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[SHOT 3.26 | REFS: @Daniel → daniel_ref_v1.png | @Vivienne → vivienne_ref_v1.png | @CompartmentDoor → compartment_door_plate_v1.png | @PullmanCorridor → pullman_corridor_plate_v1.png] OVER-THE-SHOULDER from behind @Daniel, looking at @Vivienne who is STANDING at the open doorway of compartment "6." Camera is positioned in the corridor behind @Daniel's left shoulder, shooting past him toward @Vivienne. @Daniel occupies the foreground — his left shoulder, the left side of his neck, and the back-left of his head visible in soft focus at the left edge and bottom-left of the frame. The camel-tobacco suede of his bomber jacket is the dominant foreground texture — catching warm golden lace-filtered corridor light on its surface, the lace-diamond shadow- play visible on the jacket shoulder. The back of his dark chestnut hair, the line of his jaw, and his left ear are visible — enough to identify him without showing his face. His body is STILL — frozen, weight planted. @Vivienne stands in the open doorway, facing @Daniel (and therefore facing the camera almost directly — a near-frontal angle with a very slight three-quarter turn toward her right). She has risen from her bench to answer the door and now stands at the threshold between the compartment interior and the corridor. Her right hand rests on the edge of the open pocket-door — fingers on the walnut, as if she slid it open herself. Her left hand hangs at her side, relaxed. Her expression: she has looked up to see who knocked. Her face is caught in neutral-curious — the automatic polite look of answering a door, BEFORE recognition. Her slate-grey eyes with faint blue cast are level, looking at the figure in front of her (toward camera). Her brow is relaxed, mouth is closed with the barest softness at the corners — not a smile, not a frown, a resting calm. A fine strand of auburn-copper hair has escaped the chignon at her right temple and catches the warm light. Freckles visible across the bridge of her nose and upper cheekbones. Pearl stud earring catching a small specular from the reading lamp inside the compartment behind her. Wardrobe: @Vivienne wears @Vivienne/Sept-Reveal — pale sky-blue cotton day dress with small white piqué peter-pan collar visible at her neckline, short cap sleeves, A-line skirt to just below the knee (visible in full because she is standing), small mother-of-pearl button placket. Pearl stud earrings. Thin silver chain necklace, no pendant. Cream low-heel leather pumps visible at the bottom of the frame on the compartment floor. Cream cardigan NOT on her — folded on the bench behind her inside the compartment. The open doorway frames @Vivienne — walnut door frame on her right (frame-right), the edge of the recessed pocket-door visible at far frame-right with the brass "6" plaque at its edge. Behind @Vivienne inside the compartment: warm walnut-paneled walls, the narrow window with cream curtain half-drawn (warm golden post-tunnel afternoon light streaming through from outside), the small brass reading lamp mounted on the wall casting warm 3200K downward onto the now-empty bench below it (her book lies face-down on the bench where she left it when she stood), the folded cream blanket, her folded cream cardigan. Composition: OTS geometry. @Daniel's left shoulder, neck, and back of head occupy the left quarter and bottom-left of the frame as a soft foreground mass — the camel-tobacco suede reads as a warm blur. @Vivienne is centered in the remaining three-quarters of the frame, standing in the doorway, her full standing figure visible from head to approximately knee-height (the bottom of the frame cuts at her lower calves). The doorway frames her inside a second, inner frame. The compartment interior behind her provides warm golden depth. This is a FRONT-FACING shot of @Vivienne — she faces the camera almost directly, just as the reference images show. @Daniel's back provides the over-shoulder foreground that establishes the spatial relationship and stakes. Camera: ARRI Alexa 35, Cooke S7/i 50mm at T2.8 — portrait truth. @Vivienne is sharp — she is the focus. @Daniel's foreground shoulder and head are naturally soft at this aperture. The compartment interior behind @Vivienne holds gentle secondary sharpness. Lighting: THREE sources converge on @Vivienne — (1) warm golden post-tunnel corridor window light from behind @Daniel (from frame-left, past his shoulder, reaching @Vivienne as soft fill from her left side); (2) the compartment window behind @Vivienne at frame-right, warm golden afternoon light keying her face from her right side with natural modeling; (3) the brass reading lamp above and behind her, warm 3200K tungsten creating a rim-and-hair light from above, catching the escaped strand of auburn hair and the top of her chignon with a warm glow. The three sources create a naturally dimensional portrait — no flat fill, no beauty dish, just motivated warmth from three directions. @Daniel's foreground jacket catches the corridor window light fully — warm, golden, lace-shadow-patterned. Grade: Kodak 2383 — the WARMEST frame of the entire sequence. Post- tunnel golden quality. @Vivienne's pale blue dress is the single cool element in the warm field — she is calm at the center of the warmth. Auburn hair glows. Freckles catch the key. Honest unretouched skin. Deep clean blacks in the door-frame shadows, never crushed. Style: photorealistic 2.39:1 cinematic still, prestige TV quality. THIS IS THE FINAL FRAME OF SEQUENCE 3. @Vivienne must be tack-sharp: eyes, freckles, collar detail, pearl earring, every mother-of-pearl button, the escaped strand of hair. The over-shoulder foreground anchors this as @Daniel's POV — we see her through his arrival. She has not yet seen him. Recognition has not landed. Cut.