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Prompt 1

Six numbered shots, each with its own camera grammar, plus a sound design that does half the comedy. Paste it as written.

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DENIZ AKKABAK · SEEDANCE 2.0 TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

The whole gag in fifteen seconds — watch it play by opening this document in Google Docs.

The Snap

An office time-freeze comedy directed in Seedance 2.0 — your boss screams, you snap your fingers, and physics briefly takes your side.

A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

MODEL SEEDANCE 2.0 FORMAT 16:9 · 15S · 6 SHOTS GENRE OFFICE SLAPSTICK

This is a two-character scene with a revenge fantasy at its core: a boss mid-tantrum, an employee with a coffee cup, and a finger snap that stops time. The comedy engine is the contrast — everything is shot like boring iPhone office footage, but edited like a Hollywood comedy, and inside that realism one impossible thing happens with a straight face. Below are the two references, the verbatim prompt, and the anatomy of why it lands.

STEP 01

The References — You, and The Boss

Reference 1 is the employee — a full character sheet with front, side and back views plus a face close-up, which gives Seedance the identity and the exact wardrobe from every angle. Notice the prompt explicitly says to ignore the sheet's layout: the panels and white background are identity data, not scenery.

REFERENCE 1 — THE EMPLOYEE (ATTACH FIRST)

The character sheet — multi-angle wardrobe and identity lock for the man with the coffee cup.

REFERENCE 2 — THE BOSS (ATTACH SECOND)

Reference 2 — example only, cut from the finished video

THIS SLOT BELONGS TO YOUR BOSS

The portrait on the left is only a stand-in we lifted from the final video to show the slot. When you run this yourself, Reference 2 is a real photo of your own boss — or any consenting victim. One clear, front-facing, well-lit photo, shoulders up, is enough: the prompt announces “whoever appears in Reference 2 is the boss,” re-dresses him in a tight blue shirt and loosened tie, and throws away his original background. The face is all Seedance needs.

Set Seedance 2.0 to 16:9 and 15 seconds, attach the two references in this order, then paste the prompt below unchanged.

STEP 02

Prompt 1

Six numbered shots, each with its own camera grammar, plus a sound design that does half the comedy. Paste it as written.

SEEDANCE 2.0 · 16:9 · 15S · 6 SHOTS · MULTI-SHOT DYNAMIC CUTS

FORMAT: 15s / 16:9 horizontal / office slapstick comedy / multi-shot dynamic cuts

STYLE: Shot on a real iPhone — authentic smartphone texture, mild digital sharpening, handheld micro-shake, wide phone lens, office fluorescent mixed with window daylight, real skin pores and sweat, no beauty filter — cut like a Hollywood comedy: punchy match cuts, one hard speed ramp on the freeze. Photorealistic, real-world physics, deadpan execution.

REFERENCES:

Reference 1 = employee identity. Curly dark hair, mustache, short beard, black square sunglasses, dark brown overshirt over grey tee, beige trousers, white-grey sneakers.

Reference 2 = boss identity. Whoever appears in Reference 2 is the boss. Preserve his exact face, hair, skin tone and body type. Dress him in a tight blue dress shirt, loosened tie and dark suit trousers. Do not use his original clothing or background.

Both are ONE single real person each, in a real office. Ignore the reference layouts: no panels, no duplicate copies, no white background.

VIDEO PROMPT:

Open-plan office, morning. The boss from Reference 2, red-faced and sweating, screams at the curly-haired man from Reference 1, who stands still holding a coffee cup.

Shot 1 (0-4s): Medium handheld two-shot. The boss jabs a finger at his chest, shouting in a loud American accent with a booming boss voice: "You lazy good-for-nothing! Late again! Every single day!" His body shakes with the shouting, his tie swings. The man does not react.

Shot 2 (4-5s): Fast push-in to macro close-up of the man's hand. He snaps his fingers. Hard cut to total silence. Everything freezes — the boss locked mid-shout, mouth open, finger extended, dust motes suspended, a coffee splash hanging motionless in the air.

Shot 3 (5-9s): Low wide angle. The man sets his cup down, walks around the frozen boss and delivers two heavy open-palm slaps, left then right. On each impact the cheek ripples with real weight while the body stays rigid and unmoving. Speed ramps to slow motion on the second slap, then snaps back.

Shot 4 (9-11s): Angle from behind the boss. The man crouches, grabs the waistband and yanks the trousers down to the ankles in one clean pull. The boss stays frozen upright in loud red-and-yellow checkered boxer shorts and black socks.

Shot 5 (11-12s): The man returns to his exact starting position, picks up the coffee cup, resumes the identical posture, and snaps his fingers again.

Shot 6 (12-15s): Handheld medium. Sound rushes back. The boss lurches to life mid-scream, stops, grabs both cheeks, eyes wide: "Oh my God — what just happened to me?!" He looks down, sees his trousers at his ankles, freezes in shock. The man sips his coffee, expressionless. Cut to black.

Total: 15s / 6 shots / 16:9

SFX: no music. Shouting, office ambience, keyboards, phone ringing, sharp finger snap, sound dropping to dead silence with a faint high tone, two heavy slap impacts, belt buckle clatter, second snap, ambience slamming back, boss gasping.

NEGATIVE PROMPT: no split screen, no duplicate characters, no white studio background, no identity change on either character, no face swap between the two men, no face distortion, no nudity, no cartoon look, no plastic skin, no cheap CGI, no flat lighting, no unrealistic physics, no morphing, no music, no subtitles, no watermark.

STEP 03

Prompt Anatomy — Why It Lands

1
The contract
FORMAT locks duration, ratio and genre up front, and this time allows cuts — six of them — because the freeze gag needs coverage, not a oner.
2
Real camera, movie cut
STYLE welds two languages together: authentic iPhone texture with fluorescent office light, edited with punchy match cuts and one hard speed ramp. Mundane footage, cinematic rhythm — that gap is the joke's amplifier.
3
Two identity locks
Each man gets his own reference and his own rules. Reference 2's clause “whoever appears is the boss” makes the prompt reusable with anyone's photo, while the wardrobe override strips his original clothes and background.
4
The layout waiver
Because Reference 1 is a multi-panel sheet, the prompt explicitly cancels the layout — no panels, no duplicates, no white studio. Without that line, Seedance may film the sheet instead of the man.
5
Sound is the freeze
The snap works because the audio sells it: ambience slams to dead silence with a faint high tone, then rushes back on the second snap. The freeze is heard before it is seen.
6
Choreographed physics
Each frozen-time beat has real-world detail — the suspended coffee splash, cheeks rippling under the slaps while the body stays rigid, the clean waistband yank. Concrete physics keeps a cartoon premise photoreal.
7
The insurance
NEGATIVE PROMPT closes the classic two-character failure modes: no face swap between the men, no duplicates, no white studio background leaking in from the sheet, and no music to break the found-footage illusion.

THE RESULT

Output — Fifteen Seconds of Perfect Deadpan

The finished generation, clean — open in Google Docs to watch the snap, the slaps and the aftermath play out.

Check the deliverables against the contract: six distinct shots, the ambience drops dead on the first snap, the boss's cheeks ripple while his body holds the freeze, and the employee ends the video in his exact opening posture — cup in hand, face unreadable. Structured prompts get honored.

SNAP. SLAP. SIP. REPEAT.

The freeze is a camera trick you can write.

Swap the office for a classroom, a gym or a family dinner, keep the snap-freeze-snap skeleton, and this prompt becomes a whole series. The only rule: the deadpan never breaks.

WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PROMPTED BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

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