How to make a storyboard from a script with AI (Hindi scripts too)

Step 1: Clean the script into scenes

Before any AI, read the script and mark every scene. A new scene starts when the place or the time changes. Give each one a simple heading:

SCENE 3. INT. SHARMA HOUSE KITCHEN, LUCKNOW. EARLY MORNING.

INT means inside, EXT means outside. This one line already tells the AI the location, the light and the mood. If your script is in Hindi, the heading can be in Hindi too; the important part is that every scene has one.

Step 2: Break each scene into beats

A beat is a small change: someone enters, a look, a decision, a reveal. Every beat usually needs at least one shot. Here is a short Hindi scene:

माँ चाय बना रही है। नेहा पीछे से आती है, हाथ में एक पैकेट।
नेहा: माँ, आँखें बंद करो।
माँ: अब क्या नया ड्रामा है?
नेहा पैकेट खोलती है। अंदर एक साड़ी।
नेहा: मेरी पहली सैलरी से।
माँ चुप। चाय उबल जाती है।

(Mother is making tea. Neha comes in from behind holding a packet. "Maa, close your eyes." "What new drama is this?" She opens it: a saree. "From my first salary." The mother goes quiet. The tea boils over.)

Beats: mother at work, Neha enters, the request, the reveal, the line, the silence, the tea boiling over. Seven beats, which is a good guide for the number of shots.

Step 3: Write the shot list

The shot list is the heart of the storyboard. One row per shot.

Notice what this list already does: it chooses where the camera is, what we see and what we hear. That is directing. If shot sizes and angles are new to you, read the guide to shot sizes and camera angles.

Step 4: Lock the look before you generate

The biggest problem in AI storyboards is that the same person looks different in every frame. Fix it before generating anything:

• Character sheet: one short, fixed description per character, used word for word in every prompt.
• Location sheet: the same for each place.
• Style line: one line for light and colour, repeated in every frame.

CHARACTER: Neha, 24, Indian woman, shoulder length black hair tied back,
small silver studs, mustard cotton kurta, warm brown skin with natural texture.

CHARACTER: Maa, 50s, Indian woman, grey streaks in a low bun, small red bindi,
faded green cotton saree, reading glasses on a chain.

LOCATION: small Lucknow kitchen, steel utensils on open shelves,
two burner gas stove, window on the left with morning light.

STYLE: soft natural morning light, warm tones, realistic, 35mm film look.

Step 5: Generate one frame per shot

Now each frame prompt is simply the shot list row plus the fixed sheets:

Close-up of Maa (use CHARACTER: Maa) standing at the stove in the
small Lucknow kitchen (use LOCATION), eyes just opened, looking down
at a folded silk saree in her hands, lips pressed, eyes glistening,
eye level, shallow depth of field. STYLE line.

Keep frames simple. A storyboard frame has to communicate the shot, not be a finished poster. If a frame is right in composition but a little off in detail, keep it and move on.

Step 6: Build an animatic and check timing

Put the frames on a timeline in order. Record a rough voice track on your phone, add basic sounds, and play it. This is an animatic. You will immediately feel where the scene drags and where it rushes. In the example above, shot 6 probably needs to hold longer: the silence is the moment. Adjust, regenerate only the frames that change, and lock the board.

Hindi scripts: what changes

Nothing in the method. Write the script in Hindi, Hinglish or English, whichever you think in. Keep dialogue in the language it will be spoken. For image and video prompts, English descriptions generally work best with today's models, so translate only the visual description of each shot, not the dialogue.

Doing it in Kritiverse

Kritiverse has a Storyboard tool that turns a script, including a Hindi script, into a storyboard you can review. The useful part is that it sits inside the AI Film Workflow: idea, script, storyboard, shots, edit, captions and voice, export. When you move from board to generation, Direction Mode lets you set shot size, lens, camera move and lighting. Start with the storyboard generator from script and check every shot against your own shot list before generating video. The cost of any paid generation is shown before you click.

Common mistakes

• Too many shots. Every shot should earn its place. If two shots say the same thing, cut one.
• Same shot size for everything. A run of medium shots feels flat. Mix wide, medium and close.
• No geography. Show where people are in relation to each other early, then go close.
• Breaking screen direction. If Neha is on the left of Maa in one shot, keep her on the left in the next, unless you show the camera moving.
• Generating video before the board is locked. Fixing a frame is cheap. Fixing a video clip costs more time and more generations.
• Pretty frames, no story. A beautiful board that does not show who wants what is not doing its job.