Video with Seedance

Every moving shot is made here, in Seedance 2.5, the one video model in this stack: from approved anchors and references to a keeper, through the prompt, drafts and finishes, and judging and fixing takes. Then eighteen complete shot recipes to copy. Camera, light, performance and speaking shots have their own chapters.

Setting up a shot

How a shot is made from anchors and references, when a start frame is needed, and the platform settings.

• How a shot is made: A start frame is the exception, never the method.

• The six start-frame cases: References alone are the default.

• Platform facts and settings: Set every setting on every job.

• Attaching references: You attach the smallest set of anchors that locks what must hold, each given one job.

Writing the prompt

The prompt grammar block by block, the rules for identity, formats, the set, product, physics, speed and sound, then the templates and the pre-flight check.

• The prompt grammar: One prompt per generation, as labelled blocks in a fixed order.

• The two identity blocks: Two short blocks hold a character from shot to shot.

• Multi-shot formats: One generation can hold several shots, joined by cuts written into the prompt.

• The fixed set and the live place: The set never changes; the talent and the place's natural motion stay alive in every shot (decided).

• Product and labels in motion: The product comes from the client's photos, appears once, and is never asked to read while it moves.

• Physics: Things have weight.

• Slow motion and speed ramps: Design slow motion inside the shot; write everything else as real time, because Seedance drifts toward slow motion.

• Sound inside the shot: Seedance's own sound is the film's in-shot layer (decided).

• Templates A, B and D: Three fill-in video prompts, written for this guide.

• Validate, then pre-flight: Nine free checks before every submit.

Judging and fixing takes

Drafts and finishes, choosing the keeper, the failure table, and joining and extending takes.

• Draft and finish: Draft every shot first (decided).

• Take selection and review: Judge every take against the treatment, the anchors and the plan's intent, never a storyboard.

• The failure table: Name the level first; fix that level only, lowest number first.

• Joins, endings, extension and the video edit: Prefer one generation over a join.

Shot recipes

Eighteen complete Seedance 2.5 prompts, one for each kind of shot you will meet most often, each written for an invented film and brand. Copy the structure; write your own film into it.

• How to read a recipe: Eighteen complete Seedance 2.5 prompts, one for each kind of shot you will meet most often.

Picture-led recipes

Eight shots where the picture carries the film and nobody speaks a principal line.

• 1. Product hero: A luxury product's hero insert.

• 2. Action: A key action move in sport, played as one real-time take.

• 3. Wide establisher: An emotional film's opening wide, where the place and its life carry the scene and the person is seen small.

• 5. Multi-shot sequence: Several moments of one scene in one world, cut inside one generation.

• 6. Comedy beat: A gag played in a locked wide, then cut into an insert and a reaction.

• 7. Transition: A change of world designed into one generation, a match cut on a movement.

• 10. Exact composition: A designed tableau that must open exactly as the treatment draws it.

• 11. Food impact: The hero moment of a food or drink film, one physical event, shown in slow motion.

Ad-format recipes

Three short-form formats that start and end on the product.

• 15. UGC multi-look: A creator-style ad on a phone, showing several results of one product as stages joined by hard cuts.

• 16. Unboxing: An unboxing told by hands only, with an acting task and no other brand in frame.

• 17. Hyper-motion product: A high-energy product shot where every element answers one impact.

Stylised recipes

Two drawn films, each built on one accepted style anchor.

• 4. Paper-cut animation: A stylised film with no readable face, where the medium is the look.

• 18. Stylised acting: A drawn character who must act, with a comic beat.

Speaking and singing recipes

Five shots where a face says or sings a line.

• 8. Dialogue close-up: An Arabic speaking close-up in drama.

• 9. Presenter line: A short commercial line to a friend or the lens.

• 12. Arabic audio-referenced close-up: A close-up Arabic hero line: a laugh breaking into the line, a sob, a shout, a punchline's timing.

• 13. English audio-referenced line: An English principal line.

• 14. Egyptian pop chorus: A sung line on screen, in a music video or a jingle.