The Instagram selfie, with its soft, artfully faded tones, has replaced the stern, harshly lit mug-shot style of years past.
The event, which has 24 two-man international teams matched against each other, will switch to an alternate-shot style of play today and Sunday.
The challenger's risk-averse, carefully plotted strategy is a business plan worthy of a Harvard M.B.A. - and consciously the antithesis of the improvisational, let's-take-a-shot style of the war hero Republican nominee of four years ago.
Chasing a rabbit that turns and runs into the woods, she "slewed round sling-shot style, heel-bow, soaking up g-force like a sponge," then "closed her wings and was gone".
A rushed, universally loathed sequel was thrown into cinemas the year after and forgotten about just as quickly; but the self-shot style of the original endured and its influence was felt for the following 17 years.
Mr. Yang and Mr. Hou have both been pioneers in a long-take, long-shot style; the camera, for example, will be positioned on the far side of a room, observing the characters for long moments without a cut or a close-up as they circulate around a dining room table or a tea room.
It did build a few mini-games, like an arcade pop-a-shot style basketball game and a soccer game to show off what the Messenger Instant Games platform could become.
His deadpan, mug-shot style of photography could be considered a photographic equivalent to the pop-art movement.
And this works especially well with the one-shot style, since it allows room for the duo to work the entire space on set, on and off-camera".
