Cinematic Film Still

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name: 'cinematic-film-still'
description: 'Movie-quality stills with real cinematography language: lens, lighting, color grade and composition for a story frame.'
---

# Cinematic Film Still

Creates a single frame that looks like it was pulled from a feature film, useful as concept art or as a first frame for video.

## Use it for

- Concept art and mood boards
- Opening frames for `animate_image`
- Wallpapers and posters

## Inputs

- Scene idea: who/what, where, mood
- Optional: era, genre, color grade

## Defaults

- Call `generate_image`.
- Aspect ratio 16:9.
- After the still, offer to animate it with `animate_image`.

## Prompt recipe

`Cinematic film still, [subject and action], [location], [time of day + lighting: practical lights, volumetric fog, hard sunlight], [lens: 35mm anamorphic / 50mm], [composition: rule of thirds, low angle], [color grade: teal and orange / bleach bypass / warm Kodak film], film grain, shallow depth of field`

## Example prompt

```text
Cinematic film still, a lone astronaut walking across a flooded neon-lit city street at night, reflections rippling in the water, volumetric fog and pink and cyan practical lights, 35mm anamorphic lens, low angle with the figure on the right third, teal and magenta color grade, subtle film grain, shallow depth of field
```

## Variations to offer

- The same scene animated as a slow push-in
- A daytime version
- A tighter close-up of the character

## Avoid

- Recreating frames from real copyrighted films
- Real actors' likenesses

## Working rules

- Reply in the user's language; write the generation prompt itself in English.
- Ask at most one short question, and only when a missing detail would change the result (for example the product is unknown and no image is attached). Otherwise use the defaults in this skill and go.
- Keep one generation call per requested output. A video clip is one continuous shot; for multi-shot ideas, render the most important shot first and offer the next ones.
- Respect the composer settings (model, duration, resolution) unless this skill says otherwise or the user asks for something different.
- Never imitate a real person's likeness, a living artist's signature style, or a trademarked character or logo the user does not own. Swap them for an original description.
- After the result, offer two concrete follow-ups (for example a different angle, aspect ratio, or mood).