film slot
One agent, not a roster
Maxwell understands the footage, holds the composition, and says what it did
There is deliberately no second agent. A studio that introduces you to a cast of them makes you learn an org chart before you have made anything.
film slot
The loop
Understand the request, name the gap, propose a plan, carry it out
Each step is a separate call with its own record, and the plan is refused if the film has moved underneath it — a plan reasoned against a film that no longer exists is worse than no plan.
- Understand
- the request, in the client’s own words
- Plan
- shown before anything is spent
- Screen
- the finished film, read back frame by frame
Watching its own work
The reader is never told what the edit was trying to do
An agent that both makes an edit and reports on it will report success, because it knows what it meant. The reading pass sees the frames and nothing else, and the gap pass sees the reading and the goal but never the film.