Dinner theater locks the tablescape; plot stills stay off the feed

Room and plate identity with Seedream 4.5, then I2V. Captions sell the seating. Do not generate the reveal.

Dinner theater is a room you can book: linen, the house plate, the stage edge as furniture, type on the seating card. It is not the second-act twist, a generated lead, or a restaurant page that only sells the dish. Lock the tablescape. Animate that. Burn the night. Keep plot stills off the feed.

The room is the venue SKU

A ticket is a seat in a specific house. The buyer knows the banquettes, the charger, the proscenium they can see from table twelve. Text-to-video of "elegant dinner theater, mystery night" invents a hotel ballroom and a cousin plate. That is a different room.

Photograph the house: wide of the floor, the plate as plated, the card with the real type. If the still does not exist, make it on an image row before you buy motion. Seedream 4.5 is ByteDance's all-round image model: generation, editing, and image-to-image, 4K, 4 credits. Strong text rendering is why the seating card stays the seating card. Categories include edit-image and image-to-image. If the still is already signed, point at one object — the charger colour, a misspelled word — and edit. A fresh text-to-image throws away the room you approved.

Do not send the locked still into a video model to "fix the menu type." Fix the letters on Seedream. Then move.

Nearby restaurants fill tables with the dish: pour, cheese pull, plate landing. Five posts a week. 9:16. The food is the hook. A steak close-up that could be any dining room is that page. A locked tablescape with a seating line is this one. Do not rewrite /for as a spoiler calendar.

Seedream, then Wan I2V

Once the still is the still, image-to-video is the door. Wan 2.6 Image to Video is Alibaba WAN 2.6: image-to-video only, image required, native audio, 5s / 10s / 15s, 1080p, 15 credits on the snapshot (discounted). Prompt expansion is in the description — describe motion, not a new room.

Crop the still to 16:9 or 9:16 before upload. Ceiling 1080p. Five seconds is a candle hold. Ten if the pass actually lasts ten. Fifteen only if the action needs the hold. Audio is on. Write room tone, cutlery, quiet, or you get a choir on the linen.

Do not first-last a tablescape to a plot still. Two different objects is a morph, and the morph is the spoiler. Optional last frame only when both photographs are the same room — lights down on the floor, lights up on the same floor. A last frame of the reveal is how the feed sees act two.

Pause on the charger and the card. If the plate drifted or the type re-set, you animated a cousin house. Fix the still on Seedream. Do not grade the miss.

Captions sell the seating

Muted autoplay does not hear the host. The line that books is the night, the show title you are allowed to print, the table window — type you wrote. Add a text overlay burns one authored string on the locked clip: top, center, or bottom. It does not transcribe. It does not generate a marquee inside Wan.

If a real named host spoke on a different take, transcribe that speech as captions. Do not caption a silent tablescape and hope the model invents Saturday. Do not ask Wan to letter the seating in the generate; those glyphs will misspell the show.

Crop, then print. A line that sat clean on 16:9 sits in platform chrome after a 9:16 reframe. Offers change. Burn after picture lock.

Plot stills stay off the feed

The reveal is the night. A generated lead in costume is a likeness problem and a spoiler. A still of the twist, even as a "teaser," is the plot. The feed gets the room, the plate, the card. The stage edge can sit in frame as architecture. Faces of the company belong on a consented production still, not in an I2V that invents a performer.

Do not prompt "the murderer unmasked" as last-frame control. Do not Seedream a second-act tableau and then Wan it because the tablescape felt empty. Empty is information: the house is the product. Filling it with plot is how a booking clip becomes a recap.

A generated comic or a generated ingenue is performer work you do not own. Keep the tablescape. Sell the seat. Room and plate match the house: post it, overlay the night. A costume, a twist, a face you cannot name: it stays off the feed.

FAQ

Can we generate the finale as a "mood" still if we crop the faces?

No. Plot stills stay off the feed. Cropping a twist is still the twist. Lock the tablescape. Overlay the seating. Let the night own the reveal.

Why Seedream before Wan instead of text-to-video of the dining room?

Wan 2.6 I2V requires an image. Without a plate it has nothing to honour, and a T2V dining room is a hotel the buyer will not recognise. Seedream 4.5 locks room, plate, and card type at 4K, 4 credits. Then Wan 2.6 moves that file.

Should seating copy be captions or an overlay?

Overlay if you wrote the line and nobody said it. Captions if a real host spoke and you need the transcript. Silent candle holds are overlay. Do not burn a subtitle family on a file with no speech.

Is this the same job as the restaurants /for page?

No. Restaurants sell the dish to fill a table tonight. Dinner theater sells a seat in a locked house and keeps the plot off the clip. Use the plate. Do not copy the restaurant calendar onto a spoiler.