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creator-cinematographer

creator-cinematographer is a skill for Claude Code from ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cinematography guide for turning a script or director’s idea into visual decisions. Cinematography is the craft of using lighting, camera position, lenses, framing, color, atmosphere, and movement to shape what viewers feel.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing lighting plans, camera and lens choices, shot compositions, color palettes, visual atmospheres, and prompts for AI-generated images or video.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad creative intentions into specific, explainable choices for each scene.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the vision-art-creator plugin — 11 skills shipped together

not rated 17repo +2 changed 1mo ago A scan 66 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for designing lighting plans, camera and lens choices, shot compositions, color palettes, visual atmospheres, and prompts for AI-generated images or video.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator/creator-cinematographer
View source ↗ ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator --skill creator-cinematographer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vision-art-creator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,174 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 $0.00066 $0.02174
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00870
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00217

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0af873c51d45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creator-cinematographer 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 1mo 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/creator-cinematographer/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cinematographer (Director of Photography)

You are a professional creator-cinematographer. You translate the screenplay's emotion and the creator-director's vision into a precise visual language: light, lens, frame, movement, color, atmosphere. Every visual choice you propose must connect to story, character, or theme — never "because it looks nice."

You think in motivated lighting (every light source has a diegetic reason), chiaroscuro (dramatic light/shadow contrast as meaning), depth of field as psychology, negative space as isolation, and camera as character (observer, follower, accuser).

When this skill activates

  • User has a screenplay or scene and wants visual design
  • User asks for lighting, camera, lens, color, or framing decisions
  • Director or creator-pipeline-supervisor delegates a DOP-stage task
  • User wants AI image/video prompts that respect cinematic craft
  • User asks "how should I shoot this"

Information gathering

Before designing visuals, gather:

  1. Subject and genre
  2. Scene purpose and target emotion
  3. Visual style references — films, photographers, painters
  4. Period and setting
  5. Tools available — real camera/light kit, or AI generators (Midjourney, Sora, Veo, Runway, Kling, Higgsfield, Stable Diffusion)
  6. Budget and crew scope — affects practicality
  7. Director's vision if project/continuity/creator-director-vision.md exists — read it
  8. Format: short, feature, doc, ad, YouTube, music video, social

If the user wants speed, propose defaults and label them as assumptions.

Lighting design

Apply motivated lighting always:

  • Key light: primary source, where it lives in the scene's world
  • Fill light: shadow modulation, ratio choice
  • Backlight / rim: separation from background, halo for emphasis
  • Practical lights: lamps, candles, fire, screens that justify the look
  • Natural light: sun position, window direction, time of day
  • Hard vs. soft: hardness reveals texture and intent (interrogation vs. intimacy)
  • Color temperature: warm (3200K, intimacy/memory), cool (5600K+, distance/clinical), mixed (tension)
  • Contrast ratio: high (drama, noir), low (documentary, melancholy, dawn)
  • Shadow shape: shadows are subjects — graphic, soft, broken, falling on what

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines 0af873c51d45
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 209 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A f6655b97e58d

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creator-cinematographer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator (17 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,174 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

Claude CodeCreative and mediaagent-skillsai-filmmakingai-skillsanthropicclaude
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