Show Title
Show Tagline
Overview
A concise one-sentence description of the entire show that captures its heart, conflict, and tone.
A single paragraph that introduces the world, protagonist, and central hook — what makes it instantly watchable.
Defines the mood, pace, and cinematic vocabulary — from color and sound to emotional rhythm.
Explains the emotional and cultural relevance — why audiences will connect to this story today.
Names established series or films that share DNA or target audience — visual shorthand for tone and appeal.
The central ideas and moral conflicts that shape the story — timeless emotions within contemporary contexts.
A hybrid analysis showing which genres fuel the show (e.g. thriller + melodrama + espionage) and how they interplay.
Specifies episode length, number of episodes, and release structure (micro-series, anthology, etc.).
Defines the ideal viewer demographic and the best-fit platforms or distribution models.
Outlines how the story can expand beyond the screen — spin-offs, companion series, digital experiences, etc.
Vertical Format
Most Hive vertical series are designed for 50×2-minute or 100×2-minute episodes — engineered for rapid binge cycles, optimized for daily audience retention and algorithmic favorability.
Each episode delivers a complete micro-beat: 90 seconds of story, 30 seconds of linger — the rhythm calibrated to mobile attention and repeat looping.
Released in clusters of 5–10 episodes for immediate binge, with weekly refresh drops that sustain audience momentum without fatigue.
Structured for casual repetition: each vertical beat ends with a micro-hook, pushing 70%+ retention across feeds, designed to “snap back” into the next episode.
Every 10-episode cluster forms a self-contained act — a complete emotional arc that dovetails into the next, allowing flexible release strategies and sponsorship pacing.
Each episode lands a cliff, confession, or reveal by the 90-second mark, sustaining binge inertia and maximizing emotional stickiness.
Strategic first-frame repetition re-engages viewers who missed context — optimizing autoplay continuity and loop-back retention in shortform platforms.
Hive’s micro-format allows natural luxury product placement, creator partnerships, and adaptive in-episode integrations — frictionless within story rhythm.
Each vertical is built natively for cross-platform flow — optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and embedded streaming playlists.
World & Setting
Anchor the series in a set of instantly recognizable spaces — environments that feel alive and cyclical. Each core location should have its own sensory palette, lighting temperature, and ambient rhythm. Moodboards reinforce texture: hallways that hum, light that bends through glass, sound that defines emotion.
Create a schematic of proximity and power — where characters intersect spatially and emotionally. A simple top-down layout helps visualize tension corridors, private vs. public zones, and narrative choke points. It can be stylized like an architectural drawing, blueprint, or illustrated atlas.
Define the invisible systems shaping daily life — status, superstition, hierarchy, ethics, and taboo. The micro-drama scale benefits from hyper-specific norms: who greets whom first, what is forbidden, what is silently accepted. Every exchange should feel like it lives inside that culture’s invisible architecture.
Translate story emotion into design language. Palette informs tone: warm metals for trust, cold glass for distance. Architectural cues — arches, corridors, doorways — symbolize power flow. Lighting and wardrobe bridge realism with heightened drama, matching your locked Derby Luxe visual system.
Outline what can and cannot happen within this reality. Rules define consequence and give stakes weight. Keep them intuitive and visual — if a rule is broken, the audience should feel it before they know it. These boundaries preserve tension and cohesion across micro-episodes.
Provide a timeline of key world events — past, present, and implied future. Even short-form stories gain resonance from deep time. Visual timelines can use icons, light gradients, or color shifts to communicate eras and emotional tone across the world’s evolution.
Core Characters
Dr. Elena Simone
A gifted physician drawn into the shadows she once swore to heal. Torn between oath and bloodline, Elena must decide whether loyalty or conscience defines salvation.
Elena was raised in a family of spies and medics; her calling to medicine was both rebellion and legacy. Her secret ties to the ISA make every diagnosis a potential mission.
She hides a history of unauthorized research trials that could save her mother—or destroy her career.
Cool ivory lab coats, silk navy blouses, Dior-cut tailoring. Her precision shows in every line of fabric and every controlled gesture.
Evoking the quiet intensity of a young Cate Blanchett crossed with the discipline of an Alain Delon archetype.
Julian Voss
A surgeon of legendary skill—and questionable allegiance. Julian operates in both senses of the word, navigating the tension between healer and operative.
