fal Cinematography — prompt skill for camera & shots
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Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- Type: Prompt · Camera & shots
- Slug:
fal-cinematography - Status: live
- Publisher: fal (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/fal-ai-community/skills/tree/main/skills/cinematography
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: fal API key (FAL_KEY), genmedia CLI
- Cost: Billed by fal per endpoint call
- Adoption: 1,100 installs, 256 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
A production skill for cinematic image and video prompts run through genmedia: it collects the shot intent, builds the prompt in a set order, routes to a model and checks the result against a quality bar. References cover shot language, lighting, lens and color choices, with worked examples.
Use when
- A cinematic still or shot
- Camera movement, lens or lighting direction
- A specific grade or film texture
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill cinematography -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill cinematography -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill cinematography -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill cinematography -a gemini-cli
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/fal-cinematography.mp4 — Seedance 2.0 example on fal's model page: 100mm macro shot with a slow slide and rack focus from tiger fur to the eye; 2-10 s (credit: fal, https://fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video)
Used for
- AI short film or series: A multi-shot story with consistent characters: script, storyboard, previz, shots, edit.
More camera & shots skills
- Storyboard Creation: Storyboard a video before generating: shot types, angles, moves, the 180-degree rule, annotated panels.
- Video Shotcraft: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- Camera Moves: 22 camera moves with direction, speed and an end frame — dolly in to bullet time — in six models' syntax.
- Shot Sizes & Angles: 17 framing cards — extreme wide to insert, eye level to worm's-eye — with model-ready clauses.
- Lens & Optics: 10 lens and focus cards — compression, anamorphic, rack focus, split diopter — written as visible effects.
- Composition & Framing: 9 composition cards — thirds, symmetry, leading lines, negative space, 2.39:1 — for stills and video.
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.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt