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    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Nighttime investigative interview in a dim parking garage about a corporate scandal (dark/gritty)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Single overhead LED casting hard shadows on a table",
            "A recorder and a thin packet of documents between two tense figures",
            "A distant car alarm punctuating the conversation",
            "A clandestine handoff of a USB drive under the table",
            "A security camera lens reflected like an eye"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Interview subject pauses and exhales before revealing a key fact",
            "Interviewer slides a corroborating document and points to a line",
            "Cutaway to B-roll of office towers at midnight",
            "Title-card interposes a crucial date and source attribution"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate two-camera setup: tight handheld on subject for micro-expressions, fixed wide to show environment and give unease",
        "accents": [
            "practical LED micro-flicker and wet concrete micro-reflections",
            "paper micro-fiber detail on documents and USB gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "tense, uncompromising",
        "lighting": "cool hard key from above with deep shadows",
        "style": "investigative cinéma vérité"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Late-night archival research room where a historian discovers a suppressed film reel (dark/mystery)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Reel canisters piled on a metal cart",
            "A single incandescent desk lamp and a projector warming up",
            "Muffled footsteps in the hallway outside",
            "Yellowed captions and hand-written marginalia revealed",
            "A slow dust motes drift through the lamp beam"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Hand carefully opens an archive can, extracting brittle film",
            "Projector hum builds into image; a gasp as a forgotten face appears",
            "Cut to flashback stills and slow dissolves to contextualize the discovery",
            "A researcher makes careful notes and pockets a copied frame"
        ],
        "camera": "Moody low-light close-ups and slow reveal push-ins on the projected frame",
        "accents": [
            "film grain micro-scratch texture and lamp micro-halo",
            "hand micro-fibers on archival gloves"
        ],
        "mood": "reverent curiosity",
        "lighting": "very low warm lamp with projector glow",
        "style": "archival investigative documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Night patrol with a conservation ranger tracking illegal logging by torchlight (dark/tense)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Torch beams cutting through dense undergrowth",
            "Boot prints leading toward freshly cut stumps",
            "A distant chainsaw muffled behind canopy",
            "Shadowed figures slipping between trunks",
            "A confiscated ration pack beside a shallow pit"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Ranger signals team and motions to a hidden camera",
            "A stealth approach with low whispers and handheld comms",
            "B-roll of aerial infrared reveals nighttime clear-cuts",
            "Title-card gives legal context and dates"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld night-vision inserts mixed with tight subject interviews after the fact",
        "accents": [
            "torch micro-caustics on leaf texture and sweat micro-beads",
            "infrared micro-noise in aerial inserts"
        ],
        "mood": "urgent, vigilant",
        "lighting": "torch and night-vision with minimal ambient",
        "style": "field-investigative documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Late-night hospital corridor where whistleblower nurses compare notes about malpractice (dark/privileged)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sterile floor reflectance with a single overhead fixture",
            "A sticky note with an anonymous number tucked under a clipboard",
            "A slow camera move past closed ward doors",
            "A corridor clock marking ephemeral hours",
            "A muffled beeping machine behind a double door"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Nurses exchange quiet, urgent details while checking patient charts",
            "One nurse slips a typed note into a coat pocket for later evidence",
            "Cutaways to redacted memos and internal emails with highlighted lines",
            "An intertitle provides regulatory context and subpoena status"
        ],
        "camera": "Low ambient practical-lit handheld to maintain confidentiality and immediacy",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-redaction texture and plastic clipboard micro-scratch",
            "fluorescent micro-flicker under sterile light"
        ],
        "mood": "serious, clandestine",
        "lighting": "clinical overhead with cool color temperature",
        "style": "investigative reportage"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Overnight city streets with ride-share drivers talking about gig-economy survival (dark/honest)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Car dashboards lit with app notifications",
            "Empty late-night diners where drivers swap stories",
            "Receipts and fuel cards spread on a passenger seat",
            "A tired passenger dropped at a door under sodium lamps",
            "A group huddle in a parking lot beneath a billboard"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Driver recounts a tipping story while footage shows GPS traces",
            "Interior dashcam b-roll overlays commentary with on-screen graphics",
            "Cut to explanatory titles presenting income stats",
            "A close of group solidarity with a shared thermos"
        ],
        "camera": "Interior car close camera and roadside wide B-roll for context; candid handheld for interviews",
        "accents": [
            "dashboard micro-LED glow and paper receipt micro-ink",
            "town micro-sodium lamp micro-halo"
        ],
        "mood": "authentic, empathetic",
        "lighting": "practical interior car lights and cool street lamps",
        "style": "socioeconomic vérité documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Midnight investigative editing session where footage is cross-checked with whistleblower statements (dark/forensic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Dual monitors with waveform comparators",
