I'm a builder, not a filmmaker. But I created a skill for Claude that gave it the script, Seedance 2.0 the shots, and CapCut the edit — and dropped myself into the Matrix as the operator who downloads skills on command. Eighteen seconds, two generations, zero camera. Here's the exact workflow.
You hit a wall — a thing you don't know how to do. In the film, the hero needs to fly a helicopter she's never touched. She calls the operator: "I need a piloting program… hurry." Seconds later it's downloaded and she's flying. That's the joke, and that's honestly what Claude feels like. So I shot the scene — with me as the one who calls Claude for the skill.
Two AI clips, stitched in CapCut: a rooftop (me + a face-hidden operative, four shots in one generation) and an operator room (CRT walls of green code). The "CLAUDE" wordmark is a CapCut text layer — never let the model render words, it smears them.
Every shot follows the same order. Say who, in what scene, doing what, lit how, with the camera moving how — then close with quality tokens and constraints. The model paces better from the plot than from timecodes, so describe the story, not the seconds.
Mini and full are the same syntax, different ceiling. So iterate cheap on mini (720p, audio off, ~½ the credits) until the motion and your face survive the restyle — then run the identical prompt on full 2.0 at 1080p with audio on. Tuning carries straight over; you only pay full price for keepers.
Upload one cropped head-and-shoulders selfie (crop out anyone at the edges or you get twins), use CapCut's Omni reference tab — not "Image to video" — and name the subject in the prompt: Define the man in @image1 as JACOB…. Then reuse that label every shot and add single character per frame, no duplicate or twin characters.
The whole film is two generations — group shots by location for consistency and credits. One multi-shot rooftop clip carries shots 1–4; one text-to-video operator room sits in the middle. Everything else is editing.
Omni reference. Upload the cropped selfie, 16:9, ~10s, motion intensity low. Paste the whole multi-shot prompt (all SHOT 1..4 in one go — never one shot at a time).Text-to-video, 16:9, ~4s. CRT walls, cascading green code, slow push-in. No people — no identity to drift.CLAUDE wordmark + blinking cursor go on top in CapCut — the model can't be trusted to spell on screen.Every frame below is straight out of the finished clip. Tap any one to enlarge it and read the exact Seedance 2.0 prompt that generated it.
Indicative CapCut/Dreamina credits — watch the live counter, audio adds cost. The whole film came in under a single 1,200-credit ceiling, most of it spent drafting on mini before committing to full.
| Phase | Seconds | ~Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Mini drafts (720p, ~3 passes) | ~27s | ~270 |
| Full finals — rooftop ~11s + operator ~4s | ~15s | ~375 |
| One reroll of the rooftop (1080p) | ~11s | ~275 |
| Total | ~53s | ~920 |
Likeness isn't free. Mini gives "someone who looks like you"; you need full 2.0 for a face people recognise. Budget for at least one full-price reroll.
It's a parody of a copyrighted scene. Keeping the co-actor face-hidden (not a literal lookalike) and treating it as parody keeps it defensible — but if you ever run paid ads on a near-identical staging, that's a known risk. Your call.
No camera, no crew, no rooftop, no helicopter. A script from Claude, two prompts to Seedance, an edit in CapCut — and a computer geek made a movie. That's the whole point: the wall you hit is now a prompt away from gone.
This isn't a one-off. I described the idea to Claude once, then told it to turn the whole method into a reusable skill. Now /generate-video-script turns any concept into a shot-by-shot script with copy-paste prompts, CapCut steps and a credit budget. Here are the two prompts behind both the film and the skill.
The /generate-video-script skill itself, plus the Seedance 2.0 prompting knowledge base (formula, camera vocabulary, audio grammar, failure fixes) and the copy-paste production sheet for this exact film. Everything in this episode is free and open.
# /generate-video-script skill + prompt kit publishing soon — comment MOVIE on the post for early access
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One small skill a day, faceless and fast. Each short dares you to try one Claude Code move — a command, a hack, a tool I built — in the next five minutes. Twenty-one challenges, no fluff.