Born to a line of military physicians, Julian defected to corporate medicine before being drawn into the underworld of organ trading and espionage.
He performs miracles by day and covert extractions by night. His loyalty to Elena is as fragile as the life he preserves.
Charcoal three-piece suits under surgical light, sleeves rolled mid-forearm, tie undone—precision meets poise.
Modeled on an Alain Delon archetype — sharp, mercurial, and dangerously beautiful.
Core Relationships & Emotional Engines
Elena and Julian’s bond oscillates between surgical precision and emotional chaos — a love tempered by espionage, rivalry, and the blurred ethics of survival.
The ISA network acts as a surrogate family for both, bound by secrecy rather than blood. Their loyalty is earned, never inherited.
Control passes like a scalpel — Elena’s moral authority vs Julian’s operational power, each shaping the other’s descent or redemption.
Light / Shadow. Science / Faith. Love / Obligation. Every heartbeat in Salem’s shadows pulses with paradox.
Their chemistry isn’t romance; it’s reaction — volatile, catalytic, and capable of burning everything it touches.
The moment Elena learns Julian’s true allegiance, their world tilts — trust becomes both weapon and currency.
Plot & Season Arc
The story unfolds across three interlocking arcs: Revelation, Corruption, and Reckoning—each escalating both emotional and moral stakes.
The inciting incident poisons trust at the hospital’s core. Fallout breeds alliances. Revelation exposes the buried ISA experiment. Reckoning redefines love and betrayal. Reset renews the cycle for the next chapter.
Each micro-episode hits three beats: Hook (0-0:20), Clash (0:20-1:20), and Pivot (1:20-2:00), engineered for binge-loop consumption.
Season 1 tracks Elena’s descent from healer to hunter while Julian’s allegiance fractures between love and duty. Each act peels away a layer of deception within the ISA–DiMera war.
Subsequent seasons shift the lens—new hospitals, new shadows, same moral infection. The Hive format allows anthology expansion while preserving a continuous emotional DNA.
Episode Synopses
Ep 1 — First Cut: Elena’s new post in Salem University Hospital collides with a covert ISA assignment.
Ep 2 — Cross Section: Julian’s immaculate surgery hides the first hint of black-market tissue trade.
Ep 3 — Vitals: A patient coded “X-41” awakens memories of Elena’s mother’s poisoning.
Arc 1 — The Body Politic (Eps 1–10)
Elena enters the Satellite of Salem under the guise of research, unaware her new mentor Julian once dissected her past.
Each episode cuts deeper into medical espionage and emotional infection.
The final beat reveals her mother’s chart sealed under Julian’s signature.
Arc 2 — The Anatomy of Faith (Eps 11–20)
Love becomes procedure. Elena and Julian’s chemistry collapses into a war of precision — scalpel versus truth.
When the ISA intervenes, medicine and betrayal share a heartbeat.
- Every 2 minutes ends on an ethical cliff.
- Each arc pairs scientific breakthrough with personal loss.
- Romantic tension functions as a moral timer — counting down to collapse.
Origin
Convergence
Breakdown
Exposure
Fallout
Tone, Mood & Cinematic Language
Intimate. Clinical. Sensual. Controlled. Redemptive. Unforgiving.
Each sequence merges precision with chaos — emotion dissected under surgical light.
Primary hues: Derby Deep reds for secrecy, muted golds for salvation, sterile whites for denial.
Temperature rhythm: Cool tone under pressure, warm tone under vulnerability — emotion controls hue.
Camera: Glide and linger — macro intimacy, shallow focus on trembling hands and restrained eyes.
Lighting: Noir fluorescence with sculpted voids; illumination as interrogation.
Vertical pacing mirrors a heartbeat: incision, revelation, release. The viewer breathes with each 2-minute arc.
SFX: Monitors, breath, sterile reverb.
Design logic: Silence is the final line of dialogue.
Minimal, haunting instrumentation — cello, sparse piano, sub-frequency pulse. Inspired by Max Richter’s Infra and Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Chernobyl.
Visual grammar as moral diagnosis: beauty becomes consequence. The director frames emotion through precision, restraint, and truth under pressure.
Marketing & Distribution Strategy
Model: Vertical short-form (100×2 min). Released in arcs of 10 to sustain binge velocity. Cadence: Weekly drops, with pre-seeded teasers and live countdown events per arc.
