Space-station scene with astronaut, meteor, and tearful window view

Prompt

The author shared part of the prompt.

SCENE CONTEXT
Night side of the Earth. A space station in orbit; 📷@mila is inside at a small round porthole, 📷@astronaut floats outside it on a tether, lit by the station's floodlight against black space and the dark Earth with its city lights. They clown for each other through the glass; a meteor flies into the sky behind him and crosses toward the Earth; she hammers the glass and screams to make him turn, and he answers with a heart; he begins a slow turn and the meteor hits while he is halfway round; she watches the impact with one tear. 25 seconds, seven cuts between two camera positions: OUTSIDE, looking at the window from space, and INSIDE, her own eyes looking out through the porthole.

LOCATION MAP
THE WINDOW IS SMALL: a porthole about 50 cm across. Her head in its white cap takes up half of its diameter and her shoulders are wider than it; the astronaut's helmet alone is two thirds of its width; the whole window is a quarter of his height. A porthole, not a dome, not a bay window, one small circle in a huge wall of hull.
THE SHIP, INSIDE: the porthole set in a wall of white padded panels. Its inner ring is dark grey bolted metal with red-and-white striped segments at the lower left and lower right; a warm LED strip runs along the top of the ring inside. The interior is dim, blue-grey, a few small status lights, cable runs and a handrail at the edge of frame. The glass is thick and clear.
THE SHIP, OUTSIDE: the same porthole from space, a raised dark metal collar with bolts set into a white hull of quilted insulation panels with grey seams, many panels tall, dwarfing the window; a small white floodlight on a short stalk above the window, aimed down across the glass and out toward the astronaut; the interior glows warm through the glass, and the same red-and-white segments of the inner ring show through it.
THE EARTH: night side, black-blue, city lights in gold clusters and threads across the dark continents, a thin blue-green airglow line along the limb, stars above the limb. No sun, no daylight anywhere in the film.
INSIDE view: the ring fills the edges of the frame. The Earth is not a ball: it is a huge gentle arc, its night surface filling the lower 65% of the window, the limb a shallow curve running above the centre of the window, lower on the left and higher on the right, with a thin blue-green airglow line along it and black star field above. The exact CENTRE of the window is dark Earth surface with city lights, just below the limb: that is where the impact lands. The astronaut floats at the LEFT edge of the window, upper-left, within the left third, about 3 m away, against the black sky and the limb, facing the window; he never crosses into the centre. The meteor crosses the black upper right and comes down-left to the centre. Her right gloved hand enters from the bottom-right edge.
OUTSIDE view, close: 📷@mila behind the glass, the dim interior behind her; no Earth in frame; the Earth and the meteor are behind

Category

Films & stories

Stack

AI video

Made with

Athana ai, Seedance 2.5

On X

60 likes · 1.4K views · 3 saves