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package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/checklists/concept_quality_checklist.md

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+# Concept Quality Checklist
+
+- Logline has protagonist, goal, obstacle, stakes.
+- Theme is tested through action.
+- Short-film scale is feasible.
+- Scene list has emotional turns.
+- Visual anchors are clear enough for prompting.
+- Ending pays off the opening image or pressure.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/examples/idea_to_logline.md

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+# Example: Idea to Logline
+
+## Input
+A lonely apartment building night guard hears a song from a locked storage room every night.
+
+## Workflow output
+Premise route: psychological mystery about grief and duty.
+
+Logline: When a sleep-deprived night guard hears his late mother's favorite song from a locked storage room, he must decide whether to open a door the building owner forbids before sunrise, but each clue suggests the room is preserving a memory he may not survive losing again.
+
+Theme question: Is closure an act of courage or a second abandonment?
+
+Visual anchors: fluorescent corridors, brass key ring, dust under storage door, old cassette player, blue dawn light.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/examples/logline_to_outline.md

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+# Example: Logline to Short-Film Outline
+
+1. Opening image: Guard checks empty hallway monitors; one screen flickers with static.
+2. Pressure: The song starts behind the storage door at 3:17 a.m.
+3. First attempt: He radios the owner, who orders him to ignore it.
+4. Complication: Dust moves under the door in rhythm with the song.
+5. Discovery: His mother's cassette label appears in the logbook.
+6. Choice: He unlocks the door despite losing his job.
+7. Payoff: Inside is not a ghost, but a room of tenant memories scheduled for disposal at dawn.
+8. Final image: He carries one cassette into blue morning light.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/references/ai_storytelling_workflow.md

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+# AI Storytelling Workflow
+
+Use AI as a structured collaborator, not as an unattended author. The useful pattern is: generate options, interrogate them, choose with human taste, then revise deliberately.
+
+## Short-story foundations
+
+A compressed story needs intensity, not sprawl. Before expanding an idea, answer:
+- Who is involved?
+- What happened or is happening?
+- When and where does it happen?
+- Why does it matter now?
+- What larger point, feeling, or question does it carry?
+
+## Nine-element story check
+
+| Element | Practical test |
+|---|---|
+| Premise | Can the central situation be stated in one or two sentences? |
+| Character | What does the protagonist want right now? |
+| Conflict | What blocks that want internally or externally? |
+| Setting | Why must the story happen here and now? |
+| Plot | Does each scene change the situation? |
+| Theme | What larger idea is being tested through action? |
+| Tone | What attitude should the reader/viewer feel? |
+| Point of view | Who is the best lens for limited information? |
+| Ending | What changed, and why does the last image/line matter? |
+
+## AI-assisted process
+
+1. Plan: generate premise angles, logline variants, structural options, and risk notes.
+2. Interrogate: ask one question at a time about desire, fear, contradiction, setting pressure, and ending.
+3. Draft modularly: scene by scene, never the whole story or film at once.
+4. Voice-prime carefully: if the user provides style samples, use them to match pacing and vocabulary; do not invent an authorial voice from stereotypes.
+5. Revise by pass: structure, character logic, scene tension, dialogue/subtext, imagery, ending payoff, and prose compression.
+6. Package: convert the chosen story into logline, synopsis, treatment, beat sheet, screenplay, shot list, and prompt package.
+
+## Structural options
+
+- Unity of effect: every choice builds toward one emotional impact.
+- Fichtean crisis curve: begin in pressure, escalate through crises, climax, then resolve quickly.
+- Before/after arc: establish state, disrupt it, force a turn, reveal changed state.
+- Keyhole focus: restrict the field of view; leave out everything that does not serve the central crisis.
+
+## AI-voice risks
+
+Watch for generic moral lessons, over-explained feelings, cliche phrases, smooth but interchangeable dialogue, and endings that announce the theme instead of dramatizing consequence.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/references/continuity_handoff.md

