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Mixed light

Warm and cool sources meet in one frame: real, lived-in, urban.

Use when: Night streets, kitchens at dusk, offices with screens, anything that should feel observed rather than staged.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Light: warm tungsten light from a lamp on the subject's left, cool blue daylight from the window on the subject's right, the two colours meeting on the subject's face

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Say it like this

Warm tungsten light from a lamp on her left, cool blue daylight from the window on her right, the two colours meeting on her face.

Watch out

A style word for light does nothing. Name the source, where it sits against the person, and what fills the shadow side.measured: Director Chair field notes on image prompting
Name which source is warm and which is cool, and where each falls; otherwise the model averages them into one grey tone.practitioner: Director Chair field notes on image prompting

Practical lights

The light comes from lamps you can see in the scene; warm and lived-in.

Prompt Window lightPrompt Neon

Saturated coloured light: nightlife, tech, energy.

Prompt

Sources

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters Checked 2026-11-13.

ShotDeck: real film examples of this lighting (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills of this lighting (free tier, link only)

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