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format theory
Analysis
Appointment vertical: what the daily drop borrows from the radio serial
The binge model built streaming. Vertical drama is quietly rebuilding the opposite — a daily appointment, engineered for the commute — and the precedent is a century old.
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.
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