{
 "slug": "landing-surface",
 "name": "Name what it lands on",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Physics",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The right sound and bounce when something falls or is put down.",
 "use_when": "Products being placed, dropped or thrown.",
 "phrase": "he tosses the phone onto the grass, it lands with a soft thud and does not bounce",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Without the surface the model plays a hard floor.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Rourke Heath (25 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "repeated-action-rule"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/landing-surface",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/landing-surface.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): he tosses the phone onto the grass, it lands with a soft thud and does not bounce",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: he tosses the phone onto the grass, it lands with a soft thud and does not bounce",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. He tosses the phone onto the grass, it lands with a soft thud and does not bounce. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. He tosses the phone onto the grass, it lands with a soft thud and does not bounce. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}