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Zero to Hero 03 · Storyboards and shot lists
Break a script into shots, frames and timing. Part 3 of 14 — 20 video lessons.
What it covers
- What a storyboard does for an AI studio
- Splitting a script into scenes
- Scenes into shots: size, angle, movement
- Writing shot descriptions a generator understands
- Timing each shot to the script
- Continuity: keeping characters and places consistent
- Reference images and style sheets
- A shot list data model
- Showing the storyboard as a grid
- Human sign-off on the storyboard
- Estimating cost per shot before rendering
- Cutting shots that don't earn their place
- Coverage: the spare shots that save an edit
- Title cards and text-only shots
- Product shots for sellers
- Storyboard review with a friend (and why it matters)
- Handling changes without starting again
- Exporting the storyboard for others
- Checkpoint: a locked storyboard
- Part 3 recap
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