Xmas dress effect

A wide shot where every stage of the garment arrives in order. a wide shot of a person standing alone on a bare stage in plain everyday clothes, deep velvet climbing from the hem to the waist, then a ribbon bodice winding on over it, then metallic thread weaving sleeves onto both arms, then a train growing out behind and settling on the boards, each stage finishing before the next begins and the everyday clothes gone by the end, locked wide camera

A spin carries the change all the way round the body. a wide shot of a person turning slowly in the centre of a large empty room in plain clothes, the festive gown arriving behind the turn so that at the halfway point one half of the body is everyday cloth and the other half is heavy embroidered fabric, the seam between the two travelling around the waist as the turn continues, the skirt flaring wide and dropping as it stops, locked wide camera

Loose ribbon spirals around the torso and pulls itself tight. a person standing in a window alcove in a plain slip, lengths of wide satin ribbon drifting in from off frame and winding around the torso in overlapping spirals from the hip to the collarbone, each pass laying flat against the last and the whole wrap pulling tight into a structured bodice with a knot setting at the back, the ribbon ends trimming themselves level, cool window light, locked camera on the torso

Close on a forearm as metallic thread stitches itself in. a close vertical framing on a bare forearm held out in a mirror corner, fine metallic thread arriving and weaving itself into a sleeve directly on the skin, the threads crossing in a visible over and under pattern and tightening into a cuff at the wrist, a scalloped edge forming at the elbow, the metallic surface throwing small hard highlights as the arm turns slowly, locked camera close on the arm

A visible fabric edge travels up the body and swallows the outfit. a person standing still on a plain stairwell landing in everyday jeans and a jumper, deep red velvet climbing over them from the hem upward with a clearly visible moving edge, the denim and the knit disappearing under it as the edge passes, the fabric gathering into a full heavy skirt at the waist and drawing into a fitted bodice as it reaches the shoulders, the nap catching the light, locked camera at full length

Dark fabric fills with small points from the hem upward. a person standing on a dark garden path in a plain long dark gown, small warm points of light igniting inside the fabric from the hem upward in an even spread until the whole skirt is lit from within, the light bleeding faintly onto the ground around the hem and through the folds, the fabric still reading as cloth rather than glow, a slight sway making the points move together, locked camera low at the hem

A wide ballroom shot where fabric spreads out over the boards. a wide shot of a person standing still in the middle of an empty ballroom in a short plain dress, heavy fabric growing from the waist and unrolling across the polished floor in every direction behind them until it covers a wide arc of the boards, the weight of it settling into deep folds and creeping to a stop, the reflection of the fabric in the polished surface doubling the spread, slow crane up

The change chases a spin around the body. a person in plain work clothes standing in a bare hall beginning a single fast turn on the spot, the change chasing the turn around the body so the side facing camera is still everyday cloth while the side already passed is deep green festive fabric, the whole garment resolving into a long gown as the turn completes and the skirt flaring out and settling, the arms staying loose, camera holding still at chest height

A wide corridor shot where the glow travels away from the wearer. a wide shot down a dark corridor with a person standing at the near end in a long dark gown with a train stretching away behind them, warm points of light igniting inside the fabric at the waist and travelling all the way down the train to its far tip in one continuous run, the lit fabric throwing a soft wash onto the corridor walls as the run passes, the cloth folds still readable, locked wide camera

Fabric grows from the waist and drags heavily down stone. a person standing at the top of a flight of stone steps in a short plain dress, heavy fabric growing outward from the waist and rolling down the steps behind them as a long train, the weight of it dragging on each edge and folding over itself as it goes, the last few feet spilling onto the bottom step, the front of the garment barely changing at all, camera looking up the steps from below