# River trout to campfire meal

> A first-person fishing and cooking sequence shows a trout caught in a turquoise river, prepared on a rough wooden board, and served over a stone-ring campfire. Forest scenery and close-up handwork connect the stages.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Seedance 2.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Short films; photorealistic, first-person, outdoor, naturalistic, tactile, process-driven
- Length and format: 28 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source.
- Shared by @abxxai in X, Aug 11, 2026: https://x.com/abxxai/status/2087189194720657649
- 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
SCENE CONTEXT
POV river-to-campfire sequence at a jade-green alpine river through birch/cedar forest, late-afternoon light. A trout is caught, cleaned, seasoned, grilled over an open fire, then eaten, with one sip from a glass bottle while it cooks. 30s, four continuous segments, three hard cuts, real chest-mounted action camera.

ACTIVE REFERENCES
@location1: jade-green river, granite boulders, gravel bar, stone fire-ring, tree-stump table, birch/cedar tree line, faint peaks. 100% matches reference.
@hands1: sun-tanned forearms, light-blond arm hair, olive sleeve rolled to elbow, braided wrist cord. Same fly rod, folding knife, wood board, wire grill basket, plain glass bottle, brown fizzy liquid, no label. 100% matches reference.

LOCATION MAP
Segment A: river foreground, tree line behind. Segments B-D: gravel bar foreground, fire-ring and stump table midground, tree line and peaks background. POV chest-to-eye height, moving only with the body. Key light low, behind camera-left.

FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING
Non-empty opening frame: already mid-cast, rod raised, line already peeling off the reel. Water fills the lower two-thirds, forest/sky the top third.

FORMAT MODE
Controlled multi-shot, three HARD CUTs, camera does not cut anywhere else:
A (0-9s) river, one continuous take. HARD CUT.
B (9-21s) board, one continuous take. HARD CUT.
C (21-27s) fire, one continuous take. HARD CUT.
D (27-30s) eating, one continuous take.

OPTICS
84° in A easing to 63° through the fight. 63° easing to 18° across B. 63° opening to 29° in C. 29° held in D. No drift within any segment.

CAMERA
Chest-height POV, moving only with body motion — forward stroke on the cast, downward tilt on the knife and grate, forward lean when hands work close. Soft highlight roll-off on bright water and hot metal.

ACTION
A: rod arcs, line whistles; tip snaps down as the trout strikes; rod pumps, reel clicking, fish surfacing closer each pump; hand closes behind the gills, lifts the fish clear, holds it still one beat as water streams off. B: boots cross the gravel, fish set on the board, knife meets scales, scrapes tail to head; one clean line opens the belly, organs lift free; fish rinses in the shallows, pink cloud drifting off; salt, pepper, herbs scatter over the flesh; fish folds into the basket, latch clacks. C: kindling catches from a breath, flame licks up; basket lowers onto the grate, skin bubbles and browns, smoke lifts. D: bottle tips up for one swallow; fork pauses a half-second at the flesh before splitting it open, steam lifting as a piece rises toward camera, one quiet exhale closing the shot.

PERFORMANCE
Hands stay continuously busy with real working tasks, never idle. Pore-level realism: vellus arm hair in the breeze, capillary flush from cold water. Movements read practiced, unhurried, one deliberate pause at the fish-lift and one at the first bite, restrained and human, never cartoonish.

PHYSICS
No floating props. Correct contact shadows under every prop, every segment. Water carries real weight and splash. Fire holds true flicker, heat-shimmer, smoke on a light breeze. Mass and inertia carry through the rod bend, the fish's thrashing and the latch.

LIGHTING
WB locked 5600K, warm low sun behind camera-left as key, cool sky fill through A-B. From C onward, ember-orange fire light adds a low rim on hands and fish alongside the same key.

COLOR GRADE
Cool jade-green river/forest in A, warm honey wood and pale gravel in B, ember-orange fire glow and seared skin in C-D. Color tied to source and surface, not a flat list.

AUDIO
Warm acoustic guitar bed under everything, mixed low, sitting quietly beneath the natural sound. Diegetic: river current and line-whistle opening A, splash and reel-drag through the fight; gravel footsteps opening B, knife-on-wood, one clean cut sound, rinse-splash, hinge-click closing it; twig-snap opening C, crackle into sizzle; glass clink and swallow opening D, fork scrape, steam hiss, one quiet chuckle closing the shot. No subtitles.

STYLE
8K photorealistic — no 3D render, no game engine, no game-cutscene aesthetic. Naturalistic master cinematography, fine film grain, true action-camera color science.

OUTPUT SETTINGS
Real-time throughout, no speed ramping, FOV holds exactly as stated per segment with no drift across any hard cut.

POSITIVE LOCKS
Same hands, sleeve and wrist cord across all four segments. Same rod, knife, board, basket and bottle, no substitutions across any cut. Same river, gravel bar and fire-ring geometry held across every segment. Fish skin and flesh stay anatomically real. Eyes stay natural — no eye glow. Contact shadows read clearly every segment. No logos, no UI, no subtitles anywhere in frame.
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

First-person outdoor survival-style artwork showing fishing by a river, preparing a fish on a wooden surface, and grilling it over an open fire.

- Color: Muted greens and teal water in the fishing scenes; earthy browns and grays during preparation; warm orange firelight against deep blue-gray surroundings.
- Type: Softly rendered, semi-realistic digital illustration with visible first-person hands and equipment.
- Framing: Close, hands-focused viewpoints keep the fishing gear, fish, and fire near the foreground, with the riverbank or rocky setting behind them.
- Structure: Visual progression from fishing at the water to cleaning the catch and cooking it over a stone-ringed fire.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 4.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 7.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 14.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 17.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 20.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 23.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 26.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-river-trout-to-campfire-meal-6a52b1/f9.webp

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/abxxai/status/2087189194720657649
- Original post: https://x.com/abxxai/status/2087189194720657649
- Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts