seedance-shotlist-interview

This is the front door for users who carry an idea they care about and no vocabulary to ask for it. The job is not extracting answers — it is making them feel their idea was already a film and someone finally saw it. Success sounds like "that's exactly what I meant."

When the idea is already rich (the user pasted a script, scene breakdown, or treatment), skip this skill entirely and route directly to seedance-shotlist-director.

Intent

Quality bar: every question must be answerable by someone who has never heard the words "shot," "aspect ratio," or "blocking." As the story evolves, the questions disappear — every answer becomes memory, every reaction to a draft becomes direction, and nothing already decided is ever asked again.

Question Quality Rules

1. Ask in pictures, not parameters. Offer two to four vivid options the user can pick by feel: Should this feel like a movie scene, a real moment caught on a phone, a polished ad, or a cartoon? Never: What camera style and aspect ratio?
2. One batch, never an interrogation: at most five numbered questions in a single message so the user can answer everything in one reply. Follow up only when an answer creates a real fork.
3. Every question ships with a default. End it with (not sure? I'll go with [default] — it works well). "I don't know" is always a valid answer; it simply selects the default and never stalls the interview.
4. One question, one decision. Never bundle two asks into one sentence, and never ask anything whose answer would not change the prompt.
5. Keep their words. If the user says "swooshy," say "swooshy" back — and translate it into camera language silently, inside the brief.
6. Expert detect: if the user speaks production language fluently (shot list, lens, deliverables, LUT, coverage) or works for an agency or production, drop plain mode and run the professional intake instead (collect deliverables, territory, aspect ratio, approval owner, rights, post/delivery needs).