Burgundy Hour
Find an accomplice
SEEDANCE 2.5 · VIDEO PROMPT · 30S · 4:3
FORMAT: 30 seconds / horizontal 4:3 / 1080p high bitrate / 24 fps, true real-time speed / premium automotive brand film / dynamic hard-cut montage, 15 shots / audio ON: SFX and ambience only, NO music. STYLE: Shot on ARRI Alexa 35 with ARRI Signature Prime lenses: creamy round bokeh, soft highlight roll-off, natural skin, true-to-life color, fine organic film grain, high dynamic range, shallow depth of field on close-ups. Natural late-afternoon sun raking across stucco walls, soft bounce in shadows, crisp glints on burgundy paint. Palette: burgundy, cream, warm beige, green foliage, magenta bougainvillea. Mediterranean old-city streets, real traffic, real physics. Every camera is a physical rig with mass and inertia: dolly, low car-mount, camera car, handheld with subtle natural micro-shake on walking shots, no floating gimbal look. One single film look across all shots. REFERENCES: @image1 defines the car ONLY: classic 1980s rear-engine coupe, deep burgundy metallic, round headlights, fastback roofline, black wheels with polished silver outer lips, black rubber bumper trims. Exact proportions and color. Ignore the shop signs and background. @image2 defines the phone ONLY: burgundy matte smartphone with the raised camera plateau of three lenses, back logo exactly as shown. Ignore the knit glove, cup, comb and tubes. @image3 defines the man's face, identity and FULL wardrobe: curly dark-brown hair, brown eyes, short beard and mustache, burgundy heavy-knit rugby sweatshirt with cream collar and placket, cream pleated wide-leg trousers, brown leather belt with silver buckle, chunky silver chain bracelet on his LEFT wrist, burgundy suede running sneakers with cream midsoles, black square sunglasses. Ignore the grid layout, labels, swatches and studio background. @image4 supports the SAME man's face and hair only: curl volume, beard density, skin texture, sunglasses shape. Ignore the grey T-shirt, table, food and tattoos. @image5 defines the final wordmark ONLY: the exact letters P O R S C H E in the black wide-spaced typeface, centered on off-white. VIDEO PROMPT: [ACT 1 — 0–10s: THE EXIT] Shot 1 (0–2.0s): Wide static frame from across the street. A cream stucco apartment building, dark wooden door, magenta bougainvillea over the entrance. The door swings open and the man steps out into the sunlight, sunglasses on, burgundy phone in his right hand. End state: on the top stone step, door closing behind him. Shot 2 (2.0–3.2s): Extreme close-up at ground level. His burgundy sneakers step down two stone steps toward the lens, suede texture crisp, a few fallen petals lift from the stone. End state: both feet on the pavement. Shot 3 (3.2–4.4s): Close handheld lateral tracking at waist height. Silver belt buckle, trouser pleats moving with each stride, left arm swinging with the bracelet catching sun, phone held loosely in his right hand. End state: he walks out of frame right. Shot 4 (4.4–5.8s): Medium close-up, backward-moving handheld in front of him. Sunglasses reflecting the street, curls bouncing with each step, cream collar sharp against burgundy knit, calm confident micro-smile, background in creamy bokeh. End state: he glances right toward the car. Shot 5 (5.8–7.4s): Low wide, lens at bumper height behind the front corner of the parked burgundy coupe, car sharp in foreground. He walks in, pulls the chrome handle, the door opens with real weight. End state: he lowers himself in. Shot 6 (7.4–8.8s): Interior static wide from the passenger side. He drops into the driver seat and with a short relaxed flick of his right hand tosses the phone onto the passenger seat. It lands flat on the leather, bounces once, settles. End state: phone resting on the passenger seat, his hands free. Shot 7 (8.8–10.0s): Exterior close-up as he pulls the door shut with a solid heavy close, the window reflecting bougainvillea. [ACT 2 — 10–20s: THE LAUNCH] Shot 8 (10.0–11.2s): Interior extreme close-up: his hand turns the key, the analog tachometer needle jumps, then he snaps the gear lever into first. Shot 9 (11.2–14.5s): Static low rear angle, camera on the asphalt two meters behind the car, centered. The engine revs, the rear tires spin in place for about one second, a light veil of white tire smoke curls from both rear tires, the rear steps out a few centimeters left, then right as the tires bite, the body squats with real weight transfer and the coupe launches straight away down