Earth zoom out

The prompt

Scene paragraph A small fishing village of red and white wooden houses on the shore of a deep turquoise fjord in summer, photoreal Nordic drama. Steep green cliffs rise on both sides, fishing boats sit in a little harbor, and on a rocky point stands a lone red wooden cabin with a small jetty and a rowboat. Crisp clear northern light. Live-action footage shot on 35mm film, real people, natural skin and textures.

Top-down shot starting close above the rowboat at the red cabin's jetty, the camera pulling straight up and away in one continuous accelerating rise from the first second. 0–2s: a man in a yellow oilskin coils a rope in the rowboat. 2–4s: the cabin, the village and the harbor shrink below. 4–6s: the fjord, the coastline and the mountains of the region appear. 6–8s: the camera rises through thin clouds to show the curve of the Earth, the fjord a tiny point at the center. Throughout: one continuous rise with the starting point always centered, one continuous take.