For Liam · how direction 5 was made
Direction 5's hero is a demo bed we generated — built so you could feel the scroll-scrub mechanic today, without waiting on footage. Below is exactly how it was made, storyboard to scrub. The point of showing you: your real films enter this pipeline at step three and everything upstream of that disappears. Same engine, same pages — your cinematography instead of our stand-in.
Step 1 · The storyboard
One continuous journey — written so the scroll can play it forwards and backwards. This is the same discipline your excerpts need: one unbroken move per beat.
Open on near-total darkness — living 35mm grain, the faintest silver haze. A single lime anamorphic streak ignites across the frame like a lens catching a light off-screen. The first spark of the reel.
The camera passes into the optics — macro glass elements, chrome rings, refractions splitting the lime light, bokeh blooming and collapsing. The craft: what light passes through before it becomes an image.
The light resolves: a projector beam cuts through hanging haze, dust turning inside the cone. It lands wide and holds — the beam becomes the stage. Light becomes the picture.
Step 2 · The stills — each beat anchored by a generated keyframe (the images above) so the subject stays identical across every clip.
Step 3 · The motion — where your footage takes over
Three generated clips chained into one continuous move. This is the slot your excerpts fill — a real VW beauty pass or the Odus glide does this job better than any generated bed can.
Step 4 · The scrub
The video is cut into 435 numbered frames (2.8 MB total, streamed from our edge CDN) and painted to a canvas by scroll position — no player, no autoplay, works muted everywhere, scrubs both directions.
The proposal
Send one 6–8 second single-move excerpt per film (the exact list and specs are on the directions page) and we re-run steps 3–4 with the real thing — the homepage and every format page scrubbing your actual work. No generation, no stand-ins, nothing invented.