⭐ Storyboard MCP · Flagship · MTV instrumental opening-title
Dawn ArrivingThe MTV playbook — instrumental · cinematic opening-title sequence · the visuals carry the narrative
A cinematic orchestral instrumental piece — solo piano opening, full orchestra at the lift — paired with 6 painterly-cinematic dawn scenes from intimate empty room to mountain vista to peaceful resolution. No vocals, no lyrics, no text. The visuals carry the entire arc. Same playbook as City Light, with mode: "instrumental" flipped. 10 minutes wall, ~$4 cost.
Dawn Arriving · 1920×1080 cinema · instrumental57.7s · 6 scenes with crossfade transitions · orchestral score
The 6 scenes — from intimate empty room to mountain vista to peaceful resolution
S1 · DARKNESSsingle beam of dawn
S2 · ROOM AWAKESlight fills the parquet
S3 · VISTAmountain ridges at dawn
S4 · ARRIVALmisty river valley · sun cresting
S5 · COMMUNITYtown waking from above
S6 · RESOLUTIONopen book in the bright room
Pipeline trace — same chassis as City Light, lyric stage skipped
Stage 1 — MUSIC
1 ×
Stages 2-4 — SCENES + KEYFRAMES + ANIMATE 6 scenes, krea-2-large keyframes (parallel), kling-v3-i2v 10s animations (parallel)
Stage 5 — SKIPPED No lyric overlay because
Stage 6 — STITCH vertical-fit each anim to 1920×1080 · xfade chain · mux music at 1.0 vol → final reel ~57s
Output →
create_media action=music, model=minimax-music with TWO inputs:
prompt = "cinematic orchestral, 90 BPM, swelling strings + french horn, no vocals" ← STYLE
lyrics_prompt = "[Instrumental]" ← tells the model NO vocals at all
Output: 60s purely instrumental mp3 → done in ~46s
⚠ BUG class fixed 2026-06-03: without explicit [Instrumental] the singer
literally sang the STYLE prompt as the lyrics. Now required to pass either
[Instrumental] or real lyrics in lyrics_prompt.
Stages 2-4 — SCENES + KEYFRAMES + ANIMATE 6 scenes, krea-2-large keyframes (parallel), kling-v3-i2v 10s animations (parallel)
Stage 5 — SKIPPED No lyric overlay because
mode: "instrumental"
Stage 6 — STITCH vertical-fit each anim to 1920×1080 · xfade chain · mux music at 1.0 vol → final reel ~57s
Output →
dawn-arriving-reel.mp4 · 1920×1080 · 57.7s · 20MB
Cost — honest end-to-end
Music
~$0.30
1 × minimax-music
Keyframes
~$0.38
6 × krea-2-large
Animations
~$3.15
6 × kling-v3-i2v
Stitching
$0.00
local ffmpeg
Total: ~$3.83. Same per-second economics as the lyric version — the only delta is the Stage-5 overlay step, which is free (local Pillow + ffmpeg).
Two flavors of the same chassis
City Light and Dawn Arriving are the same playbook with mode flipped. Same pipeline, same caps, same cost. The mode toggle decides whether lyric typewriter overlays fire in Stage 5.