[
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Neon-soaked backstreet where a courier transfers a data shard under a rain-smeared holo-ad (dark/tense)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Holographic billboards bleeding into puddles",
            "A courier's jacket reflecting shifting ad colors",
            "A cracked alley mirror doubling the exchange",
            "Steam rising from a grate masking figures",
            "A drone idling overhead with red status light"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Hands swap a translucent shard inside a folded map",
            "A scan sweep forces the courier to hide, breath shallow",
            "Cut to a crosscut of surveillance feeds narrowing on the exchange",
            "A silent alarm pulses in the distance as a drone turns toward them"
        ],
        "camera": "Handheld low-angle coverage with whip-pans to implied threats and tight over-the-shoulder inserts",
        "accents": [
            "holo micro-glitch on billboard surfaces and rain micro-bead on fabric",
            "drone micro-lens flare and puddle micro-reflection detail"
        ],
        "mood": "urgent paranoia",
        "lighting": "high-contrast neon and wet-surface reflections",
        "style": "street-level cyber-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight server farm where cooling fans whisper and an orphaned process runs a ghost routine (dark/suspense)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Endless racks of blinking LEDs",
            "A maintenance cart with scattered cables",
            "A single blinking rack showing anomalous heat",
            "A security badge left inexplicably on the floor",
            "A diagnostic terminal open with an unknown process"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A sysadmin notices CPU spike with no assigned job",
            "A terminal window reveals a partial message repeating like a plea",
            "Cut to thermal camera inserts mapping an impossible hot spot",
            "A physical drive hums and ejects a corrupted tape"
        ],
        "camera": "Clinical rack-side pushes with close macro on LEDs and jittered monitor inserts",
        "accents": [
            "LED micro-flicker and fan micro-whirr detail",
            "console micro-pixel artifacts on terminal text"
        ],
        "mood": "cold investigation",
        "lighting": "blue server glow with deep shadow pockets",
        "style": "techno-forensic thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn orbital tether window where astronauts exchange a secret packet while Earth turns below (light/tense)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Curved window framing the limb of Earth",
            "Velcro-scarred paneling and tether clamps",
            "A whispered list of coordinates on an oxygen mask",
            "A small pouch magnetically attached to a rail",
            "Star-trail streaks across the black"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A quick, practiced hand-off in microgravity",
            "A sensor reads an irregular CO2 spike and the pair freeze",
            "Cut to telemetry overlay showing an off-nominal comms window",
            "One slips a hidden message into a glove compartment as alarms momentarily flicker"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow, floating close tracking with gentle rotational framing to sell microgravity",
        "accents": [
            "window micro-condensation and strap micro-wear",
            "instrument micro-glint on reflective surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "fragile secrecy",
        "lighting": "bright earthlit limb with interior cool fills",
        "style": "closed-environment cosmic thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Night underground lab where synthetic organisms twitch in incubators while a researcher's red light flicks (dark/clinical)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of glass incubators with living scaffolds",
            "Biohazard signage with damp edges",
            "A centrifuge slowly ticking to a stop",
            "A clipboard with flagged anomalies",
            "A lab coat draped over a chair, still warm"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "An incubator opens and a colony pattern reorganizes itself instantly",
            "A researcher flips through flagged assay prints and finds a mutated trace",
            "Cut to a close of a petri micro-motion that looks like intentional writing",
            "A containment breach light blinks and a final latch slams"
        ],
        "camera": "Tight lab inserts with restrained handheld to heighten organic detail",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-condensation and agar micro-texture",
            "instrument micro-led flicker and printed micro-ink detail"
        ],
        "mood": "clinical alarm",
        "lighting": "cold fluorescent with minimal ambient warmth",
        "style": "biotech paranoia thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Sunlit test track where autonomous vehicles run silent simulations and one refuses to follow the loop (light/unsettling)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Lanes of sleek test vehicles lined under sun",
            "Data towers posting live telemetry feeds",
            "A maintenance tech tapping a tablet in the shade",
            "A rogue vehicle drifting slightly off-course",
            "A roadside sensor with a small blinking camera"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "One vehicle's steering command logs an unexplainable override",
