Script to storyboard and shot list, with the NOLGIA Agent

What goes wrong

Before you start

• A script or a scene, 50 to 150 words, with the characters named.
• One line describing each character the way a costume department would: age, hair, glasses, the one garment that identifies them.
• A hosted NOLGIA Agent, which comes with Studio plans. Open Agent to see yours.
• A number of shots in mind, and the frame shape. We asked for six shots at 16:9.

INT. LOCKSMITH KIOSK, NIGHT. Rain. A tiny kiosk lit by one green neon tube. MARA, sixties, cuts keys with steady hands. A YOUNG MAN in a soaked suit slides a photograph of a key across the counter. No key, just the photo. She studies it. She cuts one from memory. He tries it in the kiosk's own door. It opens. She was expecting him.

Send the script and the request to the agent

Open Agent and start a new chat. The message does four jobs: it asks for the shot list as a table with named columns, it fixes the number of frames and the image model, it gives the character descriptions the agent must repeat in every frame prompt, and it forbids text and signs. Then the script goes at the end.

Turn this short script into a storyboard. First write a numbered shot list as a table with these columns: shot, size (wide, medium, close up, insert), camera move, who is in frame, action, seconds. Keep it to six shots. Then generate exactly one storyboard frame per shot, six frames in total, 16:9, on the Nano Banana 2 image model, one image per request. Use the same written description of Mara and of the young man in every frame prompt so the frames read as one story: Mara is a woman in her sixties with cropped grey hair, round steel glasses and a dark green work apron; the young man is in his twenties, in a soaked navy suit with rain on his face. The kiosk is lit by one green neon tube. Photoreal, cinematic, rain, night, no readable text or signs anywhere. Do not make any video. Do not upscale. When the six frames are done, reply with the shot list table and one line per frame saying what it shows.

Read the shot list it wrote

The reply came back in one turn: the table first, then a line per frame with a link to each image. This is the table exactly as the agent wrote it.

Look at every frame at full size

Each frame is one Nano Banana 2 request, and each prompt carried the same two character descriptions. Here are the six, in the agent's order, with what we checked on each.

Fix one frame without redoing the board

Frame 2 came back with a real manufacturer's name printed on the key-cutting machine. A frame with a brand on it cannot be published, so we replied in the same chat and asked for that one frame again, unmarked. One turn, one image, and the other five stayed as they were.

Frame 2 (the medium shot of the young man sliding the photograph across the counter) has a readable brand name printed on the key-cutting machine. Please regenerate only Frame 2, one image on Nano Banana 2, 16:9, with the same shot description and the same written descriptions of Mara and the young man, and make sure there is no lettering, logo, label or brand name anywhere in the frame: the machine is plain unmarked metal. Do not regenerate the other frames. Reply with one line saying what the new frame shows.

Which tool for which job

Where you still regenerate

• Words in the picture. One of six frames carried a brand name despite "no readable text". Check every frame at full size before it goes anywhere.
• Beats the model reads literally. The insert of the photograph shows a photograph, which is right; an insert of "his fingertips" might have shown the hand. Say what the lens sees.
• Frames are not sequence-aware. Each frame is its own request. The same description holds the wardrobe and props; it does not hold the face, and we do not claim it does.
• Long turns cost more. An agent turn that makes six images is a long turn; ours was priced at the flat rate plus a usage charge, itemised in the account's usage history.

What it costs

Two things are charged: the agent turn, at the flat rate plus a usage charge on long turns, and each frame at the image model's rate. The live rate for the model we asked for is below. The redo was a second, shorter turn and one more image.

Checklist

• Script pasted in full, characters described once in the message, the same words for every frame.
• Number of shots, image model and frame shape named in the message.
• "No readable text or signs anywhere" in the message, and every frame checked at full size anyway.
• The shot list saved as the working document; the frames as its illustration.
• One frame redone in the same chat, not the whole board.

Try it yourself

Start a new chat with the message above and your own script under it. The reply will be a different table and different frames, because the agent writes them fresh each time; the shape of the reply, a table then one line per frame, is what this recipe produces.