Two fighters days away from a title fight ended up in the same sauna.
No trash talk, no staredown - Ilia Topuria and Charles Oliveira just shared a quiet, respectful moment during UFC 317 fight week.
"That's how our sport is. It's never personal, everyone's just fighting for their dreams," Topuria wrote after.
Days later he knocked Oliveira out in the first round and took the lightweight title.
This whole ride through the Alps came out of one prompt and two photos.
Made with Seedance 2.5 on @makeugc
Content no longer needs a person in front of the camera. Or a camera.
This train vlog through the Alps came out of two reference photos and one prompt - the girl, her friend, the shaky handheld shot, the sun strobing across her face.
I’ll share the full process in the comments👇
Never make an Asian woman angry, or you'll end up like that guy.
Made with Seedance 2.5 on @makeugc
MY PROMPT:
A realistic 15-second horizontal 16:9 video filmed in ONE continuous take with no cuts, like a phone recording made by someone sitting at the bar. In a nightclub, an Asian woman and an Asian man play a bottle-flip game behind the bar counter: whoever lands a water bottle upright gets to hit the other on the head with an aluminium bowl. He wins first and hits her. She wins next, hits him back, then kicks him in the stomach, and he falls backwards into the glass liquor display behind him, which shatters. The video ends on him sitting in the wreckage while she stands over him holding the dented bowl.
MAIN SUBJECTS
The woman: Asian, around 25, very long straight glossy black hair falling past her waist, dark brown eyes, soft natural makeup with nude-rose lips, small pearl stud earrings. She wears a fitted cream-white satin button-up shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearms, a black leather high-waist mini pencil skirt with a small side slit, and glossy black stiletto heels with red soles. The fabric is thick and opaque and stays in place during every movement. Slim athletic build. She stands on the LEFT side of the frame.
The man: Asian, around 25, short black textured hair, dark brown eyes, clean-shaven. He wears an open black leather biker jacket, a plain white crew-neck t-shirt under it, light-blue straight-leg jeans and white sneakers. Slim athletic build. He stands on the RIGHT side of the frame. From the very first second his back is about 0.5 metres from a tall glass liquor display cabinet.
LOCATION
A dim, upscale nightclub bar. Foreground: a long dark wooden bar counter with a glossy black top. On the counter: TWO identical clear plastic 500 ml water bottles, each about one third full, one in front of each player, and ONE thin-walled matte-silver aluminium mixing bowl, about 30 cm in diameter, lying upside down between them. The two players stand behind the counter facing the camera. Midground: on the RIGHT, directly behind the man, a floor-to-ceiling back-bar display cabinet with glass doors and glass shelves, lit warmly from inside and filled with rows of whisky, vodka and champagne bottles. Background: a few club guests in dark clothes standing at the far end of the bar and on stools, holding drinks and watching; behind them a dim dance floor with soft haze and slow-moving magenta and blue lights. The glass cabinet stays fully visible in frame for the whole video.
CAMERA AND LOOK
Handheld phone camera on the customer side of the bar. It starts LOW, at the height of the bar top, about 40 cm from the man's bottle, then in one smooth movement rises to chest height and settles into a medium-wide shot that keeps both players, the bowl, both bottles and the glass cabinet in frame until the end. Slight hand shake, delayed autofocus on the first bottle landing, mild bloom on the neon, faint noise in the shadows, muted contrast. Lighting comes from the club itself: dim magenta-blue ambient light from the dance floor and warm light from the cabinet shelves, one consistent setup the whole time. Natural skin tones and soft shadows. No glossy beauty lighting, no artificial rim light, no heavy grading. The camera and the person filming never appear in the frame.
CONTINUOUS STORY
00:00-00:02 HOOK, HIS FLIP. The video opens mid-action: the man's water bottle is already spinning end over end in the air, close to the low camera and filling a large part of the frame, blurred slightly by delayed autofocus. It completes ONE full rotation, the bottom hits the counter with a dull plastic thud, wobbles once and stays UPRIGHT. A guest at the bar shouts in surprise. The camera rises to the medium-wide shot, revealing both players.
00:02-00:05 HE HITS HER. Without a word, the man grabs the aluminium bowl by the rim with BOTH hands, flips it over and swings it in a short sideways-overhead arc. ONE clear contact: the bottom of the bowl hits the crown of her head with a loud hollow metallic BONG that keeps ringing. On impact the thin aluminium visibly flexes and a shallow round dent stays in the bottom of the bowl. Her head drops a few centimetres, her eyes squeeze shut, her shoulders hunch up, her long hair bounces and swings forward, and her knees bend slightly. She lets out a short "ah" and puts one hand on top of her head.
