A person holds the camera

Footage reads as filmed by someone who was there.

Use when: Found-footage, phone and documentary registers.

Shown with: Handheld. Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: An unseen person films; the camera flinches back when the cup overflows and then re-centres; no recording graphics on the picture.

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Say it like this

An unseen person films; the camera flinches back when the cup overflows and then re-centres; no recording graphics on the picture.

Watch out

One behaviour per clip. Name its trigger in the scene and the operator's correction after it; follow it once and finish on its result.practitioner: Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)
Add a line that bans recording graphics: indicators, timestamps, battery icons, focus brackets, grids, borders and subtitles. Imperfection has to come from how the camera moves, focuses and exposes, never from drawn-on graphics.practitioner: Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)
A separate, unseen person films; the subject never holds the camera.practitioner: Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)
Shown by a sponsored creator as straight out of Seedance 2.5 at 1080p; not yet run by us.practitioner: Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)