Track 1 production sheet + revised spend-it-all credit doctrine

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

PLAN.md

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   `production/prompts/` — each sheet is the verbatim template with only the action
   sentence and camera line filled in.
 
-### Phase 5 — Batch production in Flow (the 9000 credits)
+### Phase 5 — Batch production in Flow (REVISED 2026-07-19: credits EXPIRE end of July)
+Veo Fast is 10 cr/clip (not 20) and John's 9,080 credits are use-it-or-lose-it.
+Doctrine flipped from rationing to generous: 2-3 takes per shot, Quality tier
+(~100cr) for ~15 hero moments, bespoke death per scene, bonus content (Misfile
+Dimension, alt-look remasters, Beyond Morp pilot batch, trailer shots) with the
+surplus; reserve burned on Quality re-shoots of the best clips by July 25.
+Production sheets: production/flow/TRACK1_SHOTS.md (first), one per track after.
+
+### Phase 5 (original plan, superseded)
 Budget: 9000 cr ≈ 450 Veo Fast gens. Keep-rate assumption 1-in-2.5 → ~180 usable
 clips. Target game: ~35 scenes × (1 action clip + 1 death clip) + intro + attract +
 game-over + win ≈ **80 final clips** → ~200–280 gens spent, leaving reserve for

production/flow/TRACK1_SHOTS.md

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+# TRACK 1 + SH1 production sheet — paste-ready, fully expanded prompts
+Rules: Veo 3.1 Fast, 16:9, 1x unless marked QUALITY. Run each prompt 2–3 TAKES,
+keep the best, download EVERYTHING to flow-vids-RSG/ immediately (rejects too).
+Characters to attach are listed per shot. Multi-character shots → Omni Flash.
+
+STYLE LINE (already at the end of every prompt below — never abbreviate):
+"1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick ink outlines, painterly gouache
+backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions, no watermark; all signs, posters
+and record sleeves are blank or abstract designs with no lettering."
+
+Status: t1s1 action+death DONE ✔ · t1s2 action DONE ✔ (needs death) · t2s3 needs
+vinyl-fin re-shoot (prompt at bottom).
+
+## t1s2_death — steamrolled [Dez]
+The giant rolling vinyl record catches Dez mid-stride and rolls straight over
+him with a comic squash; it rolls away revealing Dez flattened into the
+checkerboard floor like a pressed record, perfectly flat with a dazed expression,
+one hand rising weakly. The clip ends held on this frame. Static wide shot,
+inside the cluttered record store at night, neon glow. 1980s hand-drawn cel
+animation, thick ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No
+text, no captions, no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank
+or abstract designs with no lettering.
+
+## t1s3_action — tape tentacles [Dez]
+Inside the cluttered record store at night, neon glow, checkerboard floor. Long
+whipping tentacles of brown cassette tape burst out of a bargain bin and lash at
+Dez's ankles; he leaps sideways over a sweeping tape tendril at the last moment.
+Tracking medium-wide shot, low angle. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick ink
+outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions, no
+watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or abstract designs
+with no lettering.
+
+## t1s3_death — tape mummy [Dez]
+The cassette tape tentacles catch Dez and whirl around him in a blur, wrapping
+him head to toe into a mummy of shiny brown tape; only his eyes are visible,
+blinking twice. The clip ends held on this frame. Static medium shot, inside
+the record store at night, neon glow. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick ink
+outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions, no
+watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or abstract designs
+with no lettering.
+
+## t1s4_action — ceiling fan [Dez]
+Inside the cluttered record store at night, neon glow. The ceiling fan rips
+loose from the ceiling and helicopters through the aisle at head height,
+spinning wildly and shredding paper; Dez ducks flat to the checkerboard floor
+as it screams over him. Static wide shot. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick
+ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions,
+no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or abstract
+designs with no lettering.
+
+## t1s4_death — fan launch [Dez]
+The flying ceiling fan scoops Dez up and flings him across the store; he crash-
+lands headfirst into a large wooden bargain bin with his legs sticking straight
+up, kicking once, then still. The clip ends held on this frame. Static wide
+shot, record store at night, neon glow. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick
+ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions,
+no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or abstract
+designs with no lettering.
+
+## t1_whitelabel — collectible plate (background flash for t1s2 re-cut; SKIP if
