The Riviera Cut
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SEEDANCE 2.5 VIDEO PROMPT · 30S · 9:16 · 14 SHOTS
FORMAT: 30s / 9:16 vertical / luxury fashion-automotive montage / fast rhythmic hard cuts synced to sound design, one shot per beat, high-energy pacing STYLE: Mediterranean cinematic editorial realism, ARRI Alexa 35 aesthetic, 35mm film grain, warm golden sun, deep-blue sea against sun-bleached stone, strong coastal wind moving fabric and hair in every exterior shot, shallow depth of field on details, high-end commercial grade, one visual identity, no style mixing. REFERENCES: @Image 1 defines the hero's identity ONLY: preserve this exact person's face, features, skin tone, hair texture and length, and body proportions in every shot, whoever they are. If @Image 1 shows eyewear, preserve that exact eyewear; otherwise the hero wears black square-framed wayfarer sunglasses. Sunglasses stay on in every shot. Do NOT inherit any clothing, objects or background from @Image 1. Wardrobe is redesigned as premium unisex summer streetwear: oversized ecru boxy tee, unbuttoned camel linen overshirt, relaxed wide-leg off-white pleated trousers, chunky off-white and grey sneakers, thin silver chain, minimal steel watch. This exact outfit is identical in every shot. @Image 2 defines the environment and the car: a sun-drenched Mediterranean clifftop terrace of pale gravel with a low stone parapet, a sand-colored tower with a terracotta-red dome, one tall palm, deep-blue sea below, and a classic air-cooled orange sports coupe with a whale-tail rear spoiler, black five-spoke wheels and chrome trim. The same coastline continues as a winding two-lane coastal road along the cliffs, rising toward hazy inland mountain ridges. Match this light, palette and architecture exactly. Exactly ONE car in the video. VIDEO PROMPT: [Shot 1 — 0–1.5s, hook] Extreme macro low angle: a chunky off-white sneaker strikes the gravel hard mid-stride, dust kicked sharply backward, blurred sea in the bokeh. End state: foot pushing off. [Shot 2 — 1.5–3s] Hard cut. Low-angle tilt up to the hero's face: fast, confident, powerful strides straight at camera, the linen overshirt whipping behind in the strong wind, hair lifted, sunglasses catching a sharp sun flare. End state: face centered, mid-stride. [Shot 3 — 3–4.5s] Hard cut. Medium close-up, fast parallel tracking left to right matching the pace: fabric snapping in the gusts, the hero's hand slides into the pocket without breaking stride. End state: still moving fast right. [Shot 4 — 4.5–6s] Hard cut. Static wide: tower, palm and parked coupe; the hero strides quickly through frame left to right, overshirt streaming. End state: one step from the driver's door. [Shot 5 — 6–7.5s] Hard cut. Tight macro on the sunglass lenses while walking: the orange coupe mirrored in the reflection, growing larger. End state: reflection filling the lens. [Shot 6 — 7.5–9s] Hard cut. Close-up: the hand grabs the chrome handle in motion, click, door swings open in one fluid pull. End state: door open. [Shot 7 — 9–11s] Hard cut. Interior from the passenger side: the hero drops into the black leather seat in one athletic motion, pulls the door shut with a deep vintage thunk, hands landing on the thin classic wheel. Sunglasses on. End state: seated, ready. [Shot 8 — 11–13s] Hard cut. Low rear three-quarter by the twin exhaust tips: the flat-six barks awake, two sharp revs, heat shimmer behind the whale tail. End state: revving. [Shot 9 — 13–15s] Hard cut. Wide from the terrace: the coupe launches off the gravel, rear tires flicking stones, and swings onto the coastal road left to right. End state: on asphalt, accelerating. [Shot 10 — 15–18s] Hard cut. Fast parallel tracking at wheel height: the coupe sweeps along the cliffside road, low stone wall and deep-blue sea rushing past on one side, guard stones strobing by. End state: car leaning into a long curve. [Shot 11 — 18–21s] Hard cut. Behind-the-shoulder interior: window open, wind roaring through, overshirt collar fluttering, hands steady on the wheel, the road curving upward toward hazy mountain ridges. End state: mountains centered in the windshield. [Shot 12 — 21–24s] Hard cut. Static roadside wide on a hairpin: the coupe sweeps through the bend, sea far below, mountain slopes rising above, thin dust trailing. End state: car exiting the bend, climbing. [Shot 13 — 24–27s] Hard cut. Frontal tracking through the windshield: golden light strobing across the sunglasses, a faint knowing smile, one hand relaxed on the wheel. End state: road reflections sliding over the lenses. [Final shot — 27–30s] Hard cut. Static roadside wide: the orange coupe pulls away along the winding coastal road toward the hazy mountains, growing smaller, wind moving the roadside grass. Hold the final frame 0.8s as the exhaust fades. AUDIO: (Driving organic deep-house pulse with a warm piano motif enters at 1.5s, fast tempo, one hard accent on every cut, energy lifting when the engine starts, fading on the final wide.) <ASMR-grade close-mic foreground: rapid crisp gravel strikes, dust hiss, linen snapping in gusts, sharp chrome handle click, one deep door thunk, raspy flat-six bark and two revs, tires biting gravel then smooth asphalt, rising gear pulls, wind buffeting through the open window, exhaust echo off the cliffs.> <Background ambience: sea wash far below, strong coastal wind, distant gulls.> No dialogue, no voiceover, no subtitles. CONSISTENCY: One single hero throughout, exactly the same person as @Image 1: identical face, hair, skin tone and proportions in every shot; sunglasses never removed. Identical outfit in every shot. Exactly one orange classic coupe. Same coastline and light direction; screen direction left to right in all walking and driving shots. NEGATIVE PROMPT: no removed sunglasses, no altered identity, no outfit changes, no second car, no other people, no other vehicles or traffic, no plate text, no on-screen text or logos, no drone shots, no slow motion, no style mixing, no CGI look, no warped hands, no distorted car, no music before 1.5s, no dialogue.
Tutorial
DENIZ AKKABAK · SEEDANCE 2.5 TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

