Seedance Cinematic Breakup Performance Prompt

## 1. Core Shot Design

- Final runtime: approximately 15 seconds.
- Recommended aspect ratio: 16:9. The original file uses a 9:16 tutorial layout, but the character-performance footage itself is close to horizontal 16:9.
- Shot format: third-person, frontal over-the-shoulder composition, one continuous take with no shot/reverse-shot cuts.
- Shot-size progression: begin with a close-up/chest-up shot, naturally widening to a looser medium close-up at the end as the female lead steps backward.
- Emotional progression: tense preparation → hearing a familiar greeting → momentary hesitation → masking emotion with a bittersweet smile → firm declaration → restrained exit.
- Core performance chain: stimulus (door opens, male voice is heard) → processing pause → involuntary reaction (closing eyes, inhaling) → conscious choice (raising her eyes, bittersweet smile) → dialogue (“WE'RE DONE.”) → lingering emotion (still reluctant to let go, but creating distance).

## 2. Characters and Setting

### Female lead

Refer to the uploaded image {{Mixed 1}}. She has a soft, clean appearance with realistic skin texture and no excessive skin smoothing. She made her decision before coming here, but still wavers when she actually sees the male lead. Her performance should not convey anger, but a farewell delivered after suppressing her pain.

### Male lead

He appears only as a dark, out-of-focus shoulder and head silhouette in the front-right of the frame. His face is never shown, he never draws focus, and he never enters the sharp depth of field. His voice is gentle and affectionate; he has not yet realized that the female lead has come to end the relationship.

### Setting and atmosphere

The entrance to a home or an entryway near a courtyard. Softened green plants, pale gray pavement, and several warm circular bokeh lights are visible in the background. The overall lighting suggests natural light around dusk: a soft, cool-white key light approximately 45° in front and to the left of the character, with a small amount of warm golden rim light in the background. The space is quiet, and the air feels as though it has just rained or is still damp. The atmosphere is gentle, restrained, and distant, without strongly dramatized lighting.

> Note: The focal length and lighting parameters are reshoot recommendations inferred from the footage, not metadata from the original video. Use a full-frame equivalent focal length of 70–100mm with a relatively shallow depth of field; keep focus locked on the female lead’s eyes throughout.

## 3. 15-Second Continuous Performance Script

### 0.0–0.8 seconds｜Door opens, revealing the character

The frame is initially largely blocked by the male lead’s dark, heavily out-of-focus body silhouette. After the door opens, he shifts slightly toward camera right, revealing the female lead standing outside and facing him directly. Keep the camera stable with no sudden push-in or pull-back.

The female lead does not raise her head immediately. Her chin is slightly tucked, her gaze resting around the male lead’s chest or the threshold, and her lips are naturally parted slightly. Her body appears still, but her neck and shoulders carry subtle stiffness, as if she has rehearsed this moment many times outside the door.

Sound: a soft door-opening sound, clothing rustle, and quiet outdoor ambience.

### 0.8–3.2 seconds｜Using her breath to suppress emotion

The female lead inhales slowly with very little movement: her chest and collarbone area rise slightly, her shoulders tense a little at first, then slowly lower. Her gaze remains downward as her eyelids gradually close, staying shut slightly longer than during a normal blink.

Do not make her cry immediately or exaggerate her frown. Keep only two visible signals: deeper breathing and a slight tightening at the corners of her mouth. She is trying to push her nearly uncontrollable emotions back down.

Camera: fixed close-up with shallow depth of field. Keep the male lead’s blurred silhouette on the right side of the frame as a source of relational pressure.

### 3.2–5.4 seconds｜Hearing a familiar greeting

The male lead’s off-screen voice says naturally: “Hey, what's up, baby?” His tone is relaxed with a hint of a smile, as if greeting her the way he usually does.

The female lead keeps her eyes closed for about half a second, allowing the sound to truly register in her body. She then swallows lightly, with only a faint tension appearing between her brows. She does not look up or respond. She slowly exhales the breath she just took. Her lips move slightly, but no words form.

Performance focus: the reaction must happen after she hears the line. The familiar affection makes her waver briefly, but does not change her decision.

