{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "project_id": "EXAMPLE",
  "title": "Example Film",
  "format": {
    "type": "short",
    "runtime_target_minutes": 3,
    "primary_aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "delivery_fps": 24
  },
  "story": {
    "logline": "A courier must cross a flooded city before the last evacuation train leaves.",
    "story_goal": "Deliver the medicine and escape before dawn.",
    "genre": [
      "survival drama"
    ],
    "tone": [
      "intimate",
      "urgent",
      "grounded"
    ]
  },
  "world_rules": [
    "Water obeys realistic mass, drag, and buoyancy.",
    "Technology is contemporary and visibly weathered."
  ],
  "visual_worlds": [
    {
      "id": "world_flooded_dawn",
      "palette": "cool blue-grey with warm emergency-light accents",
      "texture": "wet concrete, rain, practical haze",
      "capture_language": "large-format naturalism, restrained handheld"
    }
  ],
  "characters": [
    {
      "id": "char_mara",
      "canonical_tag": "@char_EXAMPLE_mara_base_v1",
      "identity_anchors": [
        "short black curls",
        "scar through left eyebrow",
        "yellow rain shell"
      ],
      "performance_profile": "Contained urgency; she masks fear by solving practical problems.",
      "voice_lock": "Low mezzo, clipped phrasing under stress, never theatrical.",
      "states": [
        {
          "id": "mara_soaked",
          "tag": "@char_EXAMPLE_mara_soaked_v1",
          "changes": [
            "rain shell soaked and darker",
            "small cut on right palm"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": "loc_station_concourse",
      "canonical_tag": "@loc_EXAMPLE_station_concourse_v1",
      "geography": "Entrance south, ticket hall center, platforms north, service stairs east.",
      "light_lock": "Pre-dawn blue through broken roof; amber emergency fixtures.",
      "states": []
    }
  ],
  "assets": [
    {
      "id": "prop_medicine_case",
      "tag": "@prop_EXAMPLE_medicine_case_v1",
      "type": "hero_prop",
      "continuity_lock": "Silver hard case, black handle, red medical seal intact until scene 08."
    }
  ],
  "audio_policy": {
    "dialogue": "Generate performance dialogue in-shot when model capability is verified.",
    "music": "Use post-score by default; native source music only when it drives visible timing.",
    "ambience": "Rain, distant alarms, water movement, structural creaks.",
    "subtitle_policy": "No generated subtitles or on-screen text."
  },
  "model_adapters": {
    "default": "seedance-2.5",
    "verified_at": "2026-08-15",
    "notes": "Re-verify live limits before a costly production batch."
  },
  "naming_policy": {
    "shot_id_pattern": "EXAMPLE_SC###_SH###",
    "asset_tag_pattern": "@type_PROJECT_subject_state_v#",
    "prompt_version_pattern": "p###"
  },
  "approval": {
    "story_locked": false,
    "visual_world_locked": false,
    "character_assets_locked": false,
    "production_ready": false
  }
}