1. Armed with a copy of a speech, network directors try to illustrate sections of it with reaction shots from delegates who fit the text. 2. After he says it, you can skip the reaction shot. 3. Cut to reaction shots of his troops vomiting, but smiling, in slow motion, into the ocean. 4. Director Robert Lee King shoots most of the scenes as master shots, with no intercutting, no reaction shots or closeups. 5. Frames have been removed from the shot of a corpse to heighten dramatic effect here, a reaction shot has been moved there. 6. For the rest of the day, NBC viewers saw more reaction shots of Johnson than they did Rambis. 7. Giving spine to the monologues and reaction shots is Richard Lewis as Sal, who started drinking after his wife died and is in obvious danger of backsliding. 8. Her work needs to be punctuated by pore-tight close-ups and by cutaways for reaction shots. 9. Howard forces in far too many reaction shots of family and friends waiting anxiously on the ground for news of the astronauts in space. 10. It has replays, close-ups, reaction shots and all the standards of modern coverage. |