Cinematography Vocabulary for AI Video Prompts — prompt skill for prompts by model

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" 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 <slug> with no key, every varg model after vargai login.

700+ shot, camera move, lighting, lens, composition and color-grade terms plus a prompt formula for Veo, Kling, Sora and Runway.

What it does

A model-agnostic Claude skill with a prompt formula ([shot size + angle], subject, action, setting, lighting, camera move, style + color, mood, technical) and reference files: 70+ angles and shot sizes, 60+ camera movements, 80+ lighting terms, 80+ composition rules, lenses and film stocks, and 80+ color palettes and grades. Built-in rules cap one move and one main action per clip and make light match weather and time of day. Two bonus lite skills cover character reference sheets and Oriental fantasy scenes. MIT; the author sells fuller VIP versions separately.

Use when

Install

More prompts by model skills

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.