How we made the S1E2 open, 3 of 5: the workflow.

How we made the S1E2 open, 3 of 5: the workflow. The first plan was one clip per shot, 36 shots across 185 seconds. We dropped it. Seedance 2.5 can cut inside a single generation, and it holds a face better inside one generation than across several. So each block of the open became one generation of 8 to 15 seconds, with the cuts written into the prompt. Ten generations make the open. The rulebook says eight images at most: a full-body sheet for each character who acts, an empty plate, a prop where it matters, and no boards. In practice most clips still got a board per beat. A plate alone cannot hold three or more camera positions. The rule that cost the most to learn: never feed the end of the action. The red flag clip failed twice. The version fed a board of the crowd already pressed at the glass, and it gave us a crowd standing at the glass. The version in this post got no start frame, just the empty room, three sheets and one board held to the last beat. The prompt describes the change. The exodus happens on camera. We also check where the model actually cut. Asked for cuts at 4 and 8 seconds, it cut at 3.875 and 8.25. Splitting on our numbers would have left flash frames o