# 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.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://varg.ai/how-to/prompts.md) · [Camera & shots](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/camera.md)
- **Slug:** `craft-composition-framing`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/vargHQ/skills
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Any MCP client, varg Studio

## 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

- Composing a first frame, a thumbnail or a product hero
- Leaving room for titles and captions

## Not for

- Camera angle and height (craft-shot-sizes-angles)

## 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)

## More camera & shots skills

- [fal Cinematography](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-cinematography.md): Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- [Storyboard Creation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-storyboard-creation.md): Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.
- [Video Shotcraft](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-shotcraft.md): 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- [Camera Moves](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/craft-camera-moves.md): 47 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to car mount — in six models' syntax.
- [Shot Sizes & Angles](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/craft-shot-sizes-angles.md): 29 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, cowboy to master shot, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.
- [Lens & Optics](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/craft-lens-optics.md): 20 lens and focus cards — anamorphic, rack focus, lens flare, chromatic aberration — written as visible effects.