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Seedance 2.0 · Field Guide

The grammar of a directed shot.

Six shot types. Six prompt structures. Six real clips rendered inside FXI Studio. This is the working field guide we use to brief Seedance 2.0 — the habits that separate an AI-generated clip from one worth projecting on a wall.

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The short answer

Seedance 2.0 is a text-to-video AI model that generates short cinematic clips with synchronized sound. To prompt it well, build each clip from six anchors: lead with “hyper-realistic 8k cinematography”, name exactly one camera move, describe the light source and direction, layer the atmosphere, cite one cinematographer or film, and write a sound line. One grammar per clip — never two.

The Establishing Frame thumbnail
Shot 01
Establishing Frame
The Slow Dolly-In thumbnail
Shot 02
Slow Dolly-In
The Low-Angle Hero thumbnail
Shot 03
Low-Angle Hero
The Overhead Aerial thumbnail
Shot 04
Overhead Aerial
The Close-Up Product Shot thumbnail
Shot 05
Close-Up Product Shot
The Lateral Tracking Shot thumbnail
Shot 06
Lateral Tracking Shot

Try this prompt

“Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, establishing wide shot. A modernist cabin with warm amber windows on a grassy ridge above a mirror-still alpine lake at dusk. Slow push-in, golden-hour god rays, wildflowers swaying. Sound: soft wind and distant bird calls.”

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The Six Anchors

Every good Seedance prompt is built, not written.

The model responds to structure. These six anchors are what you nail down before you describe the subject. Miss one and the output will feel generic; hit all six and Seedance gives you cinema.

01Format

Lead with "Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography" — it biases the generator toward photographic grammar, not illustration.

02Camera grammar

Name the shot type explicitly — wide, dolly-in, low-angle, overhead, macro, lateral tracking. One grammar per clip, never two.

03Light

Name the source (tungsten, neon, golden hour), the quality (hard, diffused, volumetric), and the direction. This is half of the final look.

04Atmosphere

Weather + time of day + particulates (steam, sand, rain, bokeh). This is where realism compounds.

05Reference

One cinematographer or one film per prompt. Pair two genres if you want tonal fusion. The model has a deep canon — use it.

06Sound

Seedance 2.0 renders synchronized sound. Prompt the audio like you would score a scene — engine note, distant bells, rain on glass.

Six Shots · Six Prompts

The canonical camera moves, and the prompts that summon them.

Each clip below was rendered by Seedance 2.0 Fast at 16:9, 5 seconds, with synchronized audio. The prompts are reproducible — copy, adapt, remix.

Shot 01 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 01

The Establishing Frame

Set the world before anything moves.

Open on geography. Name the place with a single frame — a wide that earns its silence. Hold the camera still, let wind and light do the acting.

  • Lead with environment, then light, then motion
  • Anchor scale: "stretches to the horizon", "vast", "dwarfed"
  • Reference a cinematographer to set the grammar (Deakins → hard sun, Fraser → atmospheric haze)
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, establishing wide shot. A solitary modernist cabin with warm amber windows, perched on a grassy ridge above a mirror-still alpine lake. Snow-capped peaks stretch across the horizon under a lavender-gold dusk sky. Wildflower meadow in the foreground swaying gently in the wind. Static wide composition, slight zoom-in. Golden-hour volumetric light, hazy god rays. Subtle ambient wind and distant bird calls. Roger Deakins lighting, scale of Lawrence of Arabia.
Shot 02 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 02

The Slow Dolly-In

Walk your viewer into the feeling.

A dolly-in tells the viewer to lean closer. Commit to a direction of travel and give Seedance a reason to move — a vanishing point, a figure, a reflection.

  • Specify the motion cue: "slow dolly", "push-in", "creep forward"
  • Combine color + weather + time of day for atmospheric density
  • Anamorphic lens flares are a free stylistic lift
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, slow dolly-in shot. Rain-slicked Tokyo back alley at 2 AM, narrow corridor of vertical neon signs pulsing magenta, cyan, and electric blue. Steam curling from a ramen vent mid-frame. A lone silhouette exhaling visible breath walks away from camera. Wet asphalt reflects saturated neon. Anamorphic lens flares streaking across frame. Blade Runner 2049 color palette, Chungking Express mood. Rich ambient city hum.
Shot 03 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 03

The Low-Angle Hero

Make a character feel inevitable.

