Seedance 2.0 Prompt Guide
A useful Seedance prompt guide should do more than list cinematic adjectives.
It should help you answer four practical questions:
- what structure Seedance responds to best
- what details matter most in the prompt
- what common failures the prompt should avoid
- how to prompt for multi-shot work without turning the sequence into guesswork
The prompt structure that works best
The strongest prompt structure is usually:
shot type + subject + action + environment + lighting + visual style
This makes outputs easier to compare and failures easier to diagnose.
The 5-part prompt method
- Name the shot job
- Lock the prompt structure
- Keep one main constraint
- Review what broke
- Save what worked
Core rules
Lead with the shot type
Examples:
- close-up
- medium shot
- wide shot
- over-the-shoulder
Keep the subject concrete
Weak:
- futuristic device
Stronger:
- small white cylindrical device with a blue ring around its base on a brushed steel surface
Use one dominant motion
Weak:
- rotate, zoom, orbit, run, and reveal everything at once
Stronger:
- slow dolly forward while the subject turns slightly toward camera
Make lighting explicit
Examples:
- warm golden-hour light
- soft diffused overcast light
- hard studio side light
What to avoid
- adjective spam
- too many simultaneous motions
- vague subjects
- prompts that optimize the first clip but break the next shot