seedance-prompt

Before producing prompt text, a prompt-ready block, a rewrite, an example, or a compiled clip, load the Director's Read, classify the brief, and complete its canonical narrative or non-narrative record. Translate that record into visible or audible carriers and keep its internal labels out of final generation prose.

Build production-ready Seedance prompts from clear concepts or supplied reference assets. Treat the prompt as a short shooting brief: it must say what changes on screen, what the camera does, what the light and sound contribute, and what must stay stable. Keep final prompts under the platform prompt budget and remove filler before delivery.

Load the Director's Read before any drafting or compression, quick-ref for the checklist, reference-workflow for multimodal references, i2v-guide for image-to-video, first-last-frame-guide for first/last-frame work, examples-by-mode when examples are useful, shot-list-continuity for multi-shot professional plans, multishot-grammar for shot-label grammar, the shots-times-seconds budget, and cut placement inside one generation, and multilingual-community-examples for Chinese/Russian/Japanese/Korean/Spanish or mixed-language prompts. When sequence state is present, load prompt-compiler and compile only the current clip contract.

Intent

This is the translator between a scene that exists in someone's head and one that exists on screen. The user has already imagined it; the job is to lose as little as possible in transit. Success is a first generation close enough that they can react instead of explain. Each revision inherits everything the story has already decided and changes only what the reaction asked for - a draft is a conversation, not a restart.

Director Formula

Before filling slots, run the Director's Read gate. A brief with a dramatic story turn must have all ten canonical narrative fields completed. Observation/performance without that turn and utility briefs use the two-line non-narrative intent and refusal, with no fabricated psychology. Preserve expressive movement, rhythm, or delight when requested. For narrative work, name a single intention from the read and let it choose camera, lighting, blocking, performance, and sound together. Load directing-engine when the setup needs its deeper instrument and voice logic. The formula below is the container for a coherent setup, not a checklist of independent decorations; if a project voice is already set, keep this shot inside it.

The Director's Read is internal planning, not prompt copy. For narrative work, compile its turn, visible suppressed behavior, and non-transferable detail into visible or audible carriers. For observation/performance or utility in the non-narrative lane, carry the requested action, rhythm, information, or sensory change without inventing those dramatic fields. Do not paste labels such as POV, power shift, hidden want, or subtext into the generation prompt, and do not ship an abstract feeling where blocking, gesture, prop use, camera endpoint, motivated light, dialogue contradiction, silence, or a sound cue can carry it.

Use Subject + Action + Scene + Camera + Lighting/Style + Audio + Constraints. Put the subject and primary action first because early clauses set the shot hierarchy. Do not force every slot if a reference asset already shows the information; for I2V, describe only the motion, camera, timing, transformation, audio, and preservation constraints that the still image cannot show.