There's a mesmerizing quality to that sequence, which begins with an image of rushing water, partly because — like the young child on the riverbank whose viewpoint you share — you initially can't make out what it is that you're looking at until the body floats into the frame in close-up.
The central characters Todd Bowden and Kurt Dussander are onscreen most of the time, and they are frequently framed in close proximity, "[intensifying] a homoerotic intimacy [which is] punctuated by dread of contact with the monstrous".
Their faces are often framed in close-up, and both have perfected a powerful, understated delivery.
He has credibility among high-art literary people, partly because of the public television format, I suppose -- two talkers at a table framed in close-up with no audience to intrude.
The superb cast includes some of the most expressive faces in contemporary cinema — Mr. Lonsdale's thick white eyebrows alone suggest a richly lived existence — which Mr. Beauvois tenderly frames in close-up during the devastating finale.
The accident itself was eerily vivid – a slow-motion episode experienced frame by frame in minute close-up, the raindrops on the windscreen in the dusk, the gravelly sound of my brakes, the surprised face in the car driving into mine – but the events before and after remain muted and blurred.
For example, if a character is going to be in the left side of the frame, in a close-up shot, get that in the drawing.
I tell her that I could not help but notice Anderson Cooper's pretty boy face framing one half of the CNN Breaking News Screen with the other half occupied with Ms. Bhutto's last rally at Liaqat Ali Park, framed in medium close up against a microphone that proudly bears the banner of the audio equipment rental company, Shahid.
The moment is tightly framed, filmed in close-up.
And when people are shot, and literally torn to pieces, they are not framed in sentimental close ups or aggrandising widescreen.
