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The Wrong Wedding, episode 1: 32 seconds, seven shots, three characters, made in Ziztu from one sentence.

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The prompt that made it

A live-action vertical micro drama, episode 1: on her wedding day a bride reads a message on the groom's phone and walks down the aisle anyway, smiling. End on a cliffhanger when she takes the microphone.

A bride reads a message in the chapel doorway and smiles.

A cafe worker meets the man who steps out of the black car.

The Wrong Wedding began as one idea: on her wedding day a bride reads a message on the groom's phone and walks down the aisle anyway, and the episode ends when she takes the microphone. It runs 32 seconds in 7 shots, with the same bride, groom and chapel in every one. The ideas below have the same shape.

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Every idea has the same four parts, so you can write your own in the same shape: a person and what she wants, what stands in the way, the shot it opens on and the shot it ends on. The ideas are free to use. Each genre has a guide with the beats of a season and a full episode 1 shot plan: micro drama genres.

A wrong in public, a calm avenger, a payback with a price. Read the revenge micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. Reply All

   An intern is blamed in a company-wide email for a leak she did not make, and she answers with one attachment.

   Opens on the notification lighting up forty screens at once. Ends on the attachment preview: a timestamp from the CEO's own account.

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2. The Toast

   At her sister's engagement party the groom's mother toasts Dana as "the help", and Dana asks for the microphone and the projector.

   Opens on the last word of the toast, with glasses in the air. Ends on the first slide appearing on the wall.

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3. Row Three

   A professor who took a student's thesis gives the keynote while the student sits in row three with a printed first draft dated two years earlier.

   Opens on the professor thanking "my brilliant team". Ends on the student standing to read the acknowledgments page that was removed.

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4. The Captain Speaking

   A man who left a woman at an airport gate years ago boards a flight and does not know who is flying it.

   Opens on a boarding pass scanned at the gate. Ends on the captain's voice on the speaker saying his name.

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5. The Seamstress

   The wedding dress her mother sewed is worn by her stepsister, and she arrives at the venue as the seamstress.

   Opens on a hem being pinned in a bridal room. Ends on her hand finding one loose thread.

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6. Silent Auction

   Her uncle sold the family farm out from under her, and she bids on every lot of the charity auction that he hosts.

   Opens on a paddle raised in the back row. Ends on her number on the last lot, the family's old bell.

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7. Table Nine

   A chef whose restaurant was sunk by a fake review learns the critic is at table nine tonight.

   Opens on a name on the reservation screen. Ends on the critic's fork stopping halfway to his mouth.

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8. The Voicemail

   At her old boss's retirement party she plays a voicemail that was lost during the lawsuit.

   Opens on a speaker cable plugged into a phone. Ends on the first line of the message in his own voice.

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A power gap, one rule and a slip that breaks it. Read the CEO romance micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. Between Twelve and Thirteen

   A junior analyst is stuck in a lift with the CEO who rejected her idea, and she has ninety seconds to pitch it again.

   Opens on the lift jolting to a stop between floors. Ends on his question: "Who else knows about this?".

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2. Night Shift

   The CEO is alone in the building at 2 a.m., and the new cleaner returns his laptop with a note correcting his spreadsheet.

   Opens on a vacuum cleaner humming in an empty glass office. Ends on the note pinned to his glass wall.

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3. The Seat Beside Him

   At the annual summit his assistant is moved to the seat next to his because his ex is in the room.

   Opens on a place card being swapped. Ends on his whisper: "Hold my hand under the table. Smile.".

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4. Wrong Floor

   A candidate steps out of the lift on the wrong floor and interviews with the CEO by mistake, so well that he hires her for a job that does not exist.

   Opens on a nervous candidate checking her reflection in a glass door. Ends on his assistant whispering, "We have no such role".

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5. The Umbrella

   The CEO has never offered anyone an umbrella, and today he walks across the lobby holding one out to her while the whole floor watches.

   Opens on rain on the glass doors of the tower. Ends on her hand taking the umbrella, the price tag still on it.

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6. The Ghostwriter

   His assistant has written every speech he gives, and tonight he reads a line she did not write.

   Opens on a page of speech notes on a podium. Ends on his eyes finding hers across the ballroom as he says the line.

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7. Form 12B

   HR circulates a form: any relationship between the CEO and a member of staff must be declared, and he signs it.

   Opens on a form landing in an inbox. Ends on the form on her desk with her name already printed in the box.

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Someone treated as a nobody, a keepsake and a reveal. Read the hidden heir micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Delivery Rider

   A food rider drops an order at the gate of a mansion, and the old butler sees the birthmark on his wrist.

   Opens on a scooter stopping at an iron gate in the rain. Ends on the butler bowing and calling him "young master".

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2. The Family Cake

   A pastry chef enters a baking contest with his grandmother's recipe, not knowing it is the secret of a famous family.

