STILLWATER — Come Back to Quiet

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Prompt : Create a 30.00-second advertisement for STILLWATER, a fictional forest hideaway, using the supplied image. Campaign: “Come back to quiet.” Sell the experience of staying here. Follow one guest from the lounge to the deck, where the pale bird-like resident makes her smile. End with an invitation to stay. The tone is intimate, premium, welcoming and quietly extraordinary.

FORMAT AND WORLD

Target 16:9, 4K, 24 fps, exactly 720 frames. Edit 13 shots to the timings below. Lenses are full-frame equivalents. Use natural motion blur, restrained movement and consistent mist-softened daylight.

Preserve the reference’s twisting tree, moss roofs, two-level timber house, grid screens, amber lanterns, lower lounge, rust cushions, projecting deck, pale chair, table, cage, steps, supports, swing, ferns, vines and jade lake. Keep the pale resident’s exact silhouette and scale at the deck’s right end. Maintain the house’s relationship to the trunk and branch.

Extend unseen angles conservatively. Do not invent bedrooms, bathrooms, a pool, restaurant, bridge, boat, extra buildings or rear facade. Interiors stay within the visible rooms.

ONE GUEST

Show one adult woman around 30, with dark hair in a low bun, an ivory linen shirt with rolled sleeves, rust linen trousers and bare feet. Lock her identity, wardrobe and charcoal ceramic tea cup throughout.

Her expression moves from thoughtful to content. Show her face clearly twice. Exclude dialogue, camera-facing poses, phones and other guests. She moves from the lower lounge to the existing deck chair, travelling left to right in exterior views. She never appears upstairs.

SHOT 01 | 00.00-03.00 | THE DESTINATION REVEAL
Use a 28 mm wide view just above the lake, matching the reference. Show the retreat from the first frame. Drift forward and rise slightly, revealing lantern reflections, the moss island and the sheltering branch.
A foreground vine adds parallax. Warm rooms remain readable against cool mist. The woman is a small figure in the lower lounge. Do not open with a fade.

SHOT 02 | 03.00-04.50 | A PLACE YOU CAN FEEL

Use an 85 mm close detail of the moss roof edge beside an existing lantern. Show damp fibres, fern tips and weathered timber. One droplet falls into the greenery.

Hold nearly still with shallow focus. Amber light behind green texture suggests warmth and shelter. Keep this to one sensory action.
SHOT 03 | 04.50-06.75 | ARCHITECTURE WITH CHARACTER
Use a 40 mm lens at upper-porch height for a short lateral glide along the existing balcony. Reveal its railing, grid screen, visible low furnishings and paper lantern.

Frame roof moss above and forest beyond. Look along the facade, never through a closed screen. Preserve the room size. No person appears here.

SHOT 04 | 06.75-09.00 | IMAGINE YOURSELF HERE

Use a 50 mm medium close-up inside the lower lounge. The woman stands near its open front, framed from mid-torso upward in three-quarter view.
Timber and the rust sofa establish the room. Cool reflected water light touches one cheek; lantern light warms the other. Holding tea near her chest, she lifts her eyes toward the lake.
Push forward slightly. Preserve natural skin texture and a thoughtful expression.

SHOT 05 | 09.00-10.50 | SIMPLE COMFORT

Use an 85 mm insert of the charcoal cup held steadily in her hands. Show tactile ceramic, linen cuffs, natural fingers and one thread of steam against green blur.

Focus on the rim and fingertips. The tea is already poured. Faint fabric movement adds intimacy.
SHOT 06 | 10.50-12.75 | THE ROOM OPENS TO NATURE
Use a 28 mm interior wide view behind her, looking through the lower lounge’s open frontage. Sofa cushions and timber frame the edges, connecting the room, deck and water.

She pauses at the threshold with her cup, then begins to step outside. Slide sideways slightly without passing through furniture. Add no architectural features.

SHOT 07 | 12.75-15.00 | WATER AT YOUR DOORSTEP

Use a 35 mm side view from the lake side. Track parallel as she takes two unhurried steps toward the pale chair.

Frame her from head to bare feet, with the lounge behind and lake beyond. Keep the cup steady and her feet safely inside the deck edge. Ferns add depth.
Preserve her left-to-right travel, with the resident farther right. Hear two soft footfalls.
SHOT 08 | 15.00-16.50 | THE HIDDEN PERSPECTIVE

Use a 24 mm lens beside the steps, positioned above the water and looking beneath the deck. Show wet posts, weathered board undersides, waterline moss and broken amber reflections.

