A phone's messages, before and after

Product audit 5 (#12) found that an insert showed one message and that the phone prop's screen was blank. The branch phone-inserts (batch 16, 6f03cd0ad) fixed how the director reads a phone's words (docs/design/m4-director.md, "Every message, however it is written"). The engine did not change: the phone in someone's hand already showed the scene's latest phone insert on its glass (docs/design/m6-props.md, "Phones"). What the phone shows depends only on what the director reads.

These stills show the change on one scene. The demo show was given the phone prop (core/test/fixtures/director/red_lantern/phone.prop.json), and the scene was directed with no model (reelwright direct --heuristic). It was drawn with reelwright stills --estimate-takes on lavapipe at 1920x1080:

Before: 32e92595b, batch 16 just before the phone-inserts merge.
After: eee620293. The batch head at 60c00aa2a directs the scene to the same episode, byte for byte.

INT. MARIGOLD - BRIDGE - SHIP NIGHT

Otto sits at the helm. The Chief works at the console.

Otto takes out her phone.

INSERT - OTTO'S PHONE

"Where are you?"

"The lighthouse is moving."

"Call me."

BACK TO SCENE

OTTO
Chief, the lighthouse is texting me.

CHIEF
Lighthouses don't text, kid.

INSERT - OTTO'S PHONE

CHIEF (TEXT)
Look behind you.

OTTO (TEXT)
Very funny.

BACK TO SCENE

Otto holds up her phone. It shows a text from the Lighthouse: "Turn back."

OTTO
It knows my name.

CHIEF
Then answer it.

The inserts

The scene's three phone moments before and after: one quoted text of three, then all three; the texted exchange said aloud over a close-up of the phone's edge, then on Otto's phone with her reply on the right; Otto holding up her phone with nothing to read, then the Lighthouse's text

Three quoted texts. Before, the card showed the first text, and the other two were left as action that staged nothing. After, it shows all three.
The (TEXT) cues. Before, the Chief and Otto said their texts aloud, and the INSERT became a close-up of the phone's edge. After, the texts are a conversation on Otto's phone: the Chief's on the left, under his name, and hers on the right in the accent colour.
"It shows a text from the Lighthouse: "Turn back."" Before, Otto held up her phone and nothing showed the text. After, the action is staged as written, then the scene cuts to her phone with the Lighthouse's text.

The phone in her hand

Otto from behind, the Chief's lines played over her shoulder, with her phone's glass enlarged beside each frame: before, it shows "Where are you?" alone both times; after, all three texts, then the Lighthouse's "Turn back."

The phone's glass faces whoever holds it. From the director's own coverage, Otto's phone shows its back. To see the glass here, the Chief's two lines were played from behind Otto, looking down. Studio's shot inspector can do the same (set_camera: a medium close-up on Otto, turned 150 degrees round, from high, crossing the line as written). The same camera is used before and after.

The glass beside each frame is enlarged from the same frame. Before, the phone kept the first text alone, because that was the only message any insert had: the other texts never reached it, and neither did the Lighthouse's. After, it shows all three texts, and then "Turn back."

Not changed

No golden moved. Nothing the goldens draw changed between the two commits: the stills, the style swatches, the alpha golden and the places come from committed episodes and the engine, and the only change under core/src or engine/addons was the director's reading (core/src/director) and the review page.
The camera insert on a phone in someone's hand, INSERT - OTTO'S PHONE with no words under it, still frames beside the phone, and the drawn hand can cover the glass. It aims at where the compiler puts the hand, not where the card draws it. This is still open.