# ar.dance → "BLIND SIDE" · AMBUSH · choreography doc v2 (B, 27 Oct) · APPROVED with changes (no springboard cast; the anti-template rule)

**Slot.** ar.dance (the weakest gag, DANCE) is rebuilt from scratch on the same key.
**Victim.** FAYIZ (purple). The visor comes off at XT/VH.
**Length.** Trigger to final ~20 s: about 17 s of scene plus two slow-mo beats.
**Needs.** `{ kinds: ['FLOOR'], space: { w: 420 } }`, range close, victims 1. Map-independent: every prop and gold piece is cast by the fighters.

**Look.** Dusty amber key with crushed blacks and grain. It goes blue-cold in the slow-mo and red at the climax. Letterbox in the standoff and the final.

**Core.** A surrender that is a trap. Fayiz kneels with his hands behind his head and his pistol on the floor. Behind his head his hands are casting a gold kusarigama (a sickle on a chain). He springs it when Faris is a step away. Faris survives the first cut by a finger, and the fight turns on the weapon Fayiz chose. Fayiz ends laid out on his back on his own fallen gold shield, like a soldier carried home on it.

## THE BEAT SHEET (scene s · F = FARIS, Y = FAYIZ)

| t | FAYIZ | FARIS | SHOT / CAMERA / FX / SOUND |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0-2.4 | Kneels, hands laced behind his head, eyes down, pistol on the floor in front of his knees. "Don't…" | Advances in a low tactical walk: the rifle shouldered, the muzzle on Y's chest, heel-toe steps. | SHOT 1 · a slow push down the line of F's rifle (over the shoulder). Amber grade, dust motes. |
| 2.4-3.3 | His eyes flick up once. His fingers move behind his head: a gold glint hidden there. | One step from him. Hooks the pistol with his boot and kicks it away (it spins off out of frame). | SHOT 2 · a low two-shot from the floor. The pistol skids past the lens. |
| 3.4 | **CAST (Y-1) · THE KUSARIGAMA:** the hands come out of hiding with the gold sickle and chain inked between them ('blade'). | Glances at the pistol. | ink.cast.blade, a short glint. |
| 3.5-3.9 | THE AMBUSH: springs off both knees, swinging the sickle up at F's throat. | Jerks back, a backbend from the knees. | **SLOW-MO 1 (0.12x):** the sickle's point passes a finger's width under his chin. A hair of the crown's tassel is cut and hangs. Heartbeat, pitch-down, desaturation. |
| 3.9-4.3 | The sickle carries on and hooks the rifle's handguard, and he rips it aside. | Fires, late: the burst goes into the floor, chips and sparks. | Snap back loud, chroma flash. SHOT 3 · handheld. |
| 4.3-5.4 | Whips the chain round F's forearms, then drives a shoulder into his chest. | Staggers and falls on his back, the rifle pinned across his chest by the chain. | A whip pan follows the fall. |
| 5.4-6.2 | Stands over him and brings the sickle down at his face, two-handed. | Blocks with the rifle's handguard: CLANG, sparks. Rolls left; the sickle buries in the floor. | SHOT 4 · top-down crane. |
| 6.2-7.0 | Yanks the sickle free. | Kicks up from the floor into the side of Y's knee (crack), springs up and backs off two steps. | Cut on action, a flash frame. |
| 7.0-8.2 | Limps back. **CAST (Y-2) · THE PAVISE:** stamps, and a tall gold siege shield inks up in front of him ('slam'). | Bursts at him: the rounds spank off the gold, sparks and gold chips. | SHOT 5 · a wide lateral dolly; the burst lights the gold. |
| 8.2-9.4 | Whirls the chain over the shield's top, and the sickle curls down and hooks F's calf. Hauls. | Taken off his feet, dragged on his back toward the shield, the rifle still in his hands. | Floor-level dolly backward with F. |
| 9.4-9.8 | Hauling. | **CAST (F-1) · THE PEG:** dragged on his back, his back hand snaps and a gold peg inks into the floor beside him ('snap'). He hooks his elbow round it. The drag stops dead; the chain twangs taut. | Ink cast, the chain's twang. |
| 9.8-10.2 | Heaving on the taut chain, his feet showing under the shield's bottom edge. | Anchored on the peg, he fires flat along the floor under the shield. | **EXPLODING LIMB 1:** Y's front foot blown off at the ankle; it skips away. Y drops to one knee behind the shield, screaming. |
| 10.2-11.4 | Behind the shield, shaking, the chain slack. | Unhooks the sickle from his calf (bleeding), lets go of the peg, rises. | SHOT 6 · a low standoff wide, letterbox in. A breath. |
| 11.4-12.0 | Hears the boots. Raises the sickle over his head on his knee, waiting. | Three running steps, plants his back hand on the shield's rim and vaults it on his own athletics: a one-hand side vault, his body horizontal over the top. | The camera tracks the run. |
| 12.0-12.8 | Swings the sickle up at the shape in the air. | Over the shield on the hand vault, the rifle in the front hand pointing down at Y's face. | **SLOW-MO 2 (0.1x), LOW ANGLE UP from behind Y:** F inverted against the key light; brass hanging; Y's eyes realising. **EXPLODING LIMB 2:** F's burst takes the sickle arm off at the elbow; the forearm spins away still holding the sickle, the chain trailing. |
| 12.8-13.4 | Reels, the stump spurting. | Lands behind him in a forward roll and comes up at his back. | Snap back, shake. SHOT 7 · handheld close. |
| 13.4-14.4 | Turns on his one knee. No hand, the chain hanging from his wrist. Faces F (d58Stare → terror). | Steps in, jams the muzzle under his sternum, and holds the trigger at contact. | **THE OPENING:** the burst opens him from inside. The back blows out against the shield (the gold spattered red), the ribs splay outward, the belly tears. A red grade flash. |
| 14.4-15.6 | Driven back against the shield by the burst; the shield topples flat and he goes down on his back across it. | Lets off. Steps over him. | SHOT 8 · a crane down onto him. The shield rings on the floor. |
| 15.6-17.0 | On his back on the gold: one last breath, the head rolls toward the camera. | Ejects the magazine; it bounces by Y's foot. | SHOT 9 · FINAL, low, rolled so the face is upright, letterbox. |

