{
 "slug": "pose-in-the-blocking",
 "name": "Body pose in the blocking",
 "category": "character",
 "group": "Prompt blocks",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The body tells the story before the face does.",
 "use_when": "Any shot where the stance matters: alert, crouched, kneeling, fallen, asleep, braced to fight, slumped.",
 "phrase": "she kneels on one knee, her weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Write the pose as the parts of the body and where the weight sits, not as a mood word.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "The controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "If a posed blocking frame is attached, say the pose must match it; the model otherwise keeps its own default stance.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "The controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "guide-shot-from-first-frame",
  "framing-label",
  "emotion-as-behaviour"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from the controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026"
 },
 "body": "## Stances to start from\n\n- **Alert:** standing, weight forward, head up, ready to move\n- **Crouched:** low to the ground, one hand on the floor\n- **Kneeling:** down on one knee\n- **Fallen:** lying where they dropped\n- **Asleep:** lying down, the body loose\n- **Braced:** fists up, feet apart\n- **Slumped:** head lowered, shoulders dropped",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/character/pose-in-the-blocking",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/character/pose-in-the-blocking.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nCast: [your subject]; the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nCast: [your subject]; the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject], the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}