{
 "slug": "pain",
 "name": "Pain (wince)",
 "category": "expression",
 "group": "Physical",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "A sharp physical jolt the viewer almost feels.",
 "use_when": "Sport, injury prevention, health, comedy of small accidents.",
 "phrase": "he sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws his eyes shut, jerks his head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and his face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Never ask for a smile or for an emotion by name; describe the muscles. Asked-for smiles come back generated and forced.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting (client feedback, Aug 2026)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Put the trigger first (the door slams, she reads the message), then the performance. Without a trigger the reaction has no timing.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Dan Kieft and Higgsfield's tested prompts via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "emotion-direction",
   "url": "https://seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app/",
   "what": "a clip of this emotion performed in Seedance 2.5 (link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "emotion-direction",
   "name": "Pain / Wince",
   "text": "The eyes clamp shut, the teeth bare in a hard grimace, the head snaps to one side, and one shoulder rises toward the ear. The face stays contracted before easing only slightly.",
   "credit": "Emotion Direction (seedance-emotion-direction.vercel.app)",
   "source_url": "https://seedance-emotion-media-1.vercel.app/videos/07-pain-wince.mp4",
   "group": null,
   "intensity": "Explosive",
   "cue": "Sharp jolt",
   "shot": null,
   "family": "Physical",
   "aliases": "pain hurt wince grimace jolt",
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
    "card": "/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 7.07
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "frustration",
  "terror"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Families, intensities and emotion names from Emotion Direction (names and structure only, read 13 Oct 2026); the directions are our own words in its grammar: body parts in the order they move, ending on what holds. Rules from Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "## Three intensities\n\n- **Subtle:** a quick flinch, the eyes shut for a moment, a breath in through the teeth\n- **Medium:** he sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws his eyes shut, jerks his head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and his face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little\n- **Explosive:** doubling over, a hand grabbing the injured spot, a cry cut short, rocking on the spot",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/pain",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/pain.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little. The eyes clamp shut, the teeth bare in a hard grimace, the head snaps to one side, and one shoulder rises toward the ear. The face stays contracted before easing only slightly.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little. The eyes clamp shut, the teeth bare in a hard grimace, the head snaps to one side, and one shoulder rises toward the ear. The face stays contracted before easing only slightly.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little. The scene is [your setting].\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sucks air in through clenched teeth, screws the subject's eyes shut, jerks the subject's head away from the pain and hunches that shoulder up, and the subject's face stays tight for a long moment before it softens a little. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Pain / Wince): https://directorchair.ai/media/emotion-direction/07-pain-wince.mp4"
 },
 "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."
 }
}