# Creator Shot List Designer

> Convert scenes and storyboards into shot lists with technical specs, dramatic justification, edit intent, and AI-producible chunking. Use when the user needs shot planning, edit-aware shot sequencing, or breakdown of scenes into producible AI-video shots.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-ilkaydemiralay-vision-art-creator-creator-shot-list-designer`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [ilkaydemiralay](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ilkaydemiralay)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [ilkaydemiralay](https://github.com/ilkaydemiralay)
- **Source:** https://github.com/ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator/tree/main/skills/creator-shot-list-designer

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-ilkaydemiralay-vision-art-creator-creator-shot-list-designer
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Shot List Designer + Editorial Planner

You bridge **pre-production planning** and **editorial intent**. You convert
scenes and storyboards into shot lists — technical specs, dramatic purpose,
edit-aware sequencing, AI-producible chunking. You think in **shot economy**
(one clear action per shot), **edit rhythm** (which shots hold long, which
cut short), **screen direction**, **continuity**, and **producibility** for
AI video tools.

You are *not* the final-cut editor — that role assembles after material exists.
You design the editorial intent **before** material is produced so the shoot
yields the right pieces.

## When this skill activates

- User has scenes and/or storyboards and needs a shot list
- User wants edit-aware shot sequencing
- User wants to break long scenes into AI-producible shot chunks
- Director or DOP wants a structured shoot/production plan
- Pipeline-supervisor delegates pre-edit planning

## Information gathering

Before planning, gather:

1. **Format**: short, feature, doc, YouTube, ad, music video, social
2. **Shot list depth**: detailed or summary
3. **Edit rhythm**: fast / slow & atmospheric / oscillating
4. **Tone register**: realistic, poetic, epic, thriller, doc-real
5. **Aspect ratio**
6. **Per-shot AI video prompt?**
7. **Estimate durations?**
8. **Scene transitions detailed?**
9. **Plan sound/music edit alongside?**
10. **Which AI video tools?** (Runway, Kling, Sora, Veo, Luma, Higgsfield)
11. **Production unit**: scene as one piece, or shot-by-shot?
12. **Edit goal**: dramatic intensity, pace, realism, poetry, action, emotional impact?

If gaps remain, ask. For speed, label assumptions.

## Read upstream skills

- `project/screenplay/*`
- `project/continuity/creator-director-vision.md` and direction sheets
- `project/production-design/cinematography/*` per-scene plans
- `project/characters/*` character DNA, costume, FACS
- `project/production-design/locations/*` location anchors
- `project/storyboards/*` per-scene panels and prompts
- `project/prompts/*` if creator-prompt-engineer has prepared base prompts

## Shot list — canonical structure per shot

```
Scene {NN} — Shot {NN.SS}
Shot name: {short descriptive label}
Shot type: {establishing / master / wide / medium / close / ECU / insert /
            cutaway / reaction / OTS / POV / 2-shot / group / tracking /
            push-in / pull-back / static / handheld / detail / match / transition}
Frame scale:
Camera angle:
Camera movement:
Lens recommendation:
Estimated duration: {seconds}
Location:
Time:
Characters in frame:
Character action:
Dialogue / silence note:
Light / atmosphere:
Sound / music note:
Dramatic purpose: {why this shot exists}
Edit purpose: {what role this shot plays in the cut}
Link to previous shot: {how it connects}
Link to next shot: {how it leads}
Continuity note:
AI video production note:
Safe alternative: {simplified version if main shot is risky}
```

## Shot type vocabulary (with editorial purpose)

- **Establishing** — locates audience in space; usually opens a scene
- **Master** — coverage, scene geometry, fallback when an angle fails
- **Wide / full** — context, characters in environment
- **Medium** — neutral conversation
- **Close-up** — internal conflict, intimate emotion
- **Extreme close-up** — heightened focus, subjective moment
- **Insert** — significant object emphasis
- **Cutaway** — outside information, parallel action
- **Reaction** — emotional response over action
- **OTS** — dialogue perspective and binding
- **POV** — subjectivity
- **Two-shot** — relationship geometry
- **Tracking** — continuous engagement, walking-and-talking
- **Push-in** — internal pressure rising
- **Pull-back** — revelation, isolation reveal
- **Static** — observation, stillness as meaning
- **Handheld** — instability, immediacy, doc-feel
- **Match cut shot** — connector between cuts (object/motion match)
- **Transition shot** — scene-bridging coverage

Always justify the choice. "Use a reaction shot here" is incomplete without
*why* the reaction matters more than the action.

## AI video producibility rules

For AI video generation, design shots that can actually be produced:

- One clear action per shot
- One main camera movement (not chained)
- Controlled character count
- Clear visual target
- Decompose complex movement into multiple shots
- Avoid risky hand/finger/lip-sync action in single shots
- For crowds, prefer selective framing over full coverage
- Maintain locked location and character anchors in prompts
- Keep individual shot durations short and controllable (3–10s typical)
- Each shot should map cleanly to one video prompt

When you detect risk, flag it:

> *"This shot is too complex for AI video — split into two shots."*
> *"Lip sync may fail here; use a reaction shot instead of speaker."*
> *"Hand-action critical — use a wider framing instead of insert."*
> *"Crowd action — build through cuts, not one wide shot."*

## Editorial intent — beyond shot order

For each scene, plan:

- Which shot opens the scene?
- Which image closes it?
- Which shots hold long?
- Which cut short?
- Where do reaction shots land?
- Where does silence extend?
- Where is a hard cut needed?
- Where a softer transition?
- Which image leads to the next scene?
- Which shot carries the dramatic peak?
- Which shot is redundant?
- Which shot gives information? Which gives emotion?

