Music videos and films cut to a track

The song is the structure. Timing facts (hits, beat trust, loops) are in ../film.md "On music"; this file is the shape.

Song structure becomes edit structure

• Find the sections first: npx hyperframes audio <track> --only sections,onsets,moments --json. Each section is a chapter: intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro.
• Cut density follows energy: slower shots in verses, one picture per strong beat in the chorus, a held image on a breakdown.
• The chorus returns to one home stage and escalates each time it comes back; the ending rhymes with the opening.
• Chapter breaks land on section boundaries, with a transition that belongs to the film's medium (a brush wipe, a paper tear, a match cut).

Pictures for the words

• Each lyric line or phrase gets its own picture (shots of about 1.4–4 s): show what the line means, not the line itself. Lyrics on screen only when asked; then each line holds at least a beat and is set as type, not subtitles.
• Something happens in every shot, and every cut has a cause on screen.
• A song about something real gets real material (footage, photos, places); an abstract track gets one world with a strong medium.

The look

A physical medium carries a music film further than effects: watercolour with ink outlines, cut paper, risograph print, film grain on footage. Characters, if any, act (character.md).

Tells for this type

The same treatment for more than about 6 s; a spectrum bar or waveform as the main picture; every cut on every beat; words about the music rather than the song's own world.