One continuous block in labelled sections: the look first, the scene, the cast, the place, the first frame and who stands where, then each shot on its own timecode, then optics, camera, physics, light, and the sound last.

Seedance 2.5

Scenes of up to 30 seconds that hold their characters, look and timing.

Use when: Multi-shot scenes, dialogue, ads with a story, edits on real footage.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Watch out

Skip a section and the output fails in a predictable way; the tested prompts include all of them.vendor: Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 prompting guide, read 28 Sep 2026
When the lines come back scrambled or the speech speeds up, the prompt asks for more than the duration holds; split the scene.practitioner: Rourke Heath (25 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting

Notes

The prompt, in order

Global look: camera, lens, stock, light, grade, one block, the same words in every prompt of the job.
Scene: what happens, in two sentences.
Cast: one line per person with only what never changes, plus their voice.
Place: the location, its light, what is in it.
First frame and blocking: who stands where, as positions in the frame.
Shots: each with its own timecode, framing, action and the kind of cut into the next.
Optics and camera: field of view in degrees plus distance; one main move per shot.
Physics and light: what changes one way only, what repeats as a rule, where the light comes from.
Sound: ambience, effects, music, the spoken lines with their delivery.

Every rule that must never break gets its own named lock (how many people exist, who stays on which side).

Lengths

One generation holds about 30 seconds. A longer script is split at a hand-off into parts that cut together, each carrying the same look and cast blocks.

Picks the video model by what the shot has to do.

Which model for videoPrompt

Several generations look like one film because each was told it is the same film.

The look blockPrompt

Each person keeps their face, build and clothes across every shot of a job.

Cast blockPrompt