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A vertical live-action mockumentary trailer: the dead staff of St. Mordred's (the game's bosses) each tell a different origin story, and the film ends on "Quiet, please." / "Play." / splat. tools/trailer/ holds the whole pipeline: stills and takes through the OpenRouter key (gen.py, stills.sh, clips.sh), the frame graphics in HTML/CSS (frame.html), a QA listener (qa.py), the music sectioner (segment.py) and the edit (cut.py). Media lands in the gitignored promo/trailer/. SCRIPT.md is the screenplay and the cut notes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# LIFETIME MEMBERS — the Splatter Tennis trailer
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Vertical 9:16, English, live-action mockumentary ("What We Do in the Shadows" meets a BBC sports
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documentary). Lightly funny, properly eerie. The dead of ST. MORDRED'S LAWN TENNIS CLUB (est. 1877)
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are interviewed about how it all started — and every one of them tells a DIFFERENT origin story.
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The costumes are the game's bosses (Groundskeeper, Line Judge, Chair Umpire, Strawberry Seller,
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The Champion), so the film introduces the cast before anyone has played a point.
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Pipeline: stills `gen.py still` (gemini-3-pro-image) -> clips `gen.py clip` (Veo 3.1, native
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dialogue + ambience) -> score `gen.py music` (Lyria 3) -> frame graphics in HTML/CSS
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(`frame.html`, rendered by headless Chrome) -> `cut.py` assembles with ffmpeg.
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## The cast
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| Who | Look (= the game's boss sprite) | Origin story |
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| REGINALD MOSS, Head Groundskeeper, 1962 – | hulking, bottle-green club blazer with crest, olive work trousers | the fertiliser, FORMULA 7 |
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| DORIS PENNY, Strawberries & Cream, 1971 – | white paper soda-jerk cap, stained apron, tray of strawberries, cream jugs | "it wasn't the cream" |
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| CLIVE BARROW, Line Judge, 1974 – | huge man, navy/white striped polo, navy cap, dark glasses he never removes | the bylaws: lifetime membership |
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| AMBROSE PIKE, Chair Umpire, 1908 – | gaunt, cream linen blazer, panama hat, navy tie, gooseneck mic | 1911, fifth set, no tie-break |
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| THE CHAMPION | bandaged skull, white polo with gold trim, tarnished trophy | never speaks |
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## Shot list
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COLD OPEN
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1. GATES — dawn fog, wrought-iron gates, sign ST. MORDRED'S LAWN TENNIS CLUB · EST. 1877. Slow push in. Crows. Somewhere in the fog: pok… pok… a rally. Nobody is playing.
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2. COURT — immaculate stripes in fog, a sprinkler ticking. Far baseline: a figure standing perfectly still.
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3. HONOURS BOARD — gilt names, 1877, 1878 … the last line: 1911 — MATCH IN PROGRESS.
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CARD "Every old club has its traditions." / "Some of them refuse to die." → TITLE "LIFETIME MEMBERS"
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THE INTERVIEWS — card: "HOW DID IT START?"
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4. REG (potting shed): "Fertiliser. Formula Seven. Lovely green… very persistent."
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5. B — a rusty FORMULA 7 tin on dark soil; the grass around it slowly leans toward camera.
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6. DORIS (strawberry kiosk): "People say it was the cream. It wasn't the cream. The cream was just… old."
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7. B — a cream jug on a doily; the surface of the cream ripples by itself.
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8. CLIVE (umpires' room): "It's in the bylaws. Lifetime membership. Nobody ever defined 'lifetime'."
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9. B — a leather-bound rule book, a finger traces: MEMBERSHIP SHALL BE FOR LIFE.
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10. AMBROSE (high in his chair, fog): "Nineteen-eleven. Fifth set. No tie-break." … "We're still waiting for a result."
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11. B — black-and-white archive: two gentlemen in long whites at dusk, scoreboard 112 – 112.
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THE TURN — card: "AND THE CHALLENGERS?" (the camera IS the challenger: every stare is at you)
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12. DORIS, into the lens: "They never stay long."
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13. CLIVE pulls his sunglasses down: milky-white dead eyes. Silent.
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14. AMBROSE at the mic: "Quiet, please." — and the score obeys: it stops dead on "please".
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15. THE STANDS, in silence: every head bows, then rises to stare into the lens.
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16. AMBROSE, now at night under floodlights: "Play."
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17. CUT TO BLACK: SPLAT.
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LOGO — SPLATTER TENNIS. "MATCH IN PROGRESS" (the honours board's 1911 line).
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STINGER
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18. REG on his knees at dawn, dabbing red off the white baseline with a handkerchief. Looks up: "Lovely day for it."
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END — logo, "Lifetime membership now open.", the game's own polite applause.
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## Cut 1 → cut 2 (Oliver, 2026-10-03)
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Cut 1 ended on a floodlit match — a living player walks on, the Champion sets down his trophy, a
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slow-motion serve. Oliver: it "does not really fit … seems odd", conclude earlier on the
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challengers / "they never stay long" / "Play". Why it was odd: it switched genre from mockumentary
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to action trailer at the climax, and it was where the generated footage looked most generic. The
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ending now stays inside the documentary form. The takes (lights, challenger, champion, serve) are
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still in promo/trailer/clips if a 15-second cutdown ever wants them.
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## Sound rules that cost a render each
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- Every segment is a whole number of frames, or the audio drifts a sub-frame per cut.
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- Dialogue gain is MEASURED (`dlg`), never guessed: every line lands at DLG LUFS.
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- Loudness is two-pass `loudnorm ... linear=true` to -14 LUFS / -1 dBTP. One-pass loudnorm is a
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compressor and pumped the silence before "Play." back up.
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- No long discrete echoes on an impact: a 0.9 s repeat read as a click on the logo.
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- Encode with `-tune grain` and a 14 Mb/s cap: the grain made an uncapped crf-16 file 480 MB.
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- QA listening (`qa.py`, Gemini): trust it on spoken lines and on mix complaints, NOT on its
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timestamps for music (they drift up to 1.5x) and not on transcripts of non-speech audio
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(it invents words from footsteps).
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