            "An editor marking timestamps with sticky notes",
            "A pile of labeled hard drives and encrypted thumbsticks",
            "A low hum from fans and software render bars",
            "Redacted lines highlighted in transcribed interviews"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Frame-by-frame comparison of footage to logs",
            "Creation of a verified timeline with on-screen lower-thirds",
            "A tense pause as a discrepancy is found and footnote added",
            "Exporting a locked-down master for legal counsel"
        ],
        "camera": "Tight insert shots on timeline scrub with reflected monitor fills",
        "accents": [
            "monitor micro-pixel grid and render bar micro-gradient",
            "paper micro-annotation ink halos"
        ],
        "mood": "meticulous, methodical",
        "lighting": "monitor-dominant cool glow with minimal ambient",
        "style": "forensic investigative documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Nighttime shadowed rehearsal of an oral-history dramatization in a small theatre (dark/reverent)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A single stage lamp picks out a dusty lectern",
            "Archivists sorting audio reels backstage",
            "A playwright whispering lines to an actor",
            "A table of annotated transcripts under a lamp",
            "A slow pan of audience seats empty before show"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Actor performs a short monologue drawn from archive with title-card context",
            "Cutaways to original audio with waveform overlay",
            "Archivist provides metadata in a captioned insert",
            "A final moment of silence to honor the subject"
        ],
        "camera": "Intimate stage close with archival audio sync; slow crossfades to audio sources",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-fiber on transcripts and lamp micro-halo",
            "audio waveform micro-detail overlaid"
        ],
        "mood": "respectful, reflective",
        "lighting": "warm spotlight on stage with dark periphery",
        "style": "oral-history documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Dawn coastal patrol documenting marine debris and local fishermen reactions (light/observational)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Low tide strewn with plastic lines and nets",
            "Fishermen hauling small nets at sunrise",
            "A community beach cleanup table with gloves and bags",
            "A gull scavenging near debris",
            "Small hand-scrawled notes about catch variance"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Interviews with fishermen about changing catch with supporting shots",
            "Close macro on plastic particles and entangled seaweed",
            "A local volunteer organizes a cleanup with quick assembly shots",
            "Title-card provides statistics on debris and ecological impact"
        ],
        "camera": "Combination of steady coastal wide shots and macro inserts of debris; interviewer-mounted B-roll",
        "accents": [
            "plastic micro-fiber texture and wet sand micro-granularity",
            "sun micro-rim on water micro-sparkles"
        ],
        "mood": "concerned, observational",
        "lighting": "soft early-morning sunlight with natural fill",
        "style": "environmental observational documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit community kitchen where volunteers prepare meals and speak about food insecurity (light/compassionate)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of steaming pots and chopping boards",
            "Volunteers in aprons assembling boxes with smiles",
            "A wall whiteboard listing recipients and schedules",
            "Close-ups of hands slicing vegetables and sealing boxes",
            "A child accepting a care package with shy gratitude"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Volunteer explains logistics with cutaways to distribution lines",
            "Beneficiary shares a short personal anecdote on camera",
            "B-roll of deliveries and community reaction",
            "A call-to-action title-card showing how to help"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld intimate interviews combined with steady wide kitchen coverage",
        "accents": [
            "steam micro-vapor threads and vegetable micro-fiber texture",
            "apron micro-stitch and box micro-corrugation detail"
        ],
        "mood": "hopeful, human-centered",
        "lighting": "bright indoor daylight or practical kitchen lights with warm fill",
        "style": "humanitarian documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunrise wildlife transect where researchers count rare birds in a reserve (light/scientific)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Field notebooks and sound recorders at dawn",
            "Binocular silhouettes scanning treeline",
            "Misty marsh with reed silhouettes",
            "Researchers marking GPS waypoints on a tablet",
            "Small annotated maps pinned to a field jacket"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Researcher announces a sighting and documents call signature",
            "Hydrophone b-roll provides audio evidence, displayed onscreen",
            "Charts overlay to show population trends over time",
            "A cautious approach to a nest with minimal disturbance"
        ],
        "camera": "Long lens wildlife captures plus researcher POV captures and data overlays",
        "accents": [
            "feather micro-detail and dew micro-bead reflections",
            "GPS micro-ui overlay micro-pixel clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "clinical curiosity",
        "lighting": "soft golden sunrise with high-detail capture",
        "style": "field-science documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit factory floor tour showing modern automation and workers' perspectives (light/industrial)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of robotic arms and conveyor belts",
            "Workers in safety gear monitoring touchscreens",
            "A close on stamped serial numbers on components",
            "A break room where employees discuss conditions",
            "Dust particles illuminated by shafts of light"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A manager explains workflow with overlay graphics",
            "Worker shares a human perspective on automation",
            "Cut to archival footage of the factory's past to show change",
            "A comparative title-card displays productivity vs employment trends"
