Break down each shot and turn the analysis into a storyboard reference. Use when the user wants shot-by-shot film analysis, director logic, cinematography breakdown, or a storyboard-style reference fr
The skill file stays in the publisher's repository.
Paste the copied command in a terminal. It installs this SKILL.md into that agent.
npx skills add 0xsline/OpenChatCut --skill storyboard-shot-breakdown -a cursor -y
Break down each shot and turn the analysis into a storyboard reference. Use when the user wants shot-by-shot film analysis, director logic, cinematography breakdown, or a storyboard-style reference from a video.
Break down each shot and turn the analysis into a storyboard reference. Use when the user wants shot-by-shot film analysis, director logic, cinematography breakdown, or a storyboard-style reference from a video.
Use this skill to analyze a video shot by shot and produce a storyboard-style reference that explains the director's visual decisions.
Do not merely describe what is visible. Deduce why each visual choice was made.
Analyze each shot across five director-decision dimensions:
| Dimension | Core question |
|---|---|
| Composition | What is the viewer forced to look at? What pressure does space, symmetry, depth, or framing create? |
| Focal length | What psychological distance does the lens create? Does it compress, expand, isolate, or invade? |
| Movement | Why does the camera move or stay still at this exact moment? What changes before and after? |
| Cut | Why cut here instead of earlier or later? Is the driver emotion, story, rhythm, eye trace, action, or sound? |
| Narrative function | What new information does this shot deliver: setup, turning point, emphasis, concealment, revelation? |
Use a counterfactual test: if the conventional alternative were used, what emotion or information would be lost? The answer is usually the director's motive.
Use this reasoning to improve the analysis, but do not output the counterfactual test as a separate section unless the user asks.
Per shot:
S{N} - {scale} · {lens/mood} · {movement} · {timecode} · {duration} · {narrative function}
Composition: [what attention is forced onto and what pressure the frame creates]
Focal Length: [psychological distance and dramatic effect]
Movement: [why it moves or stays still, and what changes]
Cut: [why the cut lands here, including rhythm/eye trace/sound when relevant]
Narrative: [what story information this shot adds]
Overall:
Director's Logic: [3-5 sentences summarizing the visual strategy]
Visual Rule: [1-2 sentences the user can reuse as a shooting/editing reference]