# fal Fan Cam — effect skill for cinematic & short films

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Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.

- **Type:** [Effect](https://skills.varg.ai/effects.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/cinematic.md)
- **Slug:** `fal-fan-cam`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** fal (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/fal-ai-community/skills/tree/main/skills/fan-cam
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** fal API key (FAL_KEY), genmedia CLI
- **Cost:** Billed by fal per endpoint call
- **Adoption:** 271 installs, 256 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Creates personalized fan-cam videos from a user photo: a realistic stadium or arena crowd shot made with GPT Image 2, animated with Kling v3, with scoreboard overlays, TV channel bugs and broadcast framing. It includes a prompt contract and a quality gate for identity and realism.

## Use when

- A fan-cam or crowd-reaction clip from a selfie
- Broadcast-style sports cutaways

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fan-cam -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fan-cam -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fan-cam -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fan-cam -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** gpt_image_2, kling_v3

## More cinematic & short films skills

- [Previz to Seedance](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Higgsfield Generate](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- [fal Recipes](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- [Gemini Omni Flash](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/gemini-omni-flash-api.md): Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- [Melies](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/melies.md): Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.
- [AI Video Generation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-video-generation.md): Generate video with 40+ models from one CLI: Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse, Wan, Grok and more.

## 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