   Opens on a cake being lifted onto a judging table. Ends on the matriarch tasting it and putting down her fork.

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3. Sixth Floor

   A night cleaner corrects a graph in the CEO's presentation in passing, and she turns out to be the founder's missing daughter.

   Opens on a mop bucket beside a boardroom table. Ends on her answer to "Where did you study?": "Here. When it was a garage.".

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4. The Test

   A grandfather poses as a bus driver to find out which of his grandchildren is kind.

   Opens on an old driver's hands on a steering wheel. Ends on the rude grandson told, "That is my seat.".

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5. The Wrong Funeral

   A girl crashes a funeral for the free food and is taken for the granddaughter of the deceased.

   Opens on a plate of sandwiches in a hall of mourners. Ends on the lawyer reading, "And to my granddaughter, who has been sitting here all along".

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6. The Birthday Card

   Every year an anonymous card arrives on her birthday, and this year the sender walks into her tiny cafe.

   Opens on a card with no name on a doormat. Ends on his words: "Happy birthday, daughter.".

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7. The Portrait

   A scholarship student is bullied by the chairman's son, and the portrait in the school hall is of her great-grandmother.

   Opens on a student alone in a wood-paneled hall. Ends on the headmaster looking from the portrait to her.

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Fated mates, a pack with rules and a rejection under the moon. Read the werewolf micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Omega's Seat

   The pack's omega is made to eat on the floor at the feast, and tonight the Luna's chair stands empty.

   Opens on an empty carved chair at the head of a long table. Ends on her sitting in it while no one dares to stop her.

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2. The Mark

   A woman wakes with a glowing mark on her wrist on the morning of her wedding to a human.

   Opens on a pale glow under a sleeve at dawn. Ends on her fiance's phone ringing: "I am coming for what is mine".

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3. The Border Cafe

   A cafe owner runs the only neutral ground between two packs, and both alphas arrive on the same night.

   Opens on two sets of headlights turning into a gravel lot. Ends on her flipping the sign to Closed as the door locks.

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4. The Scent

   A night nurse notices something wrong in a patient who is a wolf, and his pack learns that she knows.

   Opens on a patient's amber eyes in a dim ward. Ends on the nurse writing her own name on the chart.

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5. The Doorstep

   A newborn is left on the alpha's doorstep with a note in the rejected Luna's handwriting.

   Opens on a basket in the snow. Ends on the note, read aloud in one line.

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6. The Silver Locket

   A hunter wears silver the whole pack fears, and the pack's healer is the only one who can touch it.

   Opens on a silver chain glinting on a table in torchlight. Ends on the healer's hand closing around it.

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7. The Challenge

   A young she-wolf asks to challenge the alpha, and the pack's law book does not say she cannot.

   Opens on a thick book opened on a stone table. Ends on the elder reading the clause aloud.

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A family, a debt and menace without violence. Read the mafia micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Pianist

   A pianist plays the same song every Tuesday at a family restaurant, and this week the piano stops mid-note.

   Opens on hands on a piano in an empty dining room. Ends on a man standing in the doorway.

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2. The Wrong Cab

   A taxi driver picks up a woman in a red dress who tells him to drive fast and not look back.

   Opens on a rear door slamming in the rain. Ends on a second pair of headlights turning behind them.

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3. The Ledger

   The daughter of a debt collector delivers lunch to his office and sees her own name in his ledger.

   Opens on a paper bag set down on a cluttered desk. Ends on her words: "Papa, what is this?".

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4. The Reading

   A new lawyer reads a family's will and finds the signature of a man declared dead.

   Opens on a fountain pen over a signature line. Ends on a phone ringing in the hall.

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5. The Safe

   A locksmith is blindfolded, driven across the city and told to open a safe that holds a child's drawing of her own house.

   Opens on a hand on a combination dial in the dark. Ends on the drawing in the beam of a flashlight.

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6. The Wedding Singer

   A singer at a family wedding sees the groom checking a second phone.

   Opens on a microphone raised under a string of lights. Ends on the music stopping mid-chorus.

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7. The Bakery

   The family bakery is a front, and the new baker burns the bread on purpose to send a message.

   Opens on smoke curling from an oven before dawn. Ends on a folded note in the ashes.

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Two people, one unfinished thing and a room they cannot leave. Read the second chance micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Last Train

   The last train is cancelled, and two exes share a taxi at midnight.

   Opens on a departures board turning red. Ends on the driver asking "Where to?" and both giving the same address.

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2. The Plus One

   She hires a stranger as her date to her ex's wedding, and he is the groom's brother.

   Opens on a hired date straightening his tie outside a venue. Ends on the groom's brother standing to toast her.

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3. The Old Number

   On the anniversary of the breakup she calls his old number, and a woman answers.

   Opens on a thumb hovering over a saved contact. Ends on the woman's voice: "He left something for you".

