Marginal

A calm, minimal device reel: every shot is a locked camera on a flat sage-tinted backdrop while a silver phone rises in from below with an unwinding roll and floats, a small-caps label and bold two-line headline beside it, and the app does one small live thing per shot; every cut is the same push-up slice.

No set at all: flat or softly graded studio backdrops in muted, calm tones, some marked with faint concentric arcs, alternating light and dark, with objects framed large, tilted and partly cropped, and small tags in the corners. A locked camera throughout, about eleven hard cuts of roughly 5 to 6 s each across 61 s at 120 bpm, unhurried and editorial, opening and closing on the same flat title.

Length: 1:01
Scenes: 11
Device: iphone
Style: abstract
Camera: locked off, rack focus

//
    REF-EL-06 · DEEP MINIMAL — a remake of a stock app-promo template
    (see projects/references/README.md) for Marginal, a notes & journal app ("room in the margins of your day";
    mark: a short lime margin rule before the wordmark). Shot sheet: reference-shot-sheet.md.
    Preview: http://localhost:4444/runtime?project=projects/templates/ref-el-06-deep-minimal/ref-el-06-deep-minimal.promo

    THE TEMPLATE, KEPT: eleven shots in the reference's order and lengths (its shot 9, the mirrored
    second version of shot 8, is dropped: 67.2 s -> 61.2 s). Every shot is a LOCKED camera; the
    device does all the moving: it rises in from below the frame with a roll that unwinds
    (easeOutExpo, ~4.6 s, most of it in the first second), then floats. Every cut is the same
    push-up (slice, one strip, direction up, 0.7 s) and the incoming phone is already rising while
    the push runs (gap-clock=run). Flat or soft-gradient backdrops, all tinted toward sage
    (sage-white #eef0e8, ink #0e100d, green charcoal #1a1d18, sage-to-butter #c6d3bd -> #e6e0bd,
    near-white #f4f5ef, sage #b7cdaa) with faint concentric arcs where the reference has them,
    silver phones (one green-titanium #3b4d40), small caps label + two-line bold headline in the
    reference's places, "OCTOBER 2026" top right and a scene tag top left where the template has one.
    Accents: forest #2f7d4a (labels on light), lime #b9d35a (label on dark), moss #4f8a2e.

    THE APP, INVENTED: every screen is Marginal (marginal.screens.html -> scripts/html-screens.mts ->
    marginal.screens.json, pasted under each phone). Each screen keeps the light/dark value the
    reference wallpaper has on that shot, as one of Marginal's journal themes, all one green-yellow
    family (Lime #b9d35a, Sage #d3e2c6, Pine #3d8a68, Olive #7f9440, Mint #a6d2b4, Ivory #ecebe1,
    Meadow #94c27f), forest ink #1d3b2a on the light ones. The reference re-types its "Deep." wordmark once per
    shot; here that beat is the app doing something on the same second: a title types, a task
    checks, a sync toast lands, the streak ticks to 13, a search types and its results arrive.

    GEOMETRY: 1 unit = 1 mm. Camera fov 35 on +z looking at the origin; the copy sits on the z=0
    plane, so a reference pixel maps to k = 0.6306 * D / 1080 mm there (D = camera distance).
    Every number below was measured off the reference frame for that shot.

    WALL CLOCK (push centred on each cut, 0.7 s, fastest on the cut like the template's, measured at
    template cut + 0.25): 0 title · 4.85 writing · 10.85 speed · 16.85 streak ·
    21.85 V pair · 27.85 A-frame · 33.85 focus · 39.85 search · 45.85 paper · 50.85 home · 56.85 end · 61.2.
    Scene k's local 0 = cut - 0.35 (start of its incoming push).
promo#ref-el-06-deep-minimal(width=1920 height=1080 fps=30 gap-clock=run)
  audio
    tracks
      // music (procedural-music, audio-work/marginal_music.py): warm minimal chill-pop, F major, 120 BPM.
      // Its beat 0 sits at 0.85 s, so every push-up cut lands on a beat (beats 8 20 32 42 54 66
      // 78 90 100 112): drums in on cut 1, clap on cut 2, vibes motif on the V pair, a break under
      // the focus shot, a thin bar under the paper shot, the final Fmaj9 under the end card (60.35 s, fading out on 61.2).
      // Mastered -16 LUFS, true peak -1.3 dBTP; no voice-over.
      track#music(asset="music:marginal-music" start=0.85 volume=0.85)
      // designed sound (procedural-sfx, audio-work/marginal_sfx.py), spotted in its header:
      // the title shimmer, an air swoosh peaking on every push-up cut (file peak at 0.37 s),
      // soft key ticks on every typewriter run, and one sound per UI event, pitched in F major
      track#sfx_1(asset="media:mg-shimmer" start=0.45 volume=0.22)
      track#sfx_2(asset="media:mg-push" start=4.48 volume=0.3)
      track#sfx_3(asset="media:mg-type-13" start=7.80 volume=0.32)
      track#sfx_4(asset="media:mg-check" start=9.10 volume=0.35)
      track#sfx_5(asset=