Rainy Night Platform and a Dropped Envelope
Drama & story · Seedance 2.0 · ORHAN ·
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.
Prompt
Shot breakdown
- Subject
- A young man in a long coat holding an old envelope on an empty railway platform at night in light rain.
- Action
- He looks at the envelope, sees a train arrive, lets the envelope fall on the wet platform, boards without looking back, and the camera stays on the envelope.
- Camera
- Slow dolly-in from behind, a close-up with a rack focus from the envelope to his eyes, slow motion on the drop and a hold on the envelope before a fade to black.
- Style
- 35mm anamorphic look with teal and amber grade, deep shadows, practical lights and film grain.
- Sound
- Rain, a building train rumble, a single sustained piano note at arrival and silence at the fade; no dialogue.
Recommended settings
- Model
- Seedance 2.0
- Duration
- 15 s
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16
- Resolution
- 1080p
Make it yours
- The four phases total 15 seconds, the Seedance 2.0 limit; to shorten, cut the 3-7s tension phase and go straight to the train arrival.
- The 'Text' and 'Language' lines are for avoiding garbled subtitles; keep them if you reuse the template with another story.
- To change the story, replace the envelope with another object but keep 'rack focus' and 'slow motion droplets' as they define the emotional beat.
Source and license
- Author
- ORHAN
- Original post
- View on X
- Collected in
- YouMind-OpenLab/awesome-seedance-2-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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