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+# Continuity Handoff
+
+When story development ends, hand off these anchors:
+- Character IDs, stable appearance, wardrobe baseline, emotional arc.
+- Location IDs, geography, time-of-day rules, lighting baseline.
+- Prop IDs, story function, initial state, state changes.
+- Visual tone, palette, realism level, camera language.
+- Scene list with purpose, emotional turn, and prompt-worthy visual anchors.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/references/screenplay_structure.md

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+# Screenplay Structure for Shorts
+
+## Micro three-act pattern
+- Setup: introduce person, pressure, place, and visual rule.
+- Turn: the character chooses or discovers something that changes the pressure.
+- Payoff: consequence lands in an image, action, or reversal.
+
+## Beat types
+- Want beat: character pursues a concrete goal.
+- Resistance beat: another person, system, environment, or self blocks them.
+- Discovery beat: new information changes the strategy.
+- Cost beat: a choice creates visible consequence.
+- Image beat: a visual detail carries meaning without explanation.
+
+## Compression rules
+- Start late, leave early.
+- Combine exposition with conflict.
+- Make props and locations do story work.
+- Avoid backstory unless it changes present action.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/references/story_development_workflow.md

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+# Story Development Workflow
+
+## Idea intake
+Capture: premise seed, protagonist, desire, obstacle, stakes, genre, tone, runtime, production limits, ending instinct, and visual promise.
+
+## Concept expansion
+1. Define the promise: what should the audience feel by the end?
+2. Define the pressure: what makes action necessary now?
+3. Define the contradiction: what makes the protagonist's goal emotionally or morally difficult?
+4. Define the cinematic engine: what repeated action, location, ritual, object, or countdown can carry the short?
+5. Define the turn: what discovery or decision changes the meaning of the opening?
+
+## Short-film shapes
+- Single-location confrontation.
+- Countdown or deadline.
+- Ritual interrupted.
+- Object-driven mystery.
+- Silent visual transformation.
+- Circular ending with changed meaning.
+- Before/after portrait of a choice.
+
+## Development output
+A strong concept package includes logline, premise, theme, character engine, conflict, visual tone, scene list, ending, and revision risks.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/beat_sheet.md

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+# Beat Sheet Template
+
+| Beat | Story state | Character action | Resistance | Emotional turn | Visual anchor |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | | | | | |
+| 2 | | | | | |
+| 3 | | | | | |

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/idea_intake.md

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+# Idea Intake Template
+
+- Working title:
+- Raw idea:
+- Target runtime:
+- Genre/tone:
+- Audience experience:
+- Protagonist:
+- What they want now:
+- Obstacle:
+- Stakes/cost:
+- Theme question:
+- Key image or recurring object:
+- Required location/assets:
+- Ending instinct:
+- Downstream goal: script / shot list / image prompts / video prompts / model export

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/logline.md

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+# Logline Template
+
+When [inciting pressure], a [specific protagonist] must [visible goal] before [deadline/stakes], but [central obstacle/irony] forces them to [choice or transformation].
+
+Checks:
+- Protagonist is specific.
+- Goal can be filmed.
+- Obstacle creates conflict.
+- Stakes are concrete.
+- Tone or irony is implied.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/short_film_treatment.md

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+# Short Film Treatment Template
+
+## Logline
+
+## Tone and audience experience
+
+## Main characters
+
+## World/location rules
+
+## Story outline
+1. Opening image and pressure.
+2. First attempt.
+3. Complication.
+4. Discovery or reversal.
+5. Choice.
+6. Final image.
+
+## Visual direction notes
+
+## Continuity anchors
+
+## Revision risks

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/short_story_plan.md

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+# Short Story Plan Template
+
+- Working title:
+- Desired unity of effect:
+- Genre/tone:
+- POV:
+- Target length:
+- Premise:
+- Protagonist want:
+- Protagonist fear/blind spot:
+- Central conflict:
+- Setting pressure:
+- Before state:
+- Inciting disruption:
+- Escalating crises:
+- Turning point:
+- After state:
+- Ending image/line:
+- Theme question:
+- Voice/style constraints:
+- Biggest risks:
+- Revision plan:

