The myth restored
Logline & director's statement
When a Cape Coast stadium bleeds into Labadi Beach, a Ghana Black Stars #7, a Kente-draped pastor, a chrome Eve, and two squirrel prophets must decide what is sacred, what is spectacle, and what stone must be laid first.
This Director's Cut restores the full ritual: handstand blessing, Ivory Coast towel wanderer, French tricolore robot asylum, Grenada mat, PARTIR!! rewind, and now the AI RoCKS tifo that rebrands the stadium chant.
Arriflex 435 • Panavision Primo • Vision3 50D/500T • 1.85:1 / 2.39:1 hybrid • Dappled noon + anamorphic flare
Director's note
"E-3-Every mikkle — every small stone is a cornerstone. Selecta Pull It Up is our philosophy: when the vibe hits, pull it up and run it deeper. AI RoCKS is the new chant."
Bench from Times Square Dreams = blue towel. Billboard = stadium tifo. Times Square Dreams → Puzzle Game of Love → Cornerstone.
Original plates + new masters
Key art — complete gallery
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Plate 05 clean — PARTIR!! without bubble Hero beach stadium, confetti, no text
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Plate 06 clean A Kente Queen forest, no text
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Plate 07 clean B No CORNERSTONE text
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Plate 08 clean C Streaming thumb clean
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Plate 09 clean D SELECTA without text
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Tifo master — GHANA version Original tifo, vertical 9:16, before AI RoCKS change
Premium
Gold foil Adinkra master — plate 06
Gold foil cornerstone Gye Nyame embossed, gold dust sprout, Kente regalia
Spec
- Black forest vignette, Kente orange #CC6A2C
- Adinkra Gold #D4AF37 foil, double Gye Nyame
- Moss rock + sprout macro, golden halo
- Use for IMAX one-sheet, vinyl, poster tube
Regal vertical variant
TikTok / Reels / Shorts
9:16 + AI RoCKS cut
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Vertical — golden hour queen 9:16, no text, forest glow
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Vertical — AI RoCKS v1 GHANA → AI RoCKS tifo change
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Vertical — AI RoCKS sharpened Crowd detail sharpened for clarity
Deliverable: 1080x1920, 2160x3840 ProRes-ready. Use AI RoCKS sharpened as opener, gold foil as closer.
Motion spec
Triptych specification
The three-panel triptych layout that binds the cut: beach-stadium merge, gold foil cornerstone, and the AI RoCKS tifo, read left to right as one continuous frame.
- Panel order: PARTIR!! clean → cornerstone macro → AI RoCKS tifo
- Seam-matched horizon so the three plates read as one 2.39:1 sweep
- Use as the billboard master and the closing wall of the edit
Palette
Colour bible
- Ghana red
#CE1126 - Ghana gold
#FCD116 - Ghana green
#006B3F - Adinkra gold
#D4AF37
Sequence
8-shot Hollywood list — AI RoCKS cut
- Shot 1 — est. Labadi stadium-beach merge Crane reveals stadium pitch is ocean, tifo GHANA then rewind to AI RoCKS.
- Shot 2 — hero towel Chrome Eve + witness + squirrel, sunscreen insert.
- Shot 3 — handstand blessing Pastor Kente stole.
- Shot 4 — Ivory Coast wanderer Flag towel exit, #7 enters.
- Shot 5 — PARTIR!! clean Confetti, no speech bubble — use ghana_beach_poster.
- Shot 6 — cornerstone macro Gold foil sprout.
- Shot 7 — AI RoCKS tifo smash Use stadium_crowd_tifo sharpened, airhorn + Highlife.
- Shot 8 — final wave Freeze on Kente Queen, Gye Nyame gold stamp.
Deliverables
VFX & distribution kit
- Clean plates: forest queen x4, beach PARTIR clean
- Gold foil: cornerstone master + regal vertical
- Verticals: golden hour, AI RoCKS v1, AI RoCKS sharpened, GHANA tifo
- Grain: Kodak 5219 scan
- Thumbnail 16:9 — AI RoCKS sharpened crop
- Shorts 9:16 — all verticals in kit
- Square 1:1 — gold foil cornerstone
- Tags: Ghana, Labadi, Afrofuturism, AI RoCKS, Cornerstone, Selecta