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Drama Studio is a distinct project type inside Film Studio, purpose-built for short-form vertical drama series — the kind of content that runs on ReelShort, TikTok, and DramaBox. It shares Film Studio’s editor shell, but the project structure underneath is genuinely different: persistent characters that carry across episodes, an episode/scene hierarchy, and a fixed vertical format.
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Choose Drama when creating a project

Click Create Project from the Film Studio home page. The Create Project dialog asks what you want to create:
  • Film — a cinematic short with full director-level controls.
  • Drama — a vertical, multi-episode series for ReelShort, TikTok & DramaBox, with persistent cast and platform-ready output.
What do you want to create dialog with Film and Drama project type cards
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The Drama Studio editor

Selecting Drama opens an editor with Create Image, Create Video, and Edit Video tabs — the same shell as a Film project, but everything inside is oriented around building a series: an Episodes panel on the right (starting with Episode 1), and a Scene Builder built around Characters, Props, and Locations.
Drama Studio editor showing Create Image/Video/Edit tabs, Scene Builder, and the Episodes panel
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Manage episodes

The Episodes panel lists your episodes and an Add Episode row. Adding one simply appends the next sequentially-numbered episode — there’s no separate naming or synopsis prompt at creation time. Each episode has its own Scene 1 / Shot timeline underneath, but the character/prop/location library itself is shared across every episode (and every project), not scoped per-episode.
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Build a persistent cast

Click Characters (in Scene Builder or the References panel) to see your character library — a real preset roster (Nova, Atlas, Pixel, Luna, and more) alongside All / Saved / My Characters filters. Click the + tile to create your own: upload reference photos (up to 10 images), give it a Name, pick Male / Female / Neutral, and optionally add instructions describing the character further.
References panel Characters tab showing a preset character roster and a create-new tile
A character created this way is reusable by name across every episode and scene — this is the “persistent cast” the project type is built around. Props and Locations work the same way (reference photo + name + optional description), just without the gender field.
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Generate a vertical shot

Create Video inside Drama Studio looks like Film Studio’s, with real differences: aspect ratio is fixed vertical (9:16) with no ratio picker, duration defaults to 3s per shot, resolution defaults to 720p, and Style / Genre / Movement all default to Auto rather than exposing Film Studio’s full genre/movement library. Camera controls (camera body, lens, focal length, aperture) are still present underneath, so you aren’t fully locked out of cinematographic control. Add Audio works the same way as regular Film Studio, directly on the scene timeline.
Drama Studio Create Video panel with Frames, Scene Builder, Multi-shot toggle, and a scene timeline with Auto settings
The video model Drama Studio generates with isn’t shown anywhere in the interface — Style, Genre, and Movement all default to Auto, and the model is selected automatically behind the scenes.

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Browsing a real example

The Film Studio home page’s project list has All / Drama / Film filter tabs. The Drama filter surfaces example series like “Don’t Tell My Husband” — a set of individually playable episode clips (S01E01, S01E02…), each with its own synopsis, forming a continuing storyline. These are playable showcase examples, not projects you can open and inspect scene-by-scene.
Watch a couple of episodes from the showcase examples before building your own series — the pacing (roughly 1-1.5 minutes per episode) and per-episode cliffhanger structure are the pattern platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox actually expect.