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House piece · Warm evening

Wick Light

Dusk at a window with a live flame. The only direction where something in frame genuinely moves on its own, which is what makes it read as filmed.

What this is

Made in-house from our own concept-study anchor to show a live flame held against a locked vessel. Not a client project.

Subject
Concept study — pillar candle
Direction
Wick Light
Light
Warm practical in front, cold blue ambient behind. Two-temperature by design.
Best for
Candles, matches, incense, anything with a flame or a plume
Length
15.2s · silent · 24fps
Anchor rule
Vessel geometry and label placement stay locked. Flame and smoke are the only elements permitted to move.

Master · 9:16 · 00:15

The fifteen seconds

Four beats, filmed in order.

Wick Light 00:00 → 00:15 · silent
00:00
Strike
Push in as the flame settles.
00:05
Plume
Smoke curls; the blue behind deepens.
00:10
Hold
Everything steadies. Dark copy space above.
00:15
End frame
Held dusk frame.
The anchor

Where every frame started.

The still anchor frame this piece was generated from: A lit pillar candle at a window at dusk, flame moving, cool blue light behind.Anchor · unedited

The still on the left is the only source. Each five-second beat is generated from that frame rather than from a written description, which is why the object keeps its silhouette, its colour and its proportions for the full run.

On a real order this is your photograph. You mark which of your uploads is the anchor, write down what must not change, and every export is compared back against it at full zoom before anything is released to you.

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The crop set

One shoot, four ratios.

9:16 is the master. 4:5 and 1:1 are true centre crops of it — the frames below are the actual video, held at those ratios. 16:9 is built as an extended field so the product never gets sliced by a letterbox.

9:16

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4:5

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A lit pillar candle at a window at dusk, flame moving, cool blue light behind. composed into a 16:9 extended field16:9

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The alt text you also get

Written per export.

A lit pillar candle at a window at dusk, flame moving, cool blue light behind.

Every delivery includes an alt-text sheet with one written string per file, so the ads are accessible the moment you post them instead of whenever you get round to it.