# Storyboard: spotify-concept-ad (The street plays along), revision 5 with the owner fixes (D-35), the draft-9 notes (D-38) and the black end card (D-44 to D-46)
The owner approved draft-11 and changed the ending (D-44): the end card is a fully black screen where the official Spotify logo enters with a fade and a 0.92 to 1.0 scale and lands on the final hit (D-45); the film carries no non-affiliation line, which lives in the gallery caption and the landing card (D-46). The storyboard as it stood for draft-11 is kept in storyboard-draft11.md.
After draft-9 the owner asked for four fixes (D-38): a shorter, living ending (D-39: the film is 35.0 s, the prompt's lower bound; the field returns for 1 s, the logo card from 28.5, the last hit at 32.5, the ring-out to 35.0, the end card closer with the street playing on the beat), a denser jam inside the frame (D-40: a second row of three cars and vans in the far lane, the stabs cycling one car per stab), camera pushes toward each machine as it joins (D-41) and less limiting at the drop (D-42, sound). The storyboard as it stood for draft-9 is kept in storyboard-draft9.md.
The owner approved revision 5, the six style frames, line B and 36.0 s (D-35), and asked for two fixes folded in before the build: a row of cars standing in a jam behind the hero car (D-36: the hero keeps the play circle and the kick; the cars behind it answer on the off-beats from the drop) and a closer camera with much less empty sky (D-37: taller buildings behind the action, the motorbike in the far lane right above the hero car, scales 0.7 to 1.1 instead of 0.56 to 0.75). Revision 5 as approved is kept in storyboard-rev5.md.
Revision 5 answers the stage 05 rework critic (ice/review/rework-04-05-critic.md, REVISE with 5 fixes) on revision 4, which answered the owner's feedback round on draft-7 (D-30, 2026-10-21): the same story, made clear. The street is a real drawn street built in code (D-31); every sound comes from a visible machine; the search answer is typed letter by letter; after the press the same machines play the song (D-32); the abstract lane grid is gone. What revision 5 changes: the machines are drawn 1.6 times larger and stand close together (the pile rig on the site right above the breaker, the motorbike in the far lane right after it), so all four fill the wide frames; the pile rig is redrawn with its pile going into the ground, a flash where the ram meets the pile and dust where the pile goes in; the site has solid hoarding instead of thin scaffold bars; the extra parked cars are gone; every word sits next to its source with a black outline; the line is rewritten so it explains the idea (D-34, for the owner to choose); the end card puts the logo, the field and the required line in a pure black sky above the rooftops with the whole street below (no floating panel, no light blobs). Revision 4 is kept in storyboard-rev4.md, revision 2 in storyboard-rev2.md.

Film type: brand film. Length 35.0 s (D-39; was 36.0 s, D-33; 33.5 s in draft-10). Master 16:9 1920x1080, English only (D-28). 30 fps. Clock: music-led, 120 BPM, bar 0 on the play press at 7.5 s; the noise (0 to 3.0 s) runs in free time.

Style: Drawn night street (D-31): a flat-vector night street in side view built by code (buildings with windows, street lamps, a construction site behind solid hoarding, a jam of cars and vans led by the hero car, a road breaker on a small excavator at the head of the jam, a pile rig, a motorbike with a helmeted rider), the machines drawn 1.6 times the building scale so they read on a phone, grey before the press, each machine taking its Spotify lane colour as it joins the song; Spotify interface rebuilt from captures; one style for the whole film
Palette: ground #121212, sky #0D0D0D to #1D1D1D, street greys #1A1A1A to #6A6A6A, field #1F1F1F, card #181818, ink #FFFFFF, ink muted #A7A7A7, accent #1ED760 (play circle and press ring only), lanes #FFA178 (horn), #608108 (hammer), #91EEDA (drill), #477D95 (engine), word outline #000000, end card sky and logo ground #000000 (D-18, D-24)
Characters: one motorbike rider in a full-face helmet with a dark visor (no face shown); no other people (a system pointer operates the rebuilt interface)

