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(cinematography) A filming style characterized by close-up camera work focusing on the reactions of a single character..
...he also attempts to show how editing causes audience "identification" with the image and allows for the subtler "microdrama" of realism; and leaving editing aside, he sees the expressive possibilities in the "panorama" or long-take, shots — all of which goes well beyond the "make-it-strange" aesthetics of the Russians.
What becomes visible at close range is the rapid to-and-fro motion that occurs within a single situation, the microdrama of the moment. The closeup enables the action, the story to develop a deeper dimension.
Hypotheses H1: Audience viewing of the microdrama [up-close camera perspective] format will induce higher levels of identification with the candidate than the televised town meeting or political spot formats.
But, by far the most important of these genres is ritual microdrama. Deftly interweaving plot, narration, and theme, microdramas create a special kind of fiction which often literally depicts the transformations which the other three only imply.
In this microdrama, the blond heroine calls to mind several different heroic or mythic figures from our collective consciousness.
The central question, then, becomes what kind of relationship can arise between the actors in this microdrama, in this pièce for two characters, which is so typical of the genre under discussion?
Gay Charles spectated the microdrama with a sagacious and equivocal eye. He'd seen it all. Well, he hadn't seen Not Mrs Crackety's headscarf blow off, but he could quite well imagine what it might look like.
This microdrama reveals the remarkable emotional sophistication that a toddler of just thirty months can bring to bear in trying to manage someone else's emotions.
Use microdrama when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Microdrama means (cinematography) A filming style characterized by close-up camera work focusing on the reactions of a single character..
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...he also attempts to show how editing causes audience "identification" with the image and allows for the subtler "microdrama" of realism; and leaving editing aside, he sees the expressive possibilities in the "panorama" or long-take, shots — all of which goes well beyond the "make-it-strange" aesthetics of the Russians.
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