## DISMEMBERMENT / OPENING / END POSE (anti-template)
- **Limbs:** the foot at the ankle (shot flat under his own shield while he drags) and the sickle arm at the elbow (the arm that sprang the trap). Both come out of the kusarigama story; no knee, no belly.
- **The opening:** from INSIDE, the muzzle jammed under the sternum, so the back blows out against the gold and the ribs splay outward (a burst from inside, not a belly tear).
- **The end pose:** LYING on his back across the fallen pavise (not propped). The entrails and the sickle forearm read clearly off its edge.

## XT FINAL
- Laid out on his back across his own fallen gold pavise, the camera rolled so the dead face is upright (B8 deadEye, slack mouth).
- The chest and belly opened from inside: the ribs splayed outward, the heart and the lungs showing, the entrails spilling over the shield's edge in uneven loops.
- The red spatter fanned across the gold.
- The elbow stump torn (B8 tornStump, the bone off-centre).
- The ankle stump.
- The forearm still gripping the sickle, buried in the floor just off the shield's edge, framed clear with the chain running to him; the entrails over the edge on the other side.
- The foot by the empty magazine.
- The visor off.

## LADDER (after the XT pass)
- **VH:** the elbow is blown off and he dies on his knees behind the shield, the back opened, no entrails.
- **H:** the burst through the shield's gap, he falls dead (d58D), wounds up the front.
- **M:** knocked flat behind the shield, X eyes.
- **L:** the rifle butt to his temple as F lands, out cold.
- **VL:** F shoots the chain in two, and Y throws up his hands for real this time, alive.

## CASTS
- Y-1: the kusarigama (a blade).
- Y-2: the pavise (a shield).
- F-1: the peg (an anchor, not a springboard).
All three un-draw at the exit.

## CHECKS
- LESSONS 1-3: torn stumps, never discs; the face upright; no patterns; nothing floating (the foot, the arm and the magazine rest on the floor); the wound out-reads the gold.
- Uniqueness: no kusarigama in the ledger; no "laid out on his own shield". The surrender trap is new; old PLAYING DEAD (a corpse with a knife) is a different setup and stays separate.