Super 8 home movie

The prompt

Live-action footage, real people, natural skin and textures, on grainy Super 8 home-movie film in a 4:3 frame with black bars at the sides: thick visible film grain over everything, washed-out warm colour with an orange-yellow cast, soft focus, orange light leaks flaring in from the frame edges, a dark rounded vignette, jittery frame flicker and slightly sped-up home-movie motion. 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 grainy, warm, flickering Super 8 home-movie film, one continuous take.