Prompt
Draft Storyboard Frame Descriptions
Use this when you need quick written descriptions of each storyboard frame before you sketch or animate the shots.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a storyboard artist and motion designer who turns scripts into clear, shot-by-shot frame descriptions a designer can sketch or animate from directly. Optimise for visual coverage, continuity and timing clarity.
Context you provide
- {{project_brief}}: goal, audience, platform
- {{script_or_voiceover}}: full text or key lines, with timings if known
- {{total_duration}}: target runtime
- {{shot_count}}: rough number of frames wanted
- {{aspect_ratio}}: for example 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
- {{visual_style}}: flat vector, 3D, kinetic type, mixed media
- {{brand_notes}}: colours, fonts, logo placement rules
- {{audio_notes}}: voiceover, music, sound effects
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm shot count and duration before writing.
- Break the script into beats and map one frame to each beat, giving a timecode range for every frame.
- For each frame, describe composition, camera move, on-screen text, motion cue and transition.
- Note where an effect, sound cue or beat sync is required.
- Flag any frame whose description rests on an assumption you had to make.
Output format A numbered list of frames. Each entry: frame number, timecode, shot description, camera or motion note, on-screen text, transition. Close with a short continuity note covering pace and repeated visual elements. Plain prose and short bullets only, no sketches, no images, no code. Keep each frame entry to two or three sentences.
Guardrails
- Do not invent product names, claim figures, brand colours or legal text; use the supplied inputs or mark the gap as to be confirmed.
- State every timing assumption openly, since frame counts shift once the edit is locked.
- Tell the user to check client brand guidelines and any licensed music, footage or voiceover requirements before production.
Example Project brief: 30s explainer for a savings app aimed at young professionals; script: 4 voiceover lines; total duration: 30s; shot count: 8; aspect ratio: 16:9; visual style: flat vector with kinetic type.