Lesson 8 · 20 min
Time to put it all together: the director's card, the character sheet, the look and the shot list become a 30-second storyboard, checked by the page. It's the package you take to any generator, and it's where course 1 starts.
Start the lesson
Goal: combine the card, character sheet, look, and shot list into a 30 s storyboard checked against the page, ready to become a prompt.
Four steps that become your storyboard. Click an exercise to see its "done when".
What the audience should feel, the anchor, and why you chose the angle, movement, duration and light. It is the header of the storyboard.
Size, angle and one movement per shot, each choice made for its effect on the audience.
Fixed light and palette, layered composition and a locked character. This is what holds continuity together.
The scene cut into numbered shots, with camera, sound and timing. This lesson's storyboard comes from here.
Four steps, each with its file checked by the page. This lesson's storyboard brings them all together.
Suggested order: each step uses what the previous one decided.
A header with the fixed decisions and one line per shot.
Scene, anchor and emotion come from the card. The character sheet and the look go in one line each, summarized: this is the snippet that repeats in every prompt.
If a line in the header changes midway, every shot changes with it.
The shot list from lesson 7 grows to 30 seconds: 6 to 10 shots, each with size, angle, one movement, duration, action and sound.
Vary it: at least 3 sizes, 2 angles and 3 movements. Open by setting the scene, move in closer at the turn, and close on an image that works as a still.
The page checks the whole package in seconds. Fixing a line of text costs nothing; redoing a generation costs time and credits.
Only take to the generator the storyboard that has already answered OK.
In course 1, each line of this storyboard becomes a prompt, with the character sheet as a reference and the look as a fixed block.
Keep the project folder: it is the one you open in the first lesson there.
The complete storyboard: header and shots.
Scene: <scene name> (30 s) Anchor: <character, product or rhythm> Emotion: <what the audience should feel> Sheet: <name and the Never changes line from the sheet> Look: <the light sentence and the palette> # n | size | angle | movement | duration | what happens | sound: ambience, effect, dialogue 1 | <size> | <angle> | <one movement> | <n> s | <action> | sound: <what you hear>
A header with five lines, 6 to 10 complete shots, camera variety, and a total between 27 and 33 s.
Your scene, from start to finish.
Build the storyboard for your scene: a header with Scene, Anchor, Emotion, Sheet and Look, and 6 to 10 shots adding up to 30 s. Check it until the page answers OK, then download storyboard.txt.
Done when: the page answers OK: storyboard with [n] shots checked · [s] s to your text, with the total between 27 and 33 s.
Check the project folder: it needs to have the files that go into course 1.
Done when: the folder has cartao.txt, look.txt, ficha.txt and storyboard.txt, and each one, pasted again into your lesson's page, answers OK: ….
Choose when you start and how much time you have each week. The plan lists the exercises from the eight lessons.
Five questions about the whole course.
Question 1 of 5
What goes in the storyboard header?
Question 2 of 5
Why check the storyboard before generating any video?
Question 3 of 5
A shot in your storyboard says "orbit and zoom." What does the page answer?
Question 4 of 5
Which of these keeps the same character in every shot?
Question 5 of 5
Which shot usually closes a short scene well?
Pick an answer. The explanation appears after you try.