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 bare tungsten bulb. MARA, twenties, 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 five 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, it forbids text and signs, and its last line sets a credit budget for the turn (we left our figure out below; name your own). 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 2.1 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 mid twenties with a sleek black chin-length bob, round steel glasses, small silver hoops and a dark green work apron over an oversized black leather jacket; the young man is in his twenties, with dark wavy hair plastered down by the rain, in a soaked charcoal check suit and an open-collared cream shirt. The kiosk is lit by one bare tungsten bulb, warm against the blue rain outside. 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 one line per frame with the image under it. The agent wrote the table as plain lines with no header rule, so the chat shows it as running text. Here it is laid out as a table, word for word.

Look at every frame at full size

Each frame is one Nano Banana 2.1 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.

The agent checks its own frames

This run needed no follow-up from us. Before it replied, the agent checked all six frames and redid one inside the same turn, then said so at the end of its reply.

If a frame still comes back wrong, reply in the same chat: name the frame and what is wrong, and ask for that one frame again on the same model, with the same character descriptions. The other frames stay as they are.

Which tool for which job

Where you still regenerate

• Words in the picture. None of our six frames carried lettering this time; the old board had a brand name on its machine. Check every frame at full size anyway.
• 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 charged for the agent's work above its brain's flat rate and for seven images, the redo included, and the account's usage history itemizes both.

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 agent's redo of frame 5 happened inside the same turn and added one 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.