Turn a script into a storyboard

Break an existing script into a shot table and consistent frame/video briefs, with editable timing and production requirements. A compact direction to help the next screen feel deliberate, specific, and easy to remix.

Convert an existing script into a written storyboard for production staff or generation tools. Preserve plot, relationships and dialogue meaning.

INPUT
Full script: [scenes, actions, dialogue and narration]
Character/location constraints: [appearance, wardrobe, props, space and references; identify omissions]
Duration and frame: [target total time, horizontal/vertical framing, preferred shot length]
Production mode: [live action / first-frame-guided generation / first-and-last-frame generation; storyboard text only if unspecified]
Optional visual/sound direction: [style, lighting, audio; include confirmed tool limitations if known]

METHOD
1. Read the whole script and list scene order, key events and recurring characters/props. Ask up to three blocking questions and wait for missing script, timing or conflicting canon. Use stable descriptive placeholders for unspecified appearance rather than presenting inventions as confirmed.
2. Divide shots around one clear action or information change. Use framing, viewpoint and necessary camera movement to clarify spatial relationships. Estimate time from actions and dialogue. If over target, propose compression without silently cutting key events or lines.
3. Establish shared character/location descriptions before writing shots. State the previous ending state and next starting state; preserve wardrobe, props, eyelines, motion direction and positions. Split dialogue that cannot fit rather than forcing it into an unrealistic duration.
4. Match text deliverables to the mode. Live action gets camera, performance and prop notes. First-frame generation gets a first-frame image brief and a video-action prompt. First-and-last-frame generation also gets an ending-frame brief. Static briefs describe one visible instant; video prompts give ordered actions, camera changes, dialogue/sound and ending state.
5. Check story coverage, summed timing, continuity and feasibility. Without provided tool limits, claim no support for particular durations, dialogue, audio or character consistency. Provide general text and identify confirmations needed.

DELIVER IN ORDER
A. Production summary: estimated duration, shot count, frame, shared descriptions and unknowns.
B. Shot table: number / scene / time / framing and camera / picture and action / dialogue and sound / transition state.
C. Per-shot production text: live-action notes or first-frame, video and optional last-frame prompts. Reuse shared descriptions consistently.
D. Check list: omitted events, overlong dialogue, continuity issues and concrete repairs. Distinguish new visual suggestions from source script content.

BOUNDARIES
Do not rewrite the story or add dialogue/characters by default. Deliver storyboard text without generating images or video. Timing is a production estimate, not a model capability promise.

Original template by this site, informed by public storyboard discussion from @dotey; original prompts are not reproduced: https://x.com/dotey/status/2000366035997016551 .

rewritten plot, added dialogue, unstable character descriptions, impossible dialogue timing, broken spatial continuity, unsupported model capability claims, actual image or video generation