# Shot Sizes & Angles — prompt skill for camera & shots

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17 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Camera & shots](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/camera.md)
- **Slug:** `craft-shot-sizes-angles`
- **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

Eight shot sizes and nine camera angles as original cards: what each framing shows, when a director reaches for it, and the near-miss that reads differently (a high angle is not an overhead; a worm's-eye is not a low angle). Aliases cover crew shorthand (EWS, MCU, OTS), Kling's shot labels ('Medium Close up', 'Full Body Shot'), Luma's nine angle concepts and Seedance's 特写 / 近景 / 中景 / 全景 / 大全景. Deep links send humans to shot.cafe tag pages and eyecannndy technique pages; the agent never fetches them.

## Use when

- Deciding how tight to frame a subject or where to put the camera
- Writing shot labels for a multi-shot prompt
- Matching framing across clips from different models

## Not for

- Camera movement (craft-camera-moves)
- Lens choice and depth of field (craft-lens-optics)

## 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

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-shot-sizes-angles.mp4 — Two low-angle shots as cut in the film: a worm's-eye view from the grass as the rabbit stretches up into the sky, then a low-angle medium close-up (MCU) of him smiling against the sky. Big Buck Bunny 4K release (Wikimedia Commons 1080p transcode) 01:01.4-01:08.2 (00:57.0-01:03.8 in the 2008 cut), no audio. (credit: Big Buck Bunny (CC BY 3.0) — (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation | bigbuckbunny.org, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Buck_Bunny_4K.webm)

## More camera & shots skills

- [fal Cinematography](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-cinematography.md): Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- [Storyboard Creation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-storyboard-creation.md): Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.
- [Video Shotcraft](https://skills.varg.ai/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://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-camera-moves.md): 22 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to bullet time — in six models' syntax.
- [Lens & Optics](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-lens-optics.md): 10 lens and focus cards — compression, anamorphic, rack focus, split diopter — written as visible effects.
- [Composition & Framing](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/craft-composition-framing.md): 9 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, negative space, 2.39:1 — for stills and video.