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Claude Code skill for AI filmmaking — shot lists, keyframe & video prompts, with 10 director-style overlays (Spielberg, Kubrick, Wong Kar-wai, Nolan...).

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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 director's style lens — Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Wong Kar-wai, Nolan, Villeneuve, Fincher, Refn, Bi Gan, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Park Chan-wook, Malick, Michael Mann, Coen Brothers. Use for shot planning, blocking, staging, camera movement, visual continuity, storyboard and keyframe design, prompt repair, "in the style of X" direction, and any AI video workflow.

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# 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.

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Repository facts

License: MIT
Created: May 25, 2026
Last pushed: Aug 31, 2026
Forks: 47
Open issues: 0
Project activity: Slowing

Before you install

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`CHANGELOG.md`

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The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

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[Unreleased]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/compare/v2.1.0...HEAD

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[2.1.0]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/compare/v2.0.0...v2.1.0

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[2.0.0]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/compare/v1.2.0...v2.0.0

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[1.2.0]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0

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[1.1.0]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

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[1.0.0]: https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/releases/tag/v1.0.0

`CONTRIBUTING.md`

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Issues live at <https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/issues>. Useful issue types:

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issue 见 <https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL/issues> 。常见类型：输出与预期不符（附 prompt 和输出）、某导演模块太泛或太像抄、某工具适配器过时（附官方文档链接）、某失败代码误诊（附 prompt、片子描述、实际有效的修复）。

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