| name | scene-blocking-and-staging |
| description | Use for actor blocking, spatial staging, movement through frame, and dynamic scene geography in dialogue, action, or ensemble scenes. |
| tags | ["blocking","staging","actor-movement","scene-geography","directing"] |
| agents | {"allow":["planner","script_writer","video_designer","flf_video_designer"]} |
Scene Blocking And Staging
Use this skill to turn static ideas into filmable spatial behavior.
Source Basis
- Frame.io / StudioBinder blocking and staging principles.
Blocking Rules
- Characters should move because something changes: objective, power, fear, discovery, urgency.
- Entering frame, crossing frame, sitting, turning away, approaching, or stopping must each mean something.
- Maintain readable stage geography so the audience can track who controls the space.
Staging Heuristics
- Foreground/background layering can express hierarchy or entrapment.
- Distance between characters signals intimacy, danger, alienation, or escalation.
- Re-block when the emotional power changes.
- If tension rises, compress the frame or reduce available movement.
For AI Video
- Describe subject path and camera path separately.
- State whether the performer is advancing, circling, recoiling, kneeling, mounting, collapsing, etc.
- Tie staging to props and environmental obstacles.
