Finished Shield - "We'll Count On" (Final Shootout).
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How it all started: This is my first project in AI in general - I've only been doing it for a few weeks. A series of gangsters in the spirit of Guy Ritchie, where the main characters are me and my friends. The first episodes were pure jokes - a funny set of pictures with almost no plot. Towards the end I wanted a normal movie: I started to think about the story and the motivation of the characters in detail, and the series gradually went in a more dramatic and serious direction. This shootout is the climax of the last episode, the fifth.
Scene: Confrontation with Don in the underground parking lot. One sentence is not understood and my hero grabs the gun. Slow-motion shootout for "Time in a Bottle": I wanted it to be epic and sad at the same time.
How I worked: I thought of the ideas and plot of the scenes together with ChatGPT. Then I threw it into Claude, he was my technical director: he offered to produce each shot, and I changed it to fit my vision. All the rapid engineering for Seedance was also done by Claude, and he did a great job.
Why Seedance: I created the entire series on the MiniMax H3, but I wanted to end the story nicely, with a properly staged shootout. I had to spend money and earn it entirely on Seedance.
Tools: Video: Seedance 2.5 via Hedra Reference frameworks: Seedream 5.0 Pro Instructions for Seedream: I wrote a skill for ChatGPT that produces them in my style Editing: DaVinci Resolve Sound: All sound effects were created by Seedance, music -. Jim Croce, "Time in a Bottle".
What I realized about Seedance:.
Never confused the faces of real people, keeps them even at 480p. The scene is mainly in close-ups, there are almost no super wide shots.
Perfectly conveys the atmosphere and emotions from the guidance. There is a shot with a snorricam in the van where it was necessary to show his fear and his lack of understanding of what was happening - he did it almost perfectly the first time.
In general, almost everything worked out the first time.
Each shot was described in seconds: camera, movement, slow motion, what's out of focus.