Dialogue Reveal Storyboard Template

Create a square 3x3 2048x2048 storyboard grid as a cinematic storyboard infographic showing reveal a difficult truth through conversation and reaction: In a late-night cafe, an estranged father slides a sealed adoption file across the table to the daughter he raised. The scene moves from guarded small talk to the moment she understands why her childhood never made sense.

Use dark moody high-end film stills, realistic lighting, subtle teal-and-amber color grade, shallow depth of field, atmospheric dust and shadows. Maintain consistent subject identity, wardrobe, location type, visual medium, lighting, and color palette across all panels. If a reference image is provided, use it as the visual anchor for the subject, world, and style; if no reference image is provided, synthesize one coherent world from the story.

Plan the 9 storyboard panels yourself from the story and the template rhythm, then render the final infographic. Story facts must not change: preserve the named relationship, setting, key object, reveal, cause, and emotional meaning from the story. Do not replace the story's key object with a different document, incident, crime, accident, or backstory.

Arrange the storyboard in a clean 3x3 grid with thin black borders. Each tile must have a large crop-safe cinematic image area and a separate dark information strip below it. The image area must contain no text, labels, captions, UI, watermarks, or typography. Put all written information only in the strip below each image.

Sequence rhythm: Two-shot → OTS ping-pong → insert interrupt → ECU climax → wide aftermath

Use this template structure as the shot grammar, but adapt every panel to the concrete story:
1. Establishing two-shot (top-left) — Wide / two-shot, 24mm. Purpose: Establish space and relationship. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 1 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 24mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
2. Over-the-shoulder setup (top-center) — OTS medium, 50mm. Purpose: Enter the conversation tension. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 2 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 50mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
3. Listener close-up (top-right) — Close-up, 75mm. Purpose: Capture first emotional resistance. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 3 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 75mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
4. Insert clue (middle-left) — Insert close-up, 85mm. Purpose: Introduce the object or information that changes the scene. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 4 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 85mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
5. Reverse over-the-shoulder (center) — Reverse OTS, 50mm. Purpose: Shift perspective to the other character. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 5 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 50mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
6. Extreme close-up (middle-right) — ECU, 35mm. Purpose: Show micro-emotion as truth lands. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 6 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 35mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
7. Medium wide silence (bottom-left) — Medium wide, 24mm. Purpose: Let the silence and body language speak. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 7 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 24mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
8. Tight reaction (bottom-center) — Tight close-up, 75mm. Purpose: Emotional climax. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 8 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 75mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"
9. Aftermath wide (bottom-right) — Wide aftermath, 24mm. Purpose: Show the changed relationship after the reveal. Suggested strip pattern: "SHOT 9 | ARRI Alexa Mini LF | 24mm | [write the concrete story beat you plan for this panel]"

Each information strip must show the planned panel title, shot metadata, and the concrete story beat in plain English. The strip text must include the story's key object and reveal where relevant, so the sequence cannot be mistaken for a different incident. Use clear numbered scene titles, compact metadata, and concise action subtitles in the information strips. Use plain text only: no emojis, no decorative symbols, no fake app UI text, and no real brand logos or copyrighted marks. Make each panel visually distinct through shot scale, camera angle, lens feeling, blocking, foreground/background layering, and subject movement. Exactly 9 panels, no extra panels, no merged panels, no duplicate compositions, no speech bubbles, no lorem ipsum, high-detail professional storyboard sheet.