Tsuryiaki is acting like a spoiled primadona. Sure on one hand I get it, his creative muse kicked in and he wants to make it the best he can. But he is delusional. First and foremost, this is not your theatrical project for late night movie screening. This is a 3 minutes school assignment that needs to be done and over with. You mess it up, you`re thrown out of the class and can gtfo. Bite the bullet and bide your time. You will get more assignments in the future, one which wont have a big time constraint like this. Then you can show eveyrone what you got. Dude is literally putting the cart before the horse and thats not how things work.
Also... these "geniuses" didnt think of making the whole thing mute ? You dont need to have text lines. Just show the time passing. There is a cinematic on youtube with this exact theme, showing a boy and a girl playing around, growing up, falling in love, starting a family, growing old and eventually dying. It all happens on a hill beneath a tree, which is the pin point of the story. The cinematic is also around 3 minutes long. And there is not a single line of text. Yet it perfectly conveys all the feelings and the theme to the audience.
Anyway, nice loong chapter, looking forward to the next one.