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/story_premise.md

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+# Story Premise Template
+
+## Premise
+[One paragraph describing the short film's situation, pressure, and promise.]
+
+## Theme question
+[The moral/emotional question the film tests.]
+
+## Character engine
+- Want:
+- Need:
+- Fear:
+- Lie/belief:
+- Choice under pressure:
+
+## Cinematic engine
+- Recurring action/object/location:
+- Visual escalation:
+- Ending image:

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/templates/story_revision_audit.md

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+# Story Revision Audit Template
+
+## Draft context
+- Form: prose / screenplay / treatment
+- Intended effect:
+- Target audience:
+
+## Audit
+| Category | Main issue | Evidence | Revision strategy | Severity |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Premise/stakes | | | | low / medium / high |
+| Character logic | | | | low / medium / high |
+| Structure/pacing | | | | low / medium / high |
+| Voice/dialogue | | | | low / medium / high |
+| Imagery/setting | | | | low / medium / high |
+| Ending payoff | | | | low / medium / high |
+
+## Reverse outline
+
+## Cut list
+
+## Best revision order

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/tests/output_format_tests.md

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+# Output Format Tests
+
+A successful concept output includes: logline, premise, theme question, character engine, conflict, short structure, scene list, visual anchors, and revision risks.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/short-film-development/tests/routing_tests.md

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+# Routing Tests
+
+| User request | Expected skill |
+|---|---|
+| Turn my idea into a short film logline and treatment | short-film-development |
+| Build a premise, theme, and scene list from this image | short-film-development |
+| Convert this screenplay page to shots | shotlist-and-visual-breakdown |

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: shotlist-and-visual-breakdown
+description: "Convert scripts, scene outlines, or treatments into shot lists, camera setups, production beats, continuity notes, asset requirements, and prompt-ready visual breakdowns."
+---
+
+# shotlist-and-visual-breakdown
+
+## When to use
+- The user asks for a shot list, scene breakdown, storyboard plan, camera plan, production beat map, or asset list.
+- The user provides script pages or a scene outline and wants image/video prompt inputs.
+- The user needs continuity notes for characters, locations, props, wardrobe, blocking, or screen direction.
+
+## When not to use
+- The user is still exploring the story premise and has no scene yet.
+- The user only wants model-specific syntax conversion.
+- The user wants a full production budget or call sheet.
+
+## Required inputs
+- Scene text or outline
+- Runtime/clip duration target
+- Visual style or genre
+- Continuity bible if available
+
+## Optional inputs
+- Target model limits
+- Aspect ratio
+- Location/asset constraints
+- Need for image prompts, video prompts, or both
+
+## Workflow
+1. Break the scene into story beats and visual beats.
+2. For each beat, assign shot purpose: geography, emotion, reveal, action, detail, transition, or continuity insert.
+3. Select shot scale, angle, lens feel, camera movement, lighting state, blocking, and production design anchors.
+4. Respect duration math: one clear action per short shot unless the target model supports multi-shot or extension workflows.
+5. Create continuity notes: eye lines, screen direction, wardrobe, prop state, weather, time of day, and emotional state.
+6. Create an asset list for characters, locations, props, costumes, reference images, sound cues, and keyframes.
+7. Prepare handoff rows for image and video prompting.
+
+## Decision logic
+- If identity consistency matters, request or generate reference sheet prompts before video prompts.
+- If the scene has complex motion, split into simpler shots rather than one overloaded prompt.
+- If the target model supports first/last frames, mark shots that need keyframes.
+- If dialogue is present, check line length against clip duration.
+
+## Output formats
+- Shot list table
+- Camera setup list
+- Scene breakdown
+- Asset list
+- Continuity notes
+- Image/video prompt handoff
+
+## Quality checks
+- Every shot has a purpose and a single dominant subject/action.
+- Camera movement is motivated by story or emotion.
+- Shot order preserves geography and screen direction.
+- Asset needs are explicit enough to generate references.
+- Prompts can be created without re-reading the full script.
+
+## Anti-patterns
+- Shot lists that merely restate the script
+- Multiple camera moves in one short AI-video prompt
+- Ignoring prop or wardrobe state changes
+- Using style words without visual execution details
+- Cutting away before a story beat has visual consequence
+
+## Exit criteria
+- The scene is decomposed into shot rows and asset requirements ready for image/video prompting or production packaging.
+
+## Supporting files
+Read only the supporting file needed for the active task:
+- `references/shotlist_schema.md`
+- `references/camera_plan.md`
+- `references/production_breakdown.md`
+- `templates/shot_list.md`
+- `templates/scene_breakdown.md`
+- `templates/asset_list.md`

