THE NEW GIRL — 転校生
A Japanese school-drama pilot shot in Wandura Cinema Studio — one transfer student, one classroom that never moves, and a homeroom teacher who is not what she seems.
A transfer student takes the empty desk by the window — and her homeroom teacher already knows exactly why she is here.
Context
A television pilot treated like a television pilot: cast sheets first, one classroom plate second, then coverage. Because every shot is generated against the same sheets and the same empty room, the wides, the over-shoulders and the close-ups cut together as one scene — which is the part episodic work usually loses. The pink poster campaign is generated from the same cast so marketing and film match without a reshoot.
Narrative
Story: A girl transfers into class 2-A halfway through the term. The room reads her before she speaks, the boy by the window sleeps through it, and the homeroom teacher greets her by name she never gave.
Message: Episodic drama is a continuity problem. Lock the cast and the room, and one afternoon of prompts becomes a scene instead of a mood board.
Audience: Writers and producers boarding episodic drama, plus studios testing AI for pre-viz on dialogue-driven scenes.
Visuals
Flat late-afternoon window light, naturalistic grade, almost no camera movement — locked-off wides and patient eye-level singles, the way school drama is actually shot. Fine 35mm grain keeps it filmic; 35mm at f/1.4 separates faces from the busy room without going glossy. The only tonal break is the teacher's pink wand, and it is deliberately lit exactly like everything else so the joke lands cold.
Prompt Architecture
STYLE LOCK ← immutable — photoreal 35mm school drama, flat daylight CONTINUITY ← immutable — cast likeness, uniforms, room geography DIRECTION ← immutable — static camera, eye level, diegetic sound SHOT ← the ONLY variable block — one beat per shot
Prompt Template
STYLE_LOCK = """ Photoreal live-action Japanese school drama on fine 35mm stock. Flat late-afternoon window light, naturalistic grade, gentle grain. 35mm lens at f/1.4 — faces separated from the room. No anime look, no teal-orange blockbuster grade, no lens flare. """ CONTINUITY = """ Every cast member stays identical to their sheet — the transfer student's red ribbon tie, the boys' navy blazers, the teacher's brown wool suit and chignon. Class 2-A geography is fixed: desk rows, chalkboard on the far wall, windows on the left. """ DIRECTION = """ Camera is locked off by default, eye level, no handheld. Coverage order is wide → over-shoulder → single so the scene assembles in the edit. Sound is diegetic classroom only — chalk, chairs, rain on the glass. No score inside shots. """ SHOT = """ [the one variable per shot — e.g. "Shot 13: teacher at the board raises a fist to quiet the room, locked-off wide, class in frame"] """
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The locked-off coverage is what sells it as TV. Everyone else generates dolly moves and wonders why it feels like a trailer.
Generating the poster campaign from the same cast sheets is smart — usually key art is a whole second project.
Flat window light for 30+ shots and it never drifts. That is the hard part.
The kid asleep at the desk through the entire introduction is the best performance here.