The Bond Trial – 60 Episodes – Bible + Storyboard

Two wolves bonded by a contract neither of them signed must prove they are incompatible, because pack law dissolves a mate bond only at a public hearing where each one has to describe the other, truthfully, under an oath that burns a lie.

Nadia Voss, twenty-six, is the Halloway Pack’s bond-clerk; she writes and files the contracts that join wolves to each other and has never once been asked whether she wanted one. Olivier Kerr, thirty-one, runs the pack’s mill and, when asked, its violence. When the council decides to end a forty-year feud between their two families, it does what the law allows and files a bond between them, and neither of them is consulted. Pack law will not dissolve a bond by agreement, only at a Standing hearing where both parties testify against each other under an oath that burns a lie, and the elder sets the date for the winter. So the two of them spend the season inside one mile of each other, gathering the evidence that will set them free, and the evidence is intimacy. Nobody in the pack expects the hearing to go the way it does.

Part A – the script bible

• Logline, premise, setting and the story engine that generates episodes
• World rules written as hard story constraints
• Character bible – 5 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
• Marketing copy you may reuse on your own platforms

Part B – the storyboard

• Episodes 1-5 broken down panel by panel
• Every panel gives shot size, camera move, panel duration, the drawn action, the dialogue, the sound cue and the transition out
• Panel budget for episodes 1-20 with effect and motion counts
• Full art asset list: character sheets, background plates, props and effect overlays, with reuse notes

Series facts

• 60 episodes at 60-90 seconds per episode
• Genre: Werewolf & Vampire Romance
• Vertical 9:16, motion-comic panel animation
• Production tier: Low
• Board 3 episodes per week with 2 boarders; line art 5 days per episode, colour 2.5, composite 1. 60 episodes in 13 weeks with a 6-person team

Production notes

• Cast: 8 speaking roles, 4 principal (2 male, 2 female), 4 supporting
• Backgrounds: 6 standing backgrounds: Weir House council room, the runestone room, the weir cottage, the mile road, the pack hall, the Standing; 2 swing backgrounds
• Key props: Bond contract book, council wax seal, runestone slab, charge ledger, the Voss boat, Olivier’s canvas bag
• Cost tier: Low – two interiors and one exterior hill carry the whole season; no set builds and no crowd plates beyond a single hall composite
• Art assets: 24 character sheets (4 principal x 4 expressions x 2 poses, plus 8 supporting), 8 background plates with 3 parallax layers each, 12 prop cutouts, 9 effect overlays (oath burn, bond thread, ink bleed, lamp falloff)
• Panel load: 840 panels across 60 episodes at 13-16 panels per episode; 14 of the 60 episodes reuse the Weir House council room unmodified

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

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