Compress a complete three-beat mini-story into a single 8-second Veo clip

Build a Veo 3.1 prompt for one complete short-form story told entirely within a single 8-second clip — a setup, a turn, and a payoff, not a fragment of a longer video. Because the whole story has to land inside one fixed-length generation, every beat needs an approximate second range assigned to it before the visual description is written.

BEAT 1 — SETUP (seconds 0-3)
a man sits alone at an empty bus stop bench, checking his watch. Establish the situation fast; this beat only has about three seconds to do its job, so describe the single detail that makes the situation legible rather than several competing details.

BEAT 2 — TURN (seconds 3-6)
a second person sits down at the far end of the same bench, holding an identical watch up to compare. Name the exact visual change that signals the turn — a new object entering frame, an expression shifting, a camera reveal — since an unnamed, implied turn tends to get rendered by Veo as a continuation of beat one rather than a distinct second beat.

BEAT 3 — PAYOFF (seconds 6-8)
both men laugh and shake hands, clearly recognizing each other as the bus pulls away unboarded, landing in the final two seconds. State what visually resolves the story here specifically so the ending reads as intentional rather than the clip simply running out of time.

CAMERA
a static medium shot on the bench, no movement, letting the second man's entry do all the work — describe it as one continuous move or one fixed frame across all three beats, since Veo generates a single uncut shot; if the story needs a visual gear-change at the turn, achieve it through what happens in frame, not through an implied cut the model has no instruction to perform.

AUDIO
quiet street ambience shifting into two overlapping laughs right as the handshake happens, changing character at the same second range as the turn to reinforce it — silence into a sudden sound, or a quiet tone shifting to a sharp one, timed to the visual beat rather than added as a flat, unchanging bed across the whole eight seconds.

WHAT TO AVOID
Do not write more than three beats — a fourth beat squeezed into this window has, on average, under two seconds to register, which is below the point where Veo can render a beat as legible rather than as a blurred transition between its neighbors. Do not leave the turn's second range unstated; an unanchored "at some point it changes" gives the model no timing target and the turn tends to land either too early, undercutting the setup, or too late, crowding out the payoff.

OUTPUT
The finished prompt, followed by the three second-ranges chosen for setup, turn, and payoff, so the pacing can be checked before generating.