Hybrid rollout: Owned Hive-hosted player + cross-platform syndication (IG Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts). Strategic cutdowns for linear partners. Licensing pipeline open for premium compilation edits.
Primary: Instagram, YouTube Shorts. Secondary: TikTok, Snapchat Discover, Roku FAST channels. Integration: In-platform hooks drive traffic back to Hive site + series microsite.
Two-tier trailer campaign: - **Hero Trailer:** 60s cinematic emotional overview - **Loop Teasers:** 6–15s character and tone snippets with gold shimmer overlay and Derby gradient background.
Interactive touchpoints via “character IG feeds,” polls, and secret text drops through Hive’s platform. Engages community between drops and builds emotional retention.
Limited “Derby Luxe” capsule — wearable art pieces inspired by show motifs. Cross-promoted via Hive affiliate brands (beauty, music, and lifestyle partners).
Angles include: - *“Micro-Prestige TV” evolution: cinematic storytelling in 2 minutes.* - *From Soap to Spy: how serialized drama reinvented bingeability.* - *Hive Projects: the boutique studio rewriting distribution logic.*
Strategic brand alignments with fashion, beauty, and tech verticals that match tone and audience aspiration. Example: gold-accent collabs, soundtrack integrations, or co-branded event drops.
Themes & Symbolism
Every heartbeat in Salem Shadows questions whether healing and harm are truly opposites. Power, faith, and deception intertwine — medicine becomes morality’s mirror.
Blood as inheritance. Glass as truth. Light refracted through sterile corridors becomes a visual code: transparency is never pure — it’s precision masquerading as mercy.
- Mirrors — self-confrontation and surveillance
- Hands — control, surrender, intimacy
- Keys — access, power, moral entry points
- Gold — divine light, corruption’s currency
Every monitor beep aligns with emotional rhythm. Strings shimmer against mechanical percussion — a duet of science and soul.
The prose breathes like a scalpel — precise, elegant, coldly human. Dialogue is surgical poetry: incision as revelation.
Influences range from Camus’s The Plague to Shelley’s Frankenstein — moral contagion framed through human invention. Each arc references classical tragedy wrapped in contemporary diagnostics.
Visual Identity & Design
Primary: Cinzel Decorative (Headers) · Secondary: Cormorant Garamond (Body). Typography balances regal tradition with cinematic precision.
Derby Luxe palette defines depth & luxury:
Signature treatments: double-frame composition, soft shimmer overlay, centered hero geometry.
Two families only — Cinematic (Deep Derby gradient) and Minimal (Gold on white negative space).
Hive Logo: gold hover shimmer · center alignment · shadow subtlety under 0.2 opacity.
Optimized for vertical formats (9:16) with Derby to Gold gradient footer and subtle logo watermark.
Animations fade in via CSS keyframes: 0.3–2.7 s, easing `ease-in-out`, hover shimmer set to sub-0.1 opacity.
Maintain balance of luxury & clarity · Never over-animate · Always lead with logo and breathing space.
Creator’s Vision / Showrunner Statement
This story was born from lived emotion — a mirror of both strength and fragility. Every character carries an echo of my own contradictions, and each decision traces the pulse of real memory.
The goal is to bridge high-art cinematography with emotional immediacy. To prove that luxury and accessibility can coexist — that precision can still feel human.
What began as sketches in a journal evolved into a Hive production blueprint — each draft refined not by studio pressure, but by purpose. It represents a studio system reimagined for creative independence and obsessive detail.
The thesis is emotional symmetry — light and shadow sharing one pulse. Every season is a moral equation: what we save, what we lose, and what we learn to live without.
A layered collage of images, sound, and emotional tone that defines the world’s internal rhythm. A visual meditation between order and chaos, gold and blood.
Precision is kindness. Efficiency is respect. The Hive model redefines “independent production” as luxury through discipline — extraordinary and effortless.
Production Plan
Primary: Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K + Sigma Art primes (35mm–85mm). Motion: DJI Ronin RS3 + Steadicam hybrid system for micro-drama fluidity. Lighting Logic: low-level LED arrays, gold diffusion, high key for emotional contrast.
Format: 50 x 2-minute micro-episodes. Schedule: 10-day principal photography, block-shoot structure (5 episodes/day). Workflow: A/B camera units for speed without quality loss.
