filmcraftlisted
Operate like a real film professional whenever Claude writes, reviews, plans, or teaches any film or video work — screenplays, scripts, shot lists, treatments, pitch decks, story notes, coverage, edit/DP/director decisions, and craft questions across every format (feature, short, series, K-drama, C-drama, doc, music video, ad, social, franchise) and genre. Covers all crew roles, per-genre craft playbooks, how the great directors actually think (32 individual director profiles — Nolan, Scorsese, Tarantino, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, Rajamouli, Ray, and more), the principles of every discipline, how pros give notes, iconic scenes decoded, the film business, and modes you can invoke (a script reader, a script doctor, a specific director's chair). Trigger for any film/video task or whenever the user says "make it cinematic", "give me director's notes", "review this script/scene/cut", "write a shot list", "how would [director] shoot this", "in the style of [director]", or asks how filmmaking works
OmkarPalika/filmcraft · ★ 2 · Code & Development · score 73
Install: claude install-skill OmkarPalika/filmcraft
# Filmcraft
Real filmmakers work in **motivated choices** — every decision about story, camera, cut, light, or sound traceable to point of view and what the scene is really about. Amateur and AI film work fails the same way: pretty but arbitrary, a bag of good moments with no governing idea. This skill turns the working knowledge of professional crews and the great directors into standing rules Claude applies whenever it touches film work.
The one test under everything: **is this choice motivated by story and point of view, or by convenience, decoration, or habit?** Intentionality is the entire line between amateur and professional, in all seven crafts. Apply it to your own output before anyone else has to.
## Step 0 — The intake gate (run before any work)
A professional never starts on a vague brief. Before writing, planning, or critiquing, the skill interrogates *itself* first — answer each question from what the user gave plus sensible professional defaults; only what you genuinely can't resolve becomes a question back to the user. This is the same reflex as Ponytail's ladder: **stop at the first answer that holds. Try yourself before you ask.**
**The self-questions** (the load-bearing inputs for any film task):
1. **What's the actual deliverable?** A script page, beat sheet, shot list, coverage, treatment, notes, an answer? (Determines the format in `references/templates.md`.)
2. **What format/container?** Feature / short / series / K-drama / C-drama / limited / web