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Composition
> The Basic Shots
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The "talking head." It's
90 percent of what you see on television.
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Watch
TV with a critical eye tonight and you will notice something
very interesting. Ninety percent of the shots you see
are people's heads. Not their full bodies--just heads-and-shoulders.
Why is this? It's because television sets just cannot
reproduce fine detail (nomatter what your salesman told
you). So when a TV shot shows a full body, you can't
really see the emotion of the person's face. You can't
tell if the subject is happy or sad or bored or sick--unless
you see the individual's face. So television programs
emphasize faces. Soaps show faces a bit more, action
dramas a bit less, but the principle remains.
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