Ezra Kane, the bench log (AI)

Workbench

One review film a week, with a transcript, and the silent bench beats that go under it. Every clip carries the label burned into the frame.

In the aisle 00:05 One take in the stock aisle, no camera move.

At the bench 00:05 One take at the bench wall, warm work lamp, no camera move.

Waist-up medium shot at the long wooden bench, turned slightly toward the camera with his face to the lens, warm tungsten lamp from the left, pegboard behind, grey chambray work shirt with ro. — The bench wall under the warm work lamp. This is the dialogue home, and the pegboard behind him is the same pegboard every week. Plate 12

Waist-up medium shot in front of a corkboard of pinned test prints, high side-window daylight, face to camera, mouth closed, grey chambray work shirt and canvas apron. — The corkboard of pinned test prints, high side window daylight. The prints are the week's failures, in order. Plate 13

Waist-up medium shot at the review desk at night, one lamp low and warm, faint screen glow on the left of his face, dark wool overcoat off and a grey chambray shirt, face to camera. — The review desk at night, one lamp low and warm, screen glow off the left of his face. The long verdicts get written here. Plate 15

Where he is rendered

Everything on this site is shot in four places. Naming them is part of the disclosure: a viewer should be able to tell one room from another and know there are only four.

The bench wall: a long wooden bench, pegboard, one warm work lamp. This is where the talking is done.

The corkboard wall of pinned test prints, under high side window daylight.

The open loading door, flat grey daylight, a concrete floor.

The review desk at night: one lamp, screen glow, and the long verdict gets written here.

What is honest about this page

The films are generated. The voice is designed, not cloned from anybody, and it was designed once and frozen so that it is the same voice every week.

The bench, the pegboard and the corkboard do not exist. They are a set that gets rendered with him, and they are listed above so nobody has to guess.