{
 "slug": "dawn",
 "name": "Dawn and sunrise",
 "category": "time",
 "group": "Daylight",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "First light: fresh starts, quiet, a day about to happen.",
 "use_when": "Morning routines, running, travel, new beginnings.",
 "phrase": "just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Keep one time of day and one weather for the whole job, written the same in every prompt; a mix makes cuts that do not match.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  },
  {
   "text": "Dawn and dusk look alike to a model; add what only mornings have (mist, dew, empty streets).",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this time of day (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this time of day (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "golden-hour",
  "blue-hour",
  "fog"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters and general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/time/dawn",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/time/dawn.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nLight: just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nLight: just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Just after sunrise, low warm sun on the horizon, long soft shadows, cool blue still in the shadows, mist over the ground."
 },
 "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."
 }
}