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Pier Farewell and a Second Ship Approaching

Drama & story · Seedance 2.5 · Promo DEN ·

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).

Preview frame of the original video: Pier Farewell and a Second Ship Approaching

Prompt

0-6s: medium shot, slow push-in on a young woman in a flowing white dress standing on a wooden pier, her eyes glistening with tears she is fighting back. she looks up toward a tall wooden sailing ship, her lips trembling as she mouths a silent goodbye, wind gently moving her hair and dress. 6-11s: cut to side tracking shot following her as she climbs the wooden gangway onto the ship's deck, turning back once to wave down at the pier below. the camera drifts past the ship's hull, revealing the name "SUMMER" painted in weathered gold lettering on the wood. 11-16s: cut to a low handheld shot on the pier behind her former position. a small boy in patched, threadbare clothes runs into frame, stops, points urgently out toward the horizon and shouts in English: "Look!" his voice cracking with alarm. 16-21s: cut to close-up, slow push-in on the woman's face on deck, her expression shifting from confusion to fear. she raises a vintage brass theatrical opera binocular to her eyes with shaking hands, and whispers in English: "Oh no..." 21-28s: cut to the view through the binoculars - a vignette-framed shot of the horizon, where a second sailing ship approaches under a large sail bearing the word "Autumn," cutting through the waves toward them, sea spray catching the light. audio: creaking wood and rigging, gentle sea wind, distant gulls, soft footsteps on the gangway, the boy's shout of "Look!", the woman's trembling whisper "Oh no...", swelling melancholic orchestral strings entering at 16s, no modern sounds. style: shot on 35mm film, anamorphic lens with soft edge distortion, warm sun-bleached 1970s color grade, visible natural film grain, slight lens flare, shallow depth of field, realistic skin texture with natural pores and imperfections, no plastic or CGI-smooth skin, no waxy faces, naturalistic period wardrobe. constraints: preserve identity and wardrobe across all shots, no extra characters beyond the woman, the boy and the ship's crew silhouettes, no modern objects, no morphing hands, no warped ship rigging, keep "SUMMER" and "Autumn" text legible and stable, no other readable text or logos.

Shot breakdown

Subject
A young woman in a flowing white dress, a small boy in patched clothes, and two wooden sailing ships.
Action
She says goodbye and boards the ship, the boy shouts a warning, she looks through binoculars and sees a second ship approaching under a large sail.
Camera
Slow push-in, side tracking, low handheld, close-up push-in, and a vignette-framed binocular view.
Style
35mm anamorphic look with 1970s warm grade, film grain, lens flare and natural skin texture.
Sound
Creaking wood, sea wind, gulls, two spoken lines and strings entering at 16s; no modern sounds.

Recommended settings

Model
Seedance 2.5
Duration
28 s
Aspect ratio
16:9
Resolution
1080p

Make it yours

  • Keep the two ship names to one short word each, as written; short words in text are the easiest for the model to render legibly.
  • For 15 seconds keep segments 1, 3 and 5 and scale the time ranges to 0-5s, 5-10s, 10-15s.
  • The 'no extra characters beyond the woman, the boy and crew silhouettes' constraint prevents crowd drift; keep it.

Source and license

Author
Promo DEN
Original post
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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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