Make a printable storyboard template in seconds. Pick 16:9, 2.39:1, 9:16 or a custom frame shape, choose Letter or A4, type your shot notes or leave the lines blank, and download a clean PDF with every frame in the exact ratio.
Each frame prints at
3.20 × 1.80 in
81.4 × 45.8 mm · 3 × 2, Landscape
Set it up, fill in what you know, and print. Nothing leaves your device.
Choose the aspect ratio of your video, the paper size and how many panels you want on each page. The tool lays out the largest frames that fit.
Click a panel to add the shot size, camera move, action and dialogue, or drop in a sketch or photo. Leave it all empty for a blank storyboard template you fill in by hand.
Download a vector PDF, PNG pages or a shot list. Print at Actual size, then measure the 1 inch bar to check that nothing was scaled.
Frames in the real shape of your video, room to write, and a clean page every time.
Plenty of printable storyboard templates call their frames 16:9 when the boxes are really closer to 1.85:1, so a sketch that fits on paper is cropped on screen. Here every frame is drawn in the ratio you choose, and the ratio is printed above it. Pick 16:9, 2.39:1, 1.85:1, 4:3, 1:1, 4:5 or 9:16, or type your own from 1:4 to 4:1.
Small boxes are hard to draw in. The layout tries portrait and landscape and every grid for your panel count, then keeps the one with the largest frames. The settings show the exact frame size in inches and millimeters, so you know what you are drawing on before you print.
Choose the fields under each frame: shot size, angle, movement, duration, transition, action, dialogue and sound, notes, or an AI prompt. Type into them and the text prints as sharp, real text; leave them empty and you get ruled lines for a pencil. Roomy lines leave space for handwriting, and a warning appears before any text is cut.
Drop, paste or choose an image for any shot: a phone photo of a sketch, a location scout picture or a frame you made with AI. It is cropped to the frame shape and you can slide it into position. Images stay on your device unless you send one to Image to Video.
Each panel has two shortcuts. Create this frame opens our Text to Image generator with the shot's prompt and the closest ratio it offers. Once a panel has a picture, Animate this frame sends it to Image to Video with the same prompt. The storyboard template itself stays free; only generating uses credits.
Pages use the exact paper size, so Letter is 8.5 × 11 in and A4 is 210 × 297 mm, with a 0.5 in margin that home printers can reach. The PDF asks your printer for Actual size, and every page carries a 1 inch and a 25 mm bar you can measure to confirm nothing was shrunk.
0.5 in safe margin
Actual size (100%)
Measure this bar: it should be exactly 1 inch
Two boards made with this storyboard template maker, exactly as they print: a 16:9 short film on US Letter and a 9:16 vertical ad on A4.
What to write in each panel, which frame to pick and how to print it right.
A storyboard is a series of drawings that shows a video shot by shot, in the order the audience will see it. A storyboard template is the empty sheet you draw on: a grid of frames in the shape of the final video, with space under each frame for notes about the shot.
Boards let a whole team see the film before anyone films it. You find missing shots, awkward cuts and impossible camera moves on paper, where they cost nothing to fix. Stick figures are fine: the point is to make each shot clear, not pretty.
Film schools teach a short list: the shot number, the shot size, a note on the action and the sound. Add the camera movement, the angle and the transition when they matter, and a duration when timing is tight, as in ads and short social videos.
Number shots in the order they appear. When a scene needs a new shot between two others, crews usually add a letter, so shot 12 is followed by 12A and 12B, and the letters I and O are skipped because they look like numbers. Set the first shot number in the tool to continue a board across several files.
Shot size says how much of the subject fills the frame. An extreme wide shot shows a building, a landscape or a crowd; a wide or long shot shows a whole person; a medium close-up shows a person from the chest up; a close-up fills the frame with a face; an extreme close-up shows a detail such as an eye or a hand.
Movement says what the camera does. A pan turns the camera left or right, a tilt swivels it up or down, a tracking or dolly shot moves the camera through space, a crane lifts it into the air, and handheld means the operator carries it. Between shots, a cut is instant, a dissolve blends one image into the next and a fade goes to or from black.
Draw in the shape you will deliver. A 16:9 storyboard template suits YouTube, TV and most web video; use 1.85:1 or 2.39:1 for a cinematic widescreen look; 9:16 for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts; and 1:1 or 4:5 for feed posts. A vertical storyboard template with true 9:16 frames keeps faces and text where a phone screen will show them.
If one video will be posted in several shapes, board the main version first and mark what must stay in the center. Our free Aspect Ratio Calculator shows the exact crop between shapes, for example from 16:9 to 9:16.
AI video works best one short shot at a time, so a storyboard is the natural plan for it. Treat every panel as one generation: one subject, one action and one camera move, usually lasting a few seconds.
Use the AI prompt field to describe what the model should draw, and keep the same words for the same character and place in every panel so the shots match.
Pick the paper that is in your printer: US Letter in North America and A4 almost everywhere else. A storyboard template PDF made for the wrong paper gets scaled, and scaling changes the frame size and the margins.
In the print dialog choose Actual size or 100%, not Fit to page. Then measure the 1 inch bar at the bottom of the page. If it is shorter, the printer shrank the page. The standard 0.5 in margin keeps every line inside the area most home printers can reach, and the thin gray lines use very little ink.
Any video that needs a plan before the camera rolls, or before the prompt is written.
A film storyboard template with shot numbers, sizes and sound notes for the whole crew.
A video storyboard template in 16:9 for intros, B-roll and cutaways.
True 9:16 frames for hooks, payoffs and calls to action.
Small thumbnail boards for timing, larger panels for key poses.
Timed shots with durations, so a 15 second spot adds up.
A prompt for every panel, then one click to create the frame.
Quick answers about making and printing storyboards.
Sketch every shot with the free storyboard template, then create the frames and clips with GenWorldAI.
