# Body pose in the blocking

People and places / Character / Prompt blocks. Checked 2026-11-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/character/pose-in-the-blocking
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/character/pose-in-the-blocking.json

## Watch out

- Write the pose as the parts of the body and where the weight sits, not as a mood word. (film-craft; The controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026)
- If a posed blocking frame is attached, say the pose must match it; the model otherwise keeps its own default stance. (practitioner; The controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026)

## Stances to start from

- **Alert:** standing, weight forward, head up, ready to move
- **Crouched:** low to the ground, one hand on the floor
- **Kneeling:** down on one knee
- **Fallen:** lying where they dropped
- **Asleep:** lying down, the body loose
- **Braced:** fists up, feet apart
- **Slumped:** head lowered, shoulders dropped

## 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 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee
Exclusions: 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].
Cast: [your subject]; the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Cast: [your subject]; the subject kneels on one knee, the subject's weight on the back foot, both hands resting on the raised knee
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Prompt a shot from your own first frame: https://directorchair.ai/guide/guide-shot-from-first-frame
- Framing label: https://directorchair.ai/composition/framing-label
- Emotion as behaviour: https://directorchair.ai/expression/emotion-as-behaviour

## Source

Own words; the term from the controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026

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