# fal Storytelling — guide skill for stories & short dramas

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Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/story.md)
- **Slug:** `fal-storytelling`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** fal (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/fal-ai-community/skills/tree/main/skills/storytelling
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** fal API key (FAL_KEY), genmedia CLI
- **Cost:** Billed by fal per endpoint call
- **Adoption:** 446 installs, 256 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Multi-shot narrative workflows across image, video and audio with genmedia: storyboards, shot lists, multi-prompt video, first-frame to last-frame pipelines, social stories and brand films. A shot-planning reference keeps continuity across the sequence.

## Use when

- A short film or brand film in several shots
- Storyboards and shot lists
- Keeping continuity between clips

## Install

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

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/fal-storytelling.mp4 — Happy Horse example on fal's model page: one prompt written as a three-shot list (wide, mid close-up, over-the-shoulder) of a man settling in to read (credit: fal, https://fal.ai/models/alibaba/happy-horse/text-to-video)

## Used for

- [AI music video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/music-video.md): A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
- [AI short film or series](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/short-film.md): A multi-shot story with consistent characters: script, storyboard, previz, shots, edit.

## More stories & short dramas skills

- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md): Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md): Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/screenwriting-skills.md): 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/emma-screenwriting.md): Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.
- [AI Short Drama Studio](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/ai-short-drama-studio.md): Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.
- [Short Drama Skill Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/short-drama-skill-finder.md): Picks short-drama and manju skills from a hand-checked list of 90+ projects by stage, video model and agent.