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Interviews
“You are writing for a screen someone is holding”: the creator of Night Shift on portrait-first drama
Yemi Adesanya built a hospital series around one corridor, one shift and a lead nurse the camera never leaves. She explains why the phone changes the writing before it changes the shot.
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.
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