The Mannequin Shift — Department Store Night

An 8-second consumer-uncanny horror short, 16:9, shot as bodycam footage: a department store after closing, where every mannequin has moved. The hook: the missing mannequin is wearing the guard's own spare uniform jacket.
0-2s: The night guard's flashlight and bodycam sweep the fashion floor: mannequins in displays, frozen mid-stride, display spots still burning. The guard does the round — footsteps echoing, radio quiet — and stops. Something is wrong with the window display.
2-5s: Every mannequin has moved. The window display figures now face inward. The athletic display's runner is mid-lunge toward the aisle. One podium stands empty — a mannequin-shaped dust outline, its price tag on the floor. The guard's radio crackles with breathing. The flashlight sweeps the aisles: plastic faces, plastic faces — and catches it: the missing mannequin, standing at the end of the aisle, wearing the guard's own spare uniform jacket.
5-8s: Its head rotates toward the light with a plastic click. Behind the guard, every mannequin's head rotates in sequence — a wave of clicks rolling down the floor. The flashlight beam trembles. The guard's breathing fills the mic. Cut on the clicks.
Craft: the subjects are the guard (flashlight, bodycam, radio) and the mannequins — plastic faces, display poses, the jacket-wearing one; the store as the retail-dark stage — displays, podiums, aisles. Camera: bodycam realism, flashlight-sweep dynamics, a held shot on the rotating heads. Lighting: the flashlight beam in retail dark, display spots as accents. Atmosphere: consumer uncanny — the store, awake. Style: bodycam realism, plastic detail, 24fps, 8 seconds, 16:9.