Sand Burial — Desert-Swallowed Suburb

A 10-second patient aerial survey, 16:9. A suburb is being swallowed by the desert — dunes marching between the houses, rooftops breaking the sand like islands, a garden planted on one roof in defiance. 0-3s: the aerial opens high over the drowned streets — a grid of pastel suburbia half-buried, great dunes marching between the houses in slow golden waves. Rooftops break the sand like islands; a street sign's tip pokes out, barely legible. Sand has poured through broken windows and filled the rooms below. 3-7s: the drone glides lower along one drowned street — a garage door half-open with sand spilling out, a swing set's top bar just visible, a mailbox flag still up. Past a collapsed fence the camera finds the lone water tower standing defiant, its legs buried to the knees. 7-10s: on one rooftop, the defiance: someone has planted a garden — green rows in raised beds, a small figure watering with a can. The drone pulls up and back, the garden a green speck in the gold, the dunes advancing frame by frame. Craft: the half-buried suburb — dune waves, island rooftops, the street sign's tip, the defiant water tower; the rooftop garden and its gardener. Camera: smooth gliding aerial survey, high to low to high; wide lens feel. Lighting: gold desert light on pastel suburbia, long soft shadows, warm haze. Mood: patient, inevitable, strange. Style: smooth aerial exploration cinema, photorealistic, gold-sand grade, 10 seconds, 16:9.