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> Two shot, but what about the five shot?
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post Tue 25th January 2011, 4:43am
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A splendid bit of vandalism and irrelevant link spam, all wrapped up in one. It's lasted well over 1.5 years, and it's been seen by over 30,000 people.

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Similarly, a three shot has three people in the composition of the frame. In these shots the characters are given more importance; this type of image can also be seen in print advertising.

Four shot scenes are relatively uncommon, but when seen regularly comprise four persons within frame.

Five shot scenes, whilst more common, rarely have 5 people in them and typically have either 6 or 3.5 (the extra 0.5 allowing for a balance of dramatic irony and mise-en-scene).[1]
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post Tue 25th January 2011, 4:54am
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A splendid bit of vandalism and irrelevant link spam, all wrapped up in one. It's lasted well over 1.5 years, and it's been seen by over 30,000 people.

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Similarly, a three shot has three people in the composition of the frame. In these shots the characters are given more importance; this type of image can also be seen in print advertising.

Four shot scenes are relatively uncommon, but when seen regularly comprise four persons within frame.

Five shot scenes, whilst more common, rarely have 5 people in them and typically have either 6 or 3.5 (the extra 0.5 allowing for a balance of dramatic irony and mise-en-scene).[1]




Knowing Wiki, I'm surprised that it didn't have something to do with "money shot".
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post Tue 25th January 2011, 7:26pm
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I'm lovin' that the article remains unfixed. Keep it up WR'ers. That's the way we need to be. Only the weak shall fix it.
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post Fri 28th January 2011, 3:43pm
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Pure joy. I pointed this out before the 25th of January. It's still there, untouched... over 300 page views later, nobody's bothered to revert the prank.

Thank you, Wikipedia Reviewers, for not taking the bait and fixing the article.
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post Fri 28th January 2011, 5:39pm
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All right, we have our weakling.

Is "PhilKnight" an active and trusted Wikipediareviewian?
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post Fri 28th January 2011, 6:34pm
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Pure joy. I pointed this out before the 25th of January. It's still there, untouched... over 300 page views later, nobody's bothered to revert the prank.

Thank you, Wikipedia Reviewers, for not taking the bait and fixing the article.



I'm trying to fix it but it wont let me! tongue.gif
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The really ironic thing about this is that five-shot scenes (or what we showbiz folks call "five-shotters") actually do usually have either 6 or 3.5 people in them. Only it's not to obtain a balance of dramatic irony or mise-en-scene, it's either to make the group-sex orgy seem like a bigger event, or else to throw in some gratuitous blood and guts, which is what you get when you chop a person in half on camera.

Isn't there some sort of "speedy delete" rule for things like this? Or did they get rid of that and not tell us? I mean, what a stupid article.
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