Sets, devices and coverage

Location & Scene Bible

Canonical spaces for the series, with the visual rules that keep a new still or video recognisably inside the same world. Each master is a source plate, not a frame to repeat indefinitely.

Approved scene masters

Every location begins with a geography, equipment standard and lighting logic. Coverage varies the angle, scale and action while preserving those anchors.

Episode 1 · Archived simulation

Jan’s training room

An inherited early-1990s institutional training tape inside a beige 4:3 CRT world.

Laminate desk, period office furniture and one beige CRT.
Fictional xBase workbench; bitmap typography with restrained CRT fuzz.
Dark terminal working surface inside the period shell.

Episodes 1–2 · Simulated home

Gil’s office

A modest one-monitor home office whose surroundings can be rationed without changing its basic geography.

One ordinary monitor, one desk, practical chair and a window before downgrade.
The simulation exterior is subtly too regular; the poster afterward has no text.
Gil owns the Windows 95-era terminal, even when Sam views it remotely.

Samantha's grounded bedroom and home workstation

Episode 2 · Real world

Sam’s home workstation

A believable teenager’s bedroom and Morrowvale-issued Mac, not a futuristic command centre.

Light novice-default Mac interface; compact chrome and modest depth.
School-age objects and inexpensive furniture keep Sam visibly 15.
Exterior and interior belong to the real world, unlike Gil’s repeating simulation.

Street-level arrival lobby at Morrowvale's Toronto research campus

Episode 3 · Toronto · Arrival

Morrowvale street lobby

The public threshold: warmer, busier and unmistakably before the research office in screen geography.

Warm limestone, black steel, timber reception and real street glass.
Sam arrives with the research lead; temporary lanyard and youthful placement wardrobe.
Use as the first interior after the exterior establishing shot, never after lab coverage.

Bright Morrowvale evaluation floor with off-white integrated workstations

Episode 3 · Playground threshold

Evaluation floor arrival

The canonical bright perimeter evaluation zone: clinical and minimal, but recognisably an office rather than science-fiction scenery.

Seamless off-white planes, pale grey resin floor, frosted partitions and diffuse window light.
Off-white integrated desks, standard flat monitors, full-size keyboards and mice.
No black desks, black glass, dark industrial-lab treatment or control/robotics devices.
Researchers are under 27 and dress like modern technical staff, not bankers.

Canonical off-white Morrowvale developer workstation with ordinary monitor, keyboard and mouse

Episodes 3–4 · Equipment lock

Standard Playground workstation

The canonical off-white hardware and desk geography from which close-ups, reverses and moving coverage are derived.

Ordinary flat monitor, visible full-size keyboard, normal mouse and restrained task light.
Screen content is authored in HTML during composition; generated screens remain unreadable.
Keep the integrated off-white desk, frosted glazing, window light and monitor proportions stable across coverage.
Reject black desks, knobs, audio consoles and futuristic input devices.

Episode 4 · Next morning

The Test Floor

The same research family made more regimented: timestamp-led, operational and colder after the Playground decision.

Preserve Sam’s Episode 3 face and most of her outfit.
Squarer institutional windows and denser pale-grey interface grid.
Mechanical scans, clock ticks and status changes replace playful customisation motion.

Episodes 5–7 · London

Regulated bank security lab

A bright, credible high-security workplace. The institution is controlled and successful, not visually villainous.

Pale mineral surfaces, frosted glass, ordinary isolated workstation cells.
Formal bank and risk staff contrast with junior, practical Sam.
Keep the shared pipeline legible as infrastructure before its communication use is revealed.

Episode 7 · Same night

Incident room

The bank set under pressure, with wider operational geography and the same witnesses carried from the investigation.

Controlled urgency: more people and evidence, not flashing sci-fi alarm light.
Alternate wide lateral geography with the signed-control close group.
Exterior scale and a second institution establish spread before diagrams explain it.

Generation packet map

This is the practical lookup used before regenerating a still or motion take. If a monitor is visible, the matching PNG is supplied with the room and character reference; readable content is overlaid later.

Location	Monitor in shot?	OS reference	Safe coverage and B-roll
Jan training room	Yes · primary story object	Jan xBase PNG	CRT over-shoulder, hands on beige keyboard, watch-pane insert, tracking counter, empty training chair.
Gil office	Yes · one monitor only	Gil Win95 PNG	Window reverse, monitor profile, wired mouse insert, terminal reflection, empty desk, poster after downgrade.
Sam bedroom	Yes · issued laptop	Sam Mac PNG	Trackpad hand, school ID and lanyard, laptop glow, exterior flats, doorway, headphones and desk objects.
Morrowvale street lobby	No readable monitor	None	Street glass, lanyard handoff, lift indicator, shoes crossing threshold, reception desk, security gate detail.
Evaluation-floor arrival	Background monitors	Research PNG	Corridor turn, acoustic baffles, keyboard row, task lights, workstation reflections, badge tap.
Playground workstation	Yes · two standard monitors	Research PNG	Full-size keyboard, mouse, headphones, A-17 cyan indicator, hands pausing above keys, screen over-shoulder.
Test Floor	Yes · operational console	Test Floor PNG	Timestamp close-up, deployment row scan, status lamp, empty A-17 desk, clock reflection, cable/port insert.
Bank isolation lab	Yes · evidence workstation	Bank PNG	Badge and door seal, ledger-row close-up, test keyboard, report stack, frosted-glass silhouettes, approval hand.
Bank incident room	Yes · same bank language	Bank PNG	Signed control, transaction clock, witness hands, second-bank receipt, empty chair, district exterior and power indicator.