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/checklists/shotlist_quality_checklist.md

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+# Shot List Quality Checklist
+
+- Every shot has a dramatic purpose.
+- One dominant subject/action per shot.
+- One dominant camera behavior per short AI-video shot.
+- Duration math is plausible.
+- Continuity notes cover eye line, prop, wardrobe, location state.
+- Asset/reference needs are explicit.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/examples/screenplay_scene_to_shot_list.md

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+# Example: Screenplay Scene to Shot List
+
+| Shot ID | Purpose | Subject/action | Framing | Movement | Lighting | Continuity |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| S01-001 | Geography | Guard enters basement hall | wide | locked-off | green fluorescent pools | door 12B at frame end |
+| S01-002 | Tension | Key ring trembles | insert | static macro | flashlight edge light | brass key marked 12B |
+| S01-003 | Choice | Guard turns key | close-up | slow dolly-in | hard side light | hand visible but simple |
+| S01-004 | Reveal | Door opens to darkness | medium | slow push | darkness with dust beam | cassette audio continues |

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/references/camera_plan.md

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+# Camera Plan
+
+## Choose camera by purpose
+- Geography: wide, stable, readable blocking.
+- Emotion: close, shallow depth, restrained movement.
+- Suspense: negative space, slow reveal, limited information.
+- Action: tracking, low angle, clear spatial vectors.
+- Detail: insert or macro, static or very slow push.
+
+## Continuity
+Track eye lines, screen direction, prop hand, wardrobe state, and location orientation. Use re-establishing or insert shots after major spatial changes.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/references/production_breakdown.md

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+# Production Breakdown
+
+For each scene identify:
+- Characters and state changes.
+- Locations and geography.
+- Props and state changes.
+- Wardrobe/costume requirements.
+- Hair/makeup or physical condition.
+- Vehicles, signs, screens, practical effects.
+- Reference assets needed before prompting.
+- Risk elements: hands, mirrors, crowds, text/logos, complex choreography, IP-sensitive visuals.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/references/shotlist_schema.md

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+# Shot List Schema
+
+Recommended columns:
+- Shot ID
+- Scene beat
+- Dramatic purpose
+- Subject/action
+- Shot size/framing
+- Camera angle
+- Lens feel
+- Camera movement
+- Blocking
+- Lighting/color
+- Production design/props
+- Audio/dialogue
+- Duration estimate
+- Continuity notes
+- Asset/reference needs
+- Prompt handoff notes
+
+Keep one dominant subject/action and one dominant camera behavior per AI-video shot unless the model supports multi-shot control.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/templates/asset_list.md

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+# Asset List Template
+
+| Asset ID | Type | Description | Scene/shot use | State changes | Reference needed | Prompt notes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| CH-001 | character | | | | | |
+| LOC-001 | location | | | | | |
+| PROP-001 | prop | | | | | |

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/templates/camera_plan.md

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+# Camera Plan Template
+
+- Scene:
+- Visual strategy:
+- Dominant lens language:
+- Movement rules:
+- Coverage priorities:
+- Screen direction/axis:
+- Re-anchoring shots:
+- Risk shots:

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/templates/scene_breakdown.md

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+# Scene Breakdown Template
+
+## Scene
+- Purpose:
+- Entry state:
+- Exit state:
+- Location:
+- Characters:
+- Props:
+- Wardrobe:
+- Lighting state:
+- Sound/audio:
+
+## Visual beats
+| Beat | Action | Shot idea | Continuity note | Prompt need |
+|---|---|---|---|---|

