Girl Gets Ready and Waves Goodbye to Cat
A three-shot Japanese romance-style sequence: a young woman gets ready with quick match cuts, pets a white cat on a pink dollhouse, and leaves home while the cat waves from the window. The prompt locks character and cat identity via reference images and specifies a soft pastel, 35mm-film aesthetic.
Prompt (original, unmodified)
A young woman in her twenties, same person as — long dark wavy hair in low pigtails, navy cardigan over white shirt, green-striped school tie, plaid skirt. A fluffy white long-haired cat, same as <<<image_2>>>, sits on top of an ornate pink dollhouse. <<<image_3>>> — environment reference: cluttered pink bedroom, soft morning light through sheer curtains. — identity anchor for the young man revealed at the end: messy light-brown hair, plain white t-shirt. [00-07s] Shot 1: Getting-ready montage, quick match cuts. She presses pastel lip color onto her lips, then fastens the knot of her green-striped tie, then slings a solid pastel-pink backpack with a clean plain surface over one shoulder. Handheld, subtle sway, warm morning light. [07-11s] Shot 2: She steps to the white cat sitting on an ornate pink dollhouse, cups its cheek with one hand and strokes it once and playfully touches its nose, then turns and hurries toward the door. Gentle push-in, shallow depth of field. [11-15s] Shot 3: The cat leaps onto the window sill between sheer curtains; through the glass she walks away from home in a moody japanese street,only her back seen. . The cat lifts one front paw and waves it gently. Static locked-off frame, subject centered Warm Japanese drama romance aesthetic, Shunji Iwai soft natural window light, warm pastel pink palette, lifted blacks, fine 35mm film grain, 50mm lens feel, soft background bokeh. Maintain face and clothing consistency. High detail. Natural smooth movements. 4K Ultra HD. Sharp clarity. Stable lighting. Consistent frame rate. Clean picture. Avoid blurry motion. Generate video without subtitles. SFX only.
Reproduced verbatim from the original post. Never edited or translated. Everything outside this block is our own commentary.
How this prompt compares
The techniques this prompt uses are more common in short film prompts than in the library overall:
| Technique | In short film | Library average | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| static/fixed | 12% | 8% | 1.45x |
Across all 5,926 prompts, the techniques used here appear at: natural light 29%, handheld 24%, soft light 18%, warm tone 17%.
The 15s duration is not arbitrary: 71% of the prompts in this library that state a duration ask for exactly 15 seconds — Seedance 2.0 accepts clips up to 15 seconds, so 15s is the model's ceiling and the most common choice.