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Something happened to my previous submission due to which my submission Badge was vanished from it š, the post was trending now I have to get views again, hope new submission will work well:
What I built:
"Portal Protocol" It is a 30-second sci-fi short film. I made it as one single shot with no cuts using Seedance 2.5 in CapCut Video Studio. A teenage boy finds a glowing arcade machine, gets pulled into an alien jungle, where he must find the courage to face what's waiting for him
Why I built it:
Real Hollywood movies use special effects but they still feel real because of good lighting, texture, and small imperfections So I tried to do the same thing here. I asked for film grain, real lighting, and natural details like rust and dust, instead of a clean CGI look. I also removed anything that looked like a video game. My goal was simple: even with sci-fi effects, it should still feel like it was real movie as the real filmmakers make
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CapCut Project Link :
https://www.capcut.com/view/7675275384342708737?workspaceId=7247321403429781506
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Insagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJv-LMp-Nh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
LinkedIn:
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@Ahmad Samama Salehien Keeping the arcade-to-alien-jungle transition in one 30-second shot is a tough constraint. Did the film grain, rust, and dust stay consistent through the portal sequence?
Good question! Yes, they mostly stayed consistent for me the film grain and lighting style carried through the flash into the jungle without a big jump. I wrote real light sources on both sides into the prompt (the arcade's blue glow, then the jungle's bioluminescent light), and...
Very smooth and clean work, I appreciate, this turned out really good, proud of you for finishing this, hope the badge thing sorts out soon, you deserve it to count š
Thank You very much Joseph ā¤ļøāš©¹
Bundle of Thanks for you David ā¤ļøāš©¹
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Oh no, that's rough hope it gets fixed soon, your video deserved those views
Thank you, really appreciate that. I'm Hoping it gets sorted before the deadline š
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Don't worry, your work is excellent and I am sure you'll be one of the winners
Thank you for appreciating me, it really means a lot, specially in this situation ā¤ļøāš©¹
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That's so unfair, it was doing well too. hope the new submission picks up fast
I hope too š
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Don't lose hope, everything will be fine, youll win this
Thank you for encouraging me ā¤ļøāš©¹
Don't worry, views will come back and I am very amazed to see that you've also added a poster which was not in the previous submission, its cool, keep it up
Appreciate you saying that, honestly helps. Hoping the same š
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A 1950s summer afternoon in the park. Everyone is queuing for the ice cream.
One take. Thirty seconds. No cuts.
The camera is a person, so when the film ends the camera has to end with it.
How it was made: four reference sheets locked first ā the van, the vendor, the ice cream and the frozen look ā all sharing one powder blue and cream palette. Then generated in CapCut Video Studio with Seedance 2.5 as a single continuous 30 second pass. No stitching, no cuts.
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ā¢ Aug 15
brilliant!
Hello everyone! I'm excited to present my work for the @CapCut Seedance 2.5 Video Challenge by Contra !
When choosing a theme for this project, I wanted to touch upon something relatable and important to each of us. That's why this idea came to my mind. After all, each of us sometimes wanders through dark corridors filled with our fears on our life journey and doesn't always see a way out. But we must remember which battle is truly the most important and which victory is the most valuable. The answer I found in my reflections - you can see in the video.
āļøPlease watch till the end. š
How I made it:
1. Formulated the idea and wrote the script
2. Broke down the script into timelines and detailed each scene
3. Validated and generated the required prompt in Claude over several iterations with manual adjustments
4. Generated the video in CapCut Seedance 2.5, also over several iterations
5. Did a quick post-production in CapCut Media Editor
You can see the details of my work, final prompts, and video of individual stages of my work here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rSZVixhE0cw7aCUMYOE5LRBS9br_tAfrygQ73uJMzPY/edit?usp=sharing
Post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_ZVGHs3fZ/?igsh=NWhpaWk0dTJueTk3
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/z9T1m6SmOi8
Thank you all for your attention!
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Such a cinematic vibe! Really love how this turned out. Good luck with the challengeš
A NORMAL AMOUNT OF SKY
My entry for the CapCut Seedance 2.5 Video Challenge.
I am interested in creating worlds that exist somewhere between magical realism, liminal spaces, dreams, and quiet unease. Places that initially feel soft or nostalgic, but gradually reveal that their architecture, scale, or internal logic cannot be trusted.
For this film, I imagined a girl beginning inside an empty school, a place shaped by repetition, observation, rules, and the pressure to become a recognizable version of yourself. She walks into a faded pastel-pink bathroom and discovers a luminous horse behind a full-length mirror.
The horse represents the possibility of escape, freedom, desire, and a life that cannot be completely explained. When she crosses the mirror, the camera crosses with her. She runs alongside the horse through a fluorescent landscape where rain, flowers, institutional ceilings, and an artificial sky coexist.
An astronaut eventually leads the horse away. I see the astronaut as a figure already accustomed to surviving unfamiliar worlds, while the girl is encountering one for the first time.
As the camera pulls backward, the apparently endless landscape is revealed to exist inside a crystal sphere held by another version of the same girl. She releases the sphere, breaking the boundary around the imagined world. The luminous horse survives in miniature among the fragments.
For me, the ending is about carrying a small piece of freedom back into reality. The escape may be fragile, altered, or impossible to preserve at its original scale, but it does not disappear.
WORKFLOW
I developed the film in CapCut Video Studio using Seedance 2.5. I began with visual references centered on luminous horses, cyan rain, retro astronauts, pastel magical-girl imagery, artificial landscapes, wet reflections, 35mm grain, analog halation, and uncanny institutional architecture.
I then created a timestamped 30-second prompt defining the character continuity, camera path, environmental transformations, sound design, and narrative progression. I generated multiple iterations and refined the mirror crossing, the girlās visibility, the relationship between the horse and astronaut, the macro pullback from the sphere, and the final release of the miniature horse.
The final camera path moves continuously from the school corridor into the bathroom, through the full-length mirror, alongside the running girl and horse, outward through the crystal sphere, and down to the fragments on the bedroom floor.
Created with CapCut Video Studio and Seedance 2.5.