## Video direction block
- Palette system (D-18, kept): before the press the street is grey (no hue); after it each machine carries its lane colour on its moving part and a light pool on the ground under it: the car outline and head lamp coral #FFA178, the breaker arm and chisel mint #91EEDA, the pile rig ram olive #608108 (the mast stays grey, so the olive stays a small accent and never reads as Spotify green), the motorbike tank and helmet slate #477D95; from the drop the windows light in the four lane colours as the street equalizer. Spotify green only on the play circle and the press ring; the caret is white as in the web player capture; the green logo only on #000000 (D-24).
- Sound words: white with a black outline in the noise; once a machine plays, its word turns to the lane colour (still outlined in black: every word at least 4.5 to 1 against its outline). Each word sits next to its own source (HONK over the car bonnet at the horn, BRRRRT on the road beside the chisel, BANG beside the pile head, VRRRM behind the exhaust), never on a facade or a lamp, and inside a 5 percent frame margin; a word that would touch the frame edge fades before it does.
- Motion grammar and reveal model: one continuous camera along the street, nothing is cut. Before the press the machines fire out of time and each firing pops its word; after it every machine moves on the beat (16th-note grid): the car rocks and its horn waves ring on the kick, the chisel jumps and the dust bursts on the eighths, the ram drops onto the pile on 2 and 4, the exhaust puffs on the bass notes. After the press a word names its machine for that machine's first bar and once more for one bar from the drop; the rest of the time the machines play on their own. A joined machine keeps playing when the camera moves on; it is seen again in the wide frames at 13.5, 15.5 and 19.5. Reveals: the typed answer, the press, one machine joining per bar, the drop lighting the windows, the line in the sky, the sky turning black for the logo.
- Rhythm and held frames: declared holds: the Top result card read (5.75 to 7.5 s, the pointer travels), the breath (17.5 to 19.5 s, the street holds and dims, a riser), the logo alone on black after the final hit (33.5 to 35.0 s, the chord rings out, 1.5 s within look.py G3). The question in the field shows for 0.4 s before the first key: the owner asked for typing at once with no dead caret time, and the same question returns over the playing street at 27.5 s for a full read (4.0 s).
- World per act: act 1 (0 to 3 s) the noisy street in grey; act 2 (3 to 7.5 s) the search over the dimmed street; act 3 (7.5 to 27.5 s) the same street playing, one machine per bar, then all of it; act 4 (27.5 to 35 s) the search field returns over the playing street; at 31.5 the street and the field fade to a fully black screen, where the official Spotify logo enters from 32.5 and lands on the final hit at 33.5 (D-44, D-45); no non-affiliation line in the film (D-46).
- Negative list: no cuts, no crossfades between scenes, no photos, no AI images, no faces, no stock props, no phone mockup, no album art, no song or artist names, no prices, no superlatives, no brand names on the street (shops and awnings blank), no red as a lane colour, no clipped read words, no words on facades or lamps, no light without a visible source (only lamp cones and the ground pools under the playing machines), no extra parked cars, no floating panel behind the logo, no mirrored play triangle or logo, no answer that appears at once (typed letter by letter).
- Richness floor (brand-film.md): hero_share 30, hero_width 40 for the line, frame_fill 10 of 16, empty_half at most 2 s, depth_layers 3 (sky, far skyline, street, machines and words, interface), in_shot_motion 70 percent, longest_still 1.5 s outside declared holds, surface_detail yes (asphalt grain, windows, the concrete frame and hoarding of the site), light_events 2 (the press ring, the drop), real_material 100 percent (the rebuilt interface and the official logo).

