{
 "slug": "environment-event-track",
 "name": "Environment as events",
 "category": "setting",
 "group": "A living place",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Weather, waves and crowds that behave like a real place instead of a looping texture.",
 "use_when": "Outdoor scenes, crowds, anything where the background should live.",
 "phrase": "at 1.2 seconds a wave hits the rocks and the spray rises a tenth of the frame; at 3.8 seconds a gust bends the grass; irregular, never on a beat",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Treat the environment as timed events with a size, at uneven intervals. Described as a texture it loops.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 prompting guide, read 28 Sep 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "one-way-state",
  "static-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "vendor-summary",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": "https://higgsfield.ai/blog/seedance-2-5-prompting-guide",
  "note": "Own words from the Higgsfield guide summary"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "static-shot",
  "name": "Static shot",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Static shot",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/01-static-shot-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/setting/environment-event-track",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/setting/environment-event-track.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nPlace: [your setting]; at 1.2 seconds a wave hits the rocks and the spray rises a tenth of the frame; at 3.8 seconds a gust bends the grass; irregular, never on a beat\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nPlace: [your setting]; at 1.2 seconds a wave hits the rocks and the spray rises a tenth of the frame; at 3.8 seconds a gust bends the grass; irregular, never on a beat\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting], at 1.2 seconds a wave hits the rocks and the spray rises a tenth of the frame; at 3.8 seconds a gust bends the grass; irregular, never on a beat.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. At 1.2 seconds a wave hits the rocks and the spray rises a tenth of the frame; at 3.8 seconds a gust bends the grass; irregular, never on a beat. 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."
 }
}