Storyboard and design models

Every Scenema video starts as a storyboard: the Director reads the script, plans the characters, places and stages, and then designs each shot before any image is generated. The Storyboard and design setting chooses the model that does this work. Five models are on offer, from Claude Opus 5.5, the most careful and the most expensive, to GPT-6 Luna, the lightest and the least expensive.

What the setting does

The chosen model writes the project’s storyboard and designs every shot in it. The chat with the Director stays the same whichever model is chosen, so conversations, questions and edits made in the chat behave identically on every model. Narration, images and video clips have their own models and are unaffected by this setting.

The Storyboard and design panel on the dashboard showing the guide view, with the highlighted question icon at the top right and the highlighted opening line that explains what the model does

The question icon at the top of the list (highlighted as 1) turns the list into a short guide with one sentence per model. The guide opens with the line highlighted as 2: the model writes the storyboard and designs every shot, and the chat always works the same way. Selecting the icon again returns to the list.

Where to find it

The same list appears in three places, and each shows the model currently in use with a check mark next to it.

On the dashboard

The highlighted sliders button in the composer footer opens the Storyboard and design panel. A model picked there applies to the next project created from the composer.

On a phone

On a phone, the same sliders button opens the Settings sheet. Its Storyboard and design section holds the same list and the same question icon.

In the studio

The studio with the chat panel open on the left and the highlighted model chip in the message box, reading Claude Sonnet 5.5

Inside a project, the highlighted chip in the chat’s message box shows the model the project uses. Selecting the chip opens the list above the chat, and a pick there is saved on the project at once.

The models

The Storyboard and design panel listing Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna, with Claude Sonnet 5.5 checked and its four diamonds highlighted

Each row shows the model’s price as diamonds, from one to five. The highlighted diamonds on the Claude Sonnet 5.5 row show four of five. Diamonds compare the models with each other; they are a relative price and carry no exact credit figure.

Model	Price	Relative speed	Good at	When to use it
Claude Opus 5.5	5 diamonds	Slowest	The richest, most accurate and most nuanced storytelling, and the most careful shot design	Brand films, documentaries, lessons where every fact must land, and stories with many characters and places. Paid plans only.
Claude Sonnet 5.5	4 diamonds	Moderate	Rich storytelling and detailed shot design, a little faster than Opus	Most long form explainers. Paid plans only.
Gemini 3.8 Flash	3 diamonds	Fast	Quick and dependable plans with good detail	Tutorials, explainers and product videos.
GPT-6.1 Terra	2 diamonds	Fastest	Clean plans with simpler scenes	Drafts, quick iterations and product walkthroughs, when speed matters most. The default on paid plans.
GPT-6 Luna	1 diamond	Fast	Light and quick plans that stay faithful to the script, with plain scenes	Social media reels and shorts with no complex action. The default on the Free plan.

A higher price buys more storytelling depth and more careful shot design, and a lower price buys speed and simpler scenes. A video with many characters, places or facts to keep straight benefits most from Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Sonnet 5.5, while a short reel with one presenter and a plain setting suits GPT-6 Luna.

Defaults on each plan

A project with no pick uses its plan’s default:

Plan	Default model
Free	GPT-6 Luna
Starter, Creator and Pro	GPT-6.1 Terra

A pick replaces the default for that project. Setting default over the API (below) returns a project to the plan’s own choice.

Plan limits

The Storyboard and design panel on the Free plan, with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 greyed out and their highlighted Upgrade buttons next to the names, and GPT-6 Luna checked

Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 need a paid plan. On the Free plan both rows are locked, and the highlighted Upgrade buttons next to their names open the upgrade options. Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna are open on every plan. See Billing for the plans.

When Scenema refuses a pick because the plan does not include the model, it shows the notice “This model is not available on your current plan.” and the project keeps the model it had.

Changing the model later

The studio chat with the Storyboard and design list open above the chat input, and the highlighted Claude Sonnet 5.5 row checked as the project’s model

The model can change at any point in a project from the chip in the studio chat. The highlighted row is the model the project uses now. A new pick takes effect on the next storyboard or design run. Finished shots are kept as they are.

Over MCP and the API

Assistants connected to Scenema over MCP set the model with the update_project_settings tool and its planningModel field:

Value	Model
`default`	The plan’s default (GPT-6 Luna on Free, Claude Sonnet 5.5 on paid plans)
`claude-opus-5.5`	Claude Opus 5.5
`claude-sonnet-5.5`	Claude Sonnet 5.5
`gemini-3.8-flash`	Gemini 3.8 Flash
`gpt-6.1-terra`	GPT-6.1 Terra
`gpt-6-luna`	GPT-6 Luna

{
  "projectId": "proj_...",
  "planningModel": "claude-opus-5.5"
}

On the Free plan, claude-opus-5.5 and claude-sonnet-5.5 answer with upgradeRequired, which carries a message and an upgradeUrl, and the project keeps its current model.