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Mock up a video before paying for it: one self-contained HTML board (storyboard board, moodboard, reference board, look test, plan page, contact sheet) with numbered frames, shot specs, prompts, approve / needs-fix / reject and a note per frame, side-by-side variants and feedback copied as Markdown; stills made on varg (Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5) that do not look like AI slop and stay consistent (character sheets, environment master first, same lens and light); device and app UI mockups (iMessage chat, Apple Notes, iPhone fold, phone stamp carousel, terminals, code editors). Use for "mock up", "mock up a look", "mockup", "storyboard board", "moodboard", "reference board", "look test", "stills for approval", "key frames to approve", "shot board", "phone mockup", "app UI mockup", "screen mockup", or stills that look like AI slop or drift between shots. Not for final video clips (varg-video-prompting) or 3D camera blocking (threejs-animatic).

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# varg mockups: approve cheap stills before expensive video

A mockup is anything the reviewer can react to in a minute instead of after a render. In our sessions it was
three things, in this order of how often we used them:

1. **A review board**: one HTML page of numbered stills (storyboard, moodboard, reference board, look test, plan
   page) with a status and a note per frame. Built before any video is generated.
2. **Mockup stills on varg**: look tests, character and location cards, key frames. Cheap images that lock the
   look, the cast and the geography.
3. **Device and UI mockups inside the video**: a phone chat, a typed note, an app in a phone, terminals and
   editors. Rendered locally from templates, no credits.

The board is the core. Stills feed it; device mockups appear on it as stills before they are rendered as video.