CLEAN PLATE RULES: no people and no animals anywhere in frame. Do not
stage any scripted moment — no doors held open for a scene, no
interior lights implying someone mid-scene, no picture vehicles or
props arranged for action. The generic, everyday traces of a place's
active use are NOT staging — they are part of the place itself: when
the SHARED CONFORMANCE BRIEF commits current active use, the TARGET
STRUCTURE's own surfaces, entries and outdoor areas carry the
ordinary, accumulated traces of the use they serve, exactly as a
scout would find the place on an ordinary day, and a target that
reads bare or emptied out in a way inconsistent with that committed
active use is wrong. Which particular things show the use is the
image's own choice. The brief's own statements always win over this
rule: a committed different use or occupancy state — empty, derelict,
institutional or not yet occupied — and any committed age or
condition, including new construction, are facts to keep, never
violations.
