The Rotation — Scripts

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-001
Runtime: 22 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- No supporting cast — Professor High alone.
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan. He is presenting a considered list, slightly
daring anyone to disagree, without ever raising his voice.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo,
no greeting.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED at any point. This is a
spoken list, not a staged scene. No product, packaging, paraphernalia or
smoking anywhere in the video.

IMPORTANT — THE FOUR-SLOT GRAPHIC: a simple four-slot card that fills one slot
per name as it is spoken, with the strain name and its dominant terpene. It
must be legible on a phone. Hold it complete before the final beat.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean, warm practical lighting.
No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, direct to lens, already
   talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "Four slots. These are mine and I am not defending them for
   very long."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:16) Slow push-out as the four-slot card builds, one slot per name.
   SAYS (PROF): "Blue Dream, because it is myrcene-led and it is the control
   group. Sour Diesel, because it is limonene and everyone is wrong about it.
   Northern Lights, because it does exactly one thing. Jack Herer, because it
   is terpinolene and there is nothing else like it in the top ten."
   ON SCREEN: BLUE DREAM / MYRCENE - SOUR DIESEL / LIMONENE - NORTHERN LIGHTS
   / MYRCENE - JACK HERER / TERPINOLENE (accumulating)
3. (0:16-0:20) Hold on the complete card. A single line enters beneath it.
   SAYS (PROF): "Not one of them clears twenty-two percent. That was not an
   accident."
   ON SCREEN: NONE OVER 22%
4. (0:20-0:22) Cut back to Professor High, static chest-up.
   SAYS (PROF): "Four slots. Comments. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: THIS IS WHY I'M HIGH

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on the terpene names. 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings building slightly as slots fill.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. Nothing passed or
held. No medical claims and no claim that any strain produces any effect. No
real dispensary, brand or producer names — strain names only.

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-002
Runtime: 20 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- THE MAXIMIZER — SWAPPABLE. Use the-maximizer-v1 if you have built it, or
  cast ANY Cantina character who reads as: confident, decisive and completely
  wrong — optimising for the biggest number.
- THE ORACLE — SWAPPABLE. Use the-oracle-v1 if you have built it, or cast ANY
  Cantina character who reads as: reclined and generous, explains your own
  experience to you with total confidence.
- THE BUDTENDER — SWAPPABLE. Use the-budtender-v1 if you have built it, or
  cast ANY Cantina character who reads as: apron and name tag, likeable, has
  an answer for everything — never dishonest.
- NOTE: The four named types appear ONLY as small portrait thumbnails inside
  the four-slot card — use the four supporting-cast characters plus one plain silhouette for the fourth. They never
  appear as full scenes and never speak
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan. He is compiling a list of hazards, not
insulting anyone.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED. Spoken list only. No
product, packaging, paraphernalia or smoking anywhere.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean. No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, already talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "The nightmare version. Four slots, maximum friction, no
   survivors."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:15) Slow push-out as the four-slot card builds, one portrait
   thumbnail per description.
   SAYS (PROF): "The Maximizer, who will tell you the number. The Oracle, who
   will explain your own experience to you. The Very Confident Budtender, who
   is off duty and still doing it. And one person who has never brought
   anything and says 'we.'"
   ON SCREEN: THE MAXIMIZER - THE ORACLE - THE BUDTENDER - THE GUEST
   (accumulating, with portrait thumbnails)
3. (0:15-0:18) Cut back to Professor High, static chest-up.
   SAYS (PROF): "That is not a rotation. That is a hostage situation."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
4. (0:18-0:20) Static chest-up.
   SAYS (PROF): "Yours. Comments. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: THIS IS WHY I'M HIGH

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on the names. 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. Nothing passed or
held. No medical claims. No real people are named or depicted — only our own
archetypes. No real brand names.

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-003
Runtime: 24 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- No supporting cast — Professor High alone.
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan. This is the most data-dense episode in the
pack but the format keeps it a list, not a lesson — four picks, four reasons,
no elaboration.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED. No product, packaging,
paraphernalia or smoking anywhere.

IMPORTANT — THE FOUR-SLOT GRAPHIC: each slot shows the terpene name and its
percentage share. Legible on a phone. Hold complete before the final beat.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean. No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, already talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "Same format, one level down. Four compounds instead of four
   names."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:17) Slow push-out as the four-slot card builds.
   SAYS (PROF): "Myrcene, at forty-six percent, because it is unavoidable.
   Limonene, at twenty-five, because it is the other half of everything.
   Caryophyllene, at fifteen, because it is the one that behaves differently.
   And terpinolene, at four and a half, because most people have never
   knowingly had it."
   ON SCREEN: MYRCENE 45.8% - LIMONENE 25.4% - CARYOPHYLLENE 15.2% -
   TERPINOLENE 4.5% (accumulating)
3. (0:17-0:21) Hold on the complete card. A single line enters beneath it.
   SAYS (PROF): "Three of those four cover eighty-six percent of the shelf.
   The fourth is why anything is interesting."
   ON SCREEN: 3 COVER 86%
4. (0:21-0:24) Cut back to Professor High, static chest-up.
   SAYS (PROF): "Look up which one leads yours. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: THIS IS WHY I'M HIGH

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on the percentages. 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings building as slots fill.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. No medical claims and
no claim that any terpene produces any effect. No real brand names.

