AI Storyboard Generator
Describe what you want to film and get an ordered shot list back — the framing and the action for each shot, in the order they cut together. Free to use, five generations a day, no account needed.
- Close-up, shallow focus: the lamp's arm in silhouette against a dark wall, only its edge lit. - Wide, static: a cluttered desk in flat overhead light, the lamp switched off among the mess. - Macro, slow push: a thumb rolls the brass dimmer, the filament warming from cold to amber. - Medium, low angle: light spills across the desk and the clutter reads as texture rather than noise. - Overhead: hands settle into the pool of light and start writing. - Slow pull back: the room dark, one warm island of light at its centre. - Product shot, clean background: the lamp alone, at the angle from shot one, now fully lit.
What a shot list actually decides
A shot list is a plan for coverage, not a description of the finished video.
Each line answers two questions: how close are we, and what happens. That is enough to generate or film against, and deliberately stops short of dictating cuts or timing — decisions better made once the material exists. The breakdown craft here is the same one the pipeline uses to turn a script into scenes, which is why the shots vary in distance rather than repeating one framing.
Getting more out of it
Four things that make the difference.
- Vary the distance. A sequence of identically-framed shots reads as flat however good each one is.
- Give every shot one action. Two things happening is two shots.
- Establish before you go close — a detail shot means little without the space around it.
- End on something that resolves: a look, a landing, a reveal.
From shot list to generated video
Each line here is close to a generation prompt already. In the pipeline a breakdown like this becomes the scene list, with each shot generated from a reference image so a character or product stays recognisable between them.
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