Create a 90-second cinematic surreal horror short titled “PLAY LIKE ME.” REFERENCE IMAGE Use the su

Create a 90-second cinematic surreal horror short titled “PLAY LIKE ME.” REFERENCE IMAGE Use the supplied image only as a visual reference for the girl, the creature, the house, and the color palette. Do not use it as the opening frame or recreate its composition at the beginning. Begin with a new shot of the girl alone inside her bedroom. Reveal the creature only when she opens the bedroom door. Preserve the girl’s facial features, brown hair with bangs, pink patterned outfit, pink socks, and serious, slightly unsettling expression. Preserve the creature’s enormous scale, wrinkled gray-blue skin, sparse coarse dark hair, huge orange eye, floppy ear, tusk, and heavy trunk. It is a strange, tangible animal, with the physical presence of an elaborate practical creature effect. CINEMATIC TREATMENT Photorealistic arthouse cinema with domestic surrealism and restrained psychological horror. Build the palette from the reference: muted olive and beige walls, cool gray-blue skin, dusty pink clothing, aged ivory doorframes, warm brown wooden floors, faded patterned rugs, and concentrated burnt-orange color in the creature’s eye. Soft window light mixed with subdued warm household lamps. Slightly underexposed interiors with readable shadows, natural skin tones, delicate film grain, gentle highlight roll-off, and restrained saturation. Preserve tactile imperfections in skin, fabric, painted wood, and hair. The house feels ordinary, lived-in, and subtly oppressive. Use carefully composed wide shots, slow camera moves, intimate details, and deliberate cuts. Natural lens perspective: 35mm for interiors, 50mm for medium shots, 85mm for details. Keep both characters readable during the imitation game. Reserve faster editing for its escalation. No flashy transitions or digital glitch effects. The girl’s performance is quiet, precise, and emotionally unreadable. The creature initially appears threatening because of its size, but gradually reveals hesitation and fear through its eye, breathing, and retreating movements. Its enormous body remains mostly in the hallway; its head and trunk can reach through the doorway. Maintain believable weight and contact with the architecture. TIMELINE — TOTAL DURATION 01:30 00:00–00:09 — THE PRIVATE GAME Open on a static wide shot inside the girl’s bedroom. She stands before a tall mirror, seen from an angle that clearly shows both her and her reflection. The bedroom door is closed behind her. She slowly tilts her head, raises one elbow, and holds an awkward pose, as though rehearsing a secret game. Her reflection behaves normally. A heavy creak outside interrupts her. Her eyes move toward the door before her head does. 00:09–00:17 — THE DOOR A low tracking shot follows her socked feet across the wooden floor. Cut to a close-up of her hand turning the worn brass doorknob. From behind her shoulder, the camera inches forward as she opens the door. Gradually reveal the enormous creature compressed into the narrow hallway. Its orange eye settles on her. She shows no surprise. Briefly hold their silent eye contact. 00:17–00:26 — FIRST CONTACT Hold a wide shot from inside the bedroom, looking toward the doorway. The girl and the creature regard each other in uncomfortable silence. Its trunk slowly approaches and stops just short of her. She gently touches its tip with one finger, then raises her hand to shoulder height. After a brief hesitation, the creature raises the end of its trunk to the same height. She lowers her hand. It lowers its trunk. The rules become clear. 00:26–00:37 — FOLLOW THE LEADER Use a composed medium-wide shot to show three distinct exchanges. She tilts her head; the creature carefully tilts its head. She moves her hand sideways; its trunk follows. She rises onto her toes and becomes perfectly still; it lifts its head as far as the cramped doorway allows, then freezes. Pause between each action and response. Her expression remains solemn. Its movements are heavy, cautious, and slightly delayed. 00:37–00:48 — THE GAME BECOMES STRANGE Her gestures become sharper: a sudden shoulder lift, a stiff sideways step, a quick head tilt followed by complete stillness. Keep her anatomy natural; the unease comes from timing and performance. The creature struggles to copy her, brushing the doorframe with its ear and dragging its trunk across the rug. Cut between a shared wide shot, her motionless face, and the orange eye watching for her next command. She begins a very small, unsettling smile. 00:48–00:59 — LOSING CONTROL Build a short, increasingly rhythmic sequence of cuts. Her fingers open abruptly; the trunk tip uncurls. She bends sideways; the creature tries to follow but meets the doorframe. She straightens suddenly; it recoils, making a nearby framed photograph tremble. She repeats a gesture faster, insisting that it follow. The creature hesitates, glances toward the hallway behind it, then reluctantly copies her. Its fear becomes apparent while she remains completely composed. 00:59–01:09 — EVERYONE FREEZES Return to a steady wide composition. The girl abruptly lowers her arms and stops the game. The creature also becomes still. Hold the uncomfortable pause long enough to feel deliberate. Then its orange eye shifts away from her toward something inside the bedroom. Its trunk slowly withdraws from her. The girl notices that it is no longer looking at her face. 01:09–01:19 — THE REFLECTION Cut to an oblique medium-wide shot showing the girl in the foreground and her reflection clearly visible in the mirror. The real girl stands motionless with both arms down. Inside the mirror, her reflection slowly raises one arm and repeats the earlier head tilt independently. Keep both the still girl and the moving reflection visible together to make the contradiction unmistakable. The reflection then develops a small smile. Only the reflection moves. 01:19–01:26 — THE CREATURE IS AFRAID Close-up of the creature’s orange eye widening. It pulls its trunk out of the bedroom and backs down the hallway as far as the narrow space allows. Cut back to the girl. She slowly turns her head toward the mirror, looking faintly displeased, as if someone has interrupted her game. Her reflection is already facing her and waiting. 01:26–01:30 — YOUR TURN Finish on a locked shot of the mirror with the back of the real girl’s head and her lowered hands visible in the foreground. The reflection holds eye contact with her, raises one finger to its lips, and silently signals “shhh.” The real girl remains completely still. Hold the final unsettling moment, then hard cut to black at exactly 01:30. SOUND No generated music, dialogue, or narration. Use restrained diegetic sounds only: soft footsteps, floorboards, the brass latch, fabric movement, the creature’s heavy breathing, and its skin brushing the doorframe. Leave room for an external eccentric musical track. CONTINUITY AND CONSTRAINTS Maintain the same girl, outfit, creature design, lighting, and connected bedroom-hallway geography throughout. Establish the mirror in the opening and retain its position. Reflections behave normally until 01:09. The final reflection anomaly is intentional and confined to the mirror. No additional people or creatures. No character morphing, cartoon expressions, glowing magical effects, gore, text, subtitles, or logos. Let the fear emerge through behavior, physical scale, pauses, and the final impossible reflection.