narration-to-storyboard

Narration to Storyboard

Use only when the narration/script is finalized. The job is to design what the viewer must see while each spoken idea is heard, not to rewrite the narration.

Step 1: Meaning ledger

For every sentence or semantic clause record internally:

• exact spoken text or stable clause ID;
• start/end timing if available;
• claim type: definition, example, contrast, process, question, qualification, conclusion, call-to-action;
• what the viewer must understand by the end of the clause;
• whether the meaning is concrete, relational or abstract.

Step 2: Visual evidence

For each clause answer: “What visible change would prove this sentence has been understood?”

Prefer:

• definition -> establish a stable visual system, then show the defining transformation;
• contrast -> preserve common context while changing only the contrasted variable;
• example -> use a concrete scene whose visible cause/result maps tightly to the words;
• process -> show ordered cause -> transformation -> result;
• probability/distribution -> show population structure and relative recurrence, not decorative glow;
• agency -> show who chooses/acts and who remains a tool/background system;
• conclusion -> recombine established motifs rather than inventing a new metaphor at the end.

Step 3: Find beat boundaries

Split when one of these changes:

• dominant claim or explanatory function;
• subject/observer;
• spatial layer;
• visual metaphor;
• before/after state;
• required camera objective;
• continuity strategy.

Do not split merely because a sentence ends. Do not preserve legacy segment counts.

Step 4: Build generation units

Group adjacent beats when they share scene, continuity and a single model-executable transformation. Split when a unit becomes semantically overloaded, physically contradictory, or exceeds the target model's reliable duration.

Each unit must contain:

• narration range;
• one-sentence visual thesis;
• start state;
• 1–3 dominant visible events;
• end state;
• continuity/transition anchor;
• semantic acceptance criterion: what must be visible for the narration to be considered matched.