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4. The Piano Tuner

   He tunes the piano in her new apartment and recognizes the song he wrote for her.

   Opens on a tuning fork struck against wood. Ends on his hands playing the next bar.

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5. On Call

   Both rush to the same hospital for his grandmother, and she is the surgeon on call.

   Opens on a corridor of swinging doors. Ends on her line: "I am sorry. I am the doctor on call.".

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6. The Bookshop

   Snow traps her in a bookshop, and the owner is her ex.

   Opens on a bell ringing over a door in a snowstorm. Ends on a book on the counter with her handwriting inside.

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7. The Interview

   The man she left is hired as her boss at the firm she has just joined.

   Opens on a new badge clipped to a lapel. Ends on his eyes stopping on her old address on the resume.

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8. Open Mic

   She sings the song she wrote about him at an open mic, not knowing he is in the audience.

   Opens on a hand adjusting a microphone stand. Ends on his chair scraping back in the dark.

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Clauses, an expiry date and a rule nobody wrote. Read the contract marriage micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Visa

   She marries her flatmate so he can stay in the country, and the immigration officer arrives a day early.

   Opens on two toothbrushes in one glass. Ends on her whisper: "We are going to need one bed.".

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2. Five O'Clock

   A will says he must be married by thirty, and today is his birthday with the deadline at five.

   Opens on a clock on a lawyer's wall at 4:15. Ends on the lawyer asking, "It is five. Where is your bride?".

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3. The Planner

   A wedding planner arranges a perfect fake wedding for a couple who are not a couple, and she is the bride.

   Opens on a clipboard and a bouquet at a chapel door. Ends on her signing as witness and then as bride.

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4. Tax Season

   An accountant finds that the marriage on her client's file was never registered.

   Opens on a stack of forms and a rubber stamp. Ends on her question: "Then who is my husband?".

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5. The Coffee Clause

   Their contract says who makes the coffee, and on the first morning he leaves a cup and a note with a new clause.

   Opens on two mugs on a kitchen counter at dawn. Ends on clause ten in his handwriting.

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6. The Reunion

   Forty relatives, one contract and one bed, at the family reunion.

   Opens on a car full of luggage pulling up to a farmhouse. Ends on the aunt pointing at a bed with one pillow.

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7. The Honeymoon

   The honeymoon is booked and non-refundable, so they have to go.

   Opens on a travel confirmation on a phone screen. Ends on a desk clerk saying, "We have one room left".

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8. The Prenup

   She drafts the prenup as his lawyer, and then is told she must sign it as his wife.

   Opens on a pen over a contract in a quiet office. Ends on her hand not moving.

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Class, a public rescue and a gesture that costs him. Read the billionaire romance micro dramas guide for the beats and a full shot plan.

1. The Borrowed Dress

   A girl borrows a boutique dress for one night and is seated beside a billionaire, and the dress is not for sale.

   Opens on a price tag tucked inside a dress. Ends on the shop assistant arriving: "Madam, that dress is not for sale".

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2. The Valet

   A valet parks the wrong car, the billionaire's classic, and he hands her the keys.

   Opens on a valet ticket and a key fob. Ends on his words: "Drive it.".

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3. Going Once

   She raises her hand to scratch her nose and wins a charity auction lot: dinner with him, for a million.

   Opens on a paddle number on a folding chair. Ends on the gavel coming down.

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4. The Night Nurse

   She cares for his dying father, who whispers a secret that is about her.

   Opens on a hospital monitor in a quiet room. Ends on the father's last word: her mother's name.

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5. The Maid

   A young reporter goes undercover as a maid in his house, and he knew from the first day.

   Opens on a feather duster and a hidden microphone. Ends on his words: "You are very bad at being a maid.".

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6. The Flat Tire

   His car breaks down on a country road near her village, and he has no idea how to fix it.

   Opens on a black car stopped in a field of wheat. Ends on her handing him a wrench: "You cannot buy this.".

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7. Rooftop Rain

   He finds her on the roof of his building on the day she is laid off.

   Opens on a staff badge held over the edge of a roof. Ends on his jacket over her shoulders and a card in her hand.

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8. The Plus One Dance

   She is mistaken for his date at a wedding, and he plays along.

   Opens on a seating card with his name and hers. Ends on his words: "Say yes." "To what?" "The dance.".

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Use this shape: who, wants, but, and it ends on. For example: a caterer who needs one more shift, but the host has noticed her, and it ends on his hand held out in a silent room. Then add the shot it opens on, because that is what the Director builds the first shot from. Keep the people to two or three and the places to one or two: every face needs a character sheet and every place a reference.

• Avoid ideas that need a crowd or a crash. A ballroom of faces and a car chase are the hardest shots to keep steady.
• Put the hook in the first shot, not in the explanation. A glass tilting is a hook. A summary of the backstory is not.
• End on a question the viewer can say in five words. "Whose signature is that?" is an ending. "What happens next?" is not.

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