One ripple crosses the foreground. Keep the lens dry and horizon level. Do not introduce an underwater sequence or transparent floorboards. Carry the last footstep across the cut.

SHOT 09 | 16.50-18.75 | YOUR OWN QUIET CORNER
Use a 35 mm true top-down view through a foliage gap onto the projecting deck. She is now seated, cup in hand; the cut deliberately omits sitting down.
Keep the table, cage, resident and deck edge coherent. Drift slightly sideways. Her ivory sleeves and rust trousers contrast with dark timber and jade water.

Do not spin or reveal an invented roof plan.

SHOT 10 | 18.75-21.75 | THE MOMENT THAT SELLS THE STAY

Use a 50 mm seated medium portrait from the lake side, retaining the exterior action axis. Her face is on the left; the resident is on the right, both readable in shared focus.
It turns its head toward her, keeping its perch and scale. She notices, gives a private half-smile, then looks beyond it toward the forest.
An exhale lowers her shoulders. The cup remains in her hands near her lap. There is no touching or comic reaction. This is the emotional peak.

SHOT 11 | 21.75-24.00 | SHARE HER VIEW

Use a 40 mm guest-eyeline view toward the reference’s open water corridor and vine-draped forest on the right. A deck corner anchors the foreground.

Hold on mist, hanging roots and barely moving reflections. Do not invent new geography. Keep nearly still.

Carry her exhale into this view so the landscape feels experienced, not merely displayed.
SHOT 12 | 24.00-26.25 | HELD BY THE FOREST
Use a 65 mm upward detail from the deck side, linking the swing ropes to their moss-covered branch. Keep the swing unoccupied.

Tilt gently across moss, ferns and luminous leaves. The swing shifts slightly in a light breeze. Exclude fantasy particles.

Prepare the return to the complete treehouse.

SHOT 13 | 26.25-30.00 | THE INVITATION
Cut to an already-wide elevated front three-quarter aerial using a 28 mm lens. Retreat gently and rise a little, revealing the connected sanctuary: upper room, lounge, deck, seated guest, resident, immense branch, moss and lake.
Remain on the familiar front side. Keep the house on the left and generous misty negative space on the right.

Ease into a near-hold for the final half-second. Keep the dwelling readable through the last frame. Do not fade to black.

VOICEOVER

Use one warm adult voice, intimate and unhurried, without theatrical whispering or a forceful sales delivery. Use these exact lines within the approximate windows:

00.75-02.75: “Beyond the everyday.”
04.50-06.75: “A hideaway wrapped in green.”
09.00-10.50: “A little warmth.”

12.75-15.00: “Water at your doorstep.”

18.75-22.50: “And time that feels like yours again.”

26.25-29.75: “Stillwater. Come back to quiet.”

Leave the intervals to nature. The woman never lip-syncs.
MUSIC AND SOUND
Create an original score at 80 BPM in 4/4, giving ten bars in 30 seconds. Align cuts to the beat grid without making every beat audible.

Use sparse felt piano, muted plucked strings and a soft harmonic bed, without prominent drums. Open with one piano note and water. Introduce plucks at 06.75, broaden the harmony at 18.75, resolve at 27.00 and let the final chord decay by 30.00.

Exclude vocals, recognisable song imitation, trailer swells and transition whooshes.

Forest air, leaves and water remain audible. Add restrained cloth movement, footfalls and her exhale. Keep narration centred and clear, with music subtly lowered beneath it. Exclude helicopter noise and exaggerated wildlife choruses.

BRANDING AND FINISH
Generate clean footage. Add typography, narration and the final sound mix in the edit.
At 01.00-02.75, introduce a small “STILLWATER” with “A forest hideaway” beneath it over the open mist on the right. Fade this gently.

At 26.50, introduce a larger “STILLWATER”, followed by “Come back to quiet.” and a smaller, readable call to action: “Reserve your escape.”

Complete the fade-in by 26.75 and hold through 30.00. Use elegant warm-ivory typography, generous spacing and safe margins. Do not use an opaque end card, fake booking URL, prices, star rating or unverified amenities.

Use clean cuts and natural cinematic texture. Preserve jade greens, honey lantern light, rust fabrics, believable skin and detailed shadows. Avoid neon grading, plastic surfaces, speed ramps, whip pans and morphing architecture.

Maintain one guest, one cup and one resident. Preserve natural hands, planted feet, consistent furniture, coherent reflections and steady lanterns. Exclude watermarks.
The final impression should be an extraordinary place and a compelling reason to choose quiet.