> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rewatch.studio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Creating a series

> Write the overall idea of an account to get characters, voices and a world that hold up over dozens of episodes.

A series fixes once and for all what must not move from one video to the next: the characters, their voices, the world, the style. You create it in “Series” then “New series”. After that, every episode reuses this cast without paying for it again.

## The fields to fill in

| Field | Limit | What you put in it |
| - | - | - |
| Series name | 60 characters | The name of the account, short. |
| Overall idea | 2,000 characters | The account: who these people are, where they live, what generally happens to them. |
| Common thread (optional) | 300 characters | The recurring subject, in a sentence or two. |
| Look of the characters and images (optional) | 300 characters | The exact visual instruction: rendering, colors, proportions. |

The screen also offers the number of characters, the visual style, the tone, the language, the target audience and how episodes follow one another. The visual style is baked into the portraits as soon as they are created: you will not be able to change it afterward.

## The overall idea describes an account, not a video

The app says it itself: “Describe the account, not a video: who these people are, where they live, what generally happens to them.” The characters, their voices and the world come out of this text, then every episode. It is reminded to the AI at every episode, including the ones that open a new story.

```text theme={null}
[Who]: [2 or 3 characters, each with a personality and a flaw].
[Where]: [place, era, rules of the world].
[What generally happens to them]: [the situation that repeats and produces stories].
[What makes them clash]: [why they keep running into each other].
```

## Series or episode: what goes where

The AI that designs the cast gets a precise instruction: each character must hold up across dozens of different stories. It defines them by what they are (personality, flaw, way of speaking, what they want), never by what happens to them in a plot. A character written for a twist becomes unusable from the next episode.

| Series idea (the account) | Episode idea (one video) |
| - | - |
| Three 25 year old roommates, broke, in a building falling apart. | Tonight, the landlord cuts the hot water before a party. |
| A baker obsessed with order and her dreamy apprentice, in a mountain village. | A customer demands a bread nobody has ever baked. |
| A night watchman alone in a museum, whom nobody believes. | Tonight, the mummy has moved. |

If the series idea contains an event (“he loses his job, then he goes on a trip”), the AI takes it for a character trait. Keep events for the episodes.

## Before / after

> [tab] Weak
>
> ```text theme={null}
> A video where Mark gets fired and decides to start his own company.
> ```
>
> That is a plot: it will be used up in one episode.

> [tab] Improved
>
> ```text theme={null}
> Mark, 34, appliance salesman, an incurable optimist who always promises more than he can deliver. His sister Nora, 30, an accountant, sees every disaster coming and saves him while grumbling. Together they run a small neighborhood store in Columbus, Ohio. Every week, one of Mark's promises comes crashing down on them.
> ```
>
> The characters have a personality, a place, a situation that repeats: from there come as many episodes as you want.

## Common mistakes

* Telling a story instead of an account: take the event out and keep what repeats.
* Describing a single character: give them reasons to cross paths and clash, episodes are born from their friction.
* Imposing more than three characters on a one minute format: beyond that, none of them has time to exist.
* Putting text to display in the visual field: it only describes the rendering, and it is injected into every image.
* Leaving the visual field empty when you care about a precise look: the AI then interprets the category its own way, not necessarily the same twice.

## Settings that go with it

* **Narration only, no characters**: a voice tells, images illustrate (true stories, horror, news items). No cast to build: the series is created right away, at no cost.
* **Continuity**: standalone episodes or serial. Details in [Series episodes](https://docs.rewatch.studio/series/episodes.md).
* **Voice, mascot, intros and outros**: see [Voice, mascot and intros and outros](https://docs.rewatch.studio/series/voice-mascot-jingle.md).
* With characters, confirming starts building the cast: the AI writes the profiles, draws the portraits and assigns the voices. No video is produced. The screen shows the price before you confirm.

> [!TIP]
>
> The cast can be touched up afterward from the series page (add, remove or rename a character, redraw a portrait). The visual style, however, can no longer be changed.


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