AI storyboarding, with the human still holding the story.
Use prompts to test framing, mood, and movement. Treat the output as a rough planning sketch, not a final truth.
Prompt Pattern
Build the scene in layers.
| Layer | Plain question | Example phrase |
|---|---|---|
| Emotion and intensity | What feeling is visible, and how strong is it? | quiet pride, intensity 2 out of 5 |
| Face and eyes | Where are they looking? What is the expression doing? | eyes lowered to the notebook, small half-smile |
| Voice and body movement | How would the person move or speak? | slow breath, relaxed shoulders, careful hand gesture |
| Camera angle | Where is the camera and what does it reveal? | eye-level medium shot from across the table |
| Setting | Where are we, and what is safe to show? | community workshop table, blank papers, no readable private notes |
| Scene mood | What should the viewer feel? | calm, practical, hopeful, grounded |
Prompt Recipes
Use these as starting points.
Image prompt
A single storyboard frame of [person or subject] in [setting], showing [emotion] at intensity [1-5]. Camera: [angle]. Light: [time of day]. Mood: [feeling]. Keep it public-safe: no readable private text, no logos, no unapproved cultural material.
Text-to-video prompt
A [duration] second clip where [subject] moves from [starting action] to [ending action]. Camera movement: [static, slow push, handheld, pan]. Sound mood: [quiet, busy, reflective]. Keep the scene respectful, practical, and human-led.
Image-to-video prompt
Animate this storyboard frame with a gentle [zoom, pan, parallax, light change]. Keep the same people, setting, and composition. Do not add new symbols, faces, logos, or cultural details that were not in the source image.
Review prompt
Review this storyboard option. What is clear? What looks guessed? What might need permission, cultural review, privacy review, or a human rewrite before it is used?
Useful Boundary
Do not ask AI to invent cultural authority.
AI can suggest camera angles, mood options, cutaways, colour notes, draft captions, and rough scene prompts. It cannot grant permission, replace community review, or decide what belongs in public.
Try the builder
The storyboard prompt builder turns these layers into a downloadable Markdown file.