Let’s say the assignment was to shoot a scene of a guy preparing a letter for mailing. Imagine the shots....

To the right is a how renowned director Sergei Eisenstein did it. This 17 second clip is a gorgeous example of the power of getting close. Would you have thought to get the “tongue shot” like he did?

Remarkably, this  is this is a 100-year-old film. Filmmaking had barely been invented, and Eistenstein already knew that close shots are powerful.