### 5.4–7.5 seconds｜Raising her eyes, making eye contact, briefly wavering

The female lead first opens her eyes, then raises her gaze, and only afterward lifts her chin slightly, completing the movement in three layers. Her focus slowly shifts from the male lead’s chest to his eyes. Her gaze goes from unfocused to clear. Her eyes look moist, but no tears fall.

She holds still after making eye contact with him. Her breathing through her nose becomes slightly uneven, her lips gently press together, and her face remains restrained. Do not push the camera in; let the audience actively observe the change in her.

### 7.5–9.3 seconds｜A bittersweet smile as her final defense

One corner of the female lead’s mouth lifts almost imperceptibly, forming an incomplete, slightly asymmetrical bittersweet smile. The smile remains only at the corners of her mouth and never reaches her eyes. She continues looking at the male lead, as if confirming that the person she knows is still there while also confirming that the relationship cannot continue.

The bittersweet smile lasts less than two seconds, then slowly fades. Do not let her face turn cold immediately after it disappears. Retain a trace of reluctance and hurt so that sadness and resolve coexist.

### 9.3–10.6 seconds｜Declaring the end

Maintaining eye contact, the female lead says in a soft, clear voice without anger: “We're done.” Leave a short inhale before she speaks. “We're” still carries residual tenderness; as “done” lands, her gaze becomes steadier. Her mouth movements are natural, without overly deliberate enunciation or pronounced head shaking. After the line, her lips gently close and she pauses for half a second.

Sound: preserve natural breathing and subtle ambient noise; no sentimental music or additional subtitles are needed.

### 10.6–13.4 seconds｜Letting silence complete the separation

The female lead continues looking at the male lead and does not leave immediately. Her expression gradually returns to near calm. Her eyes remain glossy, and her chin tightens slightly. Her weight begins to shift from her front foot to her back foot, showing that she is preparing to leave, while her upper body retains a slight hesitation to create distance.

Keep the camera on her without cutting to the male lead’s reaction. He remains only as an out-of-focus foreground shape on the right, forcing the audience to feel the weight of her words solely through her face.

### 13.4–15.1 seconds｜Stepping back, making the emotional distance tangible

The female lead slowly takes one or two small steps backward, initially keeping her gaze on the male lead’s face. Her body naturally becomes smaller in the frame, loosening the shot from a close-up to a medium close-up. Her shoulders relax, her posture straightens again, and her expression shifts from pain to detached resolve.

Final held state: the distance between the female and male leads has widened. She does not turn and flee or break down emotionally; she completes the farewell solely through a calm backward movement. Focus remains locked on her face, while the background and male lead stay softly blurred.

## 4. Cinematography Guidelines

- Position the camera behind the male lead’s shoulder, close to the female lead’s eye level. Place the male lead in the right foreground and the female lead near the center, slightly to the left.
- Maintain the same eyeline axis throughout. Do not cross the axis or suddenly switch to a subjective point of view.
- Primarily use a locked-off camera or an extremely subtle, steady breathing sensation. The change in shot size at the end should come from the female lead stepping backward, without an obvious zoom.
- Keep the focus point on the female lead’s eyes throughout. The male lead’s silhouette, courtyard background, and lighting bokeh remain out of focus.
- Expose for the female lead’s skin tone and pale golden hair, avoiding blown highlights. Preserve realistic skin texture, slight asymmetry, and natural blinking.
- Keep only 1–3 visible signals in each emotional beat. Avoid mechanically moving the eyebrows, eyes, nostrils, and corners of the mouth all at once.

## 5. Continuity and Prohibited Elements

- Keep the female lead’s identity, hairstyle, earrings, necklace, gray knit top with lapels, body type, and apparent age consistent throughout.
- The male lead’s face must never be shown, he must never draw focus, he must not suddenly become sharp, and he must not make physical contact with the female lead.
- Do not add falling tears, hysterical crying, angry glaring, sudden laughter, or exaggerated head shaking.
- Do not use shot/reverse-shot editing, rapid push-ins, orbiting camera moves, sudden zooms, or multi-camera cuts.
- Do not change the direction of the light, the background space, the positioning axis between the two characters, or the height of the female lead’s eyeline.
- Do not carry over the reference image at the top of the original tutorial video, the scrolling text at the bottom, the platform watermark, or the black layout borders. Reproduce only the shot design and emotional logic of the character-performance footage.