Where people stand and move relative to the camera and each other. It teaches status, intimacy, and story without dialogue.

Blocking and staging

How actors move relative to camera — study list with IMDb links; practice feeling on Lucy.

Stage for AI

Describe positions (“she enters frame left, sits opposite him”) and one camera attitude. Storyboard panels on /ads. Cross-link long takes.

Votes change who owns the center. Study seating as argument architecture.

IMDb · ensemble around a table, camera slowly arcs to the dissenting face

Who crosses the threshold; who remains seated in shadow.

IMDb · figure enters through a doorway into a dark office; seated power figure static

Movement through space as social proof. See /famous-long-takes.

IMDb · track-beside couple through staff corridors into a club

Equal eyelines across a booth; stillness as tension.

IMDb · two-shot across a diner table, static lock-off, micro facial motion only

Blocking constrained by car seats; camera shares the trap.

IMDb · four people in a car, handheld inside, faces readable, chaos outside

What is blocking?: Where people stand and move relative to the camera and each other. It teaches status, intimacy, and story without dialogue.