Suddenly, some senators seemed more interested in engaging the cameras than one another.
Most movie stars instantly engage the camera, even flirt with it — that's one reason they become movie stars.
The rest of Loach's actors, however, don't engage the camera with their eyes, which is generally how performers bring attention to themselves in movies.
He demonstrated that he can do what none of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates can: engage the camera and maintain a visceral connection with his audience even when he's saying something serious.
That is true, but they also seem exploited, perhaps because they never engage the camera; at least while I was watching "Drunk," their interactions seemed to elicit more laughs than empathy.
At the end of paths leveled into the hillside, it reveals itself on the oblique, in half-profile, much like Mr. Vidal in the many portraits in which his eyes engage the camera as his head turns slyly away.
Marker's film stills, snapshots, and more formal compositions from the past sixty years include images of well-known people (Simone Signoret, Fidel Castro, Salvador Dali) but focus primarily on anonymous citizens seen in passing, some of whom engage the camera with a soulful stare.
Perhaps because the priest knew them all and -- if the pictures can be taken as evidence -- had a deep affection for them, they engage the camera with a directness and joy that is common in snapshots but so rare in art.
The classicism of the pose contrasts with others Weston took of Charis around this time, including Charis Wilson, 1935, in which the model adopts the pose Christine Keeler was to make famous, straddling the rush seat of a heavy wooden chair, her petti- coat hitched waist-high, her tight dark top and jaunty beret framing a clear face in which the eyes engage the camera lens directly.
Adrian Lester, in his version for the Guardian's Shakespeare Solos series, is far more successful at engaging with the camera and registering the speech's tonal shifts.
