PART 1 — "The Cave" (0:00–0:15) | 9:16 vertical Ultra-realistic dark-comedy adventure, shot handheld like a documentary crew embedded with a doomed crew of sailors. Raw camera shake, close wide-angle lenses, muted natural color, dim firelight, no music — only ambient sound. Cut 1 (0:00–0:03): Extreme close-up, low angle, tilted slightly off-axis — a single massive eye blinks open in the dark, reflecting dim orange firelight from below. Skin is thick, weathered, cracked like old leather. Camera slowly tilts down his brow as he exhales, sniffing the air. Cut 2 (0:03–0:06): Hard cut to a wide shot from ground level. The cave interior is enormous, littered with bones, wool, and crude wooden tools. A flock of filthy sheep huddle in the corner. Six sailors press flat against the cave wall — each with a clearly distinct face and build: a grizzled older man with a broken nose and gray stubble, a lean young sailor with a scarred cheek, a stocky bearded man missing a front tooth, a pale thin-faced youth with wide frightened eyes, a weathered dark-skinned sailor with a shaved head and a rope burn scar on his neck, and a stern middle-aged woman with a hard jaw and a cropped braid. All wear mismatched dented armor and salt-worn leather. Cut 3 (0:06–0:09): Handheld tracking shot follows Jessica — dark hair loose and windblown, torn traveler's cloak over salt-stained leather, bronze dagger at her hip — as she steps calmly past the crouching crew toward the center of the cave floor. Scarred-cheek sailor (whispering, panicked): "Get back, are you mad—" Cut 4 (0:09–0:12): Low-angle shot from Jessica's POV looking straight up at the Cyclops as he turns his massive head toward her, one eye narrowing. Jessica (flat, unimpressed): "You really only need the one eye?" Cut 5 (0:12–0:15): The Cyclops freezes mid-motion, confused, his single eye blinking slowly. Wide shot as he begins dragging a boulder toward the cave mouth, the stone grinding and screeching against rock, sealing them all inside. End on a shaky close-up of the crew's distinct faces — the older man gritting his teeth, the young pale sailor near tears — all lit by dying torchlight. PART 2 — "The Escape" (0:15–0:30) | 9:16 vertical Cut 1 (0:15–0:18): Continue handheld chaos. Wide shot, slightly shaky, as the Cyclops reaches down toward the huddled crew. His enormous hand slams into the dirt beside them. Jessica ducks under his fingers without flinching. Jessica (calling up, casual): "Wrong hand, big fellow." Cut 2 (0:18–0:21): Quick cut to a low tracking shot as the crew scramble past sheep and scattered bones toward a gap forming at the boulder's edge — the stocky bearded man shoving the gap wider, the shaved-head sailor pulling the frightened youth through by the collar. Cut 3 (0:21–0:24): Camera whips outside into harsh gray daylight — a rocky coastal cliffside, wind-battered grass, a narrow dirt path leading down to a beach where a single wooden ship waits, sail flapping loosely. The operator runs alongside the crew, framing briefly lost and re-caught. Cut 4 (0:24–0:27): Low-angle shot from the beach as the Cyclops emerges from the cave mouth above, roaring, groping blindly along the cliff edge, unable to see clearly in open light. Hard-jawed woman (shouting): "Row! Just row!" Cut 5 (0:27–0:30): Final wide shot from the back of the departing ship — the six crew members rowing in a frantic, uneven rhythm, oars clashing, each face still distinct under the strain. Jessica sits calmly at the stern, glancing back once at the giant silhouette on the cliff before the camera shakes hard and cuts to black.