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/templates/shot_list.md

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+# Shot List Template
+
+| Shot ID | Beat | Purpose | Subject/action | Framing | Angle/lens | Movement | Lighting | Audio | Duration | Continuity | Asset needs |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---:|---|---|
+| S01-001 | | | | | | | | | | | |

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/shotlist-and-visual-breakdown/tests/screenplay_to_shotlist_tests.md

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+# Screenplay-to-Shotlist Tests
+
+- Every dramatic beat maps to at least one shot or deliberate omission note.
+- Each shot has purpose, framing, movement, lighting, continuity, and asset needs.
+- AI-video rows do not contain multiple major camera moves unless model supports multi-shot.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/style-cinematography-director/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: style-cinematography-director
+description: "Translate genre, tone, cinematic references, lens language, lighting, framing, blocking, texture, realism, and audience experience into reusable creative direction for scripts, shot lists, and prompts."
+---
+
+# style-cinematography-director
+
+## When to use
+- The user asks for cinematic style, genre look, camera language, lensing, lighting, blocking, realism, texture, visual tone, or art-direction guidance.
+- The user has a story but needs a visual language before shot lists or prompts.
+- The user wants style consistency across scenes or model outputs.
+
+## When not to use
+- The user only wants model-specific parameter conversion.
+- The user needs screenplay dialogue rather than visual direction.
+- The user asks for a single still prompt and already has full visual specs.
+
+## Required inputs
+- Story/scene/concept
+- Genre/tone/audience experience
+- Desired realism level
+- References if any
+
+## Optional inputs
+- Runtime
+- Target platform/aspect ratio
+- Color palette
+- Continuity bible
+- Model/tool constraints
+
+## Workflow
+1. Translate abstract tone into visible choices: contrast, palette, lens distance, camera stability, light source, texture, blocking, and production design.
+2. Select a genre grammar but avoid copying a specific protected work.
+3. Define lens and framing rules that express emotional distance and power dynamics.
+4. Define lighting rules with direction, quality, source, color temperature, and shadow behavior.
+5. Define texture and realism rules: skin, fabric, weather, grain, imperfections, and artifact guardrails.
+6. Create a compact style bible and shot-level style tags for downstream prompts.
+7. Flag style choices that conflict with target model limits.
+
+## Decision logic
+- If the user gives only mood words, convert them into concrete camera/light/color decisions.
+- If multiple references conflict, choose a dominant anchor and one accent.
+- If photorealism matters, prioritize physical light, lens behavior, and micro-texture over quality adjectives.
+- If the result is for video, include motion and blocking rules.
+
+## Output formats
+- Visual direction brief
+- Genre/tone translation
+- Cinematography rules
+- Lighting palette
+- Texture/realism rules
+- Prompt-ready style block
+
+## Quality checks
+- Every style claim maps to a visible or audible execution detail.
+- Camera, lighting, color, and production design reinforce the same emotional goal.
+- References are used as inspiration, not reproduction.
+- Style rules are concise enough for repeated prompting.
+- Conflicts with model behavior are noted.
+
+## Anti-patterns
+- Generic cinematic adjectives without technical choices
+- Overloading prompts with many film references
+- One-note palettes that flatten emotional range
+- Style rules that fight the story purpose
+- Copying a living artist or exact protected image when a descriptive alternative works.
+
+## Exit criteria
+- A reusable style/cinematography brief is ready for story, shot list, bible, image prompt, video prompt, or model adaptation.
+
+## Supporting files
+Read only the supporting file needed for the active task:
+- `references/cinematic_language.md`
+- `references/camera_lens_movement.md`
+- `references/lighting_and_photorealism.md`
+- `references/genre_style_tone.md`
+- `templates/visual_style_bible.md`

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/style-cinematography-director/checklists/style_quality_checklist.md

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+# Style Quality Checklist
+
+- Mood words are converted into camera/light/color/design choices.
+- One dominant style anchor leads.
+- Lens and framing match emotional distance.
+- Lighting has source, direction, quality, and contrast.
+- Texture/realism rules support the genre.
+- Style rules are reusable and concise.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/style-cinematography-director/examples/genre_to_visual_direction.md