the street. Smoke drifts toward the lens and thins. End state: car shrinking into the distance. Shot 10 (14.5–17.0s): Low front three-quarter camera-car tracking, lens just above the asphalt, the car holding position in frame through a sunlit city street. Normal traffic flows: cars ahead and in the opposite lane, a scooter, pedestrians. He changes lanes cleanly and passes a slower car. Speed shown by asphalt streaming under the lens and buildings flowing past. Shot 11 (17.0–20.0s): Interior over-the-shoulder from behind-right. His right hand shifts up a gear, left hand on the thin wheel, the windshield framing the city and traffic ahead, sunlight flickering across the dashboard. The phone still rests on the passenger seat. [ACT 3 — 20–30s: THE SIGNATURE] Shot 12 (20.0–22.5s): Side tracking at wheel height from a camera car in the next lane. Rear wheel rotating with real motion blur, burgundy flank catching glints, storefronts streaming behind. End state: the coupe pulls ahead. Shot 13 (22.5–24.5s): High static vantage from a rooftop. The coupe turns through a city intersection in a smooth controlled arc between normal traffic, its long shadow on warm asphalt. End state: exits frame right. Shot 14 (24.5–28.0s): Locked-off perfect side profile wide, long lens across a clean empty street, camera completely still and level, cream stucco wall with bougainvillea behind. At 25s the coupe enters from frame left at speed, crosses in full side profile and exits frame right at 26.5s. The car's rear edge acts as a vertical sweep line: everything behind it wipes left to right into a clean off-white field, revealing the black PORSCHE wordmark from @image5 letter by letter in the car's wake, exactly centered. End state at 27s: full frame off-white, complete wordmark centered, street gone. Shot 15 (28.0–30.0s): Held final frame: off-white field, black wordmark PORSCHE centered and sharp, nothing else, completely still to the end. AUDIO: No music at any time. Diegetic SFX and ambience only, synced to each shot. 0–5.8s: <wooden door unlatching and creaking open> <birds in the bougainvillea> <distant city hum> <crisp sneaker soles on stone steps> <footsteps on pavement> <fabric swish> <faint bracelet clink>. 5.8–10s: <door handle click> <old hinges> <leather seat creak> <soft thud of the phone landing on leather> <deep solid door slam, then muffled interior quiet>. 10–14.5s: <key turning> <starter crank> <air-cooled flat-six catching with a sharp bark> <two throttle blips> <gear lever clack> <rising rev> <short high tire squeal and rubber scrub> <engine roar fading down the street>. 14.5–24.5s: <engine rising and falling through gear shifts> <wind rush> <tire hum on asphalt> <normal city traffic both directions> <distant short horn> <scooter buzz> <tire hiss through the corner>. 24.5–28s: <quiet empty street, one bird> <engine approaching from the left, a fast loud Doppler pass across the stereo field left to right> <soft air rush trailing the wipe>. 28–30s: <near silence, faint airy tail>. No dialogue, no voices, no narration. CONSISTENCY: Exactly one man, the same man from @image3 and @image4 in every shot: same face, curls and beard. Black square sunglasses stay ON in every shot, never removed. Wardrobe never changes. Exactly one car, the burgundy coupe from @image1 with the same wheels. Exactly one burgundy phone: in his right hand until Shot 6, then on the passenger seat for the rest of the film, never moving. Left-hand drive. Travel direction left to right in Shots 12 to 14. Same late-afternoon sun in every shot. Real-time speed in every shot. Final wordmark matches @image5 exactly. NEGATIVE PROMPT: no music, no voices, no narration, no slow motion, no speed ramping, no time-lapse, no removing the sunglasses, no wardrobe change, no different face, no extra people near the man, no second car, no different car color, no phone duplication, no phone falling, no huge smoke cloud, no crash, no collision, no near-miss, no misspelled letters, no extra text, no subtitles, no watermark, no license plate text, no CGI look, no plastic skin, no warped wheels, no wobbling geometry, no floating gimbal motion, no drone, no camera or crew visible, no split screen, no collage, no grid layout, no studio background.
Tutorial
DENIZ AKKABAK · SEEDANCE 2.5 TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
MADE IN ARCADS · arcads.ai

Burgundy Hour
Five reference images, one 30-second pass: a fifteen-cut car film that ends by wiping itself into the wordmark.
