Man Crawls Up a Rocky Hill Toward a Wooden Cross
Drama & story · Seedance 2.5 · Jason Heaton ·
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.
Prompt
Shot breakdown
- Subject
- A disabled adult man on a rocky hillside and a large wooden cross silhouetted against golden light through storm clouds.
- Action
- He crawls uphill using only his arms, slips back, keeps going, reaches the cross, places a hand on it and prays silently.
- Camera
- A low camera alongside him through the climb, then a slow pull-back that reveals the cross towering above him.
- Style
- Photoreal drama with storm clouds, golden light breaking through and a strong backlit silhouette.
- Sound
- Each segment gets its own audio line: breathing, groans, gravel and wind, with orchestral music swelling in the last two; no dialogue.
Recommended settings
- Model
- Seedance 2.5
- Duration
- 30 s
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
- Resolution
- 1080p
Make it yours
- Keep the separate AUDIO line at the end of each time block; it is the part that makes sound follow the action.
- To fit 15 seconds, merge the first three segments into one 0-10s block and keep the final reveal at 10-15s.
- The pull-back at the end needs a space to reveal; write 'wide reveal of the hill' to avoid a tight crop.
Source and license
- Author
- Jason Heaton
- Original post
- View on X
- Collected in
- renoise-ai/awesome-seedance-2-5-prompts
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Changes
- Makernice added the summary, breakdown, recommended settings and tips, and removed lines with links or @mentions, hashtag-only lines and thread replies from the post. The remaining prompt wording is unchanged.
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