## Beat table
| Time | Object | Action | Camera | On-screen text | Method | Tags | Role | Buys | Moves and still | Importance | Entry and exit | Carrier | Sound | Assets | Text covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0-2.9 | a jam in two rows honking behind road works, a road breaker drilling, a pile rig banging, a motorbike revving | each machine fires out of time, its word pops next to it, the hero car's horn loudest at 2.6 | close on the honking hero car with both rows of the jam behind it and the motorbike ahead (scale 1.0), then a pull back to the whole block by 2.5 (scale 0.66) | "HONK" "BRRRRT" "BANG" "VRRRM" | code-built drawn street, sound words | hook | hook | the street around you is loud | all of it moves, words pop and fade | 2 | opens mid-honk | the street | the jam, the breaker, the rig and the engine in free time; loudest horn at 2.6 | none | a grey night street full of noise |
| 2.9-3.3 | the search field of Spotify, rebuilt from the web player | rises over the dimming street with its own question | held wide, a slow drift | "What do you want to play?" | rebuilt UI (webplayer-search-en) | turn | turn | there is a question you can answer | the field rises, the caret appears | 1 | rises as the noise drops away | the search field | the street drops to a distant bed | TRUTH exact text | a search field over a dim street |
| 3.3-5.75 | the answer | is typed letter by letter with a real cadence, the placeholder gone with the first key | a drift left along the jam (scale 0.8): this traffic | "something for this traffic" (typed) | rebuilt UI, typing | | turn | you choose what to hear | keys come one by one, the caret follows | 2 | the last key lands at 5.4 | the typed answer | key ticks | TRUTH (the answer is the film's own words) | the answer typed over the jam |
| 5.75-7.5 | the Top result card (the playlist of the film) with the green play circle | the card rises, the pointer travels and presses play on the downbeat | back toward the hero car (scale 0.8) | "Top result" "something for this traffic" "Playlist" | rebuilt UI (webplayer-results-playlist-en, webplayer-play-control); pointer | | turn | you choose what to hear | the card rises, the pointer moves, the circle is pressed | 2 | the interface sinks away by 7.9, the circle drops onto the hero car | the green play circle | a soft whoosh, the click and the first kick on the press | captures; TRUTH | a playlist card over the street |
| 7.5-9.5 | the hero car at the head of the jam | honks on the beat: its horn is the kick; the circle lands on its front on the second kick (8.0) | holds for the landing, then in on the hero car (scale 0.95) | "HONK" (coral, its first bar) | drawn street, lock: coral outline, head lamp and ground pool | chain | product action | your press makes the street play | the car rocks and its horn waves ring on each kick | 2 | locks on the downbeat 7.5 | the hero car | kick enters | none | the hero car honking in time |
| 9.5-11.5 | the road breaker | drills on the eighths: the breaker is the hats | to the breaker as it joins, then a slow push toward it (scale 0.84 to 0.96) | "BRRRRT" (mint, its first bar) | lock: mint arm and chisel, dust in time | chain | build | every noise can join | the chisel and the dust on the eighths | 1 | locks on 9.5 | the breaker | hats enter | none | a breaker drilling in time |
| 11.5-13.5 | the pile rig on the site above the breaker | drops its ram onto the pile on the backbeat | a tilt up to the rig, then a slow push toward it (scale 0.84 to 0.88) | "BANG" (olive, its first bar) | lock: olive ram, a flash where the ram meets the pile, dust where the pile goes in | chain | build | every noise can join | the ram drops on 2 and 4 | 1 | locks on 11.5 | the pile rig | backbeat enters | none | a pile rig keeping the backbeat |
| 13.5-15.5 | the motorbike and its rider ahead of the far row | revs on the bass notes: the engine is the bass | to the motorbike, then a slow push toward it (scale 0.9 to 1.02) | "VRRRM" (slate, its first bar) | lock: slate tank and helmet, exhaust in time | chain | build | every noise can join | exhaust puffs on the notes | 1 | locks on 13.5 | the motorbike | bass enters | none | a motorbike revving in time |
| 15.5-17.5 | the four machines together | a fill: all four on one groove, no words: the machines play on their own | out to the band (scale 0.72), then a slow drift along it | none | drawn street | burst | build | the noise is a band now | all four move on the beat | 1 | the fill runs into the breath | the street | full groove, a fill | none | four machines grooving |
| 17.5-19.5 | the street | holds, dims, the machines rest | held (declared hold, the breath; scale 0.71) | none | drawn street | quiet | reset | the drop is coming | almost still, a riser | 1 | stillness, then the drop | the street | kit out, a riser | none | a held street |
| 19.5-23.5 | the whole street and its jam | the drop: every machine plays, the four words once more for one bar, the windows light up as an equalizer; from 21.5 the camera runs along the jam as the cars behind the hero answer its kick on the off-beats | a 3 percent kick on 19.5, all four (scale 0.75), then a travel left along the jam (scale 0.85) | "HONK" "BRRRRT" "BANG" "VRRRM" (lane colours, one bar) | drawn street, look from 05 | drop | build | the whole street is your track | machines, the jam and the windows on the beat | 3 | drop hit on 19.5 | the street | the drop, the lead enters, the jam horn stabs | none | a street lit by its own song |
| 23.5-27.5 | the line in the sky over the playing street | appears and holds while the street plays | pulls back (scale 0.56) so the line sits in the sky over the jam and the machines | "Press play." "The noise becomes the beat." | code-set type over the drawn street (line B, the owner's choice, D-34) | hero | hero | pressing play turns the noise into music | the street plays under the line | 3 | the line clears at 27.1 | the line | groove at full | none | the line above a playing street |
| 27.5-31.5 | the empty search field over the playing street | returns and waits, read in full; then the street and the field fade to black together | a slow push under the field (scale 0.55 to 0.61) | "What do you want to play?" | rebuilt UI | CTA | CTA | now it is your turn | the caret blinks, the street plays | 2 | the fade to black 31.5 to 33.0 | the field | the groove under the field, the street drops out with the black | captures; TRUTH exact text | the field over the street |
| 31.5-33.5 | the official Spotify full logo on a fully black screen | while the street and the field fade to black (31.5 to 33.0), fades up and scales from 0.92 to 1.0 as a whole from 32.5 on an accelerating curve, stopping at full size on the final hit | locked | none | official file (a1 to a6), never redrawn or altered (R-01) | brand | brand | this is Spotify | the logo arrives | 2 | lands on 33.5 | the logo | a swell into the final hit | a1 to a6 | the logo alone on black |
| 33.5-35.0 | the same logo, still | holds unchanged on black while the chord rings out | locked (declared end hold) | none | as above | brand | brand | (the logo holds) | still | 1 | ends on the ring-out | none | the final hit at 33.5, the ring-out | a1 to a6 | the logo alone on black |

