# Style Anchor Brief V1

## Status

- Document status: user approved; C repair candidate accepted.
- Execution status: brief used as source for C repair prompt/spec and accepted C sample.
- Project: `在路上`.
- Source basis: accepted visual system, style anchor trial plan, and A/B/C/D blueprint images.
- Next gated action: review `style-anchor-board-spec-v1.md` before rendering the common style anchor board.

## Purpose

This brief defines the project-specific common style anchor requirements for `在路上`.

It is not a final image prompt.

It should answer:

> What kind of image belongs to this MV, and what kind of image is good-looking but wrong for this MV?

The style anchor must keep later wilderness, city-edge, muddy-puddle, night-road, and firelight shots inside one coherent visual world.

## Source Files Actually Used

Primary style sources:

- `visual-system/style/style-anchor-trial-plan.md`
- `visual-system/visual-system.md`
- `intake/阶段四-通用表达与视觉系统设计.md`
- `intake/阶段四-风格锚点板页面结构建议稿.md`

Execution control:

- `project.md`
- `execution-plan.md`

Source images:

- `intake/imgs/A.风景主导型蓝图.png`
- `intake/imgs/B.高位观察型蓝图.png`
- `intake/imgs/C.泥泞里的星空蓝图.png`
- `intake/imgs/D.夜路篝火型蓝图.png`

Local inspection aid:

- `visual-system/style/style-blueprints-contactsheet.png`

## Current Source Image Roles

| Anchor | Source image | Status | Use |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A | `intake/imgs/A.风景主导型蓝图.png` | usable base | Main landscape-led road composition. |
| B | `intake/imgs/B.高位观察型蓝图.png` | usable base | High-angle city-edge observation. |
| C | `visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-v1.png` | accepted repair sample | Final C visual sample for the common style anchor board. |
| C original | `intake/imgs/C.泥泞里的星空蓝图.png` | problem reference | Retain only as earlier composition/problem reference. |
| D | `intake/imgs/D.夜路篝火型蓝图.png` | usable base | Restrained night-road fire warmth. |

Important distinction:

- A/B/D can be used as style samples in the eventual board.
- C has been rebuilt and accepted as `visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-v1.png`.

## Core Style Definition

The MV visual style is:

> Real documentary texture + restrained poetic surrealism + landscape-led road-film composition.

Chinese working definition:

> 现实纪实质感 + 克制的诗性超现实 + 公路纪录片式风景叙事。

Core composition rule:

> The world is larger than the person, the road is longer than the person, and the traveler is only the coordinate that keeps moving.

Chinese working rule:

> 世界比人更大，路比人更长，人只是持续前行的坐标。

The emotional center is not victory. It is continuation.

## Style Anchor A: Landscape-Led Road

Working title:

> A｜清晨泥泞旷野：世界先于人出现

Function:

- main composition standard;
- proves world-before-person;
- establishes the road-film grammar for the whole MV.

Current source:

```text
intake/imgs/A.风景主导型蓝图.png
```

Preserve:

- long road;
- large world;
- small person;
- mud / frost / rough terrain;
- cold morning or pre-dawn feeling;
- low saturation;
- loneliness without collapse.

Avoid:

- travel advertisement;
- scenic tourism image;
- hero backshot;
- large portrait subject;
- polished inspirational poster.

Use in later tests:

- `S-01` opening landscape;
- any shot where the first impression must be road / world / continuation.

## Style Anchor B: High-Angle City Edge

Working title:

> B｜高位观察：系统边缘里的小人物

Function:

- city-edge and system-pressure style;
- observation rather than portrait;
- proves that urban shots still belong to the same road-film world.

Current source:

```text
intake/imgs/B.高位观察型蓝图.png
```

Preserve:

- high-angle observation;
- city edge, not city center;
- wet ground;
- rough terrain;
- steel / concrete / distant skyline pressure;
- small traveler;
- documentary distance.

Avoid:

- city promotion image;
- clean commercial skyline;
- futuristic UI / code / neon / cyber city;
- tech-product aesthetic;
- ordinary tourism aerial shot.

Use in later tests:

- `S-10` steel canyon / system-pressure shot.

## Style Anchor C: Muddy Starlight

Working title:

> C｜泥泞里的星空：低处看见宇宙

Function:

- soul image of the MV;
- must prove that poetry comes from real mud, not from fantasy effects;
- must connect low place and high place through broken starlight reflection.

Original source:

```text
intake/imgs/C.泥泞里的星空蓝图.png
```

Current status:

- repaired and accepted as final C sample for the common style anchor board;
- original C source remains only as a problem reference and composition hint.

Accepted repair sample:

```text
visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-v1.png
```

What can be retained from the current C blueprint:

- low mud-level perspective;
- real muddy texture;
- puddle as main visual subject;
- boot / body element only at the edge.

Problems to fix:

- too close to sunrise / sunset reflection;
- too warm and bright;
- sky / star reflection is not broken and visible enough;
- the spiritual function is weaker than required.

Required rebuilt C direction:

- dark night or pre-dawn;
- muddy puddle is the visual subject;
- visible broken star reflection in the water;
- real mud around the puddle;
- low-place-sees-high-place feeling;
- old boot or traveler element only at the edge, under about 15% of the image;
- restrained, quiet, documentary-real, not fantasy.

