ATTENTION, FILM-MAKERS!

1. When a character walks out to his car, pulling the camera back to take in a wide angle tips us off, making the explosion anticlimactic.
2. When two characters talk in a car and you show road conditions, I am too nervous and worried ––keep your eyes on the road!––that what the characters say doesn’t register.
3. A criminal’s memory of his crime (Ian Richardson in House of Cards) or a victim’s flashback (Christina Mauro in Stellina Blue) should be from his POV, not an observer’s.