cine-cog

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name: cine-cog
description: "If you can imagine it, CellCog can film it. Grand widescreen cinematics with consistent characters — what previously required million-dollar production budgets, now generated from a single prompt. Short films, music videos, brand films, cinematic productions — epic compositions, cinematic lighting, visual storytelling at scale. Grand cinema, accessible to everyone."
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# Cine Cog - Grand Cinema, Accessible to Everyone

**If you can imagine it, CellCog can film it.**

The grandest cinematics were locked behind million-dollar production budgets — epic compositions, consistent characters across scenes, cinematic lighting, sweeping narratives. For the first time, AI makes all of this accessible from a single prompt.

CellCog's mission with Cine-cog: **make the grandest visual storytelling available to everyone.** Character-consistent widescreen cinematics, generated from imagination, not budgets.

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## Prerequisites

This skill requires the CellCog mothership skill for SDK setup and API calls.

```bash
clawhub install cellcog
```

**Read the cellcog skill first** for SDK setup. This skill shows you what's possible.

**Quick pattern (v1.0+):**
```python
# Fire-and-forget - returns immediately
result = client.create_chat(
    prompt="[your cinematic vision]",
    notify_session_key="agent:main:main",
    task_label="cinematic-video",
    chat_mode="agent team"  # Agent team for cinematic depth
)
# You'll be notified when your film is ready
```

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## What Makes Cine-cog Different

### Full Production Pipeline

From a single prompt, CellCog handles the entire cinematic pipeline:

1. **Script & storyboard** — Deep reasoning breaks your vision into scenes, shots, and narrative beats
2. **Character design** — Creates characters that stay consistent across every frame
3. **Scene generation** — Widescreen (16:9) frames with cinematic composition, lighting, and depth
4. **Animation** — Brings static frames to life with motion, camera movement, and lipsync
5. **Sound design** — Original score, voiceover, and sound effects
6. **Post-production** — Automatic editing, scene transitions, and final render

### What Previously Cost Millions

| Traditional Production | Cine-cog |
|----------------------|----------|
| Concept artists, storyboard artists | One prompt |
| Character designers ensuring consistency | Automatic across all scenes |
| Camera crews, lighting rigs | AI cinematography |
| Composers, sound engineers | Generated score + effects |
| Weeks of post-production | Automatic editing and rendering |
| Budget: $100K - $10M+ | Budget: One CellCog request |

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## What Cinematics You Can Create

### Epic Narrative Films

Grand visual storytelling:

- **Fantasy Epics**: "Create a 3-minute cinematic: a lone knight approaches a dragon's lair at sunset"
- **Sci-Fi Visions**: "Film a 2-minute sequence: humanity's first steps on Mars, cinematic widescreen"
- **Historical Drama**: "Create a cinematic recreation of an ancient Roman triumph"
- **Mythological**: "Film the story of Icarus — from workshop to flight to fall — in 90 seconds"

**Example prompt:**
> "Create a 2-minute cinematic film:
> 
> Story: A young astronaut sees Earth from space for the first time
> 
> Scene 1: Inside the spacecraft — nervous anticipation, checking instruments
> Scene 2: The hatch opens — light floods in
> Scene 3: The reveal — Earth in full glory through the viewport
> Scene 4: Close-up — tears floating in zero gravity, awe on their face
> 
> Style: Interstellar meets Gravity. Widescreen 16:9.
> Music: Orchestral, building from quiet wonder to overwhelming emotion.
> No dialogue — let the visuals speak."

### Brand Cinematics

Premium visual content for brands:

- **Product Films**: "Create a 60-second cinematic product reveal for a luxury watch"
- **Brand Stories**: "Film a 2-minute origin story for our coffee brand — from bean to cup"
- **Launch Videos**: "Create a cinematic launch trailer for our new app"
- **Corporate Films**: "Film a 90-second cinematic company vision piece"

**Example prompt:**
> "Create a 90-second cinematic brand film:
> 
> Brand: A sustainable fashion company
> Story: Follow a garment from organic cotton field → artisan workshop → confident person wearing it in the city
> 
> Cinematography: Wide establishing shots of nature, intimate close-ups of craftsmanship, urban energy for the finale
> Color grade: Warm, earthy tones for nature → rich, confident tones for city
> Music: Acoustic guitar building to modern electronic
> 
> End with logo and tagline: 'Worn with purpose.'"

