A narrow night-market lane under a corrugated canopy: plastic stools and stainless steel carts line both sides, steam rolling off a boiling pot, unbranded hand-painted signage in traditional Chinese characters with no readable text, strings of bare bulbs overhead. Shot 1: the camera moves down the lane past a vendor turning skewers over coals. Seamless transition to Shot 2: it settles on steam rising through the bulb light. Real-time movement only. Humid summer night, wet concrete underfoot, a few silhouetted shoppers. Medium shot, subtle handheld, eye level, 35mm lens on ARRI Alexa 35 at 24fps, shallow DOF with the lane as soft bokeh. Warm tungsten practicals against cool night spill, warm high-contrast grade, shot on Kodak Vision3 500T, 35mm film grain. Negative: blurry, distorted faces, extra fingers, warped text, oversaturated, watermark, no digital sharpness, no CGI gloss, no plastic skin, no over-smoothed textures