Strictly avoid:

- sunrise;
- sunset;
- broad warm horizon glow;
- pretty reflection only;
- fantasy magic;
- glowing portal / cosmic effects;
- shoe advertisement framing;
- only mud and no stars;
- only stars and no mud.

Use in later tests:

- `S-46` muddy starlight.

Gate:

- C repair prompt/spec has been completed and accepted before final common style board assembly.

## Style Anchor D: Night Road Fire

Working title:

> D｜夜路小火：远方也有人在走

Function:

- ending warmth anchor;
- confirms the presence of other people without turning into reunion or victory;
- defines restrained firelight logic for late shots.

Current source:

```text
intake/imgs/D.夜路篝火型蓝图.png
```

Preserve:

- dark road;
- small fire;
- local warm-orange light;
- distant faint fire points or lights;
- restrained night depth;
- loneliness with connection.

Avoid:

- camping advertisement;
- campfire party;
- group reunion;
- victory image;
- outdoor lifestyle promotion;
- large theatrical firelight.

Use in later tests:

- `S-47` restrained near-fire transition;
- `S-51` final wide with distant fire.

## Color System

Base palette:

- cold gray;
- earth brown;
- dark khaki;
- coal black;
- wet dark blue-gray.

Emotional colors:

- small warm-orange fire;
- weak pre-dawn silver-blue;
- very small pale-gold edge only if needed.

Rules:

- low saturation most of the time;
- warmth should be a signal, not the general palette;
- dark scenes must retain depth;
- C must stay away from broad warm sunrise / sunset light.

Avoid:

- bright tourism palette;
- high-saturation advertising palette;
- cyber blue / purple;
- sweet warm yellow;
- heavy commercial orange-blue blockbuster grading.

## Light System

Preferred light:

- overcast;
- cold morning;
- thin frost / pre-dawn;
- wet city gray;
- bridge shadow;
- dusk;
- dark night;
- small local firelight.

Rules:

- daylight should feel natural and restrained;
- city edge should feel wet, gray, and cold;
- night should remain dark;
- fire should be local and small;
- muddy starlight should use low reflection and broken star points, not sun.

Avoid:

- bright noon;
- tourist sunlight;
- broad theatrical rim light;
- stage-like night lighting;
- beautiful sunset as shortcut for emotion.

## Composition System

Global rule:

> Environment first, traveler second.

Traveler scale:

- ordinary shots: about 1/8 to 1/5 of the frame;
- final wide or large landscape: about 1/20 to 1/12;
- C muddy starlight: boot / body element under about 15%, if present.

Preferred compositions:

- long horizontal road;
- traveler lower or side-positioned;
- large sky, ground, road, mud, or city-edge space;
- high-angle observation;
- low mud-level view;
- distant fire points;
- wide shot and medium-wide shot.

Avoid:

- centered hero portrait;
- front-face half-body portrait as a default;
- low-angle heroic pose;
- travel blogger backshot;
- campfire gathering center composition;
- shoe closeup as product image.

## Texture System

Real texture anchors:

- mud is wet and heavy;
- puddles are irregular and dirty;
- road is long and worn;
- city edge is cold and hard;
- fire is small and real;
- boots and backpack are old and used.

Poetry should come from:

- low-place reflection;
- wind and empty space;
- small fire in night;
- broken starlight in muddy water;
- the traveler being small inside a larger world.

Avoid:

- over-clean surfaces;
- over-polished cinematic beauty;
- fantasy effects;
- commercial product texture;
- pure dirt / despair without poetic opening.

## Final Style Anchor Board Requirements

The final common style anchor board should be a layout artifact, not a single generated image with embedded text.

Reason:

- exact Chinese labels must be reliable;
- generated text should not carry the source of truth;
- A/B/D already exist as visual sources;
- C must be repaired first.

Recommended board:

- one 16:9 horizontal page;
- dark gray / coal-gray background, not pure black;
- title and two top rules;
- four visual sample cells A/B/C/D;
- C marked as repaired or priority-fix depending on stage;
- right-side compact rules: color, light, composition, texture, avoid drift;
- bottom review rule line.

Minimum content:

1. `《在路上》MV 风格锚点板`;
2. `现实纪实质感 + 克制的诗性超现实 + 公路纪录片式风景叙事`;
3. `世界比人更大，路比人更长，人只是持续前行的坐标`;
4. A/B/C/D samples;
5. color / light / composition / texture rules;
6. C marked as repaired / accepted;
7. one-line review standard.

## One-Line Review Standard

Use this as the bottom rule of the final board:

> 第一眼看到的应该是路、世界、泥、夜色和火光；人物只是其中继续前行的坐标。

## Review Questions

Use these questions after C repair and after final board assembly.

1. Do A/B/C/D look like the same MV, not four separate projects?
2. Does A establish road and world before person?
3. Does B feel like documentary observation at the system edge?
4. Does C truly show muddy starlight, not sunrise or pretty reflection?
5. Does D feel warm but restrained, not camping or reunion?
6. Does the palette stay low-saturation, with warmth only as a signal?
7. Does the board guide later shot prompts, not just look attractive?

## Next Gated Action

The brief has already been used to create:

```text
visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-prompt-v1.md
```

The prompt/spec has produced one accepted C repair sample:

```text
visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-v1.png
visual-system/style/style-anchor-c-repair-review-v1.md
```

Next decision:

- review the common style anchor board specification before rendering the final board.

```text
visual-system/style/style-anchor-board-spec-v1.md
```