# Prompt guide: Kling 3.0

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Short shots that move cleanly without the camera wandering.

- Use when: Single shots of 3 to 10 seconds, start-to-end frame moves, a new setting behind a real person.
- Phrase: the subject, what it visibly does, the scene, then the camera move, the light and the mood, in simple sentences
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/guide/guide-kling-3
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/guide/guide-kling-3.json

## Watch out

- Kling says itself that its models are not sensitive to numbers; describe instead of counting. (vendor; Director Chair field notes on video prompting)
- Give one main camera move per shot. Two moves at once, or orders that contradict each other, make the camera wander. (vendor; Kling camera guide and ByteDance Dreamina Seedance guide, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## The prompt, in order

1. **Subject** with the same descriptor every time it is mentioned.
2. **Visible action:** what the body does, not what the person feels.
3. **Scene.**
4. **Camera language:** one main move.
5. **Light and mood.**

## Multi-shot
Give each shot its duration, framing, angle, action and move. Label every speaker and write the action before the line.

## Weak spots
Counts are unreliable, complex physics is hard, and character drift is the biggest problem; repeat the same descriptor.

## Prompts

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting].
```

## Goes well with

- Which model for video: https://directorchair.ai/guide/which-model-for-video
- Static shot: https://directorchair.ai/move/static-shot

## Source

Own words from Director Chair field notes on video prompting https://kling.ai/

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