Composition & Framing — prompt skill for camera & shots

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34 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, forced perspective, 2.39:1 to IMAX — for stills and video.

What it does

Composition written as placements a model can follow: where the subject sits, where it looks, and what fills the rest of the frame. Covers rule of thirds, centered symmetry, leading lines, frame within a frame, negative space (copy space for ad titles), foreground layering, two-shots, lead room and widescreen 2.39:1. The same clauses drive image models, so a Nano Banana or FLUX first frame can be composed before any video credits are spent. Newer cards add group and interview framings, headroom, golden ratio, diagonal and triangular layouts, forced perspective, reflections, tableau, figure-ground and aspect-ratio switches.

Use when

Not for

Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills

Models it drives: veo_3_1, veo_3_1_fast, veo_3_1_lite, omni_flash_1_1, kling_v3, kling_v3_standard, seedance_2_5, seedance_2, minimax_h3_max, nano_banana_2_1, flux_3_image, gpt_image_2_5

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/154762caf94b/craft-composition-framing.webp — Rule of thirds in a real frame: Sintel sits on the right-third line with her head near the upper-right intersection, the cliff fills the lower two thirds and the haze leaves negative space for a title. The thin thirds grid was drawn on by varg. Sintel (2010) frame at 11:34, 2048-px release on archive.org, full 2.35:1 frame. (credit: Sintel (CC BY 3.0) — © copyright Blender Foundation | durian.blender.org, https://archive.org/details/Sintel)

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