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title: "Turn a Plot Into Cinematic AI Video Prompts — AI video prompts for prompts by model, with examples"
description: "Story beats, a novel excerpt or one idea to 6-30 s acted video prompts for Seedance, Kling, MiniMax H3 and Wan, with real example clips."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer
updated: 2026-10-31
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# Turn a Plot Into Cinematic AI Video Prompts — prompt skill for prompts by model

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Story beats, a novel excerpt or one idea to 6-30 s acted video prompts for Seedance, Kling, MiniMax H3 and Wan, with real example clips.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://varg.ai/how-to/prompts.md) · [Prompts by model](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/prompting.md)
- **Slug:** `cinematic-video-prompt-engineer`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** CyberJ0605 (community)
- **Source:** https://github.com/CyberJ0605/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer-skill/tree/main/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer
- **Works in:** Claude Code

## What it does

The skill first diagnoses what is visible in a story (event, conflict, emotional turn), then allots duration, structure, shots, performance, dialogue, sound, light and continuity before it writes a 6-30 second prompt for Seedance, Kling, MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0 or Hailuo. It has two paths: a self-contained direct-video prompt, or reference-first planning of character, set and prop images that the video prompt is then compiled against. References include 46 camera-movement modules, 25 observable emotion modules and a 9:16 adaptation guide; the repo shows four clips generated from its prompts. Instructions are in Chinese; MIT.

## Use when

- Turn a story beat or novel scene into a filmable AI video prompt
- Direct a close-up emotional performance without adjective soup
- Write a multi-character dialogue scene with overlapping lines
- Plan character and set reference images before the video prompt
- Fix only the failed part of a generated clip

## Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/CyberJ0605/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer-skill/tree/main/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer

## Example output

https://github.com/CyberJ0605/cinematic-video-prompt-engineer-skill/raw/main/assets/demos/emotional-closeup.mp4 — example (credit: CyberJ0605)

## More prompts by model skills

- [How to prompt Kling 4 for cinematic AI video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-prompting.md): Kling 4 without the AI-slop look: key frames from GPT Image 2.5, a short director's prompt, multi-shot with seconds, "no slow motion", and the fixes.
- [fal Prompting](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-prompting.md): Prompt specific model families well: Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse guides, loaded only when needed.
- [Replicate Prompt Images](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/replicate-prompt-images.md): Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.
- [Replicate Prompt Videos](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/replicate-prompt-videos.md): Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.
- [Video Prompting Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-video-prompting-guide.md): Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.
- [FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/flux-3-prompt-doctor.md): Diagnose a FLUX 3 video brief before spending: resolve missing, conflicting or schema-changing asks.

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