About this design
Where the Cinema style comes from, and what it signals.
Cinema takes the typographic conventions of film title cards and applies them to presentation slides. The starting point is the letterbox: solid black bars 90px tall at top and bottom, separated from the content band by 1px white rules at 20% opacity, compressing the viewable area into a 2.35:1 crop that reads as cinematic rather than digital. Down the left edge, a film-strip column of ten white sprocket holes establishes the format from the first slide.
Inside the band, Cinzel handles all titles in uppercase with 0.18em letter-spacing, while Space Mono sets the clapper labels in amber #E2B15C, tracked wider at 0.35em. Lists become credits: role names right-aligned in dim Space Mono, proper names left-aligned in white Cinzel around a center axis. The palette holds to a single note: near-black #0A0A0A field, cream #F5F2EA text, amber #E2B15C for annotation only.
The structural elements, letterbox bars, sprocket holes, clapper labels, carry the dramatic weight. Content that tries to compete with them loses. Film-production docs, documentary pitches, lecture decks with a strong narrative arc, and any talk where the audience should feel like it is watching something rather than reading it all work here.
Use it for
- Documentary and film-project pitches
- Creative direction and moodboard presentations
- Academic lectures with a strong narrative through-line
- Brand storytelling and campaign retrospectives
- Portfolio presentations for directors and cinematographers
Skip it for
- Data-heavy financial reporting; the centered layout has nowhere to put tables
- Any context where dark backgrounds will print; the letterbox bars consume toner on white paper
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Cinema' theme, film title cards. Background: near black #0A0A0A with solid black (#000000) letterbox bars, 90px tall, across the top and bottom of every slide, separated from the center band by 1px white rules at 20% opacity. Left edge: a vertical film strip, a 44px wide dark strip (#141414) holding a full-height column of ten rounded white (#F5F2EA) sprocket holes, each 18x12px. Inside the band everything is centered: titles in the white serif 'Cinzel', uppercase, wide letter-spacing around 0.18em; above each title a clapper label in amber #E2B15C set in 'Space Mono' (both 'Cinzel' and 'Space Mono' are Google Fonts), like 'SCENE 02 · TAKE 01', tracked at 0.35em. Lists use a credits layout: role right-aligned in dim 'Space Mono', name left-aligned in white 'Cinzel', paired around a center gap. Dividers are thin white rules only. Strictly avoid: color photos, bright backgrounds, a second accent color, left-aligned title cards, rounded card containers, drop shadows. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Cinema deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Cinema on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Cinema presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Cinema slide design prompt in practice.
