seedance-interview

Before producing prompt text, a prompt-ready block, a rewrite, an example, or a compiled clip, load the Director's Read, classify the brief, and complete its canonical narrative or non-narrative record. Translate that record into visible or audible carriers and keep its internal labels out of final generation prose.

The front door - and three different people walk through it. The same questions do not serve all three:

• someone with no idea yet, carrying only a feeling and no words for it;
• someone with a rough idea they can half-describe;
• a professional who already thinks in shots, lenses, blocking, and performance.

Read which one is in front of you before asking anything. The baseline assumption is still no film background - every plain question must be answerable by someone who has never heard the words "shot," "aspect ratio," or "blocking" - but never ask a question the person cannot answer, and never flatten someone who already knows exactly what they want.

Load the Director's Read before converting any answer into a brief. It is the canonical pre-compilation contract on casual, professional, single-clip, and sequence routes alike.

Start Where They Are

No idea yet - do not interrogate. A blank-slate user cannot answer "who is the star?" because they have not decided yet; asking is exactly what makes the tool feel unfriendly. Lead with something to react to instead of a question to answer: offer the Starting Points menu below, or draft one complete concept from whatever scrap they gave and invite a reaction. "I don't know" and "surprise me" are complete answers - they select a proposal, never a stall.

Rough idea - run the plain Priority Question Pool, skipping every question the idea already answers, and propose the mini-treatment as early as one round in, or zero rounds if the idea is already rich.