        ],
        "camera": "Mix of wide industrial coverage and worker-level intimate interviews",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-finish on components and touchscreen micro-fingerprint traces",
            "shaft micro-beam particulate catch"
        ],
        "mood": "analytical, balanced",
        "lighting": "bright industrial overhead with practical highlights",
        "style": "industrial social documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit artist studio portrait where an elder painter reflects on decades of practice (light/evocative)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Sunlit canvases leaning against a wall",
            "Paint-splattered brushes in jars and palette knives",
            "Handwritten notes about process pinned nearby",
            "A window showing distant city rooftops",
            "A small photograph of the artist's younger self pinned to an easel"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Artist demonstrates a short technique while narrating its meaning",
            "Close-up on hand gestures mixing pigment",
            "A slow pan across decades of work with intertitles for dates",
            "Final contemplative silence as a new brushstroke completes a canvas"
        ],
        "camera": "Soft natural light close-ups on hands and texture, medium portrait frames for interviews",
        "accents": [
            "paint micro-crackle and canvas micro-tooth detail",
            "brush micro-bristle fiber and varnish micro-gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "reverent, intimate",
        "lighting": "warm window daylight with soft diffusion",
        "style": "artist-profile documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit community gardening project where multigenerational volunteers restore an urban plot (light/communal)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Raised beds filled with seedlings",
            "Older and younger volunteers exchanging seeds and stories",
            "A local mural being painted behind the plot",
            "Compost bins and watering schedules posted on a board",
            "A harvest table with labeled produce"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Volunteer demonstrates compost turning and soil testing",
            "A youth group plants seedlings and learns names",
            "Cutaways to nutritional and social benefits with text overlays",
            "A final communal meal using harvested produce"
        ],
        "camera": "Observational wide garden coverage with close instructional inserts",
        "accents": [
            "soil micro-granularity and leaf micro-vein detail",
            "garden tool micro-metal sheen and wood micro-grain"
        ],
        "mood": "optimistic collaboration",
        "lighting": "bright midday with even fill and natural highlights",
        "style": "community impact documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Nighttime cultural salon where poets exchange readings and context about diaspora (dark/poetic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A small dim venue with string lighting and dense audience",
            "Poets holding worn notebooks and speaking intimately",
            "A translated line projected for bilingual audience",
            "Cups of tea and informal circles of listeners",
            "A poster announcing the evening and contributors"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Poet recites a piece that triggers a quiet hush, followed by murmured applause",
            "Cutaways to archive footage showing migratory histories",
            "Translator provides context in a soft lower-third caption",
            "Audience members approach after for personal conversations"
        ],
        "camera": "Close intimate medium on performers with ambient audience reaction shots",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-ink and soft textile micro-weave on shawls",
            "string-light micro-bokeh and mic micro-grill detail"
        ],
        "mood": "contemplative, communal",
        "lighting": "low warm practicals with soft accent highlights",
        "style": "cultural documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit river restoration field day where scientists show before-and-after data to local stakeholders (light/instructional)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Engineered wetlands and regraded banks",
            "Graph overlays comparing biodiversity before and after",
            "Volunteers planting native species in shallow banks",
            "A portable lab station with water testing kits",
            "A community sign listing restoration partners"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Field scientist demonstrates sampling technique and shows data overlay",
            "Stakeholder interviews describe local economic & ecological benefits",
            "Before-and-after B-roll dissolves to show recovery",
            "A title-card lists partners and funding sources"
        ],
        "camera": "Combination of field steadycam and macro lab inserts with data graphics",
        "accents": [
            "water micro-surface tension and seedling micro-root detail",
            "tablet micro-ui graph clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "instructive optimism",
        "lighting": "bright outdoor daylight with high detail",
        "style": "scientific impact documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Documentaries",
        "scene": "Sunlit refugee camp classroom where volunteers teach basic literacy (light/humanitarian)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Makeshift blackboard and plastic chairs",
            "Children with donated notebooks and pencils",
            "A volunteer using picture-cards to teach words",
            "A canvas tent with light filtering through",
            "A distribution queue in the background"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Teacher models letters and children copy eagerly",
            "Interview inserts with parents describing hope and challenges",
            "B-roll of aid distribution and shelter context",
            "A closing title-card with ways viewers can help"
        ],
        "camera": "Observational classroom coverage with close pedagogical inserts",
        "accents": [
            "paper micro-fiber and pencil micro-lead strokes",
            "tent micro-fabric weave under daylight"
        ],
        "mood": "compassionate resilience",
        "lighting": "soft daylight through tent fabric with gentle fill",
        "style": "humanitarian educational documentary"
    }
]