A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
MODEL SEEDANCE 2.5 IN ARCADS FORMAT 4:3 · 30S · 1080P · 24 FPS GENRE AUTOMOTIVE BRAND FILM
Car films usually need a crew, a closed street and a week of light. This one needed five pictures and one generation. The trick is that the prompt never describes a mood — it describes an edit. Fifteen numbered shots, each with its own clock, its own lens position and its own end state, so Seedance 2.5 stops behaving like a dreamer working from a vibe and starts behaving like a cutter working from a shot list. The man walks out of a bougainvillea doorway, the phone lands on the passenger seat, the rear tyres scrub, the city flows past the windscreen — and in the last beat the car’s own tail becomes the wipe that turns the street into the wordmark.
Everything here was made in one place: arcads.ai, with Seedance 2.5 doing the rendering, the sound and the cutting in a single pass.
THE PIPELINE AT A GLANCE
- 01
Gather five references
The car, the phone, a full character sheet, a second face photo and the wordmark — each one with exactly one job.
- 02
One Seedance 2.5 pass in Arcads
A 30-second, 4:3, 1080p generation with audio on. The prompt carries the whole edit: shots, timing, sound and the closing sweep.
STEP 01 — SEEDANCE 2.5 · ARCADS
The Single Pass — Five References, Fifteen Cuts
Seedance 2.5 reaches thirty seconds in one native pass, which means a whole commercial can live inside a single prompt — as long as every reference knows exactly what it is for. Each image below is introduced with “defines … ONLY” and an ignore list, so the knit glove in the phone shot never becomes a costume and the grey studio of the character sheet never becomes a location. Upload them in this exact order; the numbering in the prompt depends on it.
REFERENCE INPUTS — ATTACH IN THIS ORDER





GENERATION SETTINGS
| MODEL | Seedance 2.5 |
| DURATION | 30 seconds |
| ASPECT RATIO | 4:3 (standard) |
| RESOLUTION | 1080p |
| BITRATE | High |
| AUDIO | On — SFX and ambience only, no music |
| VARIANTS | 1 |
SEEDANCE 2.5 · VIDEO PROMPT · 30S · 4:3
30 seconds / horizontal 4:3 / 1080p high bitrate / 24 fps, true real-time speed / premium automotive brand film / dynamic hard-cut montage, 15 shots / audio ON: SFX and ambience only, NO music.
Shot on ARRI Alexa 35 with ARRI Signature Prime lenses: creamy round bokeh, soft highlight roll-off, natural skin, true-to-life color, fine organic film grain, high dynamic range, shallow depth of field on close-ups. Natural late-afternoon sun raking across stucco walls, soft bounce in shadows, crisp glints on burgundy paint. Palette: burgundy, cream, warm beige, green foliage, magenta bougainvillea. Mediterranean old-city streets, real traffic, real physics. Every camera is a physical rig with mass and inertia: dolly, low car-mount, camera car, handheld with subtle natural micro-shake on walking shots, no floating gimbal look. One single film look across all shots.
@image1 defines the car ONLY: classic 1980s rear-engine coupe, deep burgundy metallic, round headlights, fastback roofline, black wheels with polished silver outer lips, black rubber bumper trims. Exact proportions and color. Ignore the shop signs and background. @image2 defines the phone ONLY: burgundy matte smartphone with the raised camera plateau of three lenses, back logo exactly as shown. Ignore the knit glove, cup, comb and tubes. @image3 defines the man's face, identity and FULL wardrobe: curly dark-brown hair, brown eyes, short beard and mustache, burgundy heavy-knit rugby sweatshirt with cream collar and placket, cream pleated wide-leg trousers, brown leather belt with silver buckle, chunky silver chain bracelet on his LEFT wrist, burgundy suede running sneakers with cream midsoles, black square sunglasses. Ignore the grid layout, labels, swatches and studio background. @image4 supports the SAME man's face and hair only: curl volume, beard density, skin texture, sunglasses shape. Ignore the grey T-shirt, table, food and tattoos. @image5 defines the final wordmark ONLY: the exact letters P O R S C H E in the black wide-spaced typeface, centered on off-white.