MADE IN INVIDEO · invideo.io/i/DENIZ-ig

The Riviera Cut
How one photo of yourself becomes a luxury fashion-automotive campaign — every cut landing on a beat, every beat pushing the coupe further up the coast.
A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
PIPELINE SEEDANCE 2.5 · FORMAT 30S · 9:16 VERTICAL · GENRE FASHION-AUTOMOTIVE MONTAGE
Luxury commercials are not expensive because of what is in them — they are expensive because of how they are cut. A sneaker hitting gravel for a second and a half. A door thunk. Two revs of a flat-six. A hairpin taken wide. None of these shots is longer than three seconds, and that discipline is the entire genre. This prompt writes that discipline down: fourteen shots on a hard timecode grid, one accent on every cut, one hero who never takes his sunglasses off, and exactly one orange coupe. The only asset you bring is a photo of yourself. Everything else — the wardrobe, the coastline, the car, the wind — is cast by the prompt.

STEP 01 · VIDEO GENERATION — SEEDANCE 2.5 IN INVIDEO
One Photo, One Prompt, One Take
Open Seedance 2.5 inside invideo, set the duration to 30 seconds and the aspect ratio to 9:16 vertical, and attach two stills in this exact order: your own photo as @Image 1, the location still as @Image 2. The prompt treats the first as an identity document, nothing more: face, features, skin tone, hair and proportions survive; the breakfast table does not. Your clothing is overwritten by a wardrobe written in text — ecru boxy tee, camel linen overshirt, wide-leg pleated trousers — so any casual snapshot walks out dressed for a campaign. If your photo has sunglasses, they stay; if it doesn't, the prompt issues a pair.
REFERENCE INPUTS — ATTACH IN THIS ORDER


@Image 2 is the location scout: a clifftop terrace of pale gravel, a sand-colored tower with a terracotta dome, one palm, deep-blue sea — and the air-cooled orange coupe with its whale-tail spoiler. The prompt orders Seedance to match that light, palette and architecture exactly — and to keep the car count at exactly one. The same coastline then stretches into the winding road that carries the whole second half of the film.

