The Next Tide: a six-shot storyboard with a shared cast, locations, and props.
Reusable character, location, and prop references anchor the six-shot board. Select the Stills step above to see the editable storyboard.
Reference images and voice takes generated with FAL through NodeTool
Follow the Storyboard guide
Start from a Mystery storyboard: review the story, cast character and location references, then choose the look.
Idea
→Story
→Entities
→Look
Bring to this recipe
A short story premise
Character, location, and prop references
Your chosen image, video, and voice providers
Try the example brief
The Next Tide. A lighthouse keeper discovers a bottle carrying a message dated forty years in the future, written in her own hand. A restrained mystery on a blue-hour coast, with a warm amber keeper's room. Six shots for a short trailer. One central character, a lighthouse, a room, and a message bottle. No readable text inside generated pictures.
About this example
This example stops at the six-shot storyboard. Motion, score, and the trailer are not in this run. The final steps explain how to continue.
The story begins as a short written premise. Open the image to inspect it at full size.
Step 1 of 9 · Guided setup
Start with the story
Create a project and choose Storyboard. Describe the central character, discovery, and mood. The example starts with a lighthouse keeper finding a message from the future.
Continue
Start with your own idea
Install NodeTool Studio, create a project, and choose Storyboard. Add your brief and references, then connect your provider keys before generating media.
