Pumpkin patch last-weekend promo clip with a carving-night hook

To promote a pumpkin patch's last weekend, make a 10-second clip with two shots from your own photos, animated with Sume's Video Router and joined in one Timeline render. Two 5-second Wan 3.0 clips at 480p are $0.3125 each and the join is $0.10, so a draft is about $0.73 (two shots $0.625 plus $0.10, rounded), and the 720p version is about $1.35 in total.

The hook comes from the NRF: its 2026 Halloween survey (read 2026-10-04) says 42% of consumers plan to decorate, carve pumpkins or watch horror films, and the same survey puts Halloween spending at $13.5 billion. Halloween is Saturday, October 31, so the last full weekend is October 24 and 25.

Which two shots?

Shot one: a family in the rows with a wagon, from your own photo of the field. Shot two: a table of pumpkins ready for carving. Use each photo as the first frame, so the clip continues from what your patch really looks like, and ask only for gentle movement: wind in the leaves, a hand picking up a pumpkin.

What does the request look like?

Wan 3.0 takes image_url as the start frame; durations run from 2 to 30 seconds; the tiers are 480p, 720p and 1080p. Images must be public HTTPS (Media inputs). Send one request per shot with its own Idempotency-Key.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-router/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: patch-shot-1" \
  -d '{
    "model": "wan-3.0",
    "prompt": "Keep the scene unchanged. Wind moves the leaves, the wagon rolls slowly forward. No text.",
    "image_url": "https://example.com/patch-rows.jpg",
    "resolution": "480p",
    "duration": 5,
    "aspect_ratio": "9:16",
    "mode": "async"
  }'

What does it cost?

The Video Router bills list x 1.25, and Wan 3.0 lists $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second by tier (Video Router docs). Timeline is $0.10 per output minute, rounded up.

How do I join and caption it?

Take each finished video URL from its job result, then use audio.mode: "silence" for a 10-second spine with two slots of five seconds. Put the dates and hours in the post caption, not on screen; the clip should be reusable for the next patch day.