EAW presents · The screening room

Bridesmaids
& Bourbon

A wrong bus. A wedding unraveling.
A life she gets to choose.

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Episode 01 · Final polish · v009 · 1:22

Where’s
My Sister?

Blonde hair. A familiar tiara. Taylor searches a noisy bus for her sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

The flowers are ruined. Taylor fixes the bill, Dad adds another demand, and Emily arrives with the next problem.

The ruined flowers are carried away, the petals wiped clean, and the roses take their place. Lanterns Low fades gently into Catherine’s call, with a quieter hotel sound beneath the scene.

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Final polish · v009 · for EAW’s review. Tina’s blonde hair is pulled back and her face is naturally visible. Catherine’s connected lines share one continuous performance; Taylor’s dialogue has a softer tone. The flower action is preserved. Emily closes with “Mom, Matt wants to change his cake!” Earlier cuts remain below for comparison.

Sound on · English captions available
Final polish · v009 · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:22Horizontal · 720p

Preserved previous revision · v008 · 1:22
00:00 / 01:22Vertical · 720p

Episode 01 · Latest revision · v008 · 1:22

Where’s
My Sister?

Blonde hair. A familiar tiara. Taylor searches a noisy bus for her sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

The flowers are ruined. Taylor fixes the bill, Dad adds another demand, and Emily arrives with the next problem.

The ruined flowers are carried away, the petals wiped clean, and the roses take their place. Lanterns Low fades gently into Catherine’s call, with a quieter hotel sound beneath the scene.

Watch the horizontal version ↓

Preserved v008, before the visible-face and vocal-tone corrections. Tina stays turned away; her reveal comes later. Taylor’s voice is quieter, with the invoice reply retimed to her performance. Emily closes with “Mom, Matt wants to change his cake!” Earlier cuts remain below for comparison.

Sound on · English captions available
Latest revision · v008 · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:22Horizontal · 720p

Preserved previous revision · v007 · 1:22
00:00 / 01:22Vertical · 720p

Episode 01 · Fourth cut · revised · 1:22

Where’s
My Sister?

A bus full of strangers. A missing sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

The flowers are ruined. Taylor fixes the bill, Dad adds another demand, and Emily arrives with the next problem.

The ruined flowers are carried away, the petals wiped clean, and the roses take their place. Lanterns Low fades gently into Catherine’s call, with a quieter hotel sound beneath the scene.

Watch the horizontal version ↓

Preserved previous revision v007, before the blonde Tina and voice-balance correction. Please send the version and timestamp with your notes. Taylor’s invoice reply now uses her corrected saved cast voice. Emily closes with “Mom, Matt wants to change his cake!” Earlier cuts remain below for comparison.

Sound on · English captions available
Fourth cut · revised · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:22Horizontal · 720p

Preserved fourth cut · Before corrections · 1:18
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Episode 01 · Fourth cut · 1:18

Where’s
My Sister?

A bus full of strangers. A missing sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

The flowers are ruined. Taylor fixes the bill, Dad adds another demand, and Emily arrives with the next problem.

See the peonies replaced by fresh roses, the wedding preparations underway, and the messages Taylor keeps answering. A longer sung passage from Lanterns Low carries us into the resort.

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Preserved earlier fourth cut. The revised version above corrects Taylor’s invoice reply, flower cleanup, the cake line and the hotel sound mix.

Sound on · English captions available
Fourth cut · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:18Horizontal · 720p

Preserved third cut · 0:33

The shorter cut whose pacing EAW approved, saved unchanged.

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Episode 01 · Third cut · 0:33

Where’s
My Sister?

A bus full of strangers. A missing sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

A tighter opening: Taylor’s panic, Tina’s smile fading, and thunder—then the animated title over a car arriving at Bluegrass Estates.

The bus sequence is nearly halved. The resort and Catherine’s calls move faster, with the complete invoice handoff and peonies alarm intact. Music from Lanterns Low and continuous location sound carry the transitions.

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Third cut for EAW’s review. Please send the version and timestamp with your notes. The episode uses its FLUX voices; separate voice auditions are available below.

Sound on · English captions available
Third cut · Watch in widescreen
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Early voice auditions · Archived

Early casting experiments, preserved for comparison. The fourth cut above uses the voices EAW subsequently cast for Taylor, Catherine and Emily.

Taylor · “Where’s my sister?”

