Ice Cream Action Comedy Short

Prompt

@Image 1 defines <Kid>'s face and hair, a 12-year-old girl in a mustard-yellow oversized hoodie, jeans and sneakers. @Image 2 defines <Dad>'s face, curly dark hair, green bathrobe over grey sweatshirt, red-and-black flannel pajama pants, white socks and slide sandals. FORMAT: 15 seconds / 9 cuts / action comedy, Hollywood fight with a deadpan punchline / no dialogue, no music. ENVIRONMENT: a sunny American city sidewalk in late afternoon, brick storefronts, parked cars, an ice cream cart with a striped umbrella further down the block, warm golden side light, long shadows. STYLE: ultra-realistic live-action feature film, anamorphic 40mm lens, shallow depth of field, crisp motion, natural skin and fabric texture, fine film grain, punchy contrast. Fast professional editing with whip pans and speed ramps. Aspect ratio 16:9. AUDIO: no dialogue, no music. Street ambience, distant traffic, sneakers and sandals on concrete, fabric rustle, heavy hits, breathing. Only two tagged sounds. TIMELINE: 0:00–0:04: Tracking shot from the front, low, gliding backward. <Dad> and <Kid> walk side by side down the sidewalk, she happily licking a tall vanilla soft-serve cone, he sipping a coffee, both relaxed, no words. 0:04–0:05: Three tattooed gangsters in black hoodies and gold chains step out of a doorway and cut across their path; the lead one shoulder-bumps <Kid>, the cone drops. Quick cut to an extreme close-up, low angle: the ice cream hits the pavement <wet splat>. <Kid>'s smile falls. 0:05–0:07: Slow push-in on <Dad>'s face. His eyes go from the melting cone up to the gangsters. His jaw sets, he hands <Kid> the coffee without looking at her and gently guides her one step behind him. Speed ramp: his bathrobe belt swings as he steps forward. 0:07–0:13: Rapid cuts, six shots. Whip pan: the lead gangster swings, <Dad> slips it and drives a straight right into his jaw <heavy crack>, the gangster's sunglasses fly. Cut: second gangster grabs the robe, <Dad> spins out of it like a matador, the empty robe lands on his face, elbow to the ribs, he folds. Cut: <Dad> catches the third one's wrist and slams him against a parked car, the alarm chirps. Cut: wide, all three stagger back into a heap against the storefront. Cut: <Dad> picks his robe up off the ground, shakes it once, pulls it back on. <Kid> stands safely by the wall the whole time, watching, coffee in hand, never in the fight. 0:13–0:15: Hard cut. Wide static shot at the ice cream cart. The three bruised gangsters stand in a neat line at the counter, one holding an ice pack to his jaw, <Dad> beside them in his robe. The gangster at the front turns and, with a sheepish nod, holds out a fresh, oversized vanilla cone with sprinkles to <Kid>.