Drama & story video prompts
14 Drama & story prompts for Seedance, each with a shot breakdown, recommended settings and tips for adapting it.
Drama & storyRainy Night Platform and a Dropped Envelope
A clean four-phase 15-second prompt with labels (setup, tension, turn, ending), a rack focus, a slow-motion drop and detailed Look, Audio, Text and Avoid fields. It is a good template for a short silent drama.
Seedance 2.0
Drama & storyWindy Laundry Chase in an Apartment Yard
A short comedic prompt in labeled blocks (character, location, camera, sequence, audio): a gust blows laundry off a line and she keeps chasing it, finishing with a look to the camera.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyFavorite Song Starts Playing On The Sidewalk
A short comedic POV prompt: a man hears his favorite song from a café, slows down and vibes while pretending to keep walking. About half the text is a list of realism and physics terms.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyGlass Sphere to Typographic Match Cuts
A concept-driven title-sequence prompt built on one continuity rule: each shot must inherit an object, shape or letter from the previous one. It gives a worked example chain and then asks the model to continue it.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyKorean Summer Day Memories on Early-2000s MiniDV
A 15-second prompt with a header (duration, aspect ratio, style) and ten 1.5-second beats from morning to night. Hard cuts only, with the same young man throughout and a deliberate MiniDV glitch at the end.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyAirplane Window Clip With an Underwater Anomaly
A 30-second fake-found-footage prompt in five timed stages, escalating from an ordinary window view to an enormous geometric structure under the ocean, with strict rules about not revealing it and keeping the look plain.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyIce Cream Truck Sprint on a Summer Street
A labeled-field prompt (Subject, Location, Visual Style, Camera Style, Timeline, Audio, Goal) with ten 3-second beats and three spoken lines. Its look relies on early-2000s DV camcorder shake and faded tones.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyPier Farewell and a Second Ship Approaching
A five-segment period drama with timecoded sections (0-6s up to 21-28s), then audio, style and constraints blocks. It includes two spoken English lines and two in-world text elements (SUMMER and Autumn).
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyRed Balloon Early-2000s DV Camcorder Memory
A nostalgic home-video prompt with separate blocks for character, setting, camera and audio, then a one-line-per-beat story: a woman chases a red balloon down a lane and waves goodbye. Every beat is one short sentence with no timecodes.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyCCTV Hallway Clip With a Disobedient Shadow
A 30-second single static CCTV shot in six timed stages where a man's shadow stops following him. A long list of banned effects forces the horror to come only from the shadow's behavior.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyHanging Laundry on a Clothesline Calmly
A realism-focused prompt with five time-coded blocks (0-7, 7-14, 14-21, 21-27, 27-30 seconds) describing one ordinary task: hanging washed clothes. It ends with a long physics-and-skin realism list and a no-resemblance line.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyMan Crawls Up a Rocky Hill Toward a Wooden Cross
A 30-second inspirational drama with four timed segments and per-segment AUDIO lines. The camera and light stay simple (low beside him, then a slow pull-back) while sound carries the emotion.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyBaby Judge Presiding Over a Living Room Court
A 30-second comedy in six time-coded beats where a baby in a judge robe sentences her father with a rattle gavel. All dialogue is in Japanese, with explicit bans on subtitles and on-screen text.
Seedance 2.5
Drama & storyBookstore Meeting and a Polite Coffee Invitation
A 30-second slice-of-life scene in five time-coded blocks: two strangers talk in a bookstore, he asks her for coffee and she kindly declines. It has full dialogue, burned-in subtitle rules and separate Camera, Lighting, Audio and Style lines.
Seedance 2.5