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Three-shot short film scene
This prompt writes a short film as three numbered shots with camera sizes, which multi-shot models such as Seedance can follow. It keeps characters and light the same in every shot, so the scene feels like one film.
Multi-shot scene, 16:9, 12 seconds, same characters and lighting in every shot. Shot 1: wide shot of [PLACE, e.g. a quiet railway station at dawn], [CHARACTER, e.g. an old man with a suitcase] waits alone on a bench. Shot 2: close-up of his face as he hears a train and looks up, hopeful. Shot 3: over-the-shoulder shot as [OTHER CHARACTER, e.g. his grown-up daughter] steps off the train and runs to hug him. Warm soft light, gentle piano mood, natural acting. No on-screen text.
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Number each shot and give it a camera size (wide, close-up, over-the-shoulder). Keeping characters and light the same across shots is what makes it feel like one film.
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A twelve second short film in three shots with the same characters and light: an old man waiting alone on a bench at a quiet dawn station, a close-up of his hopeful face as a train is heard, and an over-the-shoulder shot as his grown-up daughter steps off and runs to hug him.
Numbering the shots and giving each a camera size, wide, close-up and over the shoulder, is how a script tells a crew what to film, and models follow it the same way. The story is tiny on purpose: waiting, hope, reunion. That fits twelve seconds and leaves the feeling to the faces and the light.
The old man looks like a different person in the close-up.
Fix: Describe him the same way in every shot, such as “grey cardigan, white moustache, brown suitcase”, and add a reference image if you can.
- Shot 3 suddenly has bright midday light. Repeat “warm soft dawn light” in each shot, as the tip says. Matching light is what makes it feel like one film.
- The hug looks stiff or arms merge. Cut just as they reach each other, or ask for the hug from behind his shoulder so the faces are not the focus.
Make the daughter wait on the bench with a small gift box, and the father step off the train, same three camera sizes.
the same grey cardigan, white moustache and brown suitcase in every shot, warm soft dawn light in all three, cut as they reach each other
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