Heroes get low angles. Put the camera under them, let the sky carry the composition, and treat the shadow like a second character.

  • "Low-angle" + "strides toward camera" builds inevitability
  • Salt flats, deserts, and beaches give natural reflective symmetry
  • Name the audio undertone — low rumbles do as much lifting as visuals
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, low-angle hero shot. A figure in a polished white spacesuit strides toward camera across a mirror-smooth salt flat, reflections doubling their silhouette. Sun-drenched sky saturated coral-pink at golden hour. Long hard shadow trailing behind. 35mm wide lens distortion, dramatic lens flare. Static composition framing their ascent against the horizon. Kubrick-Villeneuve hybrid. Bone-deep subwoofer rumble.
Shot 04 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 04

The Overhead Aerial

Abstract your subject into a graphic.

Top-down turns subjects into icons. Use it when you want the audience to read the frame before they read the subject — perfect for brand stills and travel reels.

  • "Aerial top-down" + "gimbal stabilization" keeps motion elegant
  • Reference an art-direction pairing — a film + an ad genre — to anchor tone
  • Strong color contrasts (white on cobalt) photograph beautifully
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, overhead drone tracking shot. Aerial top-down view of a pristine white luxury yacht carving a crisp V-wake through cobalt-turquoise Mediterranean water. Sun glitter scattering like diamonds across the surface. Yacht centered, slight lateral tracking. Crystal clarity, deep saturation. Smooth gimbal stabilization. Ambient ocean wind and propeller wash. Film: The Talented Mr. Ripley meets luxury travel ad.
Shot 05 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 05

The Close-Up Product Shot

Commercial craft, inside a 5-second clip.

Product stories live at macro scale. Seedance handles rack focus, micro reflections, and material weight beautifully — name the lens, name the surface, name the light.

  • Name the material: "polished mahogany", "brushed brass", "cold marble"
  • "Rack focus" gives you a narrative beat inside a single clip
  • Keep the camera static and let the subject move — classic watch-ad grammar
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, extreme close-up macro shot. A heavy gold fountain pen slowly rolls across a polished mahogany desk toward camera, catching a single warm tungsten light. Rack focus from pen nib to barrel engraving. Shallow depth of field, bokeh of soft amber highlights beyond. Anamorphic 50mm macro lens, micro-reflections dancing. Static camera. Subtle wood grain texture. Rolex advert meets Wes Anderson symmetry.
Shot 06 · 16:9 · 5s
Shot 06

The Lateral Tracking Shot

Parallel motion, cinematic momentum.

Tracking shots are momentum on rails. Match the camera speed to the subject, bake the world in with weather and dust, and let the audio do the adrenaline.

  • "Camera parallel to subject, matching speed" locks the framing
  • Dust, sand, and ocean spray all read as motion even without explicit verbs
  • Bright direct sun with heat haze produces warmth and depth
Reveal the prompt
Hyper-realistic 8k cinematography, lateral tracking shot. A vintage chrome motorcycle races left-to-right across a Moroccan Sahara dune at sunset. Camera parallel to the bike, matching speed. Plumes of golden sand billow behind rear tire. Low sun glares into lens creating warm cinematic flares. Horizon warped by heat haze. Rider in tan leather jacket, helmet down. Engine rumble, wind rush. Baraka cinematography, Lawrence of Arabia scale.
The Five-Step Ritual

How to write a prompt that renders.

01

Start with the feeling

Write the emotional target in a single sentence before you touch a prompt. "Lonely inevitability." "Quiet luxury." "Adrenaline, but elegant." This keeps you from drifting into generic imagery mid-prompt.

02

Pick the shot type

Commit to exactly one camera grammar per clip — establishing, dolly-in, low-angle, overhead, close-up, tracking. Mixing two confuses the model and flattens the motion.

