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Prompts/ABBEY
REEL 05 · 00:15
ABBEYSeedance 2.515 sec9:16

I started a band with myself.

Four of me, four outfits, one zebra crossing. The 1969 album cover, walking for real.

  1. Make a start frame of four copies of yourself on the crossing, one per outfit (denim, charcoal suit, barefoot black suit, cream suit).
  2. Open Seedance 2.5 with references: add the start frame plus a clear photo of your face. Paste the prompt below.
  3. Draft at 480p and check all four faces stay you the whole way across.
The prompt
One unbroken 15-second handheld take that starts EXACTLY on the start frame. The four walkers are the SAME person (you, from your reference photos), appearing four times, exactly as in the start frame. They keep that face, hair and build for every second of the video; they never become different people. Their outfits stay locked: (1) last on frame left: denim shirt, jeans, cream sneakers. (2) charcoal suit, white shirt, black tie, black shoes. (3) black suit, open white shirt, BAREFOOT the whole time. (4) leading on frame right: cream-white suit, white loafers. The reference images show your face and the barefoot black-suit outfit.

ACTION: all four walk left to right across the Abbey Road zebra crossing in single file, about one stride apart, at a steady, relaxed pace, all facing right, arms swinging naturally. They never stop and never look at the camera. Calm neutral faces, lips closed.

CAMERA: a handheld operator stands still on the near pavement and slowly pivots right on the spot to follow them across the road, like a person turning their head. The background slides past with real parallax: the near kerb moves fast and the far vanishing point moves slowly. The pan lags a beat, catches up, overshoots slightly, then settles, with gentle handheld sway and two small corrective nudges. All four stay fully in the vertical frame, head to toe, the whole time. No zoom, no cuts, no tracking alongside them.

TIMING: 0-2.5s on the first stripes, with the left pavement, dark trees and the white VW Beetle behind them. At 1.7s the barefoot walker in the black suit raises their right hand to touch their hair, then drops it at 2.6s while still walking. 2.5-6s mid-road: as the camera turns, the long tree-lined road and its white centre line come into view behind them, receding to a far vanishing point, and the Beetle slides out to the left. 6-9s the far pavement, parked cars and brick-and-white terraced houses come in from the right. 9-12.5s the leader steps up onto the far pavement and the others follow one by one. 12.5-15s all four keep walking along the pavement past black iron railings and white townhouses, under the same summer sky.

LOOK: same warm, faded 1969 35mm film look as the start frame, soft daylight, fine grain, natural motion blur on the feet.

NEGATIVE: no face changes, no different people, no fifth person, no shoes on the black-suit walker, no barefoot charcoal-suit walker, nothing in their hands, no white objects floating beside them, no text, no cuts.
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