Agent skill

Finance Documentary skill

Make money and "how the system works" documentary videos in the Finance Documentary style (words behind the subject, rising bill tags, rupee counters, paper and brush transitions, teal grade, handheld camera from stills) with the SceneSkills Finance Documentary kit.

The money-explainer documentary look: big glowing words behind the subject, red bill tags rising out of the scene, counters, news and report cards, paper and brush transitions, a teal film grade, and a handheld virtual camera that turns still AI images into covered scenes. For personal finance, business and "how the system works" stories. Demo: The Salary Trap (2:06, 16:9).

What the skill teaches your agent about the style:

Pictures: cinematic AI stills of one consistent person in real places (flat, office, street), shot like a film: shallow depth, warm practical lights. 3-6 stills per section; the camera covers each still from wide, medium and tight.

Camera from stills: every shot has a slow push or drift plus handheld sway, a small zoom punch on cuts, and a hard 12-15% punch-in on key words. Shake only on hits.

Graphics: words behind the subject (big orange capitals between background and person), rising red tags (RENT, EMI, BILLS), money counters with Indian grouping (49,96,000) in green/red, icon bubbles, ink-splash memory photos, falling documents with a highlighter, news split screens, report cards, roadmaps, money rain.

Grade: teal shadows, warm highlights, gentle S-curve, 2.2:1 bars for B-roll, grain. A red duotone "pressure flash" on bad-news numbers.

Transitions: paper carry, paper tear, page turn, brush reveal, zoom-through, speed ramp to black. Never plain cross-fades.

Voice: calm, close, slightly serious narrator; music underneath with one big hit on the title.

1. 1

   Plan the film

   Script + section table (section, still, lines, element, transition). Show it.

2. 2

   Make the images

   Image prompts for one consistent character (same face, clothes and colour palette in every prompt; 16:9; cinematic, practical lighting; no text in the image). Generate, pick, crop.

3. 3

   Bring stills to life

   Optional: rig the hero stills with the Rig Pack (rig-pack/README.md) for breathing and head turns.

4. 4

   Set up the work folder

   ./setup_work.sh ~/work/<film>, put the voice folder in vo/<film>/vo/ (from voice_prep.py) and music in in/.

5. 5

   Build in the style

   Copy timeline.py and st.py to <film>. Rewrite SECT (section, still, lines, gaps) and the per-section element calls; keep the grade, camera and transition functions.

6. 6

   Check stills

   Test stills at the key moments, fix, then render frames and encode at 30 fps.