Series
Format Notes
Craft essays on the grammar of the portrait screen, one technique at a time.
Features
The grammar of the ninth wall
Portrait framing didn't remove the fourth wall — it added a new one, centimetres from the viewer's face. The strongest vertical drama is being written against it.
Features
Blocking a two-hander when the frame holds one
The portrait screen fits one person comfortably. The scene has two. Every solution to that arithmetic is a piece of film grammar the format is writing right now.
Every story. Written and heard.
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