# Cinematic deck that turns into a comic

> A deck that opens on black-and-white photo slides about how hard it is to get an idea across, then switches to a hand-drawn stick-figure comic about telling stories. NotebookLM made it from a voice note and a one-sentence style prompt.

- Kind: Slides
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/prompt.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: NotebookLM
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Services: Pixel Voice Recorder
- Style: Decks; notebooklm, cinematic, black and white, hand-drawn comic, stick figures, style switch, infomercial
- Shared by @tokumin in X, Nov 22, 2025: https://x.com/tokumin/status/1992075690775335280
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

Requirements reported by the source: Your own source in a NotebookLM notebook (the creator used a voice note).

## Recreating this deck

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

To adapt it: Change the two sections ("how communicating an idea is hard" and "storytelling with \"NotebookLM Slide Decks\"") to the parts of your own source, and swap "cinematic" and "google doodle hand drawn style comic" for the two looks you want.

## Prompt

```text
infomercial style, starts cinematic for the section on how communicating an idea is hard then the cinematic section changes to a google doodle hand drawn style comic for the section on storytelling with "NotebookLM Slide Decks" from my voicenote
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

Two halves in one deck: grainy black-and-white photo slides on cream paper, then black-line stick-figure comic panels with speech bubbles and a few bright colors.

- Color: Black, white, and gray photography on warm cream; the comic half adds Google-style blue, red, yellow, and green accents on white.
- Type: A thin serif title over a close-up eye ("FROM MIND TO SLIDES") and serif captions; the comic half uses rounded hand-lettering in bubbles and caption boxes.
- Framing: Photo slides set one framed image with a short serif caption beside or below it. At the turn, a cartoon blue hand with a pink eraser erases part of the photo collage. Comic slides are single bordered panels with a numbered caption box.
- Structure: Title eye, a pen writing in ink, a lone office worker at night, a man reading a document across a desk, a collage of books, an eye, and coffee, the eraser slide ("But what if telling your story wasn't a struggle?"), then comic steps: "1. Have an idea. And just talk.", NotebookLM turning it into slides on a laptop ("3. One click."), and a presenter before a cheering audience ("From a simple voice note... to a story that moves.").

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 2.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 6.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 10.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 14.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 18.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 22.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 26.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 30.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 34.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/cinematic-deck-that-turns-into-comic/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Notes: Made with NotebookLM Slide Decks from a voice note, through Pixel Voice Recorder's native integration with NotebookLM. The posted video is a 36-second flip-through of the finished deck. A later post by @JeremyNguyenPhD reuses this prompt.

> Thought it better to show not tell!
> (@tokumin)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/tokumin/status/1992075690775335280
- Original post: https://x.com/tokumin/status/1992075690775335280
- Reply with the prompt: https://x.com/tokumin/status/1992078882477052409