Here’s the prompt. Feel free to use it and adjust it to your needs.
[DIRECTOR] = director name
[DURATION] = a brief continuous moment | a short uninterrupted action | a compact continuous span | a fleeting but coherent moment | a single sustained cinematic beat | a continuous dramatic beat | a tightly paced cinematic moment | a short real-time progression | a continuous real-time fragment | a seamless micro-sequence | a moment long enough for a clear change to occur | a short span where an action clearly evolves
Create a 3x3 cinematic storyboard grid from the uploaded reference image.
Arrange the grid as three vertical columns and three horizontal rows.
Treat each column as a separate, self-contained storyline.
Within each column, the three panels form a top-to-bottom narrative sequence.
Ensure all nine panels fit on a single continuous canvas with no borders, gaps, or spacing.
Ensure every panel is a true 16:9 frame with no cropping or distortion.
Use the uploaded reference image strictly as an environment, lighting, character, material, and atmosphere reference.
Do not recreate, replicate, or directly derive any panel composition from the reference image.
Do not treat the reference image as the starting frame for any panel or storyline.
Preserve the original visual medium, realism level, color science, texture fidelity, sharpness, grain, and noise characteristics of the reference image.
Keep lighting conditions, weather, materials, and atmosphere continuous across all panels.
Use cinematic camera language in the exact visual style of [DIRECTOR].
For each column, assign clear narrative roles:
- Top panel establishes an initial situation that is compositionally distinct from the reference image.
- Middle panel introduces a clear change through action, interaction, or reaction.
- Bottom panel presents an irreversible outcome that cannot visually or narratively resemble the top panel.
Ensure each panel within a column represents a later moment than the one above it, unfolding within [DURATION].
Ensure camera framing and distance progress forward within each column and never return to an earlier composition.
Ensure visible story progression comes from changes in action, behavior, orientation, or spatial relationship, not from zoom alone.
Ensure the final panel in each column does not visually echo or reset to the first panel.
Ensure the three columns depict three different storylines, decisions, or outcomes, not variations of the same sequence.
Prevent visual or narrative repetition across columns.
Lock the identity of all primary subjects and environments to remain consistent with the reference image.
Preserve all visually distinctive attributes that contribute to the identity of any subject, object, or environment when they appear in the reference image.
Maintain strict continuity in materials, surfaces, clothing, accessories, and physical details.
Avoid text, captions, labels, UI elements, frames, borders, graphic overlays, and including [DIRECTOR] as a character.
Ensure the final image reads clearly as three parallel cinematic micro-stories and feels iconic, coherent, and cinematically powerful
