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A slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor.

Settings

Landscape as the setting

The place does half the storytelling: scale, isolation, adventure.

Use when: Outdoor brands, travel, cars, any shot where the place is the point.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Place: [your setting]; a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Watch out

Name the landform, the ground under the feet and the light on it; a bare place name comes back as a postcard.practitioner: Director Chair field notes on image prompting

Notes

Landforms to name

City street, village, mountain, jungle, swamp, beach, rocky coast, redwood forest, cave, canyon, slot canyon, rocky desert, sand dunes, savanna, an overgrown or abandoned place.

Extreme wide shotPrompt Location plate

An empty, consistent place that every shot of the job can reuse.

Prompt Scale against a person

Makes the size of an object believable.

Prompt

Sources

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its environment presets) Checked 2026-11-13.

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

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

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