Cinematic Short Director

Takes a topic/thesis sentence (and footage, if available) and produces a vertical short in a cinematic-minimal style: a warm film grade, top/bottom letterbox, a single large 64px Fraunces serif sentence in the center, and calm, sparsely-cut B-roll. A "less but heavier" aesthetic — it lets an idea speak by quieting everything around it. It is based on the Remotion StyleCinematic (compId StilCinematic) component; the output is 1080×1920, 30 fps, ~88 seconds.

When to use it: for a manifesto / thesis sentence, a maturity-authority tone ("I'm calm because I'm right"), or a reflective close where an argument settles. If you need high-energy viral, a meme/shock hook, or a dance trend, this style is wrong (use the viral / documentary / kinetic-typography styles instead).

What it produces: a second-by-second timestamped full shooting script — hook (0-3s), VO text, the on-screen serif lines, a B-roll shot list, and an audio map giving VO/music/SFX with ducking values. It also provides the render and still-preview commands. If footage exists, it updates captions.ts; if not, it directs ElevenLabs synthetic TR voiceover + whisper caption generation. B-roll is always textless atmosphere (Seedance); every readable element is rendered in Remotion.

Signature rules: only fade transitions, a single serif signature (no large sans headline), low music (0.08), sparse SFX, persistent letterbox, and a common warm grade across all layers.