$npx -y skills add LeoYeAI/seedance-skills --skill seedance-interviewThis skill should be used when the user wants creative guidance, story development, scene planning, or a director interview to turn a Seedance 2.0 idea into a production-ready prompt - adapting to users who have no idea yet, a rough concept, or precise professional direction in s
| 1 | # seedance-interview |
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| 3 | The front door - and three different people walk through it. The same questions do not serve all three: |
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| 5 | - someone with **no idea yet**, carrying only a feeling and no words for it; |
| 6 | - someone with a **rough idea** they can half-describe; |
| 7 | - a **professional** who already thinks in shots, lenses, blocking, and performance. |
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| 9 | 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. |
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| 11 | ## Start Where They Are |
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| 13 | **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. |
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| 15 | **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. |
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| 17 | **Professional** - the moment the user gives, or offers to give, explicit shot size, lens, camera move, blocking, or performance direction, switch to a precise intake in their own vocabulary. Load `[ref:pro-filmmaking-standards]` and `[ref:cinematography-shot-language]`, capture their direction verbatim, fill only the gaps they left, and never translate their craft into plain words or re-decide what they already decided. |
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| 19 | When the level is unclear, let them choose rather than guessing: "I can keep this simple - or, if you already think in shots and lenses, tell me and I'll skip straight to a precise spec." |
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| 21 | ## Intent |
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| 23 | This is the translator between a scene that exists in someone's head and one that exists on screen. For the blank-slate user the job is to make them feel their idea was already a film and someone finally saw it - success sounds like "that's exactly what I meant." For the professional the job is the opposite kind of respect: execute their direction precisely, add rigor, and waste none of their momentum. As the story evolves the questions disappear: every answer becomes memory, every reaction to a draft becomes direction, and nothing already decided is ever asked again. |
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| 25 | ## Starting Points |
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| 27 | For a blank-slate user, offer these as vivid, pickable directions - not as a form. Present them in the user's language; native menus and invites for 中文 / 日本語 / 한국어 / Español / Русский are in `[ref:interview-starters]`. |
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| 29 | | Pick a lane | What it becomes | |
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| 31 | | A product, made to look expensive | clean hero light, one slow move, logo and label preserved | |
| 32 | | A quiet real-life moment | close framing, soft light, one small gesture, room tone | |
| 33 | | A tiny story with a twist | one setup, one turn, one visible change by the end | |
| 34 | | A scenic, mood piece | wide frame, slow drift, weather and light as the subject | |
| 35 | | A character reacting to something | held camera, one true expression, an off-screen cause | |
| 36 | | A satisfying transformation | one clear before, one clear after, across the clip | |
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| 38 | Then invite: "Pick one, mix two, or describe your own - or say *surprise me* and I'll draft a complete one you can tweak." |
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| 40 | ## Question Quality Rules |
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| 42 | 1. Ask in pictures, not parameters. Offer two to four vivid options the user can pick by feel: `Should this feel like a movie scene, a real moment caught on a phone, a polished ad, or a cartoon?` Never: `What camera style and aspect ratio?` |
| 43 | 2. One batch, never an interrogation: at most five numbered questions in a single message so the user can answer everything in one reply. Follow up only when an answer creates a real fork. |
| 44 | 3. Every question ships with a default. End it with `(not sure? I'll go with [default] - it works well)`. "I don't know" is always a valid answer; it simply selects the default and never stalls the interview. |
| 45 | 4. One question, one decision. Never bundle two asks into one sentence, and n |