Genre Styles
What type of crime story? Compare 10 genre looks for your storyboard. Use the still previews to shortlist a direction, then read each preset's lighting, palette and composition notes.
These are still-image references. Choose your Storyboard style separately.
Reading the Genre looks
- Cold Case
- A dimly lit archives room in 2000s obsessive-procedural style with clinical desaturated cinematography. Dusty case files and yellowed photographs in aged cream. Evidence boxes marked with dates from decades past sit untouched on institutional grey metal shelving. Overhead fluorescent lighting creates clinical shadows over time-worn documents and faded instant photos.
- Serial Killer
- FBI Quantico behavioral analysis unit in 2010s prestige-procedural style. Pinboard covered in crime scene photos and psychological profiles. Cold institutional lighting illuminates victim pattern maps and handwritten notes against muted olive walls. A profiler studies evidence under stark fluorescent illumination with deep shadows.
- Heist
- A darkened back room in 1990s professional-heist style. Blueprints and building schematics in architect blue cover the walls. Focused task lighting illuminates vault diagrams and security system plans against dark charcoal surfaces. Precision tools and timing devices arranged with methodical care on the table, low-key dramatic lighting.
All 10 styles
Cold Case
Unsolved mysteries decades old
Serial Killer
Psychological hunt for predators
Heist
High-stakes theft and schemes
Noir
Classic detective atmosphere
Conspiracy
Cover-ups and hidden truths
Cult
Dangerous groups and leaders
Missing Person
Vanished without a trace
Wrongful Conviction
Justice denied
Organized Crime
Mob families and syndicates
Forensic Mystery
Science solves the case
Plan Your Genre Storyboard
Use the visual notes to brief your shots, then select a Storyboard style or adapt a custom recipe in the wizard. Catalog browsing does not select it for you.