03

Layer the physics

Material + weather + time of day + lens. These four anchors are what separates a Seedance shot that looks like a stock loop from one that looks like a director print.

04

Name your references

Pair one cinematographer and one film or ad genre. "Deakins + Rolex advert" produces different output than "Lubezki + travel doc".

05

Score the audio

Seedance 2.0 renders synced sound. Add an audio line: engine rumble, distant bells, rain on glass. It turns a clip into a trailer shot.

The Overdescribe Rule

Be specific to the point of discomfort.

Seedance 2.0 rewards density. Tell it the material, the angle, the weather, the decade of the car. Every noun should carry an adjective; every verb should carry a direction.

Before

"A car drives at night."

After

Rain-soaked asphalt, a black 1970 Porsche 911 fishtails through a neon-saturated cross-street, sodium lamp reflections shearing across wet glass, 35mm anamorphic flares, Michael Mann HEAT palette, engine note low and angry.

Before

"A woman stands in a kitchen."

After

A woman in a rust-colored linen dress stands barefoot on cold terracotta tile, late-afternoon window light slicing through linen curtains, steam rising from a copper espresso pot, Umbrian farmhouse textures, Luca Guadagnino stillness, soft distant bees.

Before

"A phone sits on a desk."

After

Extreme macro on a brushed-titanium smartphone resting at a 30-degree angle on black Carrara marble, single cold-white key light raking across the bevel, micro-dust particles catching the beam, shallow depth of field, anamorphic 100mm macro, Apple product-film grammar.

When It Goes Wrong

Four failure modes, and how to unlock them.

Symptom

Output looks AI-generated, plastic.

Fix

You underwrote the light and the material. Name the source, the direction, and the surface it hits.

Symptom

Motion feels floaty or sideways.

Fix

Pick one camera grammar and anchor it with a physical verb — "dolly", "tracks", "cranes", "matches speed".

Symptom

Color palette is muddy.

Fix

Commit to two dominant hues. "Cobalt and coral." "Tungsten and pitch." Leave a third only for accent.

Symptom

Characters drift from reference.

Fix

Use the [Image1] bracket notation — tag the reference explicitly and describe them in the same sentence that names the tag.

Frequently Asked

Seedance 2.0, answered.

What is Seedance 2.0?

Seedance 2.0 is a text-to-video AI model that generates short cinematic clips with synchronized sound from a written prompt. In FXI Studio it renders 16:9 clips around 5 seconds, and it responds best to structured prompts that name the shot type, the light, and the atmosphere.

How do you write a good Seedance 2.0 prompt?

Build a Seedance 2.0 prompt from six anchors: format ("hyper-realistic 8k cinematography"), one camera grammar (wide, dolly-in, low-angle, overhead, macro, or tracking), the light source and direction, the atmosphere (weather, time of day, particulates), one cinematographer or film reference, and a sound line. Commit to exactly one camera move per clip.

What shot types work best in Seedance 2.0?

The six most reliable Seedance 2.0 shot types are the establishing wide, the slow dolly-in, the low-angle hero, the overhead aerial, the close-up macro product shot, and the lateral tracking shot. Each maps to a distinct prompt structure, and using only one grammar per clip keeps the motion clean.

Does Seedance 2.0 generate sound?

Yes. Seedance 2.0 renders synchronized audio in the same pass as the video. Write the sound like a designer would — a key sound, an ambient bed, and one specific accent — and the model matches it to the motion.

How do I try Seedance 2.0?

You can try Seedance 2.0 in FXI Studio. New accounts start with 65 free credits, and paid plans run $15, $35, and $135 per month. Every prompt in this guide is reproducible inside the studio.

Prefer character work with dialogue and synced audio? Read our companion guide, How to prompt Grok Imagine Video 1.5, or jump straight into the studio and see pricing.

Making a listing video? See how to make a real estate video from listing photos, with Seedance 2.0 Mini, Seedance 2.0 and P-Video 2 compared on one home.

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