01LEGO-style brick-built toy world
a plastic toy minifigure in a world of studded bricks
A cardboard diorama builds the scene from corrugated cardboard and tape, like a handmade stage.
03A cardboard diorama like a miniature stage play: the rooftop, plants, pots and city skyline are cut from corrugated cardboard with visible ridged edges, unpainted brown flaps, masking tape and glue seams, lit by a small warm lamp; the girl is a jointed cardboard figure with drawn-on marker details. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, the cardboard girl waters potted tomato plants with a cardboard watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and a few blue paper droplets fall onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: everything stays brown corrugated cardboard with ridged cut edges and tape, a handmade miniature stage, one continuous take.
A cardboard diorama like a miniature stage play: the rooftop, plants, pots and city skyline are cut from corrugated cardboard with visible ridged edges, unpainted brown flaps, masking tape and glue seams, lit by a small warm lamp; the girl is a jointed cardboard figure with drawn-on marker details.
The tape, glue seams and ridged edges do the work. Name them, and a single warm lamp, so it reads handmade rather than CG.
01a plastic toy minifigure in a world of studded bricks
02flat layered paper figures in a paper theatre
04a TV hand-puppet show with a flapping fleece mouth