Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-06-02 · 0:30 · 38 views · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market, Prompt & Context Engineering · Level: beginner

Summary

Melvin Vivas reshares a Black Forest Labs announcement that director Martin Scorsese is now an advisor to the company. The 30-second clip shows him storyboarding a scene with the FLUX image model. He describes the setting, the mood and the camera position out loud, and FLUX turns that into storyboard frames. It's mainly industry news, but it gives a short example of prompting an image model the way a director would brief a production designer.

Key points

• Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models, has made Martin Scorsese an advisor. They say they want human taste and craft at the center of 'visual intelligence'.
• The clip shows a real storyboarding session in which FLUX produces frames from Scorsese's spoken scene descriptions.
• His prompt layers the setting ('a town, not a village, not a city'), the period and feel ('almost medieval', 'doesn't feel modern'), concrete details ('narrow cobblestone streets', 'twisting and turning main road') and camera direction ('put the camera higher looking down').
• Takeaway for prompting: state the scale, era, physical details and camera angle explicitly to get controllable cinematic images.
• Scorsese compares the result to Cecil B. DeMille having production designers make oil paintings of scenes, meaning AI frames can play the role of pre-visualization concept art.
• Trend signal: generative image labs are bringing in established creative figures to guide model taste and to work their way into film pre-production.

Resources mentioned

• FLUX · tool · github.com · check price
  Black Forest Labs' family of text-to-image generation models. Some versions have open weights and some are only available through a paid API.
  Also in: Evolution of Image LoRAs: Stable Diffusion → Flux → Krea 2 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs: Storyboarding with FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Black Forest Labs · website · bfl.ai · check price
  The lab behind the FLUX image models; the speaker's team, which published Self-Flow.
  Also in: Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs: Storyboarding with FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Martin Scorsese · person · x.com · free
  Film director who is now an advisor to Black Forest Labs on visual AI.

Try this

• Try storyboarding a scene with an image model such as FLUX. Describe the scale, era, physical details and camera angle the way a director would.
• Build a script-to-storyboard tool: take a scene description, pull out the setting, mood and camera directions, and generate a sequence of FLUX frames.