second AAA third-person stealth-comedy game sequence set in a modern American open-plan office on a Friday afternoon at 4:59 PM. The player character, MAYA, has cleared her task list and must cross the entire floor and board the elevator at 5:00 PM sharp without getting stopped by anyone who could keep her late. The tone is lighthearted, playful and wholesome workplace comedy.
ACTIVE REFERENCES
@Image1 = a cinematic character design board for MAYA, the player character, showing her main portrait, full-body turnaround, head studies and costume breakdown. Use @Image1 only to define MAYA's appearance — hairstyle, glasses, outfit and proportions — and keep her consistent with it for the whole video. Do not show the design board itself, its layout, annotations or grey background anywhere in the video. MAYA: American office worker, 27, light freckles, honey-blonde hair in a low bun with loose face-framing strands, black rounded-rectangle glasses, ivory blouse under an oversized camel blazer, slim black trousers, white sneakers, canvas tote bag on her shoulder. Voice: soft low female voice, whispering in English under her breath.
CAST SEPARATION
Four distinct adults appear, each with a different silhouette, age and hair so they read as four separate people:
- MANAGER: man in his late 40s, 178 cm, heavyset, completely bald with a neat grey goatee, light-blue dress shirt with a lanyard, holding a white coffee mug. Appears only around the desk pods.
- CHATTY COWORKER: woman in her 30s, 175 cm, long curly red hair, green cardigan, hugging an open laptop covered in stickers, looking for someone to pull into a call. Appears only in the cubicle aisle.
- INTERN: man in his early 20s, 183 cm, skinny, a mop of curly blond hair, grey hoodie under a lanyard, carrying a cardboard tray of four coffees. Appears only at the kitchenette.
- FACILITIES GUY: man in his 60s, 165 cm, wiry, silver hair under a navy ball cap, navy coveralls, pushing a wheeled mail cart stacked with packages. Appears only in the lobby crossing.
MAYA is the only person in the entire video who wears glasses. The MANAGER is the only bald man; the INTERN is the only blond; the COWORKER is the only redhead; the FACILITIES GUY is the only person in a cap and coveralls.
LOCATION MAP
One unbroken spatial route the camera travels with her: her desk pod by the window → cubicle-partition aisle → print alcove → kitchenette corner → open lobby past a glass conference room → elevator bank → inside the elevator car. Foreground: grey carpet tiles, white standing desks with monitor arms, low felt partitions. Background: floor-to-ceiling window wall on camera-right with a downtown skyline in low golden 5 PM light, dust suspended in the sunbeams. Light enters from camera-right through the window wall along the entire route.
OFFICE GEOMETRY
The floor is a standard American open-plan office: desk pods in the center, the window wall along one side, the print alcove and kitchenette against the inner wall, a glass-walled conference room near the far end, and the elevator lobby beyond it. MAYA's pod sits at the window end, diagonally opposite the elevators, so her route crosses the entire floor. The elevator doors are brushed steel and reflect the warm light. Posters on the inner wall stay blurred — none of their text is legible.
FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING
First frame is already in motion: MAYA's laptop lid clicks shut as she slides off her chair into a crouch below partition height, tote already on her shoulder. Camera behind her right shoulder. Game HUD fully visible from frame one.
FORMAT MODE
One continuous unbroken take from 0.0s to 27.0s with no cuts of any kind, then a single HARD CUT at 27.0s to one final locked framing that runs to 30.0s. Exactly one cut exists in the whole video, at 27.0s. The camera does not cut anywhere else.
OPTICS
One lens for the continuous section: 47° third-person over-the-shoulder framing as the baseline, breathing in to 29° on reaction beats and out to 63° for the kitchenette evasion and the cart crossing. All FOV changes in that section happen as smooth continuous zoom breathing, never as a jump. The final framing after the cut is a fixed 29° frontal view of MAYA, no drift.
CAMERA
For the continuous section the camera is a physical object flying with her. At 1.3 meters height, 1.5 meters behind MAYA, slightly camera-right of her back, swinging with a soft spring delay half a beat behind her turns like an analog-stick gameplay camera. It sinks to knee height when she crouches below partition level, rises when she stands, slides sideways along the partition line with her, swings wide across the kitchenette to open up the coffee-pot moment, drifts in lockstep beside the mail cart, and slips through the closing elevator doors with her. After the cut, the camera is repositioned INSIDE the elevator at the back-mirror position, eye level, facing the doors — locked off, completely static, no movement.
ACTION
[Beat 1 — 0.0s to 6.0s] Crouched inside her desk pod, MAYA swaps her black heels for white sneakers in two seconds flat, then thumbs a status toggle on her phone — the screen stays unreadable, but the HUD prints 【DECOY STATUS: "IN A MEETING"】. She rises 20 cm to peek over the partition: the MANAGER hovers two pods away, mug in hand, scanning the floor for one last quick question. She sinks down and whispers: "Five o'clock means five o'clock." HUD flashes 【FRIDAY — 4:59 PM】 and the mission banner 【OBJECTIVE: CLOCK OUT AT 5:00 — UNDETECTED】. She slips out of the pod away from his sight line, and the camera follows her without stopping.
[Beat 2 — 6.0s to 12.0s] Sneakers silent on the carpet, she presses her back to the low partition line and shuffles sideways at 2 km/h; the camera tracks sideways with her at the same speed. The CHATTY COWORKER turns into the aisle hugging her sticker-covered laptop, scanning the aisle for help with one last task. MAYA slides into the print alcove and freezes as the printer hums close beside her, eyes tracking without moving her head; her glasses slip down her nose and she pushes them back up with one finger. She whispers: "Don't see me. Don't see me." The minimap vision cone sweeps past MAYA's marker and turns away. HUD shows 【SNEAKING MODE】. The coworker exits frame-left; MAYA exhales and moves on.
[Beat 3 — 12.0s to 18.0s] The INTERN rounds the kitchenette corner two meters ahead with his tray of coffees, mouth already opening for a loud hello. A red exclamation marker pops up above his head with a quick alert chime, the HUD edge pulses red, 【ALERT】. The camera swings wide as MAYA reacts in one motion: two silent steps to the counter, grabs the coffee pot, turns her back and mimes topping up a mug, shoulders loose, perfectly casual. He reaches past her for the milk, hums, and wanders off without registering her. The alert bar drains amber to green. HUD prints 【HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT】. She sets the pot down and whispers: "...that was close." The camera falls in behind her again.
[Beat 4 — 18.0s to 24.0s] The last stretch: the open lobby, overlooked by a glass conference room where a late meeting is still running. The FACILITIES GUY pushes his mail cart across the lobby toward the elevators. MAYA ducks behind the cart's far side and crouch-walks in perfect lockstep, matching its 2 km/h pace; the camera drifts with them. A man in the conference room glances up at a wheel squeak, sees only a cart, and returns to the whiteboard. From behind the cart MAYA whispers: "Bless this man." HUD prints 【MOBILE COVER】 then 【ALL CLEAR】, alert bar fully green.
[Beat 5 — 24.0s to 27.0s] She peels off at the elevator bank and presses the down button three times quickly, bouncing on her toes as the floor indicator crawls. She whispers: "Come on, come on—". Far behind her
