‘INTENSIFIED CONTINUITY – VISUAL STYLE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FILM’ by David Bordwell.

In recent decades, filmmakers are more inclined to create scenes through single shots, which allows for the director to control the scene’s pacing in editing, and to focus more on the actor’s performance. The director would give a scene a wide format, which has a tendency to place the actor off centre, leaving the scene’s locale visible. Directors focus on the faces of the actors. The mouths, brows and eyes become the principal source of information and emotion. Bordwell goes on to talk about personal coverage styles for directors. Christine Vachon asks directors to shoot both master shot and closer views, because they tend to lean towards shooting important dramatic scenes in a single continuous take, that leaves no room for change of pace or unsteady performances. Bordwell suggests that the “search for something good, from a wide range of angles. will make filmmaker’s more inclined to cut more often.”