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MELITA — a 30-second continuous shot down a single Maltese limestone street, travelling from 1565 to the present day without a cut.
It opens tight on stone. A mason is finishing a Maltese cross carved into a wall, brushing dust out of the grooves. He steps across the lens — and when the frame clears, four and a half centuries begin passing through the same street while the camera keeps pushing forward and never stops.
Knights running toward cannon fire in 1565. Gas lamps, ghonnella and a karrozzin in the 1890s. Rubble and a Spitfire overhead in 1942. Independence bunting and a boy with a football in 1968. Cafe tables and tourists today. Then the camera lifts over the rooftops and Valletta and the Grand Harbour open up in golden light.
Every era change happens behind something physically in the world — cannon smoke, a stone archway, falling plaster dust, a bedsheet on a washing line, the mason's own body. No dissolves, no transitions, nothing added in post.
Built in CapCut Video Studio as a single native 30-second Seedance 2.5 generation, directed entirely through a text prompt with second-by-second timestamp control. No reference images, no stitching, no editing.
Malta has been besieged, occupied, bombed and rebuilt more times than almost anywhere its size. The mason carves his mark and the film walks away from it, straight into everything that came after.
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Character definitely wins here. I think it's like verion2.0 of the emotional one.
Water, texture, and light, reframed as a moment of reflection. This piece was about finding rhythm in stillness letting color grading and sound carry the emotion instead of cuts.
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Amazing shot! 🚀
Claude + After effects (Here’s the exact 5 prompts, copy them) 🧵
Prompt 0: Setup
Approach: Computer Use - from now, henceforth.
Setup: After Effects is open on Screen 2.
Goal: Configure the project and create 4 working comps, named Scene 1 through Scene 4, before anything is built. All 4 comps use the settings below.
Project settings:
Color depth: 16 bpc
Linear blending on Comp settings:
Resolution: 2880x1620, square pixels
Frame rate: 30fps
Background: warm Don't ask any questions. Build.
Prompt 1: Plan the radial scene
Setup: Same project and comp. Plexus installed. Reference: Sketch
(see first comment for the sketch btw).
Goal: A radial plexus matching the sketch. All vertices start at a single centre point and spread outward in 3D. Lines grow from the centre to each endpoint. Each endpoint carries a different image. Camera with depth of field.
Reading the sketch:
The circle is the origin. Every line starts there, none connect to each other.
Line lengths and angles vary on purpose. Keep that irregularity, don't make it a perfect starburst.
The sketch is 2D, but the build is 3D. Some lines should push toward and away from camera, not just across the frame. Current state: Nothing built for this scene yet. Constraints:
Do not touch the project. Planning only, no computer use. Approach: Consider the best possible way of achieving this. It should be able to be edited realtime as well. Prioritize using plexus Output: A recommended approach with reasons. I'll approve before you build.
CONTINUES IN COMMENT
(Attached is Prompt 1's reference image btw)
Prompt 2: Animate Scene 1 line connections
(i went back to creating the first scene)
Setup: Switch to the Scene 1 comp. Park the Scene 2 plan, we'll return to it.
Goal: Lines animate their connections, drawing from one vertex to the...
