Photoreal cinematic film still, vertical 9:16, ARRI Alexa, 35mm, natural grain. A dim open-plan newsroom at dawn, mostly dark, a wall of TV screens glowing plain blue-white with no text. The young man from the reference image (Marcus, 26, mixed-race, curly top, gold chain, cream hoodie, one white earbud in), seen in three-quarter view from behind his shoulder, half-risen from his desk chair, frozen, staring down at an EMPTY office chair still slowly spinning beside the next desk. On the carpet: a shattered mug with spilled coffee, a pair of reading glasses and a staff lanyard lying where a woman stood. Nobody else in the room. Cool shadows, high contrast. No readable text, no logos.
