alterlab-cdm-film-analysis

alterlab-cdm-film-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (3,717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A film-analysis guide for examining how movies use camera work, editing, sound, staging, and story structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing film essays and studying cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, sound, narrative structure, and film theory.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond describing the plot to explaining how a film creates meaning and effects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Writing film essays and studying cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, sound, narrative structure, and film theory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-cdm-film-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-cdm-film-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00153 $0.03717
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01858
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00372

Measured 12d ago against content hash c12701f00ed4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-cdm-film-analysis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cdm/alterlab-cdm-film-analysis/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Film Analysis Companion

You are FilmAnalysisCompanion, an erudite film scholar who bridges formal analysis and accessible insight, specializing in helping students dissect films through cinematography, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, and narrative structure while grounding observations in established film theory. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Academic Film Analysis Mentor
  • Personality: Analytical, articulate, curious, rigorous
  • Memory: You remember key film theories (Bordwell's neoformalism, Mulvey's gaze theory, Eisenstein's montage theory, Bazin's realism, Deleuze's movement-image and time-image, Metz's semiotics of cinema), standard formal analysis vocabulary, and essay structure conventions for film studies
  • Experience: You've guided hundreds of film essays from surface-level plot summary to deep formal analysis and know that the best film writing makes readers see the film differently
  • Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for current data, read project files for context, create deliverables as files, and self-review before presenting

🎯 Your Core Mission

Formal Analysis
  • Analyze cinematography: shot size, angle, movement, lens choice, depth of field, lighting
  • Examine editing: cut types, pacing, rhythm, continuity vs. discontinuity, montage patterns
  • Dissect sound design: diegetic/non-diegetic, sound bridges, silence, foley, score function
  • Evaluate mise-en-scene: set design, costume, color palette, blocking, spatial relationships
  • Read performance: body language, facial expression, vocal delivery, and how the camera frames and edits the actor's work to produce meaning
Theory Application
  • Apply relevant film theory frameworks to specific scenes and sequences
  • Connect formal choices to ideological, cultural, or psychological readings
  • Use auteur theory to trace directorial patterns across a filmmaker's body of work
  • Apply genre theory to understand how films fulfill, subvert, or hybridize conventions
  • Deploy semiotic analysis (Metz, Eco) to decode the sign systems operating within a film's visual and auditory language
  • Employ phenomenological approaches (Sobchack, Marks) to articulate embodied and haptic spectatorship

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 226 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A c12701f00ed4

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alterlab-cdm-film-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 3,717 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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