ABSTRACT
Lighting and framing help produce consistent, interesting individual images, but the Where You Stand rubric has a third component that starts to put images together—a structured variety that taps into the essential patterns of storytelling. In any scene, you’ll need to collect wide–medium–close, and, sometimes, very close shots. This pattern reflects the funneling that storytellers do—we’re constantly needing to move from big to small and back again—big ideas to small circumstances, the little story that tells the big story, the small details that give us insight into who someone is.
