A plate that looks like Eyal Shani served it — without booking the kitchen
Dish video shot by an amateur at the table never moves the needle. A cinematic plate-reveal shot (steam rising, light catching the sauce, slow pull-out to the full table) pulls a reservation in 8 seconds. I produce in Seedance 2.0 from photos of your real dishes, no kitchen shutdown required.
Why amateur food video kills reservations
- ✓ Phone-shot plates look like every other plate in the feed — no distinction.
- ✓ Cinematic food video lifts saves on Instagram by 4-7x vs amateur shots.
- ✓ Reservations from social climb when the visual reads as a premium restaurant.
- ✓ You can produce a 12-dish menu video without closing the kitchen for a day.
A cinematic restaurant and food video is a 15-30 second piece per dish that turns your menu into a moving asset. Instead of a phone-shot plate at the table, I produce slow camera moves around the dish, light that catches the sauce, steam rising on cue, and a clean pull-out to the full table setting. Seedance 2.0 handles the dish itself because it gives the best control over a specific physical item, with Sora 2 for the surrounding ambiance and Runway for the edit pacing.
I work from your existing dish photography. You send 4-6 high-quality images per plate, and I produce the cinematic motion around it. The format fits boutique restaurants, chef-driven concepts, hotel kitchens, catering operations, and delivery brands. For a full menu (say 12 dishes) the batch pricing kicks in: the styling and grade are built once, then reused across every dish, dropping the per-dish cost meaningfully.
Delivery: each dish ships as a 15-second vertical cut for Stories and Reels, a 30-second horizontal for the website and Facebook, and a still frame set for the menu, the printed marketing, and the delivery-app product pages. The same dish video can run for months. Food does not date the way fashion does.
No kitchen shutdown
Production runs from your existing dish photography — no closing the restaurant for a shoot day.
Per-dish or menu batch
One dish or 12 — batch pricing drops per-dish cost meaningfully across a full menu.
Style once, apply everywhere
Color grade, music tone, and visual signature built once and applied across every dish in the menu.
Multi-channel ready
Vertical for Stories, horizontal for the website, stills for the printed menu and delivery apps.
How we produce
- 1
Dish photography brief
You send 4-6 high-quality photos per dish. I identify which angles work for cinematic motion.
- 2
Style + grade definition
We pick the visual signature — warm or cool, moody or bright, intimate or grand. Used across every dish.
- 3
Per-dish production
Seedance 2.0 for the dish, Sora 2 for ambiance, Runway for transitions and grade.
- 4
Delivery + stills
Vertical and horizontal cuts per dish, plus still frame set for printed menu and delivery apps.
Cinematic food video starting price
Per dish, with vertical + horizontal cuts and still frames. Full-menu batch of 8-12 dishes at significantly reduced per-dish rate.
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FAQ
Can the dish video look photoreal?
Yes. Seedance 2.0 produces photoreal food at quality where the viewer cannot tell. The styling work is what determines if it reads as cinematic or generic — that is on me.
What if my dish photography is from a phone?
It still works, but the output ceiling is lower. For best results I recommend at least one round of professional dish photography upfront — a few hundred shekels at a food photographer.
Will the same video work on the delivery apps?
Yes. Wolt and Tenbis both accept video on product pages now. The 15-second vertical cut works well there.
Let us produce yours
Send a brief message with what you need and we will reply within an hour during business hours.
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