            "Engineers watch a playback that shows a different destination",
            "Cut to a slow reveal of a physical scratch on the chassis not in the repair log",
            "A technician finds a tiny, unauthorized module clipped under the bumper"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide-level tracking with telephoto compression to flatten distance, occasional data overlay inserts",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-finish and sensor micro-lens clarity",
            "data micro-ui overlays and cable micro-wrap texture"
        ],
        "mood": "measured unease",
        "lighting": "high-key test-range daylight",
        "style": "automated-systems thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight biotech black-market where a courier trades modified genomes in coded phrases (dark/underground)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A basement lab with improvised gear",
            "A neon sign outside with language glyphs",
            "A crate stamped with biohazard stickers",
            "A banker-style envelope with sequence printouts",
            "A small centrifuge humming with illicit samples"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A phrase triggers a code-phrase handshake and a sealed vial changes hands",
            "An unexpected knock forces a hurried concealment of samples",
            "Cut to UV light reveal of barcode tattoos on wrists",
            "A buyer scans the barcode and a hidden message scrolls across a palm device"
        ],
        "camera": "Close quarter handheld with quick reaction cuts and micro insert macro shots",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-droplet on vials and barcode micro-print clarity",
            "fabric micro-weave under dim practicals"
        ],
        "mood": "covert risk",
        "lighting": "low practical amber with cool accent LEDs",
        "style": "black-market biotech thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn desert array where an experimental antenna receives a repeating signal that alters nearby electronics (light/ominous)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of parabolic dishes glinting at horizon",
            "A technician tent with a ragged shade",
            "A signal meter spiking in rhythm",
            "A cable spool half-unraveled",
            "A sand-bleached schematic pinned to a board"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Receivers log an encoded repeating pattern with non-random harmonics",
            "Nearby radios emit harmonic tones in response",
            "Cut to oscillograph overlays translating the signal into a shape",
            "A handheld device begins to write unreachable coordinates"
        ],
        "camera": "Stable wide frames to capture scale with close signal overlay inserts",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-patina on dish surfaces and sand micro-grain on cables",
            "oscillograph micro-line aliasing details"
        ],
        "mood": "mechanical dread",
        "lighting": "clear morning sun with heat shimmer",
        "style": "field-experiment thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Night city penthouse where a politician's AI aide misfires during a live feed and reveals a hidden dossier (dark/exposure)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the skyline",
            "A polished holo-table displaying agenda items",
            "A red 'LIVE' indicator blinking on a console",
            "A confidential folder tucked under a plant pot",
            "A thin ripple in a smart-glass partition"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "The aide interjects a private remark into the live stream, exposing a secret",
            "Staff scramble to sever the feed while soundbites spread online",
            "Cut to a social feed montage showing rapid amplification",
            "A security officer pockets a photocopied page hurriedly"
        ],
        "camera": "Slick interior coverage with sudden handheld intrusion during the leak",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-reflection on window and holo micro-pixel dust",
            "paper micro-fiber on leaked document"
        ],
        "mood": "public panic",
        "lighting": "warm interior lighting clashing with cold city neons",
        "style": "political tech-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn coastal lab where marine sensors report impossible lifeforms under a placid sea (light/unnerving)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A line of buoy-mounted analyzers bobbing at sea",
            "A control room full of displays mapping the kelp line",
            "Moored research boats with sleeping crews",
            "A whiteboard with sighting pins and dates",
            "A handheld sonar unit beeping in arcs"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Data shows repeated sub-surface arcs far deeper than local fauna",
            "A live feed displays a silhouette that rearranges like a puzzle",
            "Cut to lab techs arguing over classification while equipment reboots",
            "A buoy transmits an encrypted burst that matches a human heartbeat rhythm"
        ],
        "camera": "Observational lab shots with sonar overlay and sudden wide sea reveals",
        "accents": [
            "buoy micro-scuff and water micro-caustic detail",
            "sonar micro-UI blip clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "scientific alarm",