SEEDANCE 2.5 VIDEO PROMPT · 30S · 9:16 · 14 SHOTS
30s / 9:16 vertical / luxury fashion-automotive montage / fast rhythmic hard cuts synced to sound design, one shot per beat, high-energy pacing
Mediterranean cinematic editorial realism, ARRI Alexa 35 aesthetic, 35mm film grain, warm golden sun, deep-blue sea against sun-bleached stone, strong coastal wind moving fabric and hair in every exterior shot, shallow depth of field on details, high-end commercial grade, one visual identity, no style mixing.
@Image 1 defines the hero's identity ONLY: preserve this exact person's face, features, skin tone, hair texture and length, and body proportions in every shot, whoever they are. If @Image 1 shows eyewear, preserve that exact eyewear; otherwise the hero wears black square-framed wayfarer sunglasses. Sunglasses stay on in every shot. Do NOT inherit any clothing, objects or background from @Image 1. Wardrobe is redesigned as premium unisex summer streetwear: oversized ecru boxy tee, unbuttoned camel linen overshirt, relaxed wide-leg off-white pleated trousers, chunky off-white and grey sneakers, thin silver chain, minimal steel watch. This exact outfit is identical in every shot. @Image 2 defines the environment and the car: a sun-drenched Mediterranean clifftop terrace of pale gravel with a low stone parapet, a sand-colored tower with a terracotta-red dome, one tall palm, deep-blue sea below, and a classic air-cooled orange sports coupe with a whale-tail rear spoiler, black five-spoke wheels and chrome trim. The same coastline continues as a winding two-lane coastal road along the cliffs, rising toward hazy inland mountain ridges. Match this light, palette and architecture exactly. Exactly ONE car in the video.
[Shot 1 — 0–1.5s, hook] Extreme macro low angle: a chunky off-white sneaker strikes the gravel hard mid-stride, dust kicked sharply backward, blurred sea in the bokeh. End state: foot pushing off. [Shot 2 — 1.5–3s] Hard cut. Low-angle tilt up to the hero's face: fast, confident, powerful strides straight at camera, the linen overshirt whipping behind in the strong wind, hair lifted, sunglasses catching a sharp sun flare. End state: face centered, mid-stride. [Shot 3 — 3–4.5s] Hard cut. Medium close-up, fast parallel tracking left to right matching the pace: fabric snapping in the gusts, the hero's hand slides into the pocket without breaking stride. End state: still moving fast right. [Shot 4 — 4.5–6s] Hard cut. Static wide: tower, palm and parked coupe; the hero strides quickly through frame left to right, overshirt streaming. End state: one step from the driver's door. [Shot 5 — 6–7.5s] Hard cut. Tight macro on the sunglass lenses while walking: the orange coupe mirrored in the reflection, growing larger. End state: reflection filling the lens. [Shot 6 — 7.5–9s] Hard cut. Close-up: the hand grabs the chrome handle in motion, click, door swings open in one fluid pull. End state: door open. [Shot 7 — 9–11s] Hard cut. Interior from the passenger side: the hero drops into the black leather seat in one athletic motion, pulls the door shut with a deep vintage thunk, hands landing on the thin classic wheel. Sunglasses on. End state: seated, ready. [Shot 8 — 11–13s] Hard cut. Low rear three-quarter by the twin exhaust tips: the flat-six barks awake, two sharp revs, heat shimmer behind the whale tail. End state: revving. [Shot 9 — 13–15s] Hard cut. Wide from the terrace: the coupe launches off the gravel, rear tires flicking stones, and swings onto the coastal road left to right. End state: on asphalt, accelerating. [Shot 10 — 15–18s] Hard cut. Fast parallel tracking at wheel height: the coupe sweeps along the cliffside road, low stone wall and deep-blue sea rushing past on one side, guard stones strobing by. End state: car leaning into a long curve. [Shot 11 — 18–21s] Hard cut. Behind-the-shoulder interior: window open, wind roaring through, overshirt collar fluttering, hands steady on the wheel, the road curving upward toward hazy mountain ridges. End state: mountains centered in the windshield. [Shot 12 — 21–24s] Hard cut. Static roadside wide on a hairpin: the coupe sweeps through the bend, sea far below, mountain slopes rising above, thin dust trailing. End state: car exiting the bend, climbing. [Shot 13 — 24–27s] Hard cut. Frontal tracking through the windshield: golden light strobing across the sunglasses, a faint knowing smile, one hand relaxed on the wheel. End state: road reflections sliding over the lenses. [Final shot — 27–30s] Hard cut. Static roadside wide: the orange coupe pulls away along the winding coastal road toward the hazy mountains, growing smaller, wind moving the roadside grass. Hold the final frame 0.8s as the exhaust fades.
