Stage 4 · Clips gate ·

The clips, as generated.

Each is one clip, start-framed on its approved keyframe. Play each, or drag the scrubber — this is exactly the footage the scroll moves through (it scrubs backward too).

18 clipskeyframes $0.81 (17 × Flux 2 Pro @ $0.0478: 1 spine anchor + 12 branch + 4 static posters; title loop reuses S1; tapware cameo DROPPED). +$0.05 S5 dusk target (reference). spent $21.87 working base (tapware hover-turntable cameo DROPPED 2026-07-13 — narrative break; B4 promoted; title loop approved) of $30.00 (hard). Spine is the risk concentration: a spine re-roll invalidates every link after it (S2 re-roll = $3.51 downstream). Approve the chain top-down; stop after any empty envelope.

Tip: clips autoplay muted + looped; use the video controls to scrub frame-by-frame.

01 · hero

THE HOUSE (title · ambient loop)

One block. Every trade. A hundred and forty days. / Scroll.

ambient only, locked tripod: low dawn mist drifts slowly across the empty block, taut string lines tremble faintly on their star pickets, gum leaves stir on the nature strip, dawn light breathing

travels · no cut · composite-safe

02

S1 · The Block

Day 0. A block, a set of pegs, and a plan. / Before anything rises, someone has to say exactly where.

locked tripod wide, camera does not move: dawn light slowly rises across the empty block, mist thinning, string lines catching first sun, peg shadows shortening; the scene settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe

03

B1 · The Clear

First, the block gets cleared. / The gum comes down limb by limb, not all at once.

the rigged gum limb lowers steadily toward the chip-strewn ground, sawdust drifting through the morning light; camera holds a slow push in

travels · no cut · composite-safe

04

B2 · The Veins Below

The plumber comes first. / Every drain the house will ever use is laid before the concrete.

slow dolly along the open trench, following the white pipe run as it falls toward the street connection, trench shadows sliding past

travels · no cut · composite-safe

07

B4 · The Pour

One morning, the house gets a floor. / Wet in the morning. Walk on it by the weekend.

slow tracking move following wet grey concrete flowing across the black waffle-pod formwork, the pour advancing and self-levelling into a wet sheen, a screed bar waiting at the slab edge; camera holds, and the flow settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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S2 · The Slab → The Frame

And the shape appears. / Frames up in a week. Trusses in a day.

locked tripod wide, camera does not move: time passes over the block — a cured concrete slab appears on the pad, radiata pine wall frames rise section by section, prefabricated roof trusses settle on top, steel scaffolding rises at the frame edges, dawn light hardening toward harsh midday; the scene settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B6 · The Skin

The roof goes on and the weather stops mattering.

slow aerial drift along the roofline, sarking foil taut, the laid corrugated steel gleaming as the light shifts across the flutes

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B7 · Lock-up

The day it becomes an inside.

the slung window lowers and seats into its opening in one continuous settling move, the sky reflection sliding off the glass as it enters shadow; camera holds

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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S3 · The Shell

From the street, nothing. / Inside, everything.

locked tripod wide, camera does not move: the corrugated steel roof skins over completely, brick-veneer walls reach their heads, windows appear and sit dark, scaffolding thins away, the site tidies itself; the sky slides to flat overcast and the light goes still; the scene settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe

14

B8 · The Wires

Six kilometres of cable, threaded stud by stud.

slow dolly along the cabled wall, white cable runs converging toward the glowing switchboard enclosure, the work light's pool sliding across the pine studs

travels · no cut · composite-safe

15

B9 · The Pipes

The plumber is back. Second visit. / Walls open, pipes in, pressure held overnight.

slow push toward the pressure gauge on the capped manifold, pipe runs leading the eye through the pine studs, the work light warming as it nears

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B11 · The Seal

The best work on the whole job is the work you never see again. / Waterproofing is a certificate, not a coat of paint.

slow arc across the membraned room, the wet sheen tracking the work light around the floor, up-turns holding a crisp line at every edge

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B12 · The Closing

Then the walls close. / Everything you just watched disappears.

the panel lifter raises the sheet to the wall in one continuous move, covering the cabled insulated bay; camera holds as the wall goes blank and white

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B14 · The Colour

Cutting in. One steady line that holds.

slow dolly along the cut-in line at the ceiling, the wet paint sheen rolling through the raking afternoon light

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B15 · The Fit

Fit-off. The sparky's second visit. The plumber's third. / Benchtop lowered to the millimetre.

slow reveal dolly down the finished kitchen run, the peeled film edge catching the light, fitted taps and switch plates passing in close focus

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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B16 · The Ground Made Good

Outside, the ground is made good. / Deck, fence, turf. In that order.

slow crane across the yard, from the fresh deck boards over the part-laid turf rolls toward the paling fence, the golden light lowering

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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S4 · The Light (part 1 — dusk falls)

Day 140. Dusk.

locked tripod wide, camera does not move: time passes — scaffolding vanishes, render and brick take their final colour, an exposed-aggregate driveway and letterbox appear, native garden beds green along the path; the light lowers from afternoon gold toward dusk, shadows stretching long; the scene settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe

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S5 · The Light (part 2 — the emergence close)

The lights come on, room by room. / Parts become home.

locked tripod wide, camera does not move: dusk deepens to blue hour, the sky draining to deep southern blue, and the house's windows light up one by one, room by room, warm gold against the dark; the scene settles to stillness

travels · no cut · composite-safe