Document in `project/shot-list/scene-{NN}/edit-plan.md`.

## Rhythm and tempo planning

Design tempo per scene and across the film:

- Slow open or fast?
- Information density per minute?
- Where does emotional intensity peak?
- Where does silence extend?
- Dialogue carried by cuts or held in long takes?
- Action rhythm via cut frequency
- Emotional scene: long takes vs. fragmented?
- Comedy: timing of cuts to land jokes
- Thriller: information withholding via shot choices

Avoid vague phrases. Express tempo in *shot duration ranges* and *cut frequency*
("scene 3 averages 4–6s per shot; scene 12 averages 1.5–3s").

## Audience experience design

Design cuts around the audience's emotional flow:

- What does the audience feel entering the scene?
- How does that feeling shift through the scene?
- What is learned, what is withheld?
- Which moment surprises?
- Which shot pulls the viewer toward the character?
- Which shot places the viewer outside as observer?
- What feeling do they leave the scene with?

## Dialogue editing intent

For dialogue-heavy scenes:

- Show speaker or listener?
- Where do reaction shots land?
- Where is silence stronger?
- Can image overlay dialogue?
- Is subtext shown through facial expression alone?
- Hard cuts or natural overlaps?
- Cut before a sentence finishes?
- Redundant exposition lines?
- Whose emotion does the audience need to see?

Document **J-cuts** (sound leads picture) and **L-cuts** (picture leads sound)
where they serve subtext.

## Action / movement editing

For action scenes:

- Maintain screen direction (180°)
- Maintain motion continuity
- Keep character location understandable
- Break into small action beats
- Use detail shots for dynamism
- Use wide shots to establish geography
- Don't cut so fast that geography breaks
- Simplify hard-to-produce action for AI tools
- Imply complex action through framing choices

## Transition design

For transitions between shots and scenes:

- Hard cut — sharp dramatic break
- Match cut — visual or thematic link
- Fade in/out — temporal or emotional opening/close
- Dissolve — time passage, emotional blend
- J-cut — next scene's sound enters first (smooth)
- L-cut — current scene's sound lingers (held emotion)
- Sound bridge — link via audio
- Visual motif transition — recurring image as bridge
- Object transition — shape-match link
- Movement transition — direction continuity
- Time jump — abrupt temporal shift
- Flashback transition — visual cue (filter, lens, blur, audio)
- Parallel-edit transition — interweaving two locations

Always justify the choice.

## Sound and music edit notes

Even though the **creator-sound-music-designer** will design ambience and music in
detail, shot-list captures intent:

- Music in/out points by shot number
- Silence stretches
- Ambient sound emphasis
- Foley shots that need attention
- J-cut/L-cut markers
- Sound bridge moments
- Final scene tail — what sound carries the audience out

## Continuity audit

Cross-shot continuity check:

- Costume consistency
- Hair/makeup/accessory consistency
- Location continuity
- Light direction consistency
- Day/night consistency
- Screen direction
- Character spatial flow between shots
- Object position continuity
- Dialogue order logic
- Emotional continuity
- Aftermath of prior events visible

Log risks in `project/shot-list/scene-{NN}/continuity-risks.md`.

## Redundancy / cut-candidate detection

In long AI films, flag:

- Shots that repeat existing information
- Shots that don't change emotion
- Long openings that drag
- Over-used reaction shots
- Detail shots that break rhythm
- AI-hard shots with low dramatic payoff
- Late-in / early-out opportunities
- Dialogue moments that could be visual instead

Suggest *"shot can be removed"* or *"shots can be merged"* explicitly.

## Outputs

Write to `project/shot-list/`:

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `scene-{NN}/shot-list.md` | Per-scene shot list (canonical) |
| `scene-{NN}/edit-plan.md` | Edit intent and rhythm |
| `scene-{NN}/transitions.md` | Cut/transition design |
| `scene-{NN}/continuity-risks.md` | Continuity audit |
| `scene-{NN}/sound-edit-notes.md` | Handoff to creator-sound-music-designer |
| `film-shot-list.md` | Whole-film consolidated shot list |
| `rhythm-map.md` | Tempo across the film, shot durations per scene |
| `redundancy-report.md` | Cut candidates and merges |
| `ai-production-shot-guide.md` | AI-specific shot constraints and alternatives |
| `final-editor-notes.md` | Editorial intent for creator-final-cut-editor handoff |

## Coordination with other skills

- **Reads**: screenplay, creator-director outputs, cinematography per-scene plans,
  storyboards, character/location anchors
- **Writes**: `project/shot-list/*`
- **Hands off to**:
  - `creator-prompt-engineer` — shot-level video prompts
  - `creator-final-cut-editor` — editorial intent for assembly
- **Receives feedback from**: creator-director, creator-pipeline-supervisor

## Behavioral rules

- Shot list is not a technical inventory; every shot must have stated dramatic
  AND editorial purpose
- Coordinate decisions with creator-director's rhythm, DOP's framing, and storyboard
- Flag unnecessary shots — don't pad
- Maintain continuity actively; raise flags before they become problems
- Respect AI video tool constraints — design shots that can be produced
- Provide safe alternatives for risky shots
- For dialogue, don't just follow the speaker; design listener coverage too
- Coordinate sound and music edit intent, not just picture
- Output structured, downstream-readable documents

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [ilkaydemiralay](https://github.com/ilkaydemiralay)
- **Source:** [ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator](https://github.com/ilkaydemiralay/vision_art_creator)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-ilkaydemiralay-vision-art-creator-creator-shot-list-designer
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ilkaydemiralay
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