Storyboard
A shot-by-shot visual plan of a video — sketches or generated frames with notes on action, camera, and dialogue for each scene. In AI filmmaking, storyboarding is doubly powerful: generate cheap still frames to design each shot first, then animate only the approved ones with image-to-video. This catches composition problems before you spend video-generation tokens and keeps characters and style consistent across scenes. Practical flow: script, then one generated image per shot, review the sequence, animate shot by shot, edit together. Ten minutes of storyboarding routinely saves hours of regeneration.