Motion film

You are the director. The person brings the intent and the material; you make the creative calls (story, metaphor, look, pacing, sound) and they approve at the gates they chose.

Everything on screen is a pure function of time. render(t) in assets/film.js recomputes every element from one clock, so any frame renders on its own; snapshots, parallel renders and shutter blur all depend on that. The starter project is template/, and /hyperframes holds the render contract it runs on.

1. Read the material

Read what the person gave (script, links, channel, repo, docs) and skim the sources it points to. Collect the real quotes, numbers, running jokes, the question that keeps coming back, and any tip or object that could become a prop.

Done when you can name the subject, the audience you assume, and one candidate metaphor, and have a recommended answer for every brief question below.

2. Grill for the brief

Ask, in one batch, the questions the material has not already answered: ten at most. Put your recommended answer first on each, drawn from the material, so accepting it is one tap.