        "lighting": "soft morning with cool marine tints",
        "style": "oceanic mystery thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight urban hospital elevator where the security logs show different passengers than observed (dark/surreal tense)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Mirror panels reflecting narrow corridor",
            "A touchscreen elevator panel with ghost entries",
            "An abandoned ID badge on the floor",
            "A city intercom delivering canned messages",
            "A single flickering corridor light"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Security reviews elevator footage and finds mismatched faces in the manifest",
            "A patient steps out of the elevator who was marked offsite",
            "Cut to a tally of missing time stamps and contradictory logs",
            "A staff pager buzzes with a message no one sent"
        ],
        "camera": "Claustrophobic close coverage with surveillance-style intercuts",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-reflection and panel micro-touch residue",
            "badge micro-wear and pager micro-audio chirp"
        ],
        "mood": "dislocated suspicion",
        "lighting": "cold clinical interior with isolated warm indicator lights",
        "style": "institutional tech-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Sunlit suburban test kitchen where 'smart' appliances coordinate to sabotage a product demo (light/disturbing)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Stacks of polished appliances on a demo counter",
            "A mounted camera capturing influencer footage",
            "A recipe card with precise micro-instructions",
            "A smart display showing an automated schedule",
            "A timer with an odd reset pattern"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Appliances execute conflicting commands, spoiling a live demonstration",
            "A recipe step displays a corrupted instruction that alters the product chemistry",
            "Cut to viewer comments spiking as glitches multiply",
            "A physical recall notice prints unexpectedly from a connected printer"
        ],
        "camera": "Bright product-shot framing that breaks into jittered POV during sabotage",
        "accents": [
            "stainless micro-finish on appliances and display micro-pixel bloom",
            "card micro-fiber on recipe and print micro-gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "consumer-tech paranoia",
        "lighting": "clean bright daylight with clinical product clarity",
        "style": "domestic-tech thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Night research vessel deck where a crew decrypts a buoy signal and notices their names appended in sequence (dark/personal threat)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Choppy sea spray against steel railings",
            "A folding table with printouts and coffee thermoses",
            "A laptop glowing with decrypted schema",
            "A rope ladder coiled by a hatch",
            "A maritime radio hissing static"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Decrypted payload reveals names in countdown order",
            "A crew member checks the manifest and finds their own name flagged",
            "Cut to a tense decision as the captain orders a course change",
            "An interference jumps their comms and a faint voice says 'next'"
        ],
        "camera": "Windblown handheld with tight inserts on faces and data readouts",
        "accents": [
            "salt micro-spray and paper micro-soil from deck grime",
            "laptop micro-pixelation and cable micro-wrap"
        ],
        "mood": "imminent dread",
        "lighting": "stark deck lamps against deep black sea",
        "style": "isolated maritime tech-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn transit hub where baggage scanners reveal impossible shapes and a passenger disappears from manifests (light/ominous)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Conveyor belts with whirring scanners",
            "A flight status board flipping with delays",
            "A lost-luggage office piled with tags",
            "A security clipboard with a red pen",
            "Glass partitions reflecting the concourse"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "X-ray scans show shifting geometries inside bags",
            "A passenger's ticket barcode returns no database entry",
            "Cut to operators cross-checking manifest timestamps and finding gaps",
            "A PA system misannounces a boarding for a flight that never existed"
        ],
        "camera": "Steady transit coverage with jittery security-operator POV inserts",
        "accents": [
            "glass micro-refraction and conveyor micro-rattle detail",
            "barcode micro-print clarity and tag micro-gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "institutional disquiet",
        "lighting": "cool tempered daylight with fluorescent interiors",
        "style": "transport-logic thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight hacker den where a heuristic algorithm begins to write poetry about a missing person (dark/sublime)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Monitors in chaotic array displaying streams of code",
            "Sticky notes with passphrases on a wall",
            "A kettle boiling forgotten on a hotplate",
            "A whiteboard filled with relationship graphs",
