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The prompt-builder skill and first Seedance run

Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K

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The prompt-builder skill and first Seedance run

Style: 8K IMAX. Photorealistic — no 3D render, no game engine, no game-cutscene aesthetic. Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki × Roger Deakins. Lighting: Natural light only — contre-jour backlight, camera on shadow side, atmospheric haze throughout. Key light from sky and windows only. Color: 60:30:10 — dominant / secondary / accent. Camera: Physical cine lens. 180° shutter motion blur. Skin: Pore-level realism — vellus hair, asymmetric moles, capillary flush, pore-shadow matching on-set light. Acting: Hollywood — micro-pauses before reactions, precise eye-line, wet living eyes with catch-lights, visible breath and chest rise. Physics: Gravity and inertia respected — mass has real weight, correct contact shadows. No floating props. Composition: Rule of thirds + golden ratio. Continuity: Characters, props, environment identical across every cut. No identity drift. Technical: 24fps smooth motion. 8K detail. No jitter. Audio: Environmental SFX only. No music. No subtitles. @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa — 25, athletic footballer, dark wavy medium-length hair, short beard, dark-olive crew-neck t-shirt and black jeans, reclined in a leather-and-wood lounge chair. 100% matches the reference. @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 — psychologist, dark wavy shoulder-length hair, taupe tailored suit over a cream blouse, seated upright in a rust egg swivel chair with her back to camera. 100% matches the reference. @b8d9698e-25b4-4971-bfee-37368c385665 — warm mid-century-modern therapy room, floor-to-ceiling gridded windows with low sun and foliage outside, terracotta floor, brass arc and table lamps, jade plants, a small tree, a vintage radio on the floor. 100% matches the reference. SCENE CONTEXT: a guarded first beat of a session — she asks her question across the room, then we cut in to read the memory landing on his face. Controlled multishot — strictly 2 shots, one HARD CUT. ACTION Controlled multishot. The only cut is the specified HARD CUT — the camera never cuts by itself. [SHOT 1] (0–9s) — the question Subject: @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 and @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa, both seated, present in frame from the first frame. First frame / blocking: @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 fills the foreground lower-center in her rust egg chair, back to camera. @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa sits across the room ~4.5m away, screen-right by the windows, reclined in his lounge chair, body three-quarter to camera, facing back toward @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48. Both are visible and seated for the entire shot — neither leaves frame, stands, or moves to another seat. Action: ① 0–4s the room breathes — dust in the sun shafts, @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa reclined and still, slow chest breath; @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48's head barely moves above her chair. ② 4–5s pre-line, @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 takes one quiet breath. ③ 5–9s she speaks, steady and low, "Tell me what you feel when you remember that moment." — voice aimed across the room at @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa; he listens without turning his head. Camera: from low and behind @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48's egg chair, looking across the room toward @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa, her chair large in the foreground. WS 28mm, straight lines stay straight. An EXTREMELY SLOW dolly-in, ~12–15cm total across the 9s — almost imperceptible, physical move, no zoom. Camera on the shadow side, smooth handheld, fine breathing micro-movement only. Style: low sun through the windows as key, ~4800K, contre-jour, foreground egg chair and @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 as a warm near-silhouette, @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa with a soft window wrap on one cheek. ⚠️After 9s HARD CUT to SHOT 2 — no transition, no fade. [SHOT 2] (9–15s) — the memory on his face (hard cut from SHOT 1) Subject: @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa only, tight on the face, still seated in his lounge chair. First frame: his face fills the frame from the first frame — no empty establishing frame. Action — the question pulls a buried memory up; he fights it (suppressed pain, eyes do the work): ① 9–10.5s: his gaze unfocuses and drifts off past the lens — a thousand-yard stare, pupils settling as if seeing the moment again, not the room. ② 10.5–12s: the masseter at the cheekbone slowly tightens; one delayed, forceful swallow travels the throat. ③ 12–13.5s: the inner brow pulls up and together (corrugator), the eyes gloss over — a wet film pools on the lower rims and catches the window light, but ⚠️no tear falls. ④ 13.5–14.5s: one slow, deep, controlled inhale — chest visibly rises and falls; the jaw trembles once, then clamps tight. ⑤ 14.5–15s: a single slow blink presses the wet back down; he holds it in, eyes still distant. Camera: CU 100mm (≈18° FOV) — background flattened to soft window bokeh, face natural, no warp; eye-level, on the lounge-chair side. Begins strictly static, then an almost-subliminal slow push of ≤8cm. No drift mid-segment. Operator on the shadow side. Style: same ~4800K; window light wraps one side of his face, the far side falls into soft shadow — chiaroscuro, wet catchlights carry the eyes; not flat front light. PHYSICS: real facial micro-movement, throat and chest motion, skin shows pore-level detail and a faint capillary flush; no exaggeration, no mugging. CAMERA (overall) LENS LOCK SHOT 1 = 28mm wide. LENS LOCK SHOT 2 = 100mm tight CU. Camera on the shadow side throughout. STYLE Naturalistic low-key, warm backlit interior, real 24fps film grain, grounded physical-cinema texture. Lubezki natural-light handheld. Continuity: @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa, @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48, @b8d9698e-25b4-4971-bfee-37368c385665 identical across the cut. CONSTRAINTS POSITIVE LOCKS: exactly two people, both seated and in frame — @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48 in the rust egg chair (back to camera, foreground) and @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa reclined in the lounge chair across the room; neither disappears from frame, stands, or sits anywhere else; lips move only for @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48's one line in SHOT 1; @081d2628-836e-4a30-958c-ac6c893d2eaa stays silent in both shots; tears pool but never fall; in SHOT 2 his eyes close at the end and stay closed to the final frame; dolly push-in and CU push stay slow, smooth, physical only; windows stay bright, faces carry a clear light pattern; identity and wardrobe identical across the cut; clean crisp image. Strictly 2 shots, one hard cut at 8s, no fades. AUDIO: faint warm ROOM TONE throughout — low air hum, soft creak of the chairs, low birdsong through the glass; @3e9c91c5-fc58-475c-ad0a-a0da2625bc48's single line sits over it in SHOT 1, warm and steady; SHOT 2 is room tone only under his breath — one audible controlled inhale, one soft exhale as his eyes close. Diegetic only, no music. 15 seconds. 21:9.
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