Storyboard a 30-Second Reel
Storyboard a 30-second reel as four beats before you generate or film anything. Each beat is one picture and one line.
To storyboard a 30-second reel, write four beats and stop. Beat one is the title, about three seconds. Beats two and three are the problem and the fix. Beat four is the ask. Thirty seconds is four pictures, not a script of twelve. If you cannot sketch it, you are not ready to render it.
One picture per beat
If a beat needs two pictures, it is two beats, and the reel is no longer 30 seconds of four. Split it or cut a picture. Crowded beats become messy frames on a phone.
Write the line under the picture
The line is what the voice says or what the caption shows, and they match. A picture with no line is a B-roll shot you will not know where to put.
Approve stills before motion
A wrong label or a wrong face is cheap to fix as a still and expensive as a finished clip. Look at the four frames in a row. Then move.
A worked example
- Title: "Name one price." 2. A menu with six prices, crossed feeling, shown as one crowded card. 3. One card, one price. 4. "Put that on the door." About seven seconds each.
Before you post
- Four beats, four pictures.
- Each picture has one line.
- You approved the stills before motion.
Where Scro fits
Scro turns those beats into a storyboard and waits for you to approve the stills before motion. The opening can carry the title. Export 9:16 when the four frames are the reel you meant.
Approve the four stills. Finished samples are on the examples page.
Related: Test Two Hooks for the Same Reel.