Original FLUX performance

Option A · Sarah

Option B · Laura

Catherine · “Taylor? Taylor? The peonies are a disaster!”

Original FLUX performance

Option A · Matilda

Historical auditions; these stock options are not the cast selected for the fourth cut.

Preserved second cut · 1:03

The second cut, saved unchanged for comparison with the tighter third cut.

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Episode 01 · Second cut · 1:03

Where’s
My Sister?

A bus full of strangers. A missing sister. Twelve hours earlier, the wedding weekend was only beginning.

“Where’s my sister?”

A new opening: Taylor’s panic, thunder, the animated series title, and a welcome to Emily Sutton and Matt Caldwell’s Kentucky wedding weekend.

The camera follows the action in the phone version. Music from Lanterns Low carries us into Bluegrass Estates; the episode ends on Catherine’s peonies emergency.

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Second cut for EAW’s review. Please send the version and timestamp with your notes. The episode uses its FLUX voices; separate voice auditions are available below.

Sound on · English captions available
Second cut · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:03Horizontal · 720p

Preserved first cut · Earlier story and edit

Saved unchanged at EAW’s request. This earlier cut contains story beats superseded by the second cut.

00:00 / 01:10Vertical · 720p

Archived first cut · 1:10

Not in the
Family Picture

Taylor can fix the flowers, the invoices and everyone else’s emergency. Getting into her own family’s photograph is another matter.

“This is the family picture.”

The first complete episode, with FLUX performances, edited dialogue, background sound and music from Angel’s Share.

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A director-review cut. Voice matching—especially Taylor’s—and performance details are still being refined. Share the episode number and timestamp with EAW for notes.

Sound on · English captions available
Episode 1 · Watch in widescreen
00:00 / 01:10Horizontal · 720p · Same story and sound mix

00:00 / 00:06Same edited performance

New FLUX test · Taylor

A little more bite.

A brisk correction, a knowing look, then the real problem.

“They were replaced with roses three weeks ago. The florist is charging twice.”

The direction calls for clearer words and more variation in the delivery. The long pause has been tightened, with a small closer cut for the second sentence.

480p test copy → 1080p vertical

This version was reduced to 480p, then upscaled and reframed in Resolve Studio. FLUX currently starts at 720p through our provider, so this is a lower-resolution simulation—not a cheaper native FLUX generation.

One new generation: $1.53. Every version below uses that same take and edited dialogue. No extra generation charge for the upscales.

Compare the four FLUX versions
00:00 / 00:06Same edited performance

Direct from the larger source

720p → 1080p vertical

The same cut, with more original image detail available to the upscaler. Compare Taylor’s eyes, hair and mouth against the 480p version above.

Both vertical versions use the same performance and sound. Neither needs another paid generation.

720p horizontal source

00:00 / 00:06Same edited performance

480p horizontal test copy

00:00 / 00:06Same edited performance

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First Catherine performance · FLUX

Wedding flowers. A family crisis. And one daughter expected to make it all disappear.

“The peonies are a disaster. Emily cannot hear about this.”

This eight-second scene is an early performance test for Bridesmaids & Bourbon, a series of one-to-two-minute drama episodes based on the novel by Sydney Marsh.

Episode 1 is now available above. EAW selected FLUX as the preferred video model.

About this take

Generated in vertical format from Catherine’s saved character design. This is the original FLUX performance, with its generated voice. Generation cost: $1.36.

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Tell EAW what you think.

Share the clip name and the moment that caught your attention—“Catherine, 00:03,” for example. Acting, pacing, voice, or the feeling of the scene: it all helps shape the next cut.

Behind the scenes: compare the tests
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Alternate model

Catherine · Wan 3.0

The same character design and scripted line, interpreted by another model. An eight-second vertical take that cost $0.68.

FLUX remains the selected direction. This comparison shows how delivery, movement and voice can change between models.

One take · Three versions

Can a smaller picture go bigger?

These three videos use the same eight-second Wan performance. The original 480p generation cost $0.34. The two 1080p versions were made locally in DaVinci Resolve Studio, with no additional generation charge.

Original · 480p

Upscaled · 1080p horizontal

Reframed · 1080p vertical

Same performance, tighter frame.

The vertical version crops the horizontal picture around Taylor. It fills a phone screen, but the larger enlargement makes detail softer.

These are picture-quality experiments. Dialogue and scene continuity are still being refined for the finished episode.