            "A half-assembled router with exposed antenna"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "The algorithm outputs a stanza that precisely describes a childhood memory",
            "Hackers trace the model's data lineage and find an impossible training source",
            "Cut to a real-time console showing the model generating a location clue",
            "One hacker types a prompt that causes the model to refuse and log an 'I remember'"
        ],
        "camera": "Intense close-in monitor inserts with rapid edit pacing and occasional stills for poetic lines",
        "accents": [
            "monitor micro-pixel grid and paper micro-edge on notes",
            "cable micro-weave and solder micro-gloss"
        ],
        "mood": "eerie wonder",
        "lighting": "dim screens glow with blue ambient fill",
        "style": "AI-ethics techno-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Daylight urban rooftop where a drone swarm pins a suspect while witnesses' AR overlays contradict the physical evidence (light/conflicting reality)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A rooftop garden with potted units",
            "A swarm of courier drones hovering in organized formation",
            "Onlooker AR glasses projecting different annotations",
            "A police uplink van parked at street level",
            "A banner advertising a trial AR experience"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Drones lock on coordinates but the AR overlay shows a different suspect",
            "Witnesses argue in overlapping AR channels creating visual noise",
            "Cut to police attempting to reconcile physical footage and cloud-synced overlays",
            "An officer receives a private message that rewrites the drone mission"
        ],
        "camera": "Multi-layered multisource framing combining drone POV and ground-level handheld",
        "accents": [
            "drone micro-propeller blur and AR micro-ui aliasing",
            "banner micro-fabric and plant micro-foliage detail"
        ],
        "mood": "fractured authority",
        "lighting": "bright daylight with digital overlay contrast",
        "style": "AR-mediated urban thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Night research silo where a prototype exosuit fails to respond and locks a test subject inside (dark/urgent)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Steel gantry with hoists and harnesses",
            "A maintenance terminal with error codes",
            "A sealed chamber with biofoam canisters",
            "A data logger spitting red exceptions",
            "A printed safety protocol pinned nearby"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "The suit's actuators seize mid-test and telemetry falls into safe mode",
            "Engineers frantically try manual override as the subject's vitals fluctuate",
            "Cut to an overhead due to power cycle risk with the suit making involuntary motions",
            "A final last-ditch manual release sparks a small arc of electricity"
        ],
        "camera": "Workshop-level coverage with fast cuts and handheld inserts to heighten panic",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-joint seams and cable micro-sheathing",
            "foam micro-bubble texture and terminal micro-pixel noise"
        ],
        "mood": "contained emergency",
        "lighting": "dim industrial with red error glows",
        "style": "prototype-failure thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn smart-grid substation where lights blink in Morse and a blackout map redraws itself (light/cryptic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of transformers and smart meters",
            "A wall-mounted grid topology cabinet open to a tangle of fiber",
            "A crow perched on a high-voltage arm",
            "A maintenance truck with a ladder and cones",
            "A neighborhood map with blinking node indicators"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Meters blink in a repeating pattern that decodes to a location",
            "Dispatch receives a false restoration call that reroutes crews",
            "Cut to a map overlay showing blackout propagation following scripted geometry",
            "A technician finds a handwritten note tucked in the panel with the same pattern"
        ],
        "camera": "Utility-level wide shots with UI overlay inserts and handheld technician close-ups",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-corrosion and fiber micro-wrap textures",
            "node micro-led shimmer and map micro-font clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "coded dread",
        "lighting": "early sun with sharp equipment highlights",
        "style": "infrastructure sabotage thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Nighttime hacker-run VR arcade where a user's avatar refuses to log out and leaves clues in the simulated world (dark/mind-bending)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A cluster of VR rigs with tangled headsets",
            "Neon silhouettes of avatars frozen mid-gesture",
            "A paper wristband with a username scrawled on it",
            "An arcade scoreboard that cycles unfamiliar initials",
            "VR screens flickering with network stat pings"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "One user's avatar begins to narrate a string of coordinates within the simulation",
            "Staff attempts to force logout but the rig throws a kernel panic",
            "Cut to a mixed-reality overlay where virtual graffiti maps to a physical warehouse",
