"Get out of the talking-head format," Mr. Feinstein advises.
The format backed by USA Cheer is called stunt and has a head-to-head format, with the competition divided into quarters.
There he was given a great deal of freedom to experiment in steering commercials away from the talking-head format toward a show-don't-tell approach.
Skiers, who compete Friday, and snowboarders, who compete Saturday, will face off in a head-to-head format with their best moves while soaring from a 65-foot jump.
Because of the head-to-head format, because of the personalities involved, because of the team dynamics and the hotly debated coaching strategies, the Ryder Cup is a three-act play with a golf course for a setting.
Two small ink and graphite works on paper from the mid-70s show Mr. Close homing in on the portrait-head format, which has been around since ancient Rome, but has also been adopted for identification photos, mug shots and informal photo-booth portraits.
Most of them rely substantially on short lecture segments in a talking-head format, replicating online the stand-and-lecture pedagogies of conventional classrooms without scaling the discussion sections, office hours, late-night dorm-room study groups, drop-in tutoring, painstakingly graded homework and other components of a successful large college class.
With a talking-heads format, it's pretty trad to look at, but as a slice of pop culture history, it's never less than fascinating.
With its conventional archive-plus-talking-heads format, this film is less radical than Restrepo, but Junger articulates a number of subtle and unexpected ideas about Hetherington's work, and about combat reporting in general.
