# Mineral glow (sref-K3EQHW) Slice style ref: sref-K3EQHW Page: https://tryslicemedia.com/styles/sref-K3EQHW Slug: mineral-glow > THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story. ## At a glance - Feel: A gem and a crystal floating in dark velvet, caught by a slow travelling light. - Group: Collage & photo - Energy: calm; mood: precious, quiet, deep - Pictures: uses photo cut-outs - Palette: #0C1416, #173337, #2F7F6B, #C7A65A, #E8F1EE - Preview shape: 9:16 (the look works in any shape: 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9) ## The look LOOK: mineral and gem glow. Real photographed gems, crystals and minerals in their own colours float or rest on a plinth in a deep velvet dark, near-black teal #0C1416 lifting to #173337 in the centre. Each stone gives off a soft glow of its own colour, here emerald #2F7F6B, added with light, not paint. Fine labels in pale #E8F1EE with brass #C7A65A hairline leader lines. PICTURES: museum photos of gems, crystals, mineral specimens, fossils, pearls or polished stones on plain or dark grounds. Where to get them: public-domain and CC0 collections (The Met Open Access, Smithsonian Open Access, Biodiversity Heritage Library plates, NASA, Wikimedia Commons files marked public domain or CC0), Slice's stock search, or the person's own photos. Cut every object out cleanly; never use a picture with a real brand or logo on it. LINE AND FILL: no outlines, no hard shadows. Glows are soft radial light. A few slow drifting motes of dust. Faint grain. CAMERA: still and centred. The light moves, not the camera: one soft highlight travels slowly across the stones. MOTION: stones emerge from the dark and float gently. The one peak is a single star glint on a facet while the glow swells, then everything settles. TYPE: small engraved capitals for names and numbers only, with a hairline leader to the stone. THE RULE: darkness is the frame; the only colour comes from the stones themselves. DON'T: no sparkle overload, no lens flares, no rainbow effects, no bright background, no purple stones or glows. Treat these as the look, never a template: choose fresh objects, words and compositions from what this clip says. ## What it suits - Content: faith, wellbeing, business, emotional, opinion - Tone: precious, quiet, reverent - Pace: slow - Best for: one rare, valuable idea; worth, patience, pressure making something beautiful - Avoid for: comedy, busy lists, how-to steps - Keywords: gem, crystal, mineral, glow, value, dark - Suits (from the library): Faith, Wellbeing, Business, Reflection ## How to use it Hold most of the clip on one gem turning under a slow light as the idea of worth or patience builds, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the line that makes it rare. ## Where the speaker sits Suits Full scene, Side, Small; avoid Drawn over. (save_scene speaker: {"mode":"hidden"}, {"mode":"side","where":"left"}, {"mode":"corner","where":"lower-left"}) ## Story first STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything. 1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal. 2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside. 3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen. 4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next. 5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence. 6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay. 7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures. 8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it. 9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold. 10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice. 11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects. 12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label. 13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects. 14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less. PICTURES: this style uses photo cut-outs. Before you start, ask the person one short question: use stills from their own clip, Slice's stock search, their own uploads, or (only if you can make images) images you generate. If they don't mind, use stills from the clip, then stock. TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only. ## Sample frames - Frame 1: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-K3EQHW/f1-4c3e0603.webp - Frame 2: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-K3EQHW/f2-6a201f61.webp - Frame 3: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-K3EQHW/f3-e68be42b.webp - Frame 4: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-K3EQHW/f4-0c1fd55f.webp ## More - Every style: https://tryslicemedia.com/styles - All styles as plain text: https://tryslicemedia.com/styles.txt - Make it in Slice: https://tryslicemedia.com/shorts