A 20-second vertical 9:16 video, shot as real handheld footage of a practical-effects fantasy scene. Real people, a real spear, a real grey misty bog. The camera stands on the far bank, with two dark elves just behind it, unseen at first. The woman from the references walks barefoot through the bog toward the camera, pulls an ice spear out of the mud, frost races up her arm and ice grows over her body, she roars and hurls the spear at a dark elf woman. In a close shot the spear streaks at the elf woman's chest, but a hand from the side snatches it out of the air inches from her: a dark elf man saved her. Furious, he glares across the bog. The elf woman draws an arrow and shoots the hero. In a wide shot the arrow flies at her, she sweeps her arms apart and a wall of ice erupts in front of the arrow. The video ends on the hero's face with a confident smile. REFERENCES (four images). Each image may be a collage of a full-body figure and an inset face close-up. Use all parts as information about ONE character, but show ONE person only, never the collage layout, inset panel or the foggy forest background. - Image 1 = HERO before the transformation. Full-body part: body, dress, jewellery, barefoot. Close-up part: the exact standard for her face, skin, freckles and hair in every shot where she is visible. - Image 2 = hero AFTER the transformation: the ice armour (details below), rendered as real ice and frost, not neon. IGNORE the spear and background in it. - Image 3 = DARK ELF WOMAN only: long wet black hair with a centre parting, pointed ears, amber-yellow eyes, freckled skin with dark red streaks on forehead and cheek, black-and-silver scale armour with layered shoulder plates, leather straps, bracers, long black skirt with a high slit, black thigh-high stockings, tall laced boots, quiver on her back, recurve bow in her left hand. - Image 4 = DARK ELF MAN only: short black hair and beard, pointed ears, dark brown eyes, dark skin, black plate-and-leather armour with layered shoulder plates, black tabard with a pale silver bare-tree emblem, gauntlets, tall black boots, long sword on his hip. IGNORE the spear he holds in the reference: he has no spear of his own, hands free until the catch. CHARACTERS: Exactly three people. The hero is in every shot until 00:09. The two elves stand on the far bank directly behind the camera and are NOT visible, not even as silhouettes, before 00:09. No other people, creatures, animals, figures in the fog or banners. REALISM AND PRESERVATION (MOST IMPORTANT): It must look like a real camera recording of real people, not a render, not CGI, not a game cinematic. Same realism as the face close-up in image 1 for all three: visible pores, freckles, uneven natural skin tone, fine facial hair, flyaway and wet hair, real sweat and mud, no makeup look, no retouching, no plastic skin, no doll faces. Real fabric, leather, metal, mud, water, real ice with cloudy frost, bubbles and wet drips. The hero's warm natural tan, freckles, face, slim toned build, long straight silver hair and pale blue-grey eyes never change. The transformation only ADDS ice on top of her, never pale plastic or blue skin. The elves match their references in every shot. HERO BEFORE: brown taupe linen wrap dress with a V-neckline, high side slit and long flowing skirt, thin gold belt with an oval buckle, two thin gold upper-arm bands, thin gold necklace with a small cross. Barefoot. HERO AFTER (as image 2, real material): same face, freckles and silver hair as separate real strands, slightly frosted at the tips, never fluffy. Eyes stay pale blue with a faint cold reflection, not glowing lamps. Uneven plates of thick ice with cloudy white frost, clear translucent patches, ragged edges, wet in places, the blue only a faint reflection deep under the ice. Overlapping spiked ice shoulder plates, two fans of long jagged translucent ice spikes up to 1 metre tall behind the shoulders, ice forearm guards, ice gauntlets with pointed fingers, ice chest plate fully covering the chest up to a high lace-like ice collar, the original dress as a frost-stiffened skirt (never fur) with icicle fringes and the same slit, gold belt and gold arm bands set into the ice, flat-soled ice-plated boots growing up from her bare feet, no heels. No glossy plastic, no metal, no neon glow. THE SPEAR: about 2.2 m, two ends. The FRONT is the ICE HEAD: a large irregular shard of clear glassy ice shaped like a spearhead, about 50 cm long, fractured jagged facets, internal cracks, pointed tip, and inside it a round blue "eye" with bright blue iris, radiating fibres and a vertical slit pupil, like a reptile's eye, with a soft cold glow. The BACK is a blunt dark wooden BUTT. The shaft is a dark, rough, knotty wooden pole with bark texture, wrapped in a thin transparent ribbon of ice in loose spirals, lower part splattered with wet mud; it stays dark wood the whole video. SPEAR ORIENTATION (CRITICAL): At the start the spear is stuck HEAD DOWN, like a thrown javelin, at a slant of about 40 degrees from vertical: the ice head is at the BOTTOM with its pointed tip driven about 20 cm into the mud, its eye just above the mud surface, a ring of broken mud and a few bubbles around it. The long wooden shaft rises diagonally UP from it, ending in the blunt butt about 1.5 m above the ground. She grips the shaft about 1 m above the mud and pulls it UP and back, so the ice head comes OUT of the mud at the bottom, streaming mud; the spear is never flipped. Then she holds it by the shaft, ICE HEAD UP. For the throw she turns it so the ICE HEAD POINTS FORWARD at the target and the blunt butt is behind her hand; it flies head first and arrives head first. The ice head is never behind her hand. LOCATION: grey misty bog in a cold spruce forest, about 25 m wide: dark wet mud, black puddles, wet moss, dead grass; thin dark spruce trunks
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