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Start a project Every shot agreed first
You see each camera angle and move before production, and approve the film as a sequence, not a promise.
Film & Storytelling / Storyboarding
Storyboarding
Every shot planned and approved before production, so the film is right before anything is rendered.
Why storyboard
Fix it in the frame,
not in the render.
Changing a storyboard frame takes minutes. Changing a rendered shot takes days. Storyboarding moves every creative decision to the cheapest point in the project, before full production starts.
No surprises at the end
The final film follows the plan you signed. What you approved in the storyboard is what you get on screen.
Faster, cheaper changes
Ideas are tested as quick frames, so rendering time goes only into shots that are already right.
Inside a storyboard
Read the film
before it exists.
Four frames from a real road project storyboard. Every frame carries its camera, move, timing and voice-over line.
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Shot 016sVO“The city centre needs a way around the traffic.”
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Shot 025sVO“The new route starts at the interchange.”
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Shot 036sVO“It runs straight through the neighbourhoods.”
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Shot 044sVO“Arriving at Othman Bin Afan.”
Our process
From story
to signed frames.
Five steps, two approval gates. By the end you have watched your film as an animatic and signed every shot, before a single frame is rendered.
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Story beats
Breaking the message into scenes.
We take the brief and split the story into a handful of beats: the site today, the problem, the proposal, the impact and the ask. Each beat gets one job to do.
- Read the brief, drawings and key messages
- Split the film into four to six story beats
- Agree the running time and the tone
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Shot list
Every shot, camera and timing.
Each beat becomes a list of shots. For every shot we decide what the camera sees, how it moves and how long it stays, so the edit is planned before anything is built.
- Shot number, camera position and lens
- Camera move and duration in seconds
- Voice-over line or on-screen callout per shot
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Frames
Each shot framed in 3D.
We frame every shot on the 3D model or the map, using your drawings for exact angles and scale. Routes, zones and labels are marked on each frame, so you can read the film shot by shot.
- One frame per shot, on the real model
- Routes, zones and labels marked on screen
- Key frames flagged for style direction
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Animatic
Frames timed to voice and music.
The frames are cut together with temporary voice-over and music at the real timing. You watch the film from start to finish before any 3D work begins.
- Frames edited to exact shot lengths
- Temporary voice-over and music
- Simple moves and transitions between frames
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Sign-off
Locked and ready for production.
Once approved, the storyboard is locked and handed to production. Every render now follows a plan you already agreed to, which keeps the schedule and the budget safe.
- Final storyboard PDF with shot list
- Locked animatic as the edit reference
- Handover to 3D production
Storyboard to screen
Dammam Cultural Quarter.
Three storyboarded beats from one film, from the city map down to street level.
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