Documentary handheld

The prompt

Live-action footage, real people, natural skin and textures, filmed as an observational documentary: natural available light, a handheld camera that breathes and gently reframes to follow her, unstaged and intimate, a clean digital image with natural colour. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short brown hair in a yellow T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, the camera handheld. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes 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: it stays unstaged handheld documentary footage in natural light, one continuous take.