# Office door into a snowy fortress > A first-person office doorway leads to a snow-covered gothic fortress populated by guards, horses and a lantern-bearing figure. Towering stone architecture and storm clouds establish the setting before two dragons appear above the castle. - Kind: Video - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/ - Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/agent.txt - Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/prompt.txt - Authorship: AI-made, per the source - Made with: Not stated - Model: Seedance 2.5 - Built with: not stated - Style: Short films; dark fantasy, photorealistic, first-person, cinematic, desaturated, atmospheric - Length and format: 28 sec, 9:16 (720x1280 source) - Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source. - Shared by @frametheory058 in X, Aug 11, 2026: https://x.com/frametheory058/status/2087180835925721493 - 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-sec vertical 9:16, 24fps, 8K ultra-photorealistic live-action video as ONE continuous handheld first-person smartphone shot. No cuts, resets or teleportation. Keep the exact same hands, black smartwatch with silver Milanese loop, POV, lens, weather, lighting and colour grade throughout. 0:00–0:05 — DOOR: Walk through a realistic modern office corridor toward a black-framed glass EXIT door with falling snow visible outside. Press the white wall button (green ring), grab the steel handle and open it. Cold light and snow blow inside; naturally cross the threshold. Audio only here: footsteps, button click, door sound, cold whoosh + subtle cinematic swell. 0:05–0:10 — REALM: Seamlessly enter a vast snowy medieval fortress courtyard. Falling snow, wind, footprints, weathered stone walls, armored guard with spear and visible breath. Continue walking, then tilt upward. 0:10–0:16 — CASTLE: Reveal a colossal original northern gothic fortress with dark weathered stone, towers, spires, snow, mist and tiny warm window lights. Natural handheld movement. 0:16–0:21 — COURTYARD: Continuously pan left/down: saddled white horse with steam breath, hooded figure with lantern, armored knights and warhorses, workers carrying wooden planks, flickering torches. Realistic lived-in medieval world. 0:21–0:25 — GATE: Continue toward a massive iron-studded gate with sentries, shields and spears. Camera begins tilting toward the sky. 0:25–0:30 — DRAGONS: Tilt into stormy clouds and reveal two enormous original dragons with realistic anatomy, scarred dark slate skin, leathery wings and heavy natural flight. One turns toward the castle and unleashes a powerful orange fire stream, realistically illuminating snow, clouds and architecture. End on the fire. LOOK: grounded medieval dark-fantasy realism, cold desaturated blue-grey grade, soft overcast light, volumetric fog, realistic snow/cloth/armor/horse physics, natural motion blur, subtle film grain, HDR, authentic smartphone imperfections. NO: CGI/game look, cartoon, glossy armor, plastic skin, oversaturation, excessive VFX, perfect stabilization, cuts, changing POV/hands/watch, fake snow, malformed hands/animals, text or watermark. ``` ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator. A wintry gothic-fantasy setting with a stone castle, snow-covered courtyard, warm-lit windows, a hooded figure, a horse, and a dragon. - Color: Cold slate blue, charcoal, and icy gray-white, punctuated by small amber-orange lights. - Type: Moody, painterly digital fantasy illustration with soft atmospheric haze and detailed stone architecture. - Framing: Tall castle towers and walls dominate the scenes, set against a cloudy sky; figures and foreground objects provide smaller points of focus. - Structure: The images depict an interior exit, a hand on a door handle, castle exteriors, a hooded figure with a lantern, a person beside a horse, a fortified gate, and a dragon above the castle. Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/storyboard.webp - Frame 1 at 1.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f1.webp - Frame 2 at 4.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f2.webp - Frame 3 at 7.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f3.webp - Frame 4 at 10.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f4.webp - Frame 5 at 14.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f5.webp - Frame 6 at 17.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f6.webp - Frame 7 at 20.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f7.webp - Frame 8 at 23.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f8.webp - Frame 9 at 26.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-office-door-into-a-snowy-fortress-b72459/f9.webp ## Links - Watch: https://x.com/frametheory058/status/2087180835925721493 - Original post: https://x.com/frametheory058/status/2087180835925721493 - Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts