One board for your whole film

Anyone who has tried to make a short film with AI knows the problem. The first shot looks great. By the fifth, your hero has a different face, the kitchen has changed color, and you are copying the same long description into every prompt, hoping it comes out the same.

The Create Film Board is built around fixing that. You lay out your scenes and shots on one board, save your characters, places and props once, and point each shot at them. Change a saved thing, and every shot that uses it follows.

How the Film Board works

A film is made of scenes, and a scene is made of shots. The board lets you add both, and give each shot the details a real shot list needs: a description, dialogue, shot size, camera angle, camera movement, a length from 1 to 30 seconds, and notes.

Then comes the part that saves time. Shots do not hold copies of your characters or places. They hold links to saved things from your Assets library: Characters, Props, Environments, Styles and Scenes. When you edit a saved thing, each shot reads the new version the next time you make it. The board marks shots made with an older version as out of date, and lets you update them.

You can also set a style for the whole board, so every shot starts from the same look.

Stills first, then clips

For each shot you can make a still image and a video clip. You keep several takes, up to 12 per shot, and choose the one you like. The price shows on each button, using the same credits as the Image and Video tools, and "Make all" asks you to tick a box to confirm when the total is above 300 credits.

The board also gives you a timeline of the whole film with its running time. You can play your chosen clips in order, download them, and export the shot list as a CSV file to share with a team or take into an editor.

What it does not do

Being straight about this will save you frustration later.

• The Film Board does not join your clips into one finished video. Use a video editor for the final cut.
• Voices you pick for a character are saved on the shot, but they are not added to clips yet.
• There are limits: up to 50 boards per account, 40 scenes and 200 shots per board, and 12 takes per shot.

How to plan a short film, step by step

1. Save your cast and places first. Open the Library and add a Character, an Environment and any Props. Give each one one to five reference images and a short note about what must stay the same. These are the things your shots will point at.
2. Open the Storyboard and start a board. Press New board, then Add scene for your first scene, then add shots under it.
3. Fill in each shot. Write a description, set the shot size, angle, movement and length. Type @ in the description to pick a saved Character, Prop, Environment, Style or Scene.
4. Set a style for the board. Pick a saved Style so all your shots share one look.
5. Make stills. Generate a still for each shot. Stills are the quick way to check composition and consistency before you spend credits on motion.
6. Fix at the source. If a character looks wrong in every shot, do not edit the shots. Edit the saved Character once, then update the shots the board marks as out of date.
7. Make clips and choose takes. Generate clips for the shots you are happy with, keep the takes you like, and pick one per shot.
8. Review the timeline, then export. Check the running time, play the chosen clips in order, download them, and export the shot list as a CSV.

A note on live worlds

The Film Board is for planned, shot by shot work. If you want something looser, Worlds is a different tool: a live video session that you steer with prompts while it plays. It is billed per second of session on paid plans, when the connection is on, with a 60 second minimum and sessions of 60, 90 or 120 seconds. A world is a live stream, so it is not saved as a video file in your Library. It suits exploring a look, not building a finished sequence.

Who plans films this way

A board like this suits anyone who needs the same people and places across many shots: a short story, a brand film, a product ad with a recurring character, or a pitch you want to show before a real shoot. It also suits teams, since the shot list exports to CSV and everyone can see the same plan.

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