(Driving organic deep-house pulse with a warm piano motif enters at 1.5s, fast tempo, one hard accent on every cut, energy lifting when the engine starts, fading on the final wide.) <ASMR-grade close-mic foreground: rapid crisp gravel strikes, dust hiss, linen snapping in gusts, sharp chrome handle click, one deep door thunk, raspy flat-six bark and two revs, tires biting gravel then smooth asphalt, rising gear pulls, wind buffeting through the open window, exhaust echo off the cliffs.> <Background ambience: sea wash far below, strong coastal wind, distant gulls.> No dialogue, no voiceover, no subtitles.
One single hero throughout, exactly the same person as @Image 1: identical face, hair, skin tone and proportions in every shot; sunglasses never removed. Identical outfit in every shot. Exactly one orange classic coupe. Same coastline and light direction; screen direction left to right in all walking and driving shots.
no removed sunglasses, no altered identity, no outfit changes, no second car, no other people, no other vehicles or traffic, no plate text, no on-screen text or logos, no drone shots, no slow motion, no style mixing, no CGI look, no warped hands, no distorted car, no music before 1.5s, no dialogue.
STEP 02 — ANATOMY
Anatomy — Why Every Cut Lands
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The contract
FORMAT locks the genre in one line: 30s / 9:16 / luxury fashion-automotive montage / one shot per beat. Declaring the editing philosophy inside the format line means Seedance plans a rhythm, not a sequence — the cuts are the content.
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One lens, one world
STYLE names the camera (ARRI Alexa 35, 35mm grain), the light (warm golden sun against deep-blue sea) and the law: one visual identity, no style mixing. The strong coastal wind is mandated in every exterior shot — free production value, because moving fabric reads as money.
- 3
The identity firewall
@Image 1 defines the hero's identity ONLY — and then explicitly refuses the rest: do NOT inherit any clothing, objects or background. The eyewear clause is conditional logic in plain English: keep the sunglasses if they exist, issue wayfarers if they don't. Either way, they never come off.
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The beat grid
Fourteen shots on hard timecodes, 1.5-second cuts in the hook stretching to 3 seconds on the road. Every shot closes with an End state — foot pushing off, door open, revving — so each cut hands the next one a frozen, unambiguous starting frame.
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Objects as choreography
The film's physical events are written as percussion: the chrome handle click, one deep door thunk, the flat-six barks awake, two sharp revs, tires flicking stones. Each object sound is a beat the montage can land a cut on — props doing the drummer's job.
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Audio as the metronome
The score enters at 1.5s with one hard accent on every cut — and the negative prompt enforces the silence before it: no music before 1.5s. The hook plays as raw ASMR gravel, then the pulse drops in on the first face reveal. Structure, not vibes.
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The insurance
The NEGATIVE PROMPT bans the genre's failure modes by name: no removed sunglasses, no second car, no other people, no drone shots, no slow motion, no plate text. Every ban protects a bet placed earlier — the montage stays fast, grounded, anonymous and singular.

THE RESULT — SEEDANCE 2.5
Output — Thirty Seconds, Fourteen Cuts, One Coupe

Audit the montage against the grid before posting. The music must be absent until the second cut — the hook is gravel only. Sunglasses stay on in all fourteen shots; the outfit never changes; the car count never rises above one. Screen direction holds left to right through every walking and driving shot, and the final wide holds its last frame a beat as the exhaust fades. If any shot overstays its timecode or a second vehicle sneaks into the road shots, regenerate — the prompt already contains the fix.


ONE PHOTO IN. ONE CAMPAIGN OUT.
You don't need the coast, the car or the crew — just the cut.
Swap the coupe for a yacht, the clifftop for a desert highway, the linen for a tuxedo — the skeleton carries any hero and any machine. One identity reference, fourteen timecoded beats, a soundtrack that lands an accent on every cut, and a negative prompt standing guard over the sunglasses. Your face, your montage.
This film was generated in a single Seedance 2.5 run inside invideo — one reference photo, one prompt, thirty seconds of finished montage with sound design included. Same tool, same settings, same pipeline, one link away:
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PROMPTED BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK