# Alley life and rooftop coffee > A young woman spends time in a residential neighborhood: beside a concrete wall, with a cat in an alley, at a laundry line, and overlooking rooftops with a cup. Soft, subdued imagery gives the sequence a home-video character. - Kind: Video - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/ - Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/agent.txt - Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/prompt.txt - Authorship: AI-made, per the source - Made with: Not stated - Model: Seedance 2.5 - Built with: not stated - Services: Higgsfield AI - Style: Short films; home-video, documentary-style, naturalistic, nostalgic, domestic, low-contrast - Length and format: 30 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source) - Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source. - Shared by @john_my07 in X, Aug 11, 2026: https://x.com/john_my07/status/2087119362486620321 - Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it. ## Before you start Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions. 1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present. 2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized. 3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed. 4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting. 5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use. ## Recreating this video These are the creator's published instructions, unedited. ## Prompt ```text Create a 30-second ultra-realistic documentary/home-video of the SAME young Korean woman throughout. Early 20s, natural appearance, realistic skin, minimal makeup, warm personality. Faded charcoal-grey sleeveless crop top, loose high-waisted light-wash jeans, black canvas sneakers, black cord necklace. Black wavy hair in a messy side ponytail with wispy bangs. Keep identical face, body, outfit, hairstyle and identity throughout. Location: Quiet authentic Korean residential neighborhood in late morning: narrow concrete alleys, low-rise homes, terraces, potted plants, laundry lines, bicycles, utility poles, overhead wires, mature trees and weathered concrete walls. No shops, cafés, ads, crowds or commercial activity. Visual style: Ultra-realistic candid documentary footage with genuine unscripted behavior. Early-2000s consumer DV camcorder aesthetic, casually filmed by a friend: heavy handheld shake, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, lens breathing, exposure pumping between sun/shade, occasional motion blur, subtle rolling shutter, mild compression artifacts, faded colors, soft contrast and slight sensor noise. No stabilization, cinematic moves, modern grading or beauty filters. 00:00–00:03: Outside a small house, she sits on a low concrete wall adjusting her ponytail with both hands. Breeze moves loose hair. She smiles naturally. Camera struggles to focus. 00:03–00:06: She walks into the narrow alley. Camera follows imperfectly. She briefly looks back. Moving tree shadows and sunlight naturally affect exposure. 00:06–00:09: A stray cat approaches. She notices it, smiles and crouches down. Camera reacts slightly late and drifts off-center. 00:09–00:12: She gently pets and feeds the cat. Autofocus shifts between her face and the animal. Leaves create flickering sunlight. 00:12–00:15: She continues down the alley, casually avoiding a bicycle. She smiles at something off-camera. Camera briefly points too low before correcting. 00:15–00:18: Beside her house, she hangs laundry. Fabrics sway in the breeze. Clouds briefly cover the sun, causing natural exposure changes. 00:18–00:21: She fixes a piece of laundry, gives a small laugh and brushes hair away. Camera moves slightly closer with imperfect autofocus. 00:21–00:24: On a quiet terrace, she sits with a ceramic coffee cup, takes a sip and watches the neighborhood. She brushes hair behind her ear. Loose handheld side angle. 00:24–00:26: Close side profile. Someone off-camera greets her. She turns, waves, smiles warmly and says, “Annyeong.” Camera catches it slightly late and briefly loses focus. 00:26–00:29: She walks slowly down a tree-lined residential lane holding the coffee cup. She notices the camera, gives a small genuine smile, looks away and continues walking. 00:29–00:30: Camera shakes and drifts toward the trees/houses. Recording abruptly cuts to black mid-motion, like an old camcorder being switched off. Audio: Natural ambience only — birds, distant motorcycles, wind, leaves, faint chatter, cat sounds, footsteps and laundry movement. “Annyeong” clearly audible. No music, narration or sound design. Goal: One continuous-feeling forgotten early-2000s Korean home video: warm, candid, imperfect and deeply believable. Natural blinking, breathing, walking, expressions and environmental motion. No staged poses, glossy skin, cinematic movement, modern color grading or AI-looking perfection. ``` ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator. A young woman in a dark sleeveless top and light shorts appears around a modest Japanese-style home, with laundry, potted plants, rooftops, and bicycles. - Color: Muted charcoal, gray, and beige, with leafy greens and soft blue sky. - Type: Naturalistic live-action documentary or home-video aesthetic with subdued daylight. - Framing: Medium and close views of the woman are interspersed with wider views of a narrow residential passage; simple buildings and household details fill the backgrounds. - Structure: The visible scenes include a rooftop-side portrait, a shaded wall, a crouched figure beside planters, a clothesline with shirts, a rooftop view, and a residential lane. Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/storyboard.webp - Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f1.webp - Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f2.webp - Frame 3 at 8.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f3.webp - Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f4.webp - Frame 5 at 15.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f5.webp - Frame 6 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f6.webp - Frame 7 at 21.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f7.webp - Frame 8 at 25.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f8.webp - Frame 9 at 28.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-alley-life-and-rooftop-coffee-d4c555/f9.webp ## Links - Watch: https://x.com/john_my07/status/2087119362486620321 - Original post: https://x.com/john_my07/status/2087119362486620321 - Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts