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Team Obsidian — "The Language of Flowers"

1930s Golden Age Romantic Melodrama • 26 shots • 5 scenes • 53 storyboard frames • 240s target

Final Cut

Locked

Shots

Scenes

1930s

Aesthetic

Technicolor

Color System

240s

Target Runtime

Can the introverted florist convey his true feelings to the famous opera singer through the language of flowers before her train leaves for Paris? 1930s Technicolor melodrama — lush oversaturated primary colors, soft-focus diffusion, painted matte background sets.

Characters

Arthur Baudelaire

The Florist • Voice: Kore TTS

Soft features, worn tweed waistcoat, calloused chlorophyll-stained hands. Speaks through flowers rather than words. His shop is his sanctuary — warm amber light, cascading blooms. The film's driving tension: can he say aloud what his bouquets have always said?

Genevieve DuBois

The Opera Singer • Voice: Kore TTS

1930s Technicolor glamour — emerald suit and gloves, crimson lips. Train to Paris at 4 PM. The opera singer who collects flowers from the same shop every week without knowing the man who arranges them has memorized her favorites.

arthur headshot

arthur body sheet

genevieve headshot

genevieve body sheet

Audio Design

Score

Lyria 3 • Romantic orchestral

Soaring strings, rich romantic orchestral swells. 1930s Hollywood style — the score that plays when a florist finds the courage to say what flowers could not. Crescendo timed to the platform scene.

Dialogue

High density • Kore TTS

Arthur and Genevieve — two-character dialogue forming the emotional backbone. Heavy shadow framing reduces lip-sync risk while maintaining 1930s studio aesthetic. Deadpan romantic exchanges.

Narration (VO)

Kore TTS

Omniscient narrator — the Golden Age convention. Introduces the world, the ticking clock, the stakes. Warm, unhurried, the cadence of a studio picture that believes in its own romance.

Ambient

Embedded in Veo video

Flower shop sounds — rustling paper, water on stems, the bell above the door. The station platform — train steam, crowd murmur, clock ticking. Theatrical spot lighting implied in every sound choice.

Storyboard

53 frames across 5 scenes — 1930s Technicolor Melodrama visual language: lush oversaturated primary colors, soft-focus diffusion, painted matte backgrounds, theatrical spot lighting, rich velvet shadows.