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Storyboards

Eight pencil panels that planned the whole 12-second spot before a single frame of video was generated. I wrote the story and directed every panel. Claude turned it into shot prompts, and Runway drew the boards.

Shots4

Panels8

ToolsClaude · Runway · Photoshop

Year2026

Shot 1

The rainy city

Open on a cold, grey street. The bottle is the only thing that looks inviting.

Storyboard: the AUREL bottle on a wet café table as a tram rushes past in the rain — 1A · A tram rushes past the bottle on a wet café table.

Storyboard: a hand reaches toward the bottle, with an arrow showing the motion — 1B · A hand reaches in. The arrow tells Runway which way to move.

Storyboard: the hand lifts the bottle off the table — 1C · She lifts the bottle.

Shot 2

The swap

The moment she picks it up, the city is gone.

Storyboard: a hand holds the bottle on a stone wall in a sunny Alpine village — 2A · Same bottle, same hand. Now it’s a sunny Alpine village.

Shot 3

Inside the bubbles

A POV from inside the bottle, the way the classic soda ads do it.

Storyboard: a single bubble drifting up inside the bottle — 3A · One bubble drifts up.

Storyboard: a burst of bubbles rising inside the bottle — 3B · Then a burst rises to the top.

Shot 4

The sip

She drinks with the mountains behind her. One sip, and she’s at the source.

Storyboard: the woman drinks from the bottle with mountains behind her — 4A · The sip.

Storyboard: the woman lowers the bottle, eyes closed, smiling — 4B · She lowers the bottle, eyes closed.

When words weren’t enough, I drew it. Runway kept misreading camera moves and staging, so I sketched direction right on the board in Photoshop, like the arrow in 1B. Next, every board became a photoreal style frame.