Follow the blue ticket
Follow the blue ticket
A blue Kanvo ticket knocks on a night desk, leads down a corridor of code, and is the pill you take: the board moves, the sprint completes, and the rain turns Kanvo blue.
A night desk with blinds and a wall of sticky notes, then a corridor whose walls are falling glyph rain over a mirror floor, then a dark glass table holding two pills, then a mirror floor where the rain gathers, all low-lit and glowing. Four long chapters over 36.7 s, a dark cinematic pulse: a fly-through, a long corridor run with a time-freeze, a focus rack and dive, then a slow assembly from the rain.
- Length
- 37 s
- Scenes
- 4
- Device
- iphone, laptop, chrome
- Style
- realistic place
- Camera
- push in, fly through, orbit, rack focus
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KANVO · THE MATRIX — "Follow the blue ticket." ~36 s, no voice-over: the words live on the terminal,
in the code and on the pills. A homage to the film's look (phosphor-green digital rain, a hallway
made of code, bullet time, the two pills), told with Kanvo's own board and app.
BEATS
s1 wake 7.0 A desk at night, a laptop, slatted streetlight through blinds, a wall of sticky
notes (the old way). The terminal types "Wake up, team…" / "The backlog has
you…" / "Follow the blue ticket." and a blue Kanvo ticket knocks (pops) under the
text. The lens pushes in and flies THROUGH the ticket.
s2 rabbit 14.0 Out the other side: a corridor whose walls are falling code over a black mirror
floor. The ticket (KAN-42) flies ahead like the white rabbit, lighting the walls
blue as it passes, to a Kanvo board hanging at the end of the hall (Chrome, dark
theme). It swoops toward DONE — and time stops: the rain hangs, three rings
hang in its wake, the lens orbits the frozen card. Time restarts, the card docks
in DONE, the column steps down, 7 → 8, the sprint bar fills 72 → 80 %, the flag
"KAN-42 moved to Done" lands. Pull back to the whole board. Glitch cut.
s3 pills 6.5 Morpheus's choice, on a black glass table: a red pill and a blue pill hover in
front of an iPhone running Kanvo. The lens racks red → blue, the red one fades,
"This time, take the blue one." The phone: the notification drops, Sprint 24
ticks 19 → 20 of 20, Complete sprint is pressed. The lens flies into the blue pill.
s4 free 7.0 The rain turns from green to Kanvo blue; the Kanvo mark assembles out of it, then
the wordmark, "Free your mind. Ship your work." and kanvo.com.
WORLD (1 unit = 1 mm). s1: floor y 0, desk surface y 740, back wall z −1100, blinds on the left
wall (x −1300). s2: corridor x ±1000, ceiling 2400, z +2600 → −6000; the board (chrome, scale 2.6,
so its 480 × 300 glass is 1248 × 780) at z −5600. s3: table top y 700. s4: mirror floor y 0,
the lockup at y ≈ 420.
THE RAIN is scene-level `text` layers, one per column: a `/`-separated glyph string (full-width
katakana, digits, a hidden KAN-42 and SHIP) drawn top→bottom with a vertical gradient — transparent
tail, phosphor body, white-green head — added to the frame (blend=add). Each column falls at its own
speed (`repeat` + `vary`). In s2 every column's fall is piecewise so the whole field slows to 4 %
for the bullet-time window (7.3 → 10.3).
PALETTE. Matrix black #000301 · phosphor #00ff41 / #33ff66 · deep #0b5d1e · head #f0fff4 ·
Kanvo blue #1868db · selected #579dff · Kanvo dark UI (see jira-matrix.screens.html).
SCREENS: jira-matrix.screens.html → scripts/html-screens.mts (jira-matrix.sections.json) →
jira-matrix.screens.json, pasted under the devices. Edited after conversion: the tracks only, and
the ticket's stage line (free-standing: world_width / world_height / position).
Preview: http://localhost:4444/runtime?project=projects/templates/jira-matrix/jira-matrix.promo
promo#jira-matrix(width=1920 height=1080 fps=30)
metadata
audio
tracks
// one mastered track (−14.0 LUFS, TP −1.3): the score (audio-work/matrix_score.py — 120 BPM,
// E phrygian → E major; the chase from 8.0, everything stops at 14.0 for bullet time, back on
// 18.0, the pills from 22.0, the lockup on 30.0) ducked −4 dB under the 93-event spotted stem
// (audio-work/matrix_sfx.py: the teletype keys, knock-knock on 5.3, through the ticket on 7.0,
// the code rain, the swoop, three ring pulses, the freeze on 14.3, the dock on 17.75, the flag,
// the glitch on