Boords automatically does the tedious work caused by rearranging frames of a storyboard. We can do more trial and error without stress and be more creative.
11 years of video preproduction sign-off
The sign-off layer for video preproduction
One tool for storyboards, animatics, and client sign-off.
No missed feedback, no expensive reshoots.
No missed feedback, no expensive reshoots.
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Water Bottle Ad
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1
The Morning Rush
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman reaching for water bottle on nightstand, warm early morning light through curtains
Text Fields
Person waking up, reaching over to grab the bottle from the nightstand. Early morning light.
No sound.
2
Filling Up
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Close-up of hands filling the bottle at a kitchen sink, water running
Text Fields
Character at the kitchen sink, filling the bottle with water. Morning routine feel.
Satisfying running water sound.
3
Out the Door
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman stepping through front door into bright daylight, bottle in hand, confident stride
Text Fields
Character heading out the front door, bottle in hand. Bright daylight outside.
Upbeat morning ambience.
4
At the Office
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman working on laptop with water bottle on desk beside keyboard, modern office
Text Fields
Character settled at their desk, laptop open. Bottle placed prominently beside the keyboard.
Soft office ambience.
5
The Gym
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman mid-workout pausing to drink from bottle, gym equipment in background
Text Fields
Character mid-workout, pausing to take a long drink from the bottle. Gym equipment visible in background.
Gym sounds, exertion breath.
6
The Problem
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Woman at vending machine looking disappointed, patting empty bag, no bottle
Text Fields
Character standing at a vending machine, looking frustrated. No reusable bottle in sight.
Coins dropping. Disappointed sigh.
7
Never Again
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Close up shot of this woman's hand placing the bottle on a hallway table
Text Fields
Character back home, deliberately placing the bottle by the front door for tomorrow.
Quiet. A soft, resolved musical note.
8
Hero Shot
Image Generator
Sketch
Medium shot
Using: prompt & references
Clean product shot, bottle centred on plain background, space for tagline
Text Fields
Clean close-up of the bottle alone, centred in frame. Tagline treatment.
Silence, then a soft music sting.
6 comments
Frame 1
Sarah2h ago
The morning light in frame 1 really sets the tone. Can we keep that warm palette consistent through frames 2 and 3?
James1h ago
Good call — I'll make sure the colour grading stays warm until the office scene shifts cooler.
Frame 5
Alex45m ago
Frame 5 is doing a lot of heavy lifting — the gym scene needs to feel energetic but not chaotic. Maybe tighten the crop?
Frame 6
Sarah30m ago
The vending machine scene is the emotional pivot. Make sure the frustration reads clearly — we lose the ad if this doesn't land.
Frame 8
Tom20m ago
Hero shot looks clean. Should we add the tagline in post or comp it into the storyboard for client approval?
Alex15m ago
Comp it in — the client will want to see how the text treatment sits against the bottle. Less back-and-forth later.
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Boords helps us streamline our storyboarding process and makes it easy to produce storyboards the way we want to. Our clients can provide feedback easily and it's effortless for us to make changes as needed, letting us focus on the creative.
Boords made storyboarding faster, flexible and above all, easy to collaborate on. It's adding so much value to the ultimate goal of bringing stories to life.
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Feedback scattered across email. 'Final_v3_REAL.pdf' in five folders. Client asks which version they approved.
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Boords has drastically changed our workflow. Before, we spent so much time creating storyboards that we were happy to put in front of clients. Now everyone in our business can create storyboards that are visually pleasing. I can't recommend it enough.
Boords helps us spend time on the creative, not the formatting. It's every creative's dream.
Boords is an essential part of our workflow. The ability to share our storyboards with clients gives them the opportunity to visualise the project earlier, give feedback and be assured the project is heading in the right direction.
Revisions are cheap on a board, expensive on a shoot
A board revision costs ten minutes. A reshoot costs a day, a crew, and a client relationship. Boords turns the board into a timed animatic in one click, so pacing gets signed off before anyone opens an editor.
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Boords makes it easy to keep track of versions and makes the storyboarding process more collaborative. It's the type of tool that makes you wonder how you ever lived without it.
Without Boords storyboarding was the most painful part of the production process, with Boords it's the most painless. Super easy to use and speeds up the pre-production process immeasurably.
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Making storyboards is a fun and creative process… until you need to shift some frames around! Boords is an excellent tool for letting you focus on your story while allowing for rapid changes as the creative process takes its inevitable twists and turns.
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Creative Director, Paradigm
Every frame starts somewhere
Most teams run preproduction across four or five tools. Docs for the script, Slides for the board, Unsplash for stock, Slack for review. Boords collapses the stack into one. Bring your own images or describe a scene to generate one, then move into the board, the animatic, and the sign-off without switching tabs.
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Before Boords, tracking feedback was a mess. With Boords we've got versioning, commenting, and presenting all in one place. It helps us with client communication so much.
Boords allows us to keep all our storyboards in one place. It's also very easy to add review notes to share with our design team right inside Boords, which streamlines communication.
Since we got Boords, we haven't looked back! We'd been working with custom PDF templates and we knew there had to be a better way, and we found it! It's intuitive, it's visually pleasing, and it's saved us a hell of a lot of time.
We built Boords because pre-production was broken
I'm James, founder of Boords. Before this, I co-founded Animade, an animation studio in London.
Back then, we built storyboards in Photoshop. Or Google Slides. Or InDesign. Whatever got the job done. But tracking versions was a nightmare. "FinalFinal_v3_USE_THIS.pdf"... you know the drill.
Client notes lived in email threads. Nobody could find the version we'd actually locked. Every storyboard looked different because we were rebuilding templates from scratch each time, manually reordering frames, fiddling with layouts. We'd waste hours on formatting instead of ideas.
So in 2015, I built the first version of Boords to fix it. Consistent boards every time. Notes in context, not buried in inboxes. One link to share, and no more guessing which version got approved.
11 years and over 2 million storyboards later, Boords is still independent, still small, and still built around one idea: pre-production should be where you do your best thinking, not where you lose hours to process.
James Chambers, Founder
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Independent software built by creative professionals since 2015
11 years of video preproduction sign-off
The sign-off layer for video preproduction
One tool for storyboards, animatics, and client sign-off.
No missed feedback, no expensive reshoots.
warp-studio.boords.com
warp-studio.boords.com