[ACT 1 — 0–10s: THE EXIT] Shot 1 (0–2.0s): Wide static frame from across the street. A cream stucco apartment building, dark wooden door, magenta bougainvillea over the entrance. The door swings open and the man steps out into the sunlight, sunglasses on, burgundy phone in his right hand. End state: on the top stone step, door closing behind him. Shot 2 (2.0–3.2s): Extreme close-up at ground level. His burgundy sneakers step down two stone steps toward the lens, suede texture crisp, a few fallen petals lift from the stone. End state: both feet on the pavement. Shot 3 (3.2–4.4s): Close handheld lateral tracking at waist height. Silver belt buckle, trouser pleats moving with each stride, left arm swinging with the bracelet catching sun, phone held loosely in his right hand. End state: he walks out of frame right. Shot 4 (4.4–5.8s): Medium close-up, backward-moving handheld in front of him. Sunglasses reflecting the street, curls bouncing with each step, cream collar sharp against burgundy knit, calm confident micro-smile, background in creamy bokeh. End state: he glances right toward the car. Shot 5 (5.8–7.4s): Low wide, lens at bumper height behind the front corner of the parked burgundy coupe, car sharp in foreground. He walks in, pulls the chrome handle, the door opens with real weight. End state: he lowers himself in. Shot 6 (7.4–8.8s): Interior static wide from the passenger side. He drops into the driver seat and with a short relaxed flick of his right hand tosses the phone onto the passenger seat. It lands flat on the leather, bounces once, settles. End state: phone resting on the passenger seat, his hands free. Shot 7 (8.8–10.0s): Exterior close-up as he pulls the door shut with a solid heavy close, the window reflecting bougainvillea. [ACT 2 — 10–20s: THE LAUNCH] Shot 8 (10.0–11.2s): Interior extreme close-up: his hand turns the key, the analog tachometer needle jumps, then he snaps the gear lever into first. Shot 9 (11.2–14.5s): Static low rear angle, camera on the asphalt two meters behind the car, centered. The engine revs, the rear tires spin in place for about one second, a light veil of white tire smoke curls from both rear tires, the rear steps out a few centimeters left, then right as the tires bite, the body squats with real weight transfer and the coupe launches straight away down the street. Smoke drifts toward the lens and thins. End state: car shrinking into the distance. Shot 10 (14.5–17.0s): Low front three-quarter camera-car tracking, lens just above the asphalt, the car holding position in frame through a sunlit city street. Normal traffic flows: cars ahead and in the opposite lane, a scooter, pedestrians. He changes lanes cleanly and passes a slower car. Speed shown by asphalt streaming under the lens and buildings flowing past. Shot 11 (17.0–20.0s): Interior over-the-shoulder from behind-right. His right hand shifts up a gear, left hand on the thin wheel, the windshield framing the city and traffic ahead, sunlight flickering across the dashboard. The phone still rests on the passenger seat. [ACT 3 — 20–30s: THE SIGNATURE] Shot 12 (20.0–22.5s): Side tracking at wheel height from a camera car in the next lane. Rear wheel rotating with real motion blur, burgundy flank catching glints, storefronts streaming behind. End state: the coupe pulls ahead. Shot 13 (22.5–24.5s): High static vantage from a rooftop. The coupe turns through a city intersection in a smooth controlled arc between normal traffic, its long shadow on warm asphalt. End state: exits frame right. Shot 14 (24.5–28.0s): Locked-off perfect side profile wide, long lens across a clean empty street, camera completely still and level, cream stucco wall with bougainvillea behind. At 25s the coupe enters from frame left at speed, crosses in full side profile and exits frame right at 26.5s. The car's rear edge acts as a vertical sweep line: everything behind it wipes left to right into a clean off-white field, revealing the black PORSCHE wordmark from @image5 letter by letter in the car's wake, exactly centered. End state at 27s: full frame off-white, complete wordmark centered, street gone. Shot 15 (28.0–30.0s): Held final frame: off-white field, black wordmark PORSCHE centered and sharp, nothing else, completely still to the end.
No music at any time. Diegetic SFX and ambience only, synced to each shot. 0–5.8s: <wooden door unlatching and creaking open> <birds in the bougainvillea> <distant city hum> <crisp sneaker soles on stone steps> <footsteps on pavement> <fabric swish> <faint bracelet clink>. 5.8–10s: <door handle click> <old hinges> <leather seat creak> <soft thud of the phone landing on leather> <deep solid door slam, then muffled interior quiet>. 10–14.5s: <key turning> <starter crank> <air-cooled flat-six catching with a sharp bark> <two throttle blips> <gear lever clack> <rising rev> <short high tire squeal and rubber scrub> <engine roar fading down the street>. 14.5–24.5s: <engine rising and falling through gear shifts> <wind rush> <tire hum on asphalt> <normal city traffic both directions> <distant short horn> <scooter buzz> <tire hiss through the corner>. 24.5–28s: <quiet empty street, one bird> <engine approaching from the left, a fast loud Doppler pass across the stereo field left to right> <soft air rush trailing the wipe>. 28–30s: <near silence, faint airy tail>. No dialogue, no voices, no narration.
