Documentary Teaser Generator

Describe the film in a sentence and the storyboard boards it shot by shot: a card per beat, a still on every card, animated clips, and a cut teaser on the timeline.

Use case · Documentary

Describe the film in a sentence and the storyboard boards it shot by shot — a card per beat, a still on every card, then animated clips and a cut on the timeline. The teaser below is one run: DEEP — Life Below the Light, a dive from the surface at dusk to a bioluminescent whale on the abyssal plain, six shots and 26 seconds.

How it works

The storyboard editor runs the whole thing. Each step leaves something you can read and change before the next one spends anything.

graph LR brief["Premise · style · shot count"] board["Direct → shot cards"] stills["Still per card"] clips["Animate approved cards"] timeline["Timeline → export"] brief --> board board --> stills stills --> clips clips --> timeline

1. Write the premise. One sentence about the film, the look you want, and how many shots. (e.g. “A dive from the surface to the abyssal plain · IMAX documentary look · 6 shots”)
2. Direct the board. Press Direct and the cards fill in — one beat each, with action, framing, and movement, all under one style bible.
3. Approve the stills. Every card renders a still first. Stills cost cents, so re-roll a card until it looks right; the rest of the board stays put.
4. Animate and cut. Animate only the cards you approved, then send the board to the timeline: the clips arrive in shot order, ready to trim, narrate, score, and export.

Six shots, one teaser

The style bible under every card: IMAX 70mm look, volumetric light shafts, a deep teal-and-black palette with cyan and magenta bioluminescent accents, subtle film grain, 16:9.

Aerial wide at dusk, a lone research vessel on a glass-calm ocean

The descent, headlights cutting through ink-black water

First encounter, a field of jellyfish pulsing cyan

Creature reveal, a colossal squid's eye in the floodlights

The vent city, black smokers swarming with white shrimp

Finale, a freediver under a bioluminescent whale

Make it yours

Nothing here is locked. Change the look, change the model, change one shot.

• Swap the video model. Veo, Seedance, Kling, Runway. Render that shot again; the board, the stills, and the clips you approved stay as they are.
• Restyle the series. The visual style you typed is the style bible behind every card. Change one line and the next pass boards it that way.
• Fix one shot, not the reel. Revise a single clip and it swaps back into its card. The other five never re-roll.
• Keep the subjects consistent. Save the vessel, the submersible, and the creatures as named entities; naming one in a shot rides its description into that shot’s prompt.

Models in this use case

Three jobs, one model each, every one a dropdown. They are called with your own keys, so the bill comes from the provider and you can switch any of them for a better model the day it ships.

Job	Role	Pick from
Director	Writes the shot list, action, and camera notes	Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI
Stills	Renders each card’s still	GPT Image, Flux, Nano Banana
Motion	Animates approved stills into clips	Veo, Seedance, Kling

See Models & Providers to set up keys.

Next steps

• Movie Trailer Generator — the same board, cut as a chase teaser
• All use cases

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