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title: One person, every place, ten minutes of it
summary: A long film of one person across years and countries: one clip per day, the crop following their face, place names animating in and their age in the corner.
lede: One clip a day, years of them, the crop following their face
outcome: cut
tools: search_people, person_locations, quick_cut_plan, reframe_person, get_clip_metadata, list_transitions, render_sequence, list_fonts, author_overlay, render_html, generate_music, mix_audio, render_ffmpeg, job_wait, create_project, commit_to_library
order: 0
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> Build me a ten minute film in GroundSlate of p394 (Bob Murphy) in as many different places as you can find him. Five to ten seconds per clip, oldest first, and only take one clip from any given day so ten years does not turn into forty shots of the same afternoon. Landscape, 1920x1080, 30fps. Fill the frame rather than letterbox, and keep Bob centred the whole way through even when the footage is vertical. A colourful wipe each time the location changes. Put the place name in the lower third in Montserrat, white on black, alternating blue and purple accents, animating in with each new place. In the upper right, show how old he was in that clip. He was born on 1 January 2012. Nothing else on screen. Write a summery instrumental backing track in GroundSlate, unhurried, acoustic, and duck it whenever he is talking. Show me the running order before anything renders. Put the finished film in a project called "Bob, Everywhere", give it a name, suggest three YouTube safe titles, and tell me which clips the crop could not follow him in.

- Say one clip per day. It is the difference between a decade you can watch and forty shots of one afternoon.
- `reframe_person` keeps Bob centred: one call per clip, naming him, with the crop moving every frame to keep his face framed. It works on a landscape canvas as well as a vertical one, and on vertical footage it follows him up and down where there is room instead of centring.
- Faces must be indexed first; face recognition is one of the steps in the app's setup. A clip where Bob was never recognised is refused, not guessed, so the ask ends by asking which clips fell back.
- His age comes from each clip's own date. Anything a clip knows about itself can go on screen the same way.
- GroundSlate writes the instrumental backing track on your Mac from the brief in the ask. Name instruments, tempo, mood and an arc, not a genre: "happy music" is not a brief. A track you own, or one from your agent's own music connection, works too.
- A wipe uses up the end of one clip and the start of the next, so the film runs shorter than its clips by the length of the wipes. It is assembled in one pass, with a wipe at each change of location and a hard cut everywhere else, so every frame is encoded once. Expect a background job you check in on.