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title: Moving shots in Seedance 2.5
summary: How DREW moves and raps: Seedance 2.5 clips shot silent from references, prompts written like a script, and Sync Lip Sync 3 laid over every rapping shot.
order: 5
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# Moving shots in Seedance 2.5

Every moving shot in the D.R.E.W film is Seedance 2.5, run on Higgsfield in omni_reference mode, 16:9, 720p, sound off. The cut holds 26 clips: 23 made for this film and 3 reused from the Leave The Lights On shoot (the watch, the moon over the tower and the 4am terrace). Clips run 4 to 10 seconds. claudia.gallery's [Moving shots in Seedance](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/seedance/) is the long version of this page, from seven films. This page is what DREW's film did. Every prompt for every shot is in the [generation log](/d-r-e-w/).

## Two kinds of clip

- **Performance.** He raps a line to camera. The clip is made silent, with the exact words in the prompt so his mouth moves the right way, then Sync Lip Sync 3 makes the lips match the song. Seven shots are rapping shots.
- **B-roll.** His world: the penthouse, the elevator, the garage, the car, the roof, the jewelry. No lip sync, and his eyes never turn toward the camera.

## Write prompts like a script

A prompt that names a mood gets a mood. A prompt that says what happens, in order, gets a shot. claudia.gallery learned this the expensive way ([Write prompts like a script](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/seedance/#write-prompts-like-a-script)), and the film's prompts follow it. Every prompt says what moves, what the camera does and what must stay still:

- **Where he is and what he does, in order.** "He stands up from the trading desk, grabs his black overcoat and raps to camera while walking toward the lens through the dark penthouse."
- **The camera.** One move with a start and an end: "Slow push in from behind his shoulder to his face." "Locked-off tripod shot."
- **What stays still.** "McLaren parked, engine off, wheels still."
- **The identity line,** then the [style line](/drew/#his-identity-in-words), last.

## References on the shots that need them

On the shots that build or fix him, Drew's locked face (front and side) and a tied-back hair ref go into the prompt as image references. Claudia gets her face ref and her orange-tee ref. The garage, the orange P1 and the rooftop sign each have a ref of their own, and a close-up of the pendant or the watch starts from its own still. See [Keeping him himself](/wiki/consistency/).

## Lip sync

**Seedance can't lip sync to a song.** With the song as an audio reference it kept the beat but dropped the vocal and rapped its own words about 3 seconds late. The fix the film settled on:

1. **Make the shot silent.** Put the exact words in the prompt in quotes, with "For the first half second he is silent, then he raps these exact words", and describe the delivery: real energy, big hand gestures toward the lens, head nodding on the beat.
2. **Cut the song to the clip's slot.** A 7-second piece for the rapping shots.
3. **Run Sync Lip Sync 3** (Higgsfield `sync_so`, sync_mode cut_off) on the finished clip with that audio. The log records 8 passes across 7 rapping shots.
4. **Put the real song back over the cut.** The clips carry no sound.

In the edit, cut into a rapped shot before the lips start, not in the middle of a line. Claudia's face in the rooftop close-up was cropped, synced on its own, and laid back in with a feathered mask.

## Recipes

The film's own shot recipes, copied from the generation log, are on the [D.R.E.W film page](/d-r-e-w/#recipes): rapping to camera (the lyric and the identity line left as slots), the elevator opening on the garage, the parked car with one door, the jewelry macro and Claudia walking out to him. For the identity line, paste the [identity text](/drew/#his-identity-in-words). Cars have their own page: [Cars](/wiki/cars/).

## Claudia without lip sync

In the car she doesn't rap. When someone in frame shouldn't be singing, say it: her lips stay closed, she watches him. Claudia keeps her eyes on Drew and never on the camera.

## What it cost

The log records 148 seconds of clip length across the 26 clips in the cut, for a film of 1:49.6. Three of those clips were free: they came from an earlier shoot.