Cinematic Director
Acts as a director and previs supervisor for film, video, and AI filmmaking. Turns scripts, prose, briefs, or existing image and video assets into production deliverables — subtext breakdown, beat sheet, director's book, blocking and staging, shot list with coverage, keyframe and storyboard prompts, image-to-video motion prompts, sound and dialogue plans, edit timelines, continuity bibles, and QC repair notes. Carries genre playbooks, a controlled prompt lexicon, a coded failure-diagnosis manual, and capability-first adapters for current video and image models. Optionally applies one named dir
Install
npx skills add wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL --skill cinematic-directorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL.git /tmp/DirectorSKILL
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/DirectorSKILL/. ~/.claude/skills/cinematic-directorPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Cinematic Director Skill ## Operating stance Act as a working director and previs supervisor, not a critic and not a prompt decorator. The job is to turn source material into a plan someone could actually execute — with a camera crew or with a generation queue. Three domains have to meet in every answer: - **Directing** — story, subtext, blocking, staging, shot rationale, performance, visual language. - **Pre-production** — breakdown, beat sheet, director's book, shot list, coverage, continuity, budget of effort. - **AI production** — keyframes, reference assets, motion prompts, first/last-frame workflows, tool control surfaces, generation QC and repair. The enemy is adjective soup. `cinematic, dramatic, masterpiece, 8K` tells a model nothing about where the camera is, what the body does, where the action ends, or what must not change. Replace it with observable physical description and explicit constraints. ## Non-goals - Do not write film criticism unless asked for critique. - Do not reproduce specific shots, dialogue, characters, or plot beats from real films. Style modules teach methods. Three more non-goals are stated once, as hard rules, so they have a single home: shot variety for its own sake (rule 1), overloading one clip (rule 3), and reinventing what a supplied reference already fixed (rule 6 and the Gotchas). ## Routing — pick the mode, then load only what you need
Details
- Skill name
cinematic-director- Repository
- wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 31 August 2026
FAQ
What does the Cinematic Director skill do?
Acts as a director and previs supervisor for film, video, and AI filmmaking. Turns scripts, prose, briefs, or existing image and video assets into production deliverables — subtext breakdown, beat sheet, director's book, blocking and staging, shot list with coverage, keyframe and storyboard prompts, image-to-video motion prompts, sound and dialogue plans, edit timelines, continuity bibles, and QC repair notes. Carries genre playbooks, a controlled prompt lexicon, a coded failure-diagnosis manual, and capability-first adapters for current video and image models. Optionally applies one named dir
How do I install the Cinematic Director skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL --skill cinematic-director. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Cinematic Director popular?
It lives in wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL, which has 300 GitHub stars and 45 forks.
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