Summer Evening Pastry Walk Through Old Lanes
Drama & story · Seedance 2.5 · @AIwithkhan ·
A 30-second prompt that generates a friend-shot home video of a young woman in a light-blue cropped tee strolling through narrow old lanes on a summer evening: a flaky pastry at the bakery door, an orange cat, a leaf landing on her head and one look back before the tape cuts. Rewritten beat by beat from the clip.
Original video: @AIwithkhan · View post ↗
Cost on Makernice
$7.776
Seedance 2.5 · text-to-video · 720p · 30 s × $0.2592/s
- 480p$3.45888
- 720p$7.776
- 1080p$19.2456
- 4k$58.65
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Prompt
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- The agent quotes first and waits for your OK, then creates with an Idempotency-Key and polls until the video is ready.
Why it's adapted
The creator's long prompt and the finished 30-second clip share the same route of house, bakery, cat, leaf, rest and walk home, but several details differ. On screen she carries no shopping bag and never locks the door, she is never shown buying the pastry and simply walks out of the bakery already holding it, only one yellow leaf falls and it stays in her hair, her low ponytail sits at the back rather than to the side, and her trousers look pale yellow. She also does not disappear around a corner; the tape cuts while she is still walking down the lane. The image is cleaner than the heavy early-2000s camcorder damage the prompt asks for. This adaptation follows the clip, keeps the creator's ambient sound and two spoken lines, and fits one 16:9, 720p text-to-video run of 30 seconds, the Seedance 2.5 maximum; the prompt asked for 1080p and the published file is 1280×720.
Original prompt
@AIwithkhan · 3,854 characters
Shot breakdown
- Subject
- One young woman, written as an original character: long black hair in a loose low ponytail with stray strands, a fitted light-blue short-sleeved cropped tee, loose pale-yellow drawstring sweatpants, black sneakers with white side stripes and a thin silver necklace. The lane itself carries much of the mood, with wooden gates, brick walls, parked bicycles, potted plants and overhead wires.
- Action
- Six small moments in a row, roughly five seconds each: she leaves through a wooden gate, bites into a pastry outside a bakery and shows it to the lens, crouches to pet an orange cat, laughs off a yellow leaf that lands on her head, rests by a concrete wall as two cyclists pass, and walks away with one glance back.
- Camera
- Everything is filmed as if by a friend holding the camera: walking backwards in front of her, following behind, a low side angle by the wall and one sudden zoom that pushes into a soft, out-of-focus close-up of her laughing face. The end is a hard cut to black, not a fade.
- Style
- Unpolished personal footage in warm, low evening sun, with natural skin, gentle colour, slight shake and loose framing. The realism comes from ordinary details such as utility meters, scuffed walls and bread cases, not from cinematic lighting.
- Sound
- Location sound only, from birdsong, insects, footsteps and bicycle bells to rustling leaves and a little handling noise, plus two short lines: a puzzled "Seriously?" after the leaf and a light "Come on." as she walks off.
Recommended settings
- Model
- Seedance 2.5
- Duration
- 30 s
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
- Resolution
- 720p
Make it yours
- To change the season or the snack, edit only the 5-10s and 15-20s lines; the falling leaf and the pastry are the two props the later beats keep referring back to, so swap them together.
- If the zoom in the 15-20s beat comes out smooth and cinematic, add words like "jerky" or "overshoots" to it; the clumsy push-in is what makes it read as a friend filming rather than a crew.
- Keep the cat and the cyclists as background extras with no close-ups; giving them their own shots tends to pull the camera away from her and breaks the single-operator feel.
FAQ
Can I render this home video at 1080p like the original prompt asked?
Yes. Seedance 2.5 offers 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, with 720p as the default used on this page. Since the look is meant to be soft and casual, 720p already suits it; pick 1080p if you need a sharper master.
Can I cut it down to a shorter clip?
Yes. Seedance 2.5 accepts any length from 4 to 30 seconds. For a 10-second version, keep the 0-2.5s gate exit and the bakery beat, retime them to fill the shorter length and set the duration to match, so the prompt never describes more beats than the clip has time for.
How do I make it vertical for phone viewing?
Set the aspect ratio to 9:16, which Seedance 2.5 text-to-video supports along with adaptive, 16:9, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9 and 9:21, and change "16:9" in the first line to match. A tall frame crops the lane sides, so the cat and the cyclists may need to sit closer to her.
Source and copyright
The video and original prompt come from a public post on X by @AIwithkhan. Copyright belongs to the original creator; this page is for reference only. View on X
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