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Storyboard
aka Boards
A sequence of drawn or AI-generated frames that visualise the film shot-by-shot before principal photography.
A storyboard is the director's shot-by-shot plan, rendered as frames a stranger can read. The director, the DP, the production designer, and the 1st AD all work off the same boards — so when day-of comes, every department knows what's expected of every setup. StoryboardCanvas Editor is a full-featured frame editor (HTML/CSV/PDF export, per-frame metadata, scene-heading anchors, threaded comments, anonymous reviewer share tokens) that pairs with Draw (1,000+ GPU brushes) and AI Artist (Mitchell + custom artists, Vision-QA style-locked) to cover boards from hand-drawn through fully AI-generated.
In StoryboardCanvas
See Storyboard live in /editor
Every storyboard we generate stays linked to the rest of the project — change a scene heading and the storyboard updates automatically. No re-import. No copy-paste. One project file from script to wrap.
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Animatic
A timed sequence of storyboard frames cut against dialogue, scratch music, and sound effects — the closest thing to seeing the film before you shoot it.
Shot List
The director's per-scene list of every shot to be captured — shot number, type, angle, movement, lens, and any special notes.
Look Book
A curated reference deck — stills, palette boards, mood, costume samples, location references — pitched to a director, financier, or production designer before prep starts.