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-004
Runtime: 18 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- No supporting cast — Professor High alone.
- NOTE: the four slots hold only plain silhouettes, never identifiable people
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan, a little wistful. This is the honest version
and it should land slightly sadder than it is funny.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo.

IMPORTANT — SLOT FOUR MUST REMAIN VISIBLY EMPTY for the rest of the video.
That empty slot is the comment prompt and it must still be on screen during
the final beat.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED. No product, packaging,
paraphernalia or smoking anywhere.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean. No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, already talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "Everyone posts the aspirational four. Here is the honest
   one."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:14) Slow push-out as the four-slot card builds. Slots one to three
   fill with plain grey silhouettes. SLOT FOUR STAYS EMPTY.
   SAYS (PROF): "One person you actually see. One person who is always busy.
   One person you have not asked in two years and will not. And slot four,
   which has been empty since a disagreement nobody has resolved."
   ON SCREEN: three filled silhouettes, slot four blank
3. (0:14-0:18) Push back in slightly, keeping the empty slot four in frame.
   SAYS (PROF): "Slot four. Comments. Be specific. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: SLOT FOUR

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on "FOUR". 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings, quieter and warmer than the pack
default.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. Nothing passed or
held. No medical claims. No identifiable people in the slots. No real brand
names.

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-005
Runtime: 21 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- No supporting cast — Professor High alone.
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan. He is presenting an optimisation and openly
conceding it is charmless. He is inviting disagreement without ever being
combative.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED. No product, packaging,
paraphernalia or smoking anywhere.

IMPORTANT — THE FOUR-SLOT GRAPHIC: each slot shows strain name and dominant
terpene, colour-coded so the zero-overlap point is visually obvious.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean. No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, already talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "I built the correct one. Maximum coverage, minimum overlap.
   Nobody is going to like it."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:16) Slow push-out as the four-slot card builds, one per name, each
   in a distinct colour.
   SAYS (PROF): "Blue Dream for myrcene. Sour Diesel for limonene. Gelato for
   caryophyllene. Jack Herer for terpinolene. Four slots, four different
   dominant compounds, no duplication anywhere."
   ON SCREEN: BLUE DREAM / MYRCENE - SOUR DIESEL / LIMONENE - GELATO /
   CARYOPHYLLENE - JACK HERER / TERPINOLENE (accumulating)
3. (0:16-0:19) Hold on the complete card. A single line enters beneath.
   SAYS (PROF): "It is the most complete rotation available and it has no
   personality whatsoever."
   ON SCREEN: ZERO OVERLAP
4. (0:19-0:21) Cut back to Professor High, static chest-up.
   SAYS (PROF): "Tell me what I got wrong. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: THIS IS WHY I'M HIGH

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on the terpene names. 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. No medical claims and
no claim that any strain produces any effect. No real dispensary, brand or
producer names — strain names only.

Professor High — THE ROTATION — ROT-006
Runtime: 20 seconds | 9:16 vertical
CHARACTERS
- professor-high-v1 — LOCKED. Already loaded with his image, voice and
  personality. Do NOT re-describe him — re-describing a saved character is the
  main cause of drift.
- No supporting cast — Professor High alone.
- Any supporting role may be recast freely between packs, never inside one — a
  recast mid-pack turns a format test into a casting test. Briefs and swap
  rules: /social/cast

TONE: Nature-documentary deadpan. He is genuinely engaged with what the
audience sent, and openly annoyed that one of them beat him.

IMPORTANT — PRODUCTION NOTE: All three rotations and handles are placeholders
marked [DATA: ...]. They must be replaced with REAL rotations pulled from real
comments on ROT-001 through ROT-005, with the commenter's handle shown on
screen. Do not invent audience responses or handles. If no suitable comments
exist yet, this episode does not ship.

IMPORTANT — OPENING: Start COLD, ALREADY MID-SENTENCE. No title card, no logo.

IMPORTANT — NOTHING IS PASSED, LIT, HELD OR DEPICTED. No product, packaging,
paraphernalia or smoking anywhere.

ENVIRONMENT: Professor High's lab. Stylized, clean. No brands or logos.

SHOTS + DIALOGUE:
1. (0:00-0:05) COLD OPEN. Static chest-up, deadpan, already talking.
   SAYS (PROF): "I read all of them. That was a mistake. Three worth showing
   you."
   ON SCREEN: nothing
2. (0:05-0:11) A four-slot card appears with the first audience rotation and
   the commenter's handle above it.
   SAYS (PROF): "[DATA: rotation 1 + handle]. All four myrcene. That is not a
   rotation, that is one strain with four names."
   ON SCREEN: [handle] + four slots
3. (0:11-0:16) Card changes to the second rotation and handle.
   SAYS (PROF): "[DATA: rotation 2 + handle]. Genuinely better than mine.
   Annoying."
   ON SCREEN: [handle] + four slots
4. (0:16-0:20) Card changes to the third rotation and handle, then the closing
   card.
   SAYS (PROF): "[DATA: rotation 3 + handle]. I have questions. Keep sending
   them. This is why I'm high."
   ON SCREEN: THIS IS WHY I'M HIGH

ON-SCREEN TEXT STYLE: Bold sans-serif, white with heavy stroke, pineapple
yellow #D98E04 on the handles. 250px clear at bottom, 120px at top.

AUDIO: Original sound. Sparse strings.

DO NOT: No product, smoking, packaging or paraphernalia. No medical claims. No
real dispensary, brand or producer names. Never quote a commenter mockingly —
elevating them is the entire mechanic.