30s · 60s
PrevizStorytelling Videos
Three Act Micro Film
A complete three-act structure compressed into thirty seconds — setup, complication and resolution with real proportions.
A story needs someone to want something and something in the way. These prompts set up a character, a want and an obstacle inside a handful of seconds, then give the turn its own frame — structure most short-form video skips entirely.
12 prompts
30s · 60s
PrevizStorytelling Videos
A complete three-act structure compressed into thirty seconds — setup, complication and resolution with real proportions.
10s · 15s
Storytelling Videos
The smallest complete story unit — one person, one want, one thing in the way, established without a word.
15s · 30s
PrevizStorytelling Videos
A complete emotional journey carried on a face and a changing environment, with no language at all.
15s · 30s
PrevizStorytelling Videos
Time shown through a fixed frame that changes — the technique that compresses months into fifteen seconds.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
A relationship established through shot geometry — where two people are placed says more than what they do.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
A film assembled from incomplete fragments — the visual grammar of remembering rather than recording.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
A story told by following one object through many hands — a structure that covers years in seconds.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
A story structured around something written and read — a device that carries interiority without a narrator.
30s
PrevizStorytelling Videos
The most reliable emotional structure there is — someone comes back to a place that has changed.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
Someone doing something for the first time — a structure that gets attention for free.
30s · 60s
Storytelling Videos
Two stories cut together so each comments on the other — a structure with far more meaning than its parts.
15s · 30s
Storytelling Videos
A film whose last shot changes the meaning of its first — the structure that earns a rewatch.