00:05-00:07 HER REACTION. He puts the dented bowl back on the counter with a light metal clank, dent clearly visible, and gives a small satisfied nod. She slowly straightens up, one hand still on her head, blinking and confused for a moment, then her expression hardens: lips pressed together, jaw tight, a cold, angry stare fixed on him. The guests react with a loud "ooooh" and a few laughs.
00:07-00:09 HER FLIP. Still staring at him, she picks up her water bottle, holds it by the neck and flicks it into the air. Lift-off, ONE full rotation, the bottom lands on the counter with a dull plastic thud and the bottle stays UPRIGHT. His smile disappears.
00:09-00:11 SHE HITS HIM. She grabs the same dented bow l by the rim with BOTH hands and swings it sideways-overhead. ONE clear contact on the crown of his head: another loud hollow metallic BONG with ringing. The aluminium flexes again and a SECOND dent forms next to the first one. His head ducks, he winces hard with his eyes shut, his teeth clench, both his hands fly up to his head, and he lets out a sharp groan.
00:11-00:15 THE KICK AND THE FALL, one continuous action. While he is still holding his head and slightly off balance, she drops the bowl onto the counter with a clang, shifts her weight onto her left leg and delivers a short, straight front push-kick with her right leg at stomach height, the sole of her shoe pushing flat into his stomach. ONE clear contact: he folds forward with a loud exhale, then is pushed backwards off his feet. His back hits the glass doors of the display cabinet: the tempered glass cracks and collapses into a shower of small glass cubes, two shelves tilt, and several liquor bottles fall and smash on the floor with loud crashes and splashing liquid. He slides down and ends up sitting on the floor among broken glass and spilled liquor, stunned, coughing and holding his stomach, unhurt apart from that. She lowers her leg, steps back to the counter, picks up the double-dented bowl, flips her hair back over her shoulder and looks down at him with a cold, satisfied expression. The guests gasp, then shout and laugh. The video ends on that moment.
SOUND
Quiet, low-volume deep house playing in the background of the club the whole time, with muffled bass and soft murmuring from the guests. Dull plastic thuds of the bottles landing. Two loud hollow metallic BONG sounds with a short metallic ring at each bowl strike. A soft metal clank when the bowl is set down. Her short "ah" after the hit, his sharp groan after his hit, his loud exhale at the kick, coughing at the end. Loud crack and shatter of the glass, falling bottles smashing, liquid splashing. The guests' "ooooh", gasps, shouts and laughter timed to each hit and to the fall. No narration, no laugh track, no sound effects that do not come from the scene.
ESSENTIAL CONTINUITY
Order of events: his flip, his strike on her, her reaction, her flip, her strike on him, her kick, his fall into the cabinet. ONE bowl only, the same one in every moment; the first dent appears at the first strike and stays, the second dent appears at the second strike and both stay to the end. TWO bottles only, each stays where it landed, upright. The man stands with his back to the glass cabinet from the first second; he falls straight backwards into it, the same direction as the kick. The glass cabinet is fully intact until the moment his back hits it. Bodies never pass through objects; the counter stays between the players and the camera. No blood and no visible injuries; this is comedic slapstick. Both players keep the same faces, hair, outfits and footwear throughout. The lighting, the club and the quiet music stay the same throughout. Preserve her face, hair, outfit, footwear throughout. Preserve his face, hair, outfit, footwear throughout.
No cuts, no repeated attempts, no slow motion, no teleportation, no duplicated people, no extra bowls or bottles, no changing outfits, no blood, no CGI appearance, no
NOBODY'S TALKING ABOUT WHY THE BEST AI CLIPS START IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION.
My latest Seedance clip opens with a zombie hitting the windshield at 00:01, and that's not an accident.
- Made with Seedance 2.5 on @makeugc
Most AI videos waste their first 3 seconds. A slow drone shot over a city. A character standing still. A sunrise. The model loves to warm up, and the viewer is gone before anything happens.
So I don't let it warm up. The prompt opens with one rule: the first frame is already in motion.
Here's how the opening was written:
▪ the man twists the key, the engine coughs and dies
▪ a zombie slams its face into the windshield, the glass cracks
▪ he screams, the engine roars on the third try
Problem, threat and release, all before 00:03. Locked inside a car with danger an inch from his face.
The second rule most people skip: cut only after a move is finished. Never mid-hit, never mid-jump. Cut too early and the contact gets lost, the hook looks glitchy and the tension dies.
Your story starts in the middle. The context can catch up later.
A cinematic intro costs you the viewer. A zombie at second one costs nothing.
🔆 I think this will come in handy for you
🔖 Better to save it so you don't lose it.
🎁 Prompt in the comments