Grandpa Strike

How it was made

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1. 1What went in
2. 2The stills
3. 3One fix
4. 4Motion + sound
5. 5The finished cut

1. 

   Step 1

   What went in

   One sentence: a grandpa with bodybuilder arms bowls a boulder down a mountain road into three-story bowling pins.

2. 

   Step 2

   The stills

   Hunyuan Image 3

   PromptCopy prompt

   Photoreal cinematic film still, vertical 9:16, 35mm, warm golden afternoon light, high production value action spectacle. On a sunny turquoise lake shore at the bottom of an alpine mountain road, a giant polished black stone bowling ball as tall as a car smashes into ten giant inflatable white bowling pins, each three stories tall with two red stripes. The huge soft pins burst apart and tumble into the air in every direction, bending and bouncing, spray of gravel and dust. Pine forest and snowy peaks behind. No people. No text, no lettering, no logos anywhere.

   • shape: 9:16
   • go fast: off

   14 credits · Seven stills at 2 credits each. This is the exact prompt of the strike shot; every shot repeats the same look line.

3. 

   Step 3

   One fix

   WAN 2.7 Image Edit

   PromptCopy prompt

   In image 1, replace the bowler's head and face with the same man as in image 2: the same realistic face, tall silver pompadour, white walrus mustache and round gold-rimmed sunglasses, photorealistic, not a cartoon. Keep everything else in image 1 exactly the same: his pose, huge outstretched arm, plain turquoise shirt, trousers, the bowling ball, the road, the bowling pins, the lake and the mountains.

   • references: the hook still and the closing still

   1 credit · Two edits at 0.5 credits each: one cleared fake lettering off the shirt, one matched the bowler's face to the closing shot.

4. 

   Step 4

   Motion + sound

   Seedance 2.5

   PromptCopy prompt

   Keep this exact photoreal look. Strike: the giant black stone bowling ball blasts through the giant inflatable white bowling pins on the lake shore; the soft pins fly up and outward in every direction, bending and bouncing like huge balloons, tumbling through the air toward the lake, gravel and dust spraying, the lake water ripples and sparkles, clouds drift over the peaks. Slow-motion feel, camera shakes on impact. Sound effects only: a huge hollow bowling strike crash, rubbery boings, gravel spray. No music, no speech.

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

   560 credits · Seven 5-second clips at 16 credits a second. This is the exact prompt of the strike shot. One take each.

5. 

   Step 5

   The finished cut

   Best 2 to 2.6 seconds of each clip, three big supers, end card.