# Morandi Film Poster

Turns a personal photo into a typographic Morandi-style cinematic poster.

- Repository: https://github.com/Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill (5589 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-09-03
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill --skill morandi-cinematic-poster-zeejay -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill --skill morandi-cinematic-poster-zeejay -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill --skill morandi-cinematic-poster-zeejay -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill --skill morandi-cinematic-poster-zeejay -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Transform a user-supplied personal photograph into a source-faithful, typography-driven Morandi cinematic poster without stars or decorative collage symbols. Use film-poster title design, optional poetic byline and tagline, atmospheric metadata, optional fictional credits, intentional negative-space placement, perspective alignment, and selective subject occlusion. Use for architecture, travel, street, skyline, landmark, portrait, or lifestyle photographs when the user wants movie-poster mood and hierarchy without needing a real film, cast, director, studio, award, or release campaign.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Morandi Cinematic Poster · Zeejay

Create a source-faithful cinematic photography poster in which the photograph, title, and small type behave as one composition. Build the film-poster effect entirely through typography, hierarchy, negative space, alignment, and selective depth. The result may evoke theatrical key art without representing a real film production.

Do not imitate a named film poster or copy protected title lettering. Derive an original typographic identity from the supplied scene. Do not add decorative geometric symbols or substitute collage motifs.

## Asset

- Use `assets/reference-typography-material-v1.png` only for tactile paper, restrained ink, and low-saturation material cues. Do not copy its wording or layout.

## 1. Lock the photographic plate

- For portrait inputs, default to exact vertical 3:4 unless the user requests another ratio.
- Reach 3:4 with the smallest safe crop from low-information sky, road, wall, or peripheral edges. Preserve faces, landmark identity, focal gestures, perspective, directional axes, and useful negative space. Never stretch.
- Preserve non-portrait ratios unless the user requests a new ratio.
- After cropping, treat the photograph as `LOCKED SOURCE PHOTO`.
- Outside explicit glyph masks, preserve orientation, framing, geometry, people, vehicles, signage, clouds, buildings, windows, color, exposure, contrast, sharpness, native noise, and texture.
- Do not regenerate, repaint, repair, relight, retouch, grade, blur, sharpen, denoise, age, or add a global paper effect.

## 2. Write a cinematic composition map

Before choosing words or fonts, identify:

The rest: https://github.com/Zeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill/blob/HEAD/skills/morandi-cinematic-poster-zeejay/SKILL.md