Reduction beat bed

Kitchen reference: reduction — simmer until the line sharpens. Film translation: each cut should remove noise until one relationship remains obvious. Compare flow metaphors in vector calculus when the same idea moves through liquid grammar.

Wide reduction. Keep context — but name which third of the frame is allowed to stay busy. Lane + image state persists locally.

Wide atmospheric field — context lane before the first reduction cut.
Wide contextStart wide; mark which third may stay busy when you tighten.
contextRoom, weather, social field.
subplotSecondary motion — candidate for first cut.
questionWhat should the viewer wonder before the tighten?

scene memory idle

Scheduler neighbor: time orchestration · Cinematic plan: interaction patterns