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+# Example: Genre to Visual Direction
+
+## Input
+A 4-minute grief mystery set in an apartment building basement. Tone: quiet dread, intimate, not flashy.
+
+## Visual direction
+- Camera: restrained, mostly locked-off or slow dolly-in; close-ups only at decisions; wide shots used for isolation in hallways.
+- Lens: 35mm for basement geography, 50mm for human perspective, macro inserts for keys/cassettes/dust.
+- Lighting: motivated green-white fluorescent overheads with small flashlight beams; no beauty lighting; shadows retain detail.
+- Palette: oxidized green, old brass, navy uniform, blue dawn accent.
+- Texture: chipped paint, dust, tarnished metal, damp fabric, natural skin texture, faint film grain.
+- Blocking: the guard begins centered and controlled, then drifts toward frame edges as doubt grows.
+
+## Prompt-ready style block
+Quiet psychological mystery realism, restrained locked-off frames and slow push-ins, cool green fluorescent practical light, old brass and chipped paint textures, natural skin and fabric detail, faint film grain, no glossy CGI finish.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/style-cinematography-director/references/camera_lens_movement.md

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+# Camera, Lens, and Movement
+
+## Lens language
+- 18-24mm: wide, immersive, spatial distortion, kinetic proximity.
+- 28-35mm: naturalistic documentary presence, environmental context.
+- 50mm: balanced human perspective, restrained drama.
+- 75-100mm: portrait compression, isolation, emotional scrutiny.
+- Macro: tactile detail, evidence, fragility, product texture.
+- Anamorphic: wide cinematic frame, oval bokeh, horizontal flares; use only when the wide format supports the scene.
+
+## Camera movement
+Use one dominant move per short video prompt.
+- Locked-off: tension, deadpan comedy, surveillance, realism.
+- Slow dolly-in: attention, realization, dread, intimacy.
+- Pull-back: reveal, loss, loneliness, scale.
+- Tracking: pursuit, routine, journey, kinetic momentum.
+- Handheld: immediacy, documentary energy, instability.
+- Crane/rise: revelation, scale, transcendence.
+- Orbit: subject examination, glamour, uncertainty; risky for identity in weaker models.
+- Pan/tilt: discovery, geography, causal reveal.
+
+## Movement guardrails
+- Pair camera motion with subject motion only when they do not compete.
+- For AI video, prefer simple verbs: walks, turns, reaches, kneels, lifts, exhales.
+- State physical consequence: coat swings, glass trembles, dust lifts, water ripples.
+- Avoid mirrors, complex hand interactions, crowds, and fast rotations unless essential.

package/resources/skills/director-skills/upstream/skills/style-cinematography-director/references/cinematic_language.md

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+# Cinematic Language
+
+Use cinematic terms as operational controls, not decoration.
+
+## Shot scale
+- Extreme wide: geography, isolation, scale, ritual, threat.
+- Wide: body in environment, blocking, tactical movement.
+- Medium: relationship, gesture, practical action.
+- Medium close-up: emotion plus some body language.
+- Close-up: decision, withheld emotion, pressure.
+- Extreme close-up: evidence, tactile detail, anxiety, revelation.
+
+## Angles
+- Eye level: intimacy, realism, moral parity.
+- Low angle: power, awe, menace, aspiration.
+- High angle: vulnerability, surveillance, judgment.
+- Dutch angle: instability; use sparingly.
+- Over-the-shoulder: relationship geometry and point of view.
+- Profile: distance, stalemate, withheld intimacy.
+
+## Composition
+- Centered symmetry: control, ritual, institutional pressure.
+- Rule of thirds: naturalism and readable subject hierarchy.
+- Negative space: loneliness, anticipation, unseen threat.
+- Layered foreground/midground/background: depth and story context.
+- Frame within frame: entrapment, surveillance, memory, social pressure.
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+## Blocking
+Block for power and change. Track who owns space, who crosses boundaries, who turns away, who touches the prop, and who ends closer or farther away.
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+## Screen direction
+Preserve left-right motion and eye lines unless disorientation is a deliberate story beat. If crossing the axis, include a re-anchoring shot.