Shot List (Camera + Framing)
Focused, shootable, not overcomplicated. Think indie short, minimal crew.
Opening — Room + Entry
- WS (wide shot) — static — empty room, afternoon light
- Insert — lava lamp / subtle motion
- MS (medium shot) — door opens, Mila enters
- Tracking or static MS — Mila crosses room, drops bag
- CU (close-up) — radio dial turning
- CU — Mila's face reacting to music
- WS — Mila flops onto bed
- CU — Mila staring at ceiling
- Insert CU — hand reaching for phone
Parallels — Mila #8
- OTS (over-the-shoulder) — phone screen, scrolling
- Insert — message fragments (keep shallow focus)
- CU — Mila's face (subtle reaction)
- Insert — pull-to-refresh gesture
- Hold — unchanged screen
- CU — tiny exhale / stillness
Robbie
- OTS — Robbie's profile
- CU — Mila's face (interest)
- Insert — thumb tapping call
- Insert — "calling…" UI
- Insert — "declined"
- CU — Mila reaction (contained)
Dreams
- OTS — scrolling dream list
- Insert — favorited dream (heart + revisit count)
- Insert — dream preview visual (soft / abstract)
- CU — Mila hesitates
Message Interruption (#8)
- Insert — notification banner
- OTS — message opens
- Insert — new message text
- CU — Mila lighting up slightly
- Insert — typing
- Insert — typing dots appear
- Insert — typing dots disappear
- CU — Mila waiting
Room Reset
- WS — Mila lying back
- POV — ceiling
- MS — sitting up
- Tracking MS — watering plants
- Insert — water pouring
- CU — Mila pausing mid-action
Echoes Discovery
- OTS — Echoes prompt
- CU — Mila reading
- CU — slight curiosity shift
Text (Sister)
- Insert — text thread
- CU — Mila typing
- Insert — teasing reply
- CU — Mila smirk
Prep for Echoes
- CU — radio switch off (sound cuts)
- WS — room darkens
- MS — Mila lying on side
- Insert — phone propped against wall
- CU — Mila adjusting position
- CU — tapping "Begin"
Echoes Induction
- CU — phone glow on face
- Extreme CU — eyes closing
- Hold — stillness
- Insert — subtle light flicker
- Abstract transition shot — color / blur / light
Echoes Vision (Keep This Simple)
- WS — studio environment
- Insert — hands adjusting camera
- MS — lover watching Mila
- CU — Mila hiding face
- MS — lover guiding her
- CU — their closeness
- Insert — shutter bulb in hand
- CU — eye contact
- Insert — shutter press
- Hold frame — photo moment
Wake-Up
- Hard cut MS — Mila sitting up
- CU — disoriented face
- Insert — phone lighting her face
- Insert — time display
- CU — processing
Journal + Voice
- CU — journal opening
- Insert — pen writing
- Insert — phone recording interface
- MS — Mila speaking while writing
- Split focus — analog vs digital
- CU — pause
Photo Sequence
- Insert — notification
- OTS — photo gallery
Sequence:
- Insert — photo 1
- Insert — photo 2
- Insert — photo 3
- CU — Mila (normal pace)
- Insert — photo 6 (slightly similar)
- CU — Mila slows
- Insert — photo 8
- Insert — photo 9
- Insert — final photo
Realization
- OTS or CU — phone in hand
- Insert — photo held on screen
- CU — Mila's eyes
- Micro hold — recognition forming
Exchange Request
- Insert — request UI
- CU — Mila reading
- Insert — follow-up message
Final Decision
- Insert — typing
- Insert — deleting
- CU — thumb hovering
- Long hold
- Insert — tap "Accept"
Ending
- OTS — countdown screen
- CU — Mila completely still
- Hold — time ticking
Cut to Black
Timing Breakdown (Rough)
Target: 8–10 minute short
- Opening: 45–60 sec
- App exploration (Parallels + Robbie + Dreams): 2–2.5 min
- Mila #8 return: 1 min
- Room reset: 45 sec
- Echoes discovery + prep: 1 min
- Echoes sequence: 2–2.5 min
- Wake + journal: 1–1.5 min
- Photo sequence + realization: 1–1.5 min
- Final decision: 45–60 sec
👉 Echoes + Ending = emotional anchors → give them space
Post-Credits Founder Ad (Script)
This should feel real, calm, slightly off
Video Style
- Clean, minimal
- Neutral background
- Soft lighting
- Founder speaking directly to camera
- Intercut with UI / abstract visuals
Script — 30 Seconds
FOUNDER (calm, grounded):
When we started building Parallel, we weren't trying to prove anything. We were just asking a question.
Cut to UI visuals, slow pulses, profiles.
What if identity isn't fixed? What if it exists across variations… across decisions… across time?
Cut back to her.
People have called it artificial. They've called it simulation. Hallucination. Projection.
A small pause.
But we don't generate anything that isn't already there.
Cut — abstract Echoes visuals.
Parallel doesn't create new selves. It connects you to the ones that already exist.
Final look into camera:
The question isn't whether it's real. The question is… what you're willing to do once you know it is.
Cut to black.
Very small text (optional, bottom corner):
parallel.app