Fire stations: the empty bay still, no generated firefighters as extras

I2V the bay you photographed. Staff are not extras. City-building stills already forbid generated residents; same rule in the bay.

A station clip that books a tour or a millage is the apparatus floor you operate. Firefighters on payroll are private people. Generated firefighters are extras you did not cast.

The empty bay is the plate

The honest still is a photograph of this house: bay number, overhead door, the concrete you actually wash. Text-to-video will invent a prettier station from a different ZIP code and seat a crew you do not have a grant for. That is a different property, and it is a likeness problem wearing turnout gear.

AI image to video starts from the file you upload. Frame one is the bay still. Prompt only the camera: a slow push down the empty stall, a hold on the door, light raking the floor, no one entering frame. Re-describing "busy engine company at shift change" is how bodies appear. Empty is the brief.

If the still includes a real member, crop them or reshoot. Background is not a likeness carve-out. Minors on an open-house photo are a hard stop. Do not "age them up" from a Facebook album to populate a bay. A rig already in the plate can stay. A generated engine in the next stall is a cousin SKU; a generated person next to it is a replica.

Staff are not extras

A deepfake of a private person is not a style. TikTok's AI-generated content help forbids likeness of adult private figures used without permission, and of anyone under 18. A labelled, obviously synthetic clip of an unnamed firefighter, a "generic crew," or a staff headshot used as a talking-twin seed is already over that line. Calling it a recruitment aesthetic does not move a platform. It does not move a city attorney.

Private means not a public figure. The chief on a podium is a different clearance than a person on the tailboard. Last year's open-house release does not authorise new generated performances. Most station teams do not need a replica clause. They need to stop generating people.

Allowed, tightly: the empty bay; a signed staff still used as a still, not a talking-twin seed; non-photoreal illustration that is not a real private person. Not allowed: "we changed 15% of the face," a crew photo as "style reference," a photoreal invented firefighter walking kitchen-fire advice. Keep bodies off the generate. Keep protocol off synthetic mouths.

This is general information, not legal advice.

Seedance 2.5 is still-to-motion on that still

Seedance 2.5 is the still-to-motion family: four to thirty seconds, 720p, 47 credits, native audio. Image-to-video is the still-to-motion job on that family; the published URL is the family page. The job is identity of the bay: door colour, stall number, the floor that a neighbour would recognise. Motion is allowed. A census is not.

Native audio is on. Write the mix — a quiet bay, a door rumble, no speech — or you get a soundtrack you did not choose. A silent brief still gets sound. Do not write a dispatcher lecture into the prompt.

Prompt camera and physics only. Do not re-describe the station. A last frame is control when you have a second approved still of the same empty bay — doors closed, then open. Two houses is a morph. A last frame that seats a crew is a replica you requested. Do not send "heroic firefighters at golden hour" to text-to-video and crop a frame. Make the still. Animate that file.

City plates already named this rule

City accounts: the building still is public; residents are not extras is the civic version of the same job: I2V the elevation you own, leave invented citizens off the steps. A fire station is a civic building with apparatus. The prohibition does not change because the subject is a bay instead of city hall. Do not rewrite that page as a recruitment film. Do not populate the bay because "stations have people."

Hours and a tour URL are strings you already posted. Add a text overlay burns one authored line, whole clip, top / center / bottom. It does not transcribe. Do not ask Seedance to letter the schedule onto the door.

Contractors is a nearby audience: what is behind the wall, a job in progress. A remodel of your floor is a contractor still. A generated crew as proof of staffing is not. The test: would a neighbour say the clip is this bay, empty? If not, you generated extras. Keep the still. Change the row, not the roster.

FAQ

Can we generate a generic firefighter for scale?

No. Scale is a cone, a door, or the stall stripes already in the photograph. A photoreal firefighter is a person. An invented one is an extra you did not cast, and often a lookalike of someone on the shift. Plate the empty bay.

If we label the video AI-generated, can we populate the stalls?

Labelling tells viewers the media is synthetic. It does not create a grant from the people depicted, and it does not move TikTok's private-figure line. City and station accounts should not be in the replica business.

The bay photo has crew in the far stall. Can we I2V it anyway?

Do not animate it. Crop them out of the still, reshoot empty, or keep using the footage you actually shot with a release that covers that take. Do not prompt them out and hope the model rebuilds the floor.

Is this the same job as a city-hall civic still?

Same rule, different plate. City accounts I2V the public building and forbid generated residents. A fire station I2Vs the empty bay and forbids generated firefighters. Do not import a crowd because a civic reel "needs life."