Natural Language Workflow for Converting Literary Works to Film & Video

Role Setting

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Core Tasks

As a natural language workflow skill, the core task is to convert literary works (novels, stories, scripts, one-sentence ideas, etc.) into complete film and television videos, and achieve this goal by connecting multiple professional skills in series.

Must-Learn Skills

Skills are most likely located in the same directory

novel-reader: Used to read novel content and extract elements (characters, props, scenes)
jimeng-skill: Uses Jimeng Dreamina to generate element reference images, and generates videos through the all-around reference mode
character-design: Used to generate character design drawings
text-storyboard: The director creates text storyboards based on literary works, which is the core of video creation. It converts literary works into concrete audio-visual descriptions and outputs text storyboard files
generate-film-video-prompt: Used to guide the creation of video prompts, used in conjunction with text-storyboard

Requirements

Before starting work, you must first confirm the video art style and aspect ratio, the default is 16:9.

Workflow

Strictly follow the order, no skipping steps allowed

First read all must-learn skills in the same directory, and understand the video production process: novel-reader, jimeng-skill, character-design, text-storyboard, generate-film-video-prompt
User request: Make a video from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.txt. (Art style and aspect ratio need to be confirmed)
Create a new project folder to store all files of the project, create subdirectories by episode and place them uniformly under the episode production folder (e.g. 单集制作/EP001, 单集制作/EP002, etc.). If the folder already exists, scan the folder content and resume work from the breakpoint.
Step 1 (Must Complete): If it is a novel file, use the novel-reader skill to read the novel content and extract characters, scenes, and props. If it is a one-sentence requirement, directly extract characters, scenes, and props.
Step 2 (Must Complete): View and use the text-storyboard and generate-film-video-prompt skills to create text storyboards, output one text storyboard file per episode (e.g. 单集制作/EP001/文字分镜.txt), which contains the text storyboard description of all clips in the episode. Important: Each 15-second text storyboard corresponds to a 15-second video clip, and one episode may have multiple clips
Step 3 (Must Complete):
- Character Images: Use the character-design skill to generate character design prompts, write the prompts into
```
角色/[Character Name].prompt.txt
```
  , then call jimeng-skill to read the prompts from the file and generate character images
- Scene Images: Prepare detailed image generation prompts for each scene, write the prompts into
```
场景/[Scene Name].prompt.txt
```
  , then call jimeng-skill to read the prompts from the file and generate scene images, which must meet:
  - The scene image must be consistent with the video aspect ratio, clearly describe the scene features, the scene image must be pure, and characters are strictly prohibited
  - All prompts must include art style requirements
Step 4 (Must Complete, Skipping Strictly Prohibited):
- ⚠️ Verification Step: After completion, you must check whether the corresponding image files exist in the
```
角色/
```
  and
```
场景/
```
  directories
- ⚠️ Importance: These element images are the key to maintaining the visual consistency of characters and scenes in subsequent video generation. You must not proceed to the next step without them
Step 5 (Only proceed after Step 4 is completed): According to the description of each clip in the text storyboard file, generate video prompts for each clip, write the prompts into
```
单集制作/EPXXX/视频_ClipXXX.prompt.txt
```
, you need to add the fixed requirement "No BGM, no subtitles" at the end of the prompt, then call the
```
multimodal2video
```
(all-around reference) mode of jimeng-skill to read the prompts from the file and generate videos, which must meet:
- Reference the reference images of relevant characters, scenes, and props
- Clarify the video aspect ratio, either 16:9 or 9:16
- Use the seedance2.0 model to ensure element consistency and picture coherence

Breakpoint Resume Guide

When the project folder already exists, you must first scan the folder content, determine the current progress, and continue execution from the breakpoint:

Progress Check List

Before starting any steps, check in the following order:

Check if Step 5 is completed (Highest priority):
- Scan the episode directory: Check whether the corresponding
```
.mp4
```
  files and corresponding
```
*.prompt.txt
```
  files exist
- If all videos have been generated → You can proceed to video stitching
- If there are missing videos → You must first generate the missing videos, Skipping is strictly prohibited (if the prompt file already exists, read directly from the file; if not, generate the prompt file first)
Check if Step 4 is completed:
- Scan the
```
角色/
```
  directory: Check whether the corresponding image files and
```
*.prompt.txt
```
  files exist
- Scan the
```
场景/
```
  directory: Check whether the corresponding image files and
```
*.prompt.txt
```
  files exist
- If all element images have been generated → You can proceed to subsequent steps
- If there are missing element images → You must first generate the missing images, Skipping is strictly prohibited (if the prompt file already exists, read directly from the file; if not, generate the prompt file first)
Check if Step 3 is completed:
- Check whether the
```
角色/
```
  ,
```
场景/
```
  ,
```
道具/
```
  directories exist
- Check whether the corresponding
```
*.prompt.txt
```
  files exist
- If the directory or prompt file is missing → Go back to Step 3
Check if Step 2 is completed:
- Check whether the
```
单集制作/
```
  directory exists
- Check whether the text storyboard file exists (e.g.
```
单集制作/EP001/文字分镜.txt
```
  ), which contains the description of all clips in the episode
- If missing → Go back to Step 2
Check if Step 1 is completed:
- Check whether there are files such as
```
大纲.txt
```
  ,
```
读取进度.txt
```
  , etc.
- Check whether there are
```
.txt
```
  description files under the
```
角色/
```
  ,
```
场景/
```
  ,
```
道具/
```
  directories
- If missing → Go back to Step 1

Common Error Handling

Error 1: Start directly from Step 5, skip Step 4 of generating element images
- Consequence: The characters and scenes in the generated video have no visual consistency, and the character image in each clip may be different
- Solution: Stop immediately, go back to Step 4 to generate all element reference images first

Project Directory Structure Example

哈利波特与魔法石/
├── 哈利波特与魔法石.txt
├── 大纲.txt
├── 读取进度.txt
├── 角色/
│   ├── 哈利波特.txt
│   ├── 哈利波特.prompt.txt
│   └── 哈利波特.png
├── 场景/
│   ├── 霍格沃茨城堡.txt
│   ├── 霍格沃茨城堡.prompt.txt
│   └── 霍格沃茨城堡.png
├── 道具/
│   ├── 魔杖.txt
│   └── 魔杖.png
└── 单集制作/
    ├── EP001/
    │   ├── 文字分镜.txt
    │   ├── 视频_Clip001.prompt.txt
    │   ├── 视频_Clip001.mp4
    │   ├── 视频_Clip002.prompt.txt
    │   ├── 视频_Clip002.mp4
    │   ├── 视频_Clip003.prompt.txt
    │   └── 视频_Clip003.mp4
    ├── EP002/
    │   ├── 文字分镜.txt
    │   ├── 视频_Clip001.prompt.txt
    │   ├── 视频_Clip001.mp4
    │   ├── 视频_Clip002.prompt.txt
    │   └── 视频_Clip002.mp4
    └── EP003/
        ├── 文字分镜.txt
        ├── 视频_Clip001.prompt.txt
        └── 视频_Clip001.mp4

Notes:

All episode content is uniformly placed under the
```
单集制作/
```
directory
Create subdirectories by episode (EP001, EP002, etc.)
Each episode has only one
```
文字分镜.txt
```
file, which contains the text storyboard description of all clips in the episode
Each Clip corresponds to a 15-second text storyboard description, a prompt file, and a 15-second video clip
All image generation and video generation prompts are saved as
```
*.prompt.txt
```
files for easy traceability and reuse
Shared assets such as characters, scenes, and props are placed in the project root directory

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