Importance: 2 of 15 shots at 3 (13 percent). Strongest frame: 20.2 s (56 percent): the whole street playing with its windows lit, all four machines in their colours with their words; the jam answering the kick follows at 22.3 s (frame-7).

## Carry and handoff contract
| Seam (s) | Carried element | What it does | Cut or transform | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 to 2.5 | the camera | pulls back from the honking car to the whole noisy block | transform (camera) | one continuous camera |
| 2.9 | the street | dims and drifts under the rising search field | transform (dim plus rise) | the question over the noise |
| 7.5 to 8.0 | the green play circle | pressed on the card, it drops into the street and lands on the car front on the second kick | transform (the circle travels) | the press causes the first lock |
| 7.5 to 15.5 | the camera and each machine | the camera takes in each machine as it joins on its bar; a joined machine keeps playing when the camera moves on | transform (camera travel) | the chain of joining machines |
| 19.5 | the street | the drop lights every machine and the windows at once | transform (light and scale kick) | the drop |
| 21.5 to 23.4 | the camera and the jam | the camera runs left along the jam while the cars behind the hero answer its kick | transform (camera travel) | the whole traffic joins |
| 27.5 | the street | dims under the returning field | transform (dim) | the call to action |
| 31.5 to 33.0 | the street and the search field | fade together to a fully black screen; the logo enters under the end of the fade from 32.5 | transform (fade to black, then fade and scale of the logo) | the end card is the logo alone (D-44) |

Hard cuts: none.

## Stills
Seven style frames from the real build at 1920x1080, updated for the owner fixes (ice/plan/style-frames/v2/): frame-1-noisy-street (2.62 s), frame-2-typing (4.60 s, over the jam), frame-3-top-result (6.40 s), frame-4-street-plays-drop (20.20 s), frame-5-the-line (25.00 s), frame-6-end-card (34.00 s, the logo alone on black), frame-7-the-jam-answers (22.30 s). Stills board for 06: ice/plan/stills-board.png (15 shots, settled stills). The strip is the stage 04 staging board for the drawn street (rough-board.png shows the superseded lane-grid world); shot contracts and rigs: shot-plan.md revision 5. Storyboard strip with timings, 18 stills including the circle landing on the car (7.95 s) and the first backbeat hit of the pile rig (12.03 s): ice/plan/storyboard-strip-v2.png.

## Lint notes (storyboard_lint.py, YELLOW, ice/review/storyboard-lint-v2.txt)
- Shot 1, four units of text in the opening: the four words are the sounds of the four machines on screen, each popping next to its own source (the owner: a word may pop from its source); they are part of the picture, not captions, and each shows only for its firing.
- Shot 2, 0.4 s: the owner asked for typing at once with no dead caret time; the question returns on the end card for a full read.
- Shots 6 to 8, three pushes in a row: the owner asked for a push or a drift toward each machine as it joins (D-38 note 3, D-41); each push starts after a pull back or a travel (the tilt out to the rig from 0.96 to 0.84, the travel to the motorbike), and the fill pulls out to the band at 16.4.
- Shot 4, 1.75 s: the Top result card the owner asked to keep; the press lands on the first downbeat at 7.5 s, so the read is set by the bar.

## Arabic delta table
Out of scope since D-28 (English 16:9 only); revision 2 keeps the Arabic plan for the record.