Storyboards and AI video
Plan shots, keep characters consistent, and improve generated footage.
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- How to write a storyboard script: shot list template for short drama
A storyboard script gives each shot a row: source, purpose, framing, start state, action to end state, dialogue and duration. Copy the shot list template.
- AI short drama character consistency across shots
Cross-shot consistency in AI short drama breaks on costume, props and eyelines far more often than on faces.
- Seedance prompt guide: turn short drama shots into video prompts
Write Seedance prompts with clear starts, ordered action and ends. Compare 2.0/2.5 timing, references and sound plans, then check actual video.
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- Character turnaround sheet prompt template for AI, with 6 examples
A character turnaround sheet prompt states its purpose, one outfit, side and back anchors, lighting chosen for comparison and no labels. Plus 6 examples.
- Image-to-Video Prompts: Reference Subtraction + 8 Motion Problems
Delete static appearance, clothing, and setting; add hands, props, occlusion, and endpoint changes. Includes two tables and eight motion rewrites.
- How to Use First and Last Frames for AI Video
Use first/last frames for clear endpoints and unimportant paths. Get definitions, fit checks and a prompt template; keep end facts out of frame one.
- Unsatisfied with an AI Video? Reroll, Rewrite, Edit, or Reshoot
Ask if text controls the flaw and if it repeats. Reroll random failures sparingly, rewrite structural flaws, and edit or reshoot local defects.
- When AI Video Actions Break: Preserve Story Facts, Rewrite the Action
For failing actions, preserve the story fact; then substitute action, split the shot, hold a state, or use sound. Includes a rewrite and skip test.
- Garbled AI Frame Text: Render, Reserve Space, or Add in Post
Classify text by story role, then generate it, render it as graphics, reserve blank space, or add it later. Includes prompt and reference/subtitle checks.
- Choose Motion-Comic Styles: Limited Animation, Anime, Ink Wash & Chibi
Choose a motion-comic style by character, action, line/color, and key information. Compare limited animation, anime, ink wash, and chibi in one scene.
- Vertical Short-Drama Storyboarding: Blocking, Shot Size, and Overlays
Keep relationships, key actions, and evidence readable before choosing shot size. A three-person example covers depth, reactions, and actual UI occlusion.
- Micro-Drama Lighting: Source, Narrative Job and Continuity
Set shot intent: reveal or conceal; name source, direction, lit result and subject/background separation. Watch-repair example, template, continuity fixes.
- Designing Camera Movement: Give Every Move a Story Motive
Choose camera moves for shifts in attention, pressure or space—not by rote. Includes a lost-property scene, movement checklist and fixes.
- Shot–Reverse-Shot Continuity: Track the Axis, Eyelines and Props
Plan the axis, camera side and screen direction. Track crossings, third-person reactions and props through a three-person ticket-gate scene and checklist.
- How to Design Sound for Short Drama: Dialogue and Music
Plan dialogue, ambience, music and silence for short drama. Use sound tables and original scenes to fix music restarts and abrupt changes between shots.
- How to Time Short-Drama Dialogue with Action and Reaction
Map every line, action, interruption, pause, and listener reaction on a timeline. Includes a copy-shop example, relative-beat template, and overload fixes.
- AI Short-Drama Image Roles: Character, Setting, Composition & Style
Set roles so references cannot override wardrobe, setting or composition. Nine roles, an original coastal weather-station example and conflict fixes.
- Short-Drama Look Development: Representative-Frame Method
Define stable rules and variables for material, color, edges and space. Test characters, locations and high-pressure scenes with an original pool example.
- How to Shoot Evidence Reveals: Make the Proof and Consequences Clear
Decide what viewers must read, then stage possession, reveal, response and consequence. Includes a complete brief comparing two rehearsal-room outage records.
- How to Create Prop References for AI Video
Fix a prop’s scale, form, materials, and working parts; list current open/closed state, damage, contents, and text separately. Includes a recorder board.
- What Is an AI Motion Comic? A Workflow from Script to Final Cut
Use art, keyframes, limited motion, voice, and editing. Choose static or dynamic; build script, visuals, shots, and sound. See an original breakdown.
- How to Address Stiff AI-Video Acting: Make Emotion Visible
Start with goal, trigger, and shot size; choose gaze, voice, body, or decisive action, not stacked emotion words. Includes an original dance-class example.
- How to Write Prompts for Targeted AI Image Edits: What to Change and Keep
Name the area, change, and what stays; note occlusion and effects on related images. Includes an original removal example, preview, and revision tips.
- Keep AI Characters Consistent Across Costume Changes
Separate identity, reusable looks, brief deltas, and shot state. Includes a character card, look registry, three-look example, and mismatch fix.