### Music Videos

Visual storytelling set to music:

- **Concept Videos**: "Create a music video with a surreal dreamscape narrative"
- **Performance Videos**: "Film a cinematic performance in an epic location"
- **Lyric Videos**: "Create a cinematic lyric video with visual storytelling"
- **Visualizers**: "Generate an atmospheric visual accompaniment for this track"

### Short Films

Complete narrative filmmaking:

- **Drama**: "Create a 3-minute short film about a father and daughter reconnecting"
- **Thriller**: "Film a 2-minute suspense sequence in an abandoned building"
- **Comedy**: "Create a 90-second comedy sketch with cinematic production value"
- **Experimental**: "Film an abstract visual poem about the passage of time"

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## Cinematic Styles

| Style | Characteristics | Reference |
|-------|-----------------|-----------|
| **Epic/Grand** | Sweeping landscapes, orchestral score, wide shots | Lord of the Rings, Dune |
| **Intimate** | Close-ups, natural light, subtle emotion | Moonlight, Lost in Translation |
| **Noir** | High contrast, shadows, moody | Blade Runner, Sin City |
| **Naturalistic** | Golden hour, flowing camera, poetic | Terrence Malick, Studio Ghibli |
| **Hyper-stylized** | Bold colors, symmetry, precise framing | Wes Anderson, Wong Kar-wai |
| **Documentary** | Observational, raw, authentic | Planet Earth, Free Solo |

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## Cinematic Specs

| Format | Dimensions | Best For |
|--------|------------|----------|
| **Widescreen** | 1920×1080 (16:9) | Standard cinematic |
| **Ultra-wide** | 2560×1080 (21:9) | Epic scope, letterbox feel |
| **Vertical** | 1080×1920 (9:16) | Reels/TikTok cinematics |
| **Square** | 1080×1080 (1:1) | Social media |

**Widescreen (16:9) is the default and recommended format** for cinematic content.

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## Chat Mode for Cinematics

| Scenario | Recommended Mode |
|----------|------------------|
| Short clips, single scenes, thumbnails | `"agent"` |
| Full narrative films, multi-scene cinematics, brand films | `"agent team"` |

**Use `"agent team"` for most cinematic work.** Grand cinematics benefit from deep creative deliberation — storyboarding, character consistency, narrative flow, and production design all improve with multiple reasoning passes.

**Use `"agent"` for quick visual assets** — individual cinematic frames, thumbnails, or single short scenes.

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## Example Prompts

**Grand cinematic:**
> "Create a 3-minute cinematic short film:
> 
> Title: 'The Last Library'
> Concept: In a post-apocalyptic world, a child discovers the last remaining library
> 
> Scenes:
> 1. Desolate landscape — child walking through ruins (30 sec)
> 2. Discovery — a door hidden behind rubble, light seeping through (20 sec)
> 3. The reveal — vast library interior, books everywhere, dust particles in light beams (30 sec)
> 4. Wonder — child touching books, opening one, illustrations come to life (40 sec)
> 5. Hope — child carries a book outside, sits and reads as sun sets (30 sec)
> 
> Style: Children of Men meets Studio Ghibli
> Music: Piano and strings, melancholic to hopeful
> No dialogue."

**Product cinematic:**
> "Create a 45-second cinematic product film for wireless headphones:
> 
> Open: Extreme macro of the headphone surface, light reflecting
> Build: Person puts them on in a busy city — the world goes quiet
> Showcase: Music fills the frame — visualize the audio quality cinematically
> Close: Product shot, floating, clean background
> 
> Cinematography: Macro lens → wide → intimate → product
> Color grade: Cool urban → warm personal → clean product
> Music: Something that makes you FEEL the audio quality"

**Short film:**
> "Create a 2-minute cinematic short:
> 
> Story: An old man sits alone at a café, looking at an empty chair across from him. 
> Through subtle flashbacks, we see decades of conversations at that same table.
> End: A young couple sits down at the next table, beginning their own story.
> 
> Style: Wong Kar-wai color palette, intimate framing
> Music: Solo piano, gentle
> Let the visuals and music tell the story — minimal or no dialogue."

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## Tips for Better Cinematics

1. **Think in scenes, not descriptions**: Break your vision into shots. "Wide establishing → medium → close-up" gives CellCog clear cinematic language.

2. **Reference real films**: "Blade Runner lighting" or "Wes Anderson framing" communicates more than paragraphs of description.

3. **Specify emotion, not just action**: "She looks out the window" is flat. "She looks out the window — longing, resignation, the smallest hint of hope" gives CellCog the emotional palette.

4. **Music direction matters**: The score transforms everything. Specify mood, instruments, and arc: "Builds from quiet uncertainty to confident resolution."

5. **Let silence work**: Not every scene needs dialogue. Some of the most powerful cinema is purely visual.

6. **Trust widescreen**: 16:9 is your default. It's how cinema is meant to be experienced.