The Acting Specialist – 90 Episodes – Bible + Shot Board

A temp clerk is issued the wrong badge on her first morning at an insurance company, and every week a new version of the name on her chest reaches the room before she does — so she does the work the room expects rather than correct it.

Priya Raghunathan, twenty-six, is hired as a temp clerk for sixty days and issued the wrong badge on her first morning, a badge belonging to V. Alcott, a claims specialist recruited by telephone from a competitor whose flight has been delayed every week since. Priya does not find out what the badge means until a department head reads her chest instead of her face and introduces her to forty standing people. Correcting it means an HR review, and the review would end the contract, so she does the only thing available to her: she does the job the room is expecting. It turns out the job is real. It turns out the claims hall has needed one for four years.

What the package contains

• Complete series bible: logline, premise, setting and story engine
• World rules written as hard story constraints
• Character bible – 6 roles, each with a stated voice and a stated arc
• Relationship map
• Three-act structure with act-by-act episode ranges
• Turning points mapped to episode numbers
• Episode hook map for episodes 1-10: the closing beat of each episode
• Three written scene samples
• Production notes: cast, sets, key props, budget tier, schedule estimate
• Marketing copy you may reuse on your own platforms

Series facts

• 90 episodes at 60-90 seconds per episode
• Genre: Workplace & Office Humor
• Vertical 9:16 format, shot for a phone first
• Production tier: Mid
• Board 4 episodes per week with 3 boarders; line art 5 days per episode, colour 3, composite 1. 90 episodes in 18 weeks with a 7-person team

Production notes

• Cast: 12 speaking roles, 6 principal (3 male, 3 female), 6 supporting
• Sets and locations: 6 standing sets: eleventh-floor temp desk and lift lobby, ninth-floor claims hall, fourteenth-floor boardroom, records basement, mailroom, cafeteria; 4 swing sets
• Key props: Badge 1147 in a plastic sleeve with an empty photo slot, a printed name card with a photograph in the corner, two identical claim forms, a folder with a regulator stamp, a wall badge log, the handle of a mobile shelving wheel
• Budget tier: Mid – three large standing sets need a seated background layer of forty figures, which is the single biggest cost in the script and the only one that repeats

Format note: this is a complete development package for a vertical comedy series, not a finished shooting script. Episodes 1-5 carry full dialogue and a shot-by-shot board; from episode 6 the budget and the hook map carry the beats and you write in your own register.

Delivery and licence

• Instant download. One plain-text package file, no software required.
• Licensed for development, adaptation and production of the material described above.
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