+we composite in post) — not needed; white labels will be layered in the engine.
+
+## sh1_action — the filing decision [Dez]
+Inside the record store at night. Dez stands at a wooden crate holding a single
+record with a plain white sleeve, looking between three open filing crates in
+front of him, sweating, eyes darting left, center and right as the overhead
+light flickers ominously and dramatic shadows deepen around him. Slow push-in
+on his agonized face. The clip ends held on his frozen indecision. 1980s hand-
+drawn cel animation, thick ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film
+grain. No text, no captions, no watermark; all signs, posters and record
+sleeves are blank or abstract designs with no lettering.
+
+## sh1_death_pit — the misfile [Dez]
+Inside the record store at night. Dez slides a white-sleeved record into a
+filing crate; the entire row of crates instantly splits open like a trapdoor
+and he plunges through the floor with flailing arms into darkness, record
+sleeves fluttering down after him like leaves. High angle looking down the
+hole. The clip ends on the dark hole with one sleeve settling on the edge.
+1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick ink outlines, painterly gouache
+backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions, no watermark; all signs, posters
+and record sleeves are blank or abstract designs with no lettering.
+
+## mf1_action — Misfile Dimension [Dez]
+A surreal endless warehouse of towering wrongly-stacked record crates leaning
+at impossible angles under a sickly green sky; giant three-dimensional letters
+of the alphabet slowly topple like dominoes toward Dez as he sprints between
+crate towers; he dives behind a wooden crate divider as a huge letter slams
+down beside him. Tracking wide shot. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick ink
+outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions, no
+watermark; the giant letters are abstract blocky glyph shapes, not readable
+letters; all record sleeves are blank.
+
+## mf1_death — filed forever [Dez]
+The giant toppling glyph slams flat onto Dez; the camera holds a beat, then the
+glyph rises slightly to reveal Dez pressed into the ground like a flattened
+record sleeve, blinking. The clip ends held on this frame. Static wide shot,
+surreal warehouse of leaning crate towers, sickly green sky. 1980s hand-drawn
+cel animation, thick ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain.
+No text, no captions, no watermark; all sleeves blank, glyphs abstract.
+
+## intro_qual — THE NEEDLE DROP ⭐ QUALITY TIER, 2 takes
+Inside a cluttered independent record store at night, closing time, one desk
+lamp on. Dez, alone, finds an unlabeled record with a plain white sleeve in a
+returns bin, shrugs, places it on a glowing turntable at the counter and lowers
+the needle. The moment the needle touches, thick black liquid vinyl bleeds
+outward from the record's groove across the turntable and the counter, rising
+in thin dripping tendrils as Dez's eyes go wide and the neon lights flicker
+violently. Slow push-in ending on the spreading black liquid. 1980s hand-drawn
+cel animation, theatrical animated feature quality, thick ink outlines,
+painterly gouache backgrounds, dramatic colored rim lighting, film grain. No
+text, no captions, no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are
+blank or abstract designs with no lettering.
+
+## attract_loop — title mood [no characters]
+Slow dolly through the empty cluttered record store at night, neon signs
+glowing red and cyan, dust motes in the air, a turntable spinning with black
+liquid slowly dripping upward from the record, lightning flickering the lights.
+Loopable mood shot, nothing else happens. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation, thick
+ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no captions,
+no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or abstract
+designs with no lettering.
+
+## t2s3_reshoot — vinyl-fin sharks [Dez] (pickup for the shark run)
+The record store flooded into an open ocean at night, wooden record racks
+bobbing like rafts, neon glow on the water, spray and foam. Dez sprints and
+leaps across a chain of half-sunken wooden record crates while three sharks
+circle and lunge at his heels; each shark's dorsal fin is a black vinyl record
+with a bright red circular label at its center, clearly visible cutting through
+the water. Tracking wide shot moving with him. 1980s hand-drawn cel animation,
+thick ink outlines, painterly gouache backgrounds, film grain. No text, no
+captions, no watermark; all signs, posters and record sleeves are blank or
+abstract designs with no lettering.
+
+## Logging
+After each keeper: append to production/SHOTLOG.csv →
+`date,shot_id,take,model,credits,verdict,notes` (create file on first write).
+Burn target: this sheet ≈ 13 shots × 2.5 takes × 10 + intro quality ≈ ~550 cr.