Prime Time: Candy Corn Day

How it was made

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1. 1What went in: Character Studio refs
2. 2The still (one per shot)
3. 3Motion + sound
4. 4The finished cut

1. 

   Step 1

   What went in: Character Studio refs

   Brian, Pamela and Circe, all saved in Character Studio. Cast stills use their photos as references. Candy-corn-only stills use none.

2. 

   Step 2

   The still (one per shot)

   Seedream 5

   PromptCopy prompt

   Low-angle wide action shot looking up a long sunny downhill street, a long sunny downhill suburban street lined with tall palm trees and 1980s pastel stucco ranch houses with green lawns decorated for Halloween with hay bales, carved pumpkins and orange string lights, deep blue sky, golden morning sun. Bouncing down the middle of the street straight toward camera, caught mid-air above the asphalt, is a giant inflatable candy corn, taller than a three-story house, a glossy vinyl parade balloon shaped like a single piece of candy corn: a wide bright yellow base, a bright orange middle band and a white rounded tip, visible seams, soft rounded edges, and one big white round air valve on the FRONT of its yellow base; it clearly reads as an inflatable, squashy and bouncy; hay bales and pumpkins tumble out of its way. In the lower half of the frame, large and close to camera in the middle of the street, three heroes are turned three-quarter toward it, faces in three-quarter view looking up at it: the bald man with a shaved head and salt-and-pepper goatee from images 1, 2 and 3 (same face), a thin natural wooden toothpick in the corner of his mouth, wearing a plain solid mustard-yellow nylon jacket with no stripes and no white trim anywhere, a black tee, stonewashed jeans and white high-top sneakers; the woman with big teased side-swept dark brown hair from images 4, 5 and 6 (same face), in an emerald-green satin padded-shoulder jumpsuit with a wide black belt with a gold buckle and chunky gold geometric earrings, holding binoculars; and their adult female German Shepherd from image 7, black-and-tan saddle coat, black muzzle mask, tall upright ears, small white chest blaze, faded teal bandana with a thin orange stripe, standing alert between them. Exactly two people and one dog. Each person has exactly two arms and two hands. Exactly one candy corn. No signs, no lettering, no house numbers anywhere. Shot like a 1980s prime-time action TV series, high production value: 35mm film, warm sun-bleached golden grade, soft highlight halation, light film grain, slightly lifted blacks, heroic low angle, practical stunt look. Original design only. No logos, no brand designs.

   • shape: portrait_9_16 (1440x2560)
   • references: Brian, Pamela and Circe, 9 Character Studio photos

   40 credits · Exact prompt of the hook. 8 prompts, two takes each at 2.5 credits a still; the better take of each was kept.

3. 

   Step 3

   Motion + sound

   Seedance 2.5

   PromptCopy prompt

   The German Shepherd in the image (same dog, same markings and teal bandana) clamps the white valve cap in her teeth and backs up, pulling it fully open; a loud jet of air blasts out of the valve, whipping her ears and bandana back and blowing dry leaves across the street, and the yellow vinyl wall behind her starts to wrinkle and sag. Steady medium camera. The dog keeps four legs. Sound: a plastic pop, a loud hissing jet of air, flapping vinyl. Keep the exact look, colors and 1980s film grade of the first frame. Exactly one candy corn. No on-screen text. Sound effects only, no music, no speech.

   • resolution: 1080p
   • shape: 9:16
   • length: 5 s
   • sound: on

   640 credits · Exact prompt of the valve pull. 80 credits per 5 s clip at 1080p, one take per shot.

4. 

   Step 4

   The finished cut

   8 shots of 2.2-3.0 s, two supers and the end card, 23 s.