The Last Signal
Short Film · Production · Co-Director
RDAPJW
Project settings

World and visual direction

These settings are attached to every prompt sent to every engine, so the production holds one consistent look.

World
Visual direction
Shared universe
The Aurora Cycle

A near-future Arctic universe of isolated listening stations, recovered transmissions and closed causal loops.

Rules
  • Transmissions can arrive before they are recorded.
  • No character can prevent an event they have already heard.
  • Technology is contemporary; the anomaly is never explained.
Factions
  • Aurora Station crew
  • The Meteorological Directorate
  • Signal archivists
Technology
  • Legacy analogue archive decks
  • High-frequency array
  • Cold-storage tape vault