--- title: "Turn a Script Into a Shot List and AI Video Prompts — AI video generator workflow for cinematic & short films" description: "Script, prose or a keyframe to beats, blocking, shot list with coverage, keyframe and motion prompts for Runway, Veo, Kling, Seedance. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/cinematic-director-shot-list updated: 2026-10-31 --- # Turn a Script Into a Shot List and AI Video Prompts — workflow skill for cinematic & short films > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. Script, prose or a keyframe to beats, blocking, shot list with coverage, keyframe and motion prompts for Runway, Veo, Kling, Seedance. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/cinematic.md) - **Slug:** `cinematic-director-shot-list` - **Status:** live - **Publisher:** wuwangzhang1216 (community) - **Source:** https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL - **Works in:** Claude Code ## What it does The cinematic-director skill runs a 13-step pass from intake to QC: beat map, director's book, blocking and staging, shot list with coverage (size, lens, angle, camera, start-motion-end blocking, light direction, continuity anchors, risk), keyframe strategy, model-shaped motion prompts, a sound plan and an edit plan. Twenty optional director lenses apply one style coherently across the plan, and 19 coded failure modes map each bad take to its cheapest fix. Adapters cover Runway, Veo, Kling, Luma, Sora-class, Hailuo, Pika, Vidu, Seedance, Wan and ComfyUI models. MIT. ## Use when - Break a script or scene into a shot list with coverage - Plan blocking, lens and light direction before writing video prompts - Apply a director style such as Kubrick, Fincher or Villeneuve to a whole sequence - Diagnose a failed AI video shot instead of re-rolling it - Write a sound plan and edit timeline for a short film ## Install - Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/wuwangzhang1216/DirectorSKILL.git ~/.claude/skills/cinematic-director` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install cinematic-director-shot-list` ## More cinematic & short films skills - [Previz to Seedance](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack. - [Turn key frames into a 30-second action montage with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-action-montage.md): Breakdance, BMX, skate or chase montages: 3-4 stills, a one-line prompt with the moves and "no slow motion", the crash or line as the last still. - [Make a short film or music video with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-keyframe-film.md): Beats, cast and look, every key shot as a GPT Image 2.5 still, one 30-second Kling 4 take per beat, then cut the best seconds like live action. - [Higgsfield Generate](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI. - [fal Recipes](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on. - [fal Fan Cam](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays. ## Run the generation on varg varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs. - Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt