Beat-to-shot mapping
Connect action and dialogue beats to establishing shots, coverage, inserts, reactions, and transitions with an explicit narrative purpose.
Storyboard coverage planning
Plan the shots before you generate the frames.
Turn one approved screenplay scene into a reviewable coverage plan: map story beats to shot purpose, framing, screen direction, continuity risks, and an intentional shot order. This workspace is for pre-production decisions, not one-click storyboard generation.
Beat-to-shot mappingCoverage strategyContinuity review
Opens the LlamaGen storyboard project workspace.
Northline / visual direction
One story world, carried from screenplay to production.
- Input
- Approved scene
- Direction
- Coverage choices
- Output
- Reviewable shot plan
Design the coverage
Give every planned shot a job before anyone renders a frame.
Translate dramatic beats into coverage choices, then review eyelines, screen direction, performance emphasis, and continuity as one sequence. The output is a production brief that can guide any storyboard generator or artist.
Coverage strategy
Compare master, single, insert, reaction, and transition coverage before committing to shot size, movement, or lens feeling.
Continuity risk review
Flag eyelines, screen direction, props, wardrobe, light, and blocking that must remain coherent when the camera changes.
Worked example · Decision-first planning
Use AI to challenge the coverage plan, not to replace direction.
Ask for alternate coverage and continuity checks while the director still decides blocking, emphasis, rhythm, and what the audience should feel. The deliverable is a concise visual brief, not a batch of unexplained images.
- Tie every shot to a dramatic beat
- Remove coverage that repeats the same information
- Resolve screen direction and continuity before generation
The workflow
A coverage workflow built around story decisions
Move from dramatic intent to a defensible shot order, then hand the approved plan to visual generation or an artist.
01
Lock the scene objective
Start with who wants what, what changes, and which visual information the audience must receive.
02
Build the coverage plan
Assign each beat a shot purpose, coverage type, framing, subject, action, and continuity note.
03
Review and hand off
Check the whole sequence for missing information, redundant coverage, axis breaks, and continuity risks before frame generation.
Explore the connected workflow
Keep building from the same story.
Characters, casting, and relationships
Turn names in a script into useful character direction: motivation, relationships, casting intent, visual anchors, and consistent references for every storyboard scene.
Scenes, beats, props, and locations
Organize the pieces that make a scene playable and visual: dramatic beats, recurring locations, hero props, character presence, and the continuity notes that connect one moment to the next.
AI production assets
Generate character portraits, location studies, prop designs, scene stills, and storyboard frames from the context already present in your story, then keep the useful results organized for the next creative decision.
FAQ
Practical answers for the next draft.
Does this page generate finished storyboard frames?+
Its primary job is planning. It produces a scene coverage brief and shot order that you can hand to LlamaGen's visual generator, a storyboard artist, or a production team after the decisions are approved.
What belongs in a screenplay coverage plan?+
Include the dramatic beat, shot purpose, coverage type, subject, action, framing, screen direction, eyeline, movement, and the continuity details that neighboring shots must preserve.
How is this different from an AI storyboard generator?+
A generator focuses on producing frames. This planner focuses on deciding which shots are needed, why they are needed, and how coverage and continuity should work before image generation begins.
Create your first screenplay today.
Write or import a scene, shape its structure, and turn the screenplay into a storyboard you can refine, share, present, and export.