Exactly one man, the same man from @image3 and @image4 in every shot: same face, curls and beard. Black square sunglasses stay ON in every shot, never removed. Wardrobe never changes. Exactly one car, the burgundy coupe from @image1 with the same wheels. Exactly one burgundy phone: in his right hand until Shot 6, then on the passenger seat for the rest of the film, never moving. Left-hand drive. Travel direction left to right in Shots 12 to 14. Same late-afternoon sun in every shot. Real-time speed in every shot. Final wordmark matches @image5 exactly.
no music, no voices, no narration, no slow motion, no speed ramping, no time-lapse, no removing the sunglasses, no wardrobe change, no different face, no extra people near the man, no second car, no different car color, no phone duplication, no phone falling, no huge smoke cloud, no crash, no collision, no near-miss, no misspelled letters, no extra text, no subtitles, no watermark, no license plate text, no CGI look, no plastic skin, no warped wheels, no wobbling geometry, no floating gimbal motion, no drone, no camera or crew visible, no split screen, no collage, no grid layout, no studio background.
OUTPUT — THREE BEATS FROM THE CUT

STEP 02
Anatomy — Why One Prompt Can Hold a Whole Edit
- 01
The contract
The FORMAT line settles every global decision before a single pixel moves: thirty seconds, fifteen shots, 24 fps at “true real-time speed”, hard cuts, SFX and ambience only. The model never has to guess the pace, the length or whether a score belongs here — it doesn’t.
- 02
One job per reference
Each slot starts with “defines … ONLY” and ends with what to ignore. The car image gives the car, not the shop signs; the phone image gives the phone, not the glove; the sheet gives the man, not the grid. @image4 is labelled as support for the SAME man, so two photos stack into one identity instead of two people.
- 03
Cameras with mass
STYLE names the ARRI Alexa 35 with Signature Primes for the skin and the roll-off, then the line that does the real work: “Every camera is a physical rig with mass and inertia.” Dolly, car-mount, camera car and handheld each move like the equipment they are, which is why the cuts feel shot rather than rendered.
- 04
The end-state chain
Every shot closes with “End state:” — door closing behind him, both feet on the pavement, phone resting on the passenger seat. Each end becomes the next shot’s truth, and the phone’s journey is locked twice: right hand until Shot 6, passenger seat “for the rest of the film, never moving.”
- 05
Physics in centimetres
Shot 9 never says “epic burnout”. It says the tyres spin “for about one second”, the smoke is “a light veil”, the rear steps out “a few centimeters left, then right”, the body squats “with real weight transfer”. Small, measured numbers read as real; the negative “no huge smoke cloud” keeps them small.
- 06
The tail is the wipe
Shot 14 locks the camera dead still and level, then gives the car a second job: “The car’s rear edge acts as a vertical sweep line.” The transition isn’t an effect laid on top — it is motion the scene already owns, which is why the reveal of @image5 lands letter by letter in the car’s wake.
- 07
Sound and insurance
AUDIO is written as a time-coded track: hinges, sneakers, the flat-six bark, the tyre scrub, and a Doppler pass that carries the wipe across the stereo field. Then the insurance: sunglasses “stay ON in every shot, never removed”, exactly one man, one car, one phone — repeated in CONSISTENCY and fenced again in the NEGATIVE PROMPT.
THE RESULT
Output — The Street That Became a Logo

THE SIGNATURE SWEEP, FRAME BY FRAME

Check it against the prompt line by line: the sunglasses never leave his face, the phone never leaves the seat once it lands, the launch scrubs instead of exploding, every shot ends where the next one begins, and the final frame holds the wordmark still and clean. Nothing in the edit was assembled afterwards — the cuts, the sound and the reveal all came out of one generation.

WRITE THE EDIT, NOT THE MOOD
A shot list is a prompt that already knows how it ends.
Swap the coupe for a motorcycle, the bougainvillea doorway for a rainy loft, the wordmark for your own logo — the skeleton carries any product film: one job per reference, an end state per shot, cameras with weight, physics in small numbers, sound on a clock, and a final move that turns the scene itself into the brand.
Seedance 2.5 runs inside Arcads with up to thirty seconds per pass, multi-image references and native sound — the whole film in this guide came out of a single generation there.
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WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PROMPTED BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK