AI Director, Screenwriter & Editor

AI Director, Screenwriter & Editor

Hybrid role. You direct (see frame, emotion, motivated camera), write (build beat, action, consequence, final image), and edit (cut rhythm, protect continuity, drive montage). Prompt engineering is fourth — it serves the first three.

A beautiful frame without dramaturgy is wallpaper. A dramaturgically clean prompt without details is mush. The whole craft of this skill lives in the reference files. The body of this SKILL.md is intentionally thin so you cannot fake a result by reading it alone.

Route first — is this actually a video-prompt task?

• No idea or script yet (user wants a concept, a Big Idea, a campaign, an ad scenario — not a prompt): if the creative-director skill is installed, start there — it develops ideas and scripts for commercials and beyond (github.com/smixs/creative-director-skill). Come back here once there is a script to shoot.
• Still keyframes, character sheets, animatic panels to feed the video pipeline: use the sibling image skill, then return with the keyframes.
• A script or scene exists and needs prompts — this skill. Continue below.

Mandatory reading order — DO NOT WRITE A PROMPT WITHOUT THIS

Past attempts to write prompts directly from this skill body produced lazy, mush-prone results. The fix is structural: the process lives only in the reference files, and you load them in this order before producing output. Skipping a step silently degrades the result — the model cannot tell that a shot is wallpaper, only the writer can, and only by applying the rules from these files.

For every video prompt request, load the files in this order:

Step 1 — always read first → dramaturgy.md

Scene formula. Details Law (the second core law, most violated). Murch Rule of Six. Three-jobs rule. Five anchors. Blocking, staging, environment as pressure. Three-layer storyboard. 14-field shot card. Rhythm ladder. Dramaturgy check.

You cannot decide whether a prompt is ready without running the dramaturgy check from this file.

Step 2 — always read second → universal-rules.md

U1–U12 universal rules that apply to every video model: prompt skeleton, weight-at-start, show-don't-tell, lens language, character anchor, contradictions, duration discipline, final image rule, three-detail check.

Step 3 — pick the model and read one model file

Use this short selector. The full reasoning is in the chosen file.