Key Cast: Lead ensemble of 4 principals + 6 recurring roles. Crew: Hive-standard micro-unit (Director, DOP, 1st AD, 2 AC, Sound, Gaffer, Art, HMU, PA). Crew cross-trained in vertical capture workflow.
Tier: Hive Luxe Micro · $250–$400k all-in. Funding: Hybrid: private equity + brand partnerships + post-licensing. ROI Strategy: vertical binge revenue + cross-platform expansion.
Studio partners and production services logos appear in gold shimmer at page footer or in credits roll.
Editing: DaVinci Resolve 18 · cloud collaborative workflow. Sound: Logic Pro · hybrid on-site / remote mix. VFX: Light compositing, no CG — all practical + color depth.
- Master vertical 4K ProRes 422 HQ
- Platform-optimized 9:16 compressed masters
- Trailer (60s) + Teaser (15s) + BTS (30s)
- Captions (EN, FR, ES)
- Color grade LUT pack (for press)
Audience & Data Insights
Primary: Women 25–44 · aspirational professionals · premium short-form adopters.
Secondary: LGBTQ+ & progressive male demos · cultural crossover audience.
Geo: US, UK, FR, CA urban markets.
Audiences respond to intensity, empathy, and revelation. Engagement peaks where romance collides with consequence — emotional catharsis framed as luxury escapism.
Peers: FX “The Bear” · Netflix “Obsession” · IG micro-drama creators. Opportunity: No platform yet owns prestige 2-minute storytelling at Hive quality. Hive’s verticals position it as the *A24 of short-form serialized television.*
Engagement: 92% retention at 120 s, 35% rewatch rate, 4.8% save-to-share conversion. Growth: Projected 12× follower increase per arc drop. Goal: 10M organic reach / series season.
Expansion pathways include: - **Spin-off micro-worlds** under the Hive Vertical model - **Brand cross-collabs** (beauty, fragrance, tech) - **Transmedia arcs**: podcast diaries, AR filters, companion mini-novellas.
Appendices & Support Materials
Complete Hive visual identity system — typography, color codes, framing rules, and transition timing.
Previews of vertical feeds and show-specific handles. Optimized for Instagram, TikTok, and Threads.
Representative 2-minute episode sample: emotional tone, visual rhythm, and dialogue pacing.
Signature exchanges capturing the voice of the series — tone references for casting and marketing.
“You can’t heal what you still crave.” — Elena Simone
“Love is just science we haven’t explained yet.” — Julian Blake
Ready-to-send EPK: logline, bios, stills, poster art, key quotes, and Hive Projects summary sheet.
Phase 1: Pre-production (2 months)
Phase 2: Shoot (10 days)
Phase 3: Post (4 weeks)
Phase 4: Marketing rollout (8 weeks)
Includes creative leads, partners, studio collaborators, and brand sponsors. *“In partnership with Hive Projects — Extraordinary and Effortless.”*
All materials © Hive Projects LLC. All IP, designs, and scripts registered with the US Copyright Office. Representation: Hive Legal / Internal Counsel.
USCO Form PA Registered · Filing Number pending update. Original creation, titles, and derivative concepts owned by Hive Projects.
Optional / Advanced Sections
Links to parallel Hive stories or companion worlds. Every IP lives within the “Hiveverse” — characters, themes, and artifacts cross-pollinate across timelines.
Explorations of divergent story arcs, dream sequences, or parallel-reality logic — non-canonical but emotionally truthful expansions.
Outlines of adjacent stories exploring lineage, legacy, or aftermath. Each remains modular for future Hive development or co-production pitching.
Behind-the-scenes and audio expansions featuring character monologues, interviews, and creative reflections. Designed to deepen emotional immersion and brand intimacy.
Cross-project integrations: Salem Shadows × Absolutely Becky × House of Beauty × Formation. Shared visual grammar, brand tone, and emotional philosophy = the Hive cinematic language.
Ready-to-launch micro-series seeded from existing arcs. Each developed for standalone monetization or brand expansion within Hive’s short-form structure.
Cross-disciplinary partnerships aligning IP identity with lifestyle verticals — signature fragrance lines, capsule fashion, curated playlists.
Documentation of consultants, cultural readers, and inclusion specialists ensuring authenticity and responsibility within the Hive ecosystem.