Floating jellyfish effect

Bells drift between desks while a worker keeps typing. a wide shot across an open-plan office where six translucent jellyfish drift slowly between the desks at head height in dry air, bells pulsing and tentacles trailing over chair backs without catching, one person continuing to type without looking up, the ceiling lights and monitor glow unchanged and photographic, slow lateral dolly along the row of desks

Huge bells hang over a field, casting shadows on the grass. a wide shot of a dry grass field at golden hour with four enormous translucent jellyfish hanging in the sky above it, each bell pulsing slowly and dragging tentacles hundreds of feet long that sway above the grass, their shadows moving across the field as they drift, the grass bending only in the wind, locked wide camera tilted slightly up

Extreme close on one bell contracting, tentacles swinging after it. extreme close up on the rim of a translucent jellyfish bell hanging in dry air beside a window, the rim rolling inward in one slow contraction and springing back out, the tentacles beneath swinging forward a beat later under their own weight, daylight refracting through the bell wall and throwing a soft caustic onto the wall behind, shallow focus, camera drifting along the rim

An open umbrella loses its ribs and pulses away as a bell. a person holding an open umbrella on a dry pavement, the fabric turning translucent and the ribs dissolving until the canopy is a jellyfish bell, the handle thinning into hanging tentacles, the whole shape pulsing once and lifting out of their grip to drift upward, their hand still raised where the handle was, flat grey daylight, camera tilting up with it

A single bell pulses across a living room with no water in sight. a single translucent jellyfish the size of a melon drifting slowly across a dry living room in open air, its bell contracting and releasing to push itself forward, long thin tentacles trailing behind and lagging on every turn, a faint blue glow from inside the bell falling across the real sofa and the floorboards, dust visible in the air, slow push in past a lamp

A swarm of small bells rises up a concrete stairwell. a vertical shot up a plain concrete stairwell with twenty small translucent jellyfish rising through it in loose formation, each bell pulsing out of time with the others, tentacles brushing the handrail without moving it, their combined faint glow lighting the underside of each flight of steps, the concrete and the strip lights kept real, camera tilting up as they climb

A close pass shows light from a bell sweeping real brickwork. a wide shot along a brick corridor as one large translucent jellyfish drifts past the camera at arm length, the light inside its bell sweeping across the real brickwork and picking out the mortar lines as it goes, tentacles dragging behind through the frame, the bell filling half the width at its closest, cool practical lighting, camera holding still as it passes

A turning figure has their skirt rise and pulse like a jellyfish bell. a person turning slowly on a bare wooden floor, the hem of their long skirt lifting and taking on the translucent domed shape of a jellyfish bell, the fabric edge rippling and then contracting in a slow pulse, fine glowing threads hanging beneath it like tentacles that trail as they turn, their upper body and face unchanged and photographic, low camera looking up

A standing person turns translucent and pulses upward as a bell. a wide shot of a person standing alone in an empty gallery room, their body turning translucent from the head down as the shoulders round into a domed bell and their arms and legs thin into trailing tentacles, the finished jellyfish pulsing once and rising toward the ceiling, the polished floor reflecting the change underneath, even gallery lighting, static wide camera

A real hand reaches beneath a floating bell and the tentacles part. a close shot of a human hand reaching up beneath a translucent jellyfish floating at head height in a dry kitchen, the tentacles parting around the fingers and sliding over the skin without wetting it, the bell pulsing once and lifting slightly away, the glow of the bell reflected on the wrist and the worktop below, warm ceiling light, macro camera holding on the hand