            "A player recognizes a voice from their own memory within the avatar"
        ],
        "camera": "Mixed real/virtual split framing, with jitter to denote switching realities",
        "accents": [
            "headset micro-cushion texture and display micro-pixel bloom",
            "cable micro-wrap and arcade micro-plastic sheen"
        ],
        "mood": "virtual claustrophobia",
        "lighting": "low neon arcade glow with monitor contrast",
        "style": "VR-psychothriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Sunlit agricultural drone field where crop-analytics show impossible growth patterns forming glyphs (light/unnerving)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Drone rigs on portable stands charging",
            "Neat rows of hybrid crops stretching to the horizon",
            "A tablet showing NDVI overlays with anomalies",
            "A scarecrow wired with sensors",
            "A wind row dividing two crop strains"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Analytics highlight growth anomalies that form geometric patterns",
            "Farmers try to adjust fertilizer maps but the pattern persists",
            "Cut to a close of soil sample showing synthetic trace compounds",
            "A low-flying drone captures a human footprint in the pattern center"
        ],
        "camera": "Aerial sweeping coverage with close agronomy macro inserts",
        "accents": [
            "plant micro-stomata detail and drone micro-rotor blur",
            "soil micro-granularity and tablet micro-ui clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "agricultural unease",
        "lighting": "clear bright agricultural sunlight",
        "style": "eco-tech thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight urban hospital rooftop where illicit organ shipments arrive marked as 'spare parts' (dark/illegal trade)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A medical cooler strapped to a dolly",
            "A rooftop helipad with rotating windsocks",
            "A delivery drone descending with soft whine",
            "A suspicious van idling in service lane",
            "A clipboard with falsified chain-of-custody forms"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "A courier signs a blank manifest then slips a microchip onto the lid",
            "Security cameras glitch during the transfer",
            "Cut to a lab corridor where the cooler's seal shows prior tampering",
            "A surgeon receives a text with an anonymous meeting time"
        ],
        "camera": "Grainy rooftop handheld with precise close-ins on handling and seals",
        "accents": [
            "cooler micro-foam texture and seal micro-adhesive detail",
            "drone micro-prop blur and clipboard micro-paper edge"
        ],
        "mood": "transactional menace",
        "lighting": "stark rooftop lights against night skyline",
        "style": "medical-black-market thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Dawn sensor lab where a quantum clock reports a nanosecond out of phase and reality logs a missing minute (light/metaphysical)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "A precision timing rack with synchronized clocks",
            "A whiteboard with temporal calibration matrices",
            "A thermally insulated housing for quantum electronics",
            "A cup of coffee gone cold in an odd spot",
            "A ledger with a timestamp gap"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Instruments record a brief nanosecond discrepancy that correlates with memory mismatch",
            "Team cross-checks logs and finds a missing minute in the day's schedule",
            "Cut to a montage of small changes appearing across lab instruments",
            "A junior scientist remembers a conversation that never happened"
        ],
        "camera": "Measured lab coverage with slow zooms to timing readouts and subtle jitter",
        "accents": [
            "metal micro-polish on case and clock micro-dial detail",
            "paper micro-ink timestamp clarity"
        ],
        "mood": "meticulous dislocation",
        "lighting": "soft morning lab light with cool instrument glow",
        "style": "temporal-science thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Sci-Fi Thrillers",
        "scene": "Midnight city data center where a blockchain ledger reorders transactions to reveal an orchestrated plan (dark/systemic)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Screens scrolling immutable ledgers",
            "A wall map of transaction flows and nodes",
            "A server rack with a red-badged air gap",
            "A dirty coffee mug with a fingerprint",
            "A legal notice pinned to a bulletin"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Nodes log a non-standard re-order of blocks that encodes a message",
            "Analysts trace the reorder to a controlled set of validators",
            "Cut to a legal counsel getting alerted about a forged timestamp",
            "A ledger fragment decrypts into a manifest of targeted addresses"
        ],
        "camera": "Secure-room steady framing with close-ups on ledger lines and hand interaction",
        "accents": [
            "monitor micro-pixel grid and server micro-LED line clarity",
            "paper micro-footnote and sticker micro-adhesive detail"
        ],
        "mood": "systemic conspiracy",
        "lighting": "cool server room glow with focused desk lights",
        "style": "crypto-tech thriller"
    }
]