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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot, when half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other; MediumTwoShot, a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos; and LowAngleEmptyWorldShot, another shot in which emptiness of a portion of the frame is conspicuous --this time, to make a busy area look deserted. It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.

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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot, when half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other; MediumTwoShot, a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos; and LowAngleEmptyWorldShot, another shot in which emptiness of a portion of the frame is conspicuous --this conspicuous--this time, to make a busy area look deserted. Contrast SplitScreen, two or more shots shown on-screen at the same time.

It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': The first season's credits feature an official art of each girl alongside a miniature of the boy they're going to be romantically paired. However, Flora only gets a pumpkin with eyes as if suggesting that either pumpkin is her LoveInterest or she won't get one this season. [[spoiler:The trope is ultimately {{subverted}} after Mirtha is turned into the exact same pumpkin as the credits' miniature. Initially, it was meant as foreshadowing for the romantic undertones of the two girls' friendship.]]
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* ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'': Used frequently to keep Harvey in-frame.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Ming is shown in the temple sweeping the floor alone during the panda hustle montage to show that Mei isn't spending time with her as she had been shown to do before. One half of the screen is empty and Mei's broom is seen lying unused. Ming stares longingly at it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': During the 'panda hustle' montage, there's a brief shot of Ming in the temple, kneeling in front of Sun Yee's shrine. It's a direct echo of a shot from earlier in the movie that showed Ming and Mei kneeling and saying their devotions to Sun Yee -- but this time Ming is shown in alone. Mei isn't there, and Ming is looking sadly at the temple sweeping the floor alone during the panda hustle montage to show empty cushion. It shows that Mei isn't spending time with her mother as she had been shown to do before. One half of the screen is empty before, and Mei's broom is seen lying unused. Ming stares longingly at it.misses her.
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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot, when half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other, and MediumTwoShot, a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos. It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.

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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot, when half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other, and other; MediumTwoShot, a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos.torsos; and LowAngleEmptyWorldShot, another shot in which emptiness of a portion of the frame is conspicuous --this time, to make a busy area look deserted. It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.
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* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'': In one scene, Nancy is exploring an empty house trying to prove Freddy's existence, as she's still reeling from the nightmares and thinks she can feel him stalking her now that she's awake. Most shots position Nancy very conspicuously in just one half of the frame, leaving in suspense just when will Freddy materialize.

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* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990'': {{Subverted}}. Something does lunge into the frame but from the side that is already occupied by a character.

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* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990'': {{Subverted}}. Something does lunge into the frame frame, but from the side that is already occupied by a character.




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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Ming is shown in the temple in this way during the panda hustle montage to show that Mei isn't spending time with her as she had been shown to do before.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Ming is shown in the temple in this way sweeping the floor alone during the panda hustle montage to show that Mei isn't spending time with her as she had been shown to do before.before. One half of the screen is empty and Mei's broom is seen lying unused. Ming stares longingly at it.
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* Creator/TomSavini: In his remake of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990'', something does lunge into the frame, but from the wrong side.
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* ''Fanfic/DifferentTalesDifferentLessons'': In the 13th vignette, Xiulan's [[spoiler:dream of]] marriage with Zhuang ends with Xiulan waking up alone in her bed, no husband whatsoever.
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The Half-Empty Two-Shot is a narrative framing technique usually found in horror and suspense films/shows, in which a shot of one character is composed asymmetrically, as if the character is in a two-shot with an invisible second character. It creates narrative tension by making the viewer expect someone (or some ''thing'') to lunge into frame and balance the composition. In this context, it is also known as the "Bogeyman Shot" (thanks, Creator/RogerEbert).

It's also sometimes used in melancholy contexts: the person that should be in the other side of the frame isn't there because he's ''dead'', or missing, often with [[EmptyChairMemorial an empty chair]] or a deep impression left in a bed filling in.

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The Half-Empty Two-Shot is a narrative framing technique usually found in horror [[PlayedForHorror horror]] and suspense films/shows, in which a shot of one character is composed asymmetrically, asymmetrically as if the character is in a two-shot with an invisible second character. It creates narrative tension by making the viewer expect someone (or some ''thing'') to lunge into the frame and balance the composition. In this context, it is also known as the "Bogeyman Shot" (thanks, Creator/RogerEbert).

It's also sometimes used in melancholy contexts: the person that should be in on the other side of the frame isn't there because he's ''dead'', or missing, often with [[EmptyChairMemorial an empty chair]] or a deep impression left in a bed filling in.
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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot (half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other) and MediumTwoShot (a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos). It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.

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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot (half JuxtaposedHalvesShot, when half of two characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other) other, and MediumTwoShot (a MediumTwoShot, a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos).torsos. It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.
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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot (where the screen is split down the middle and shows half of two characters, creating the illusion of there being only one character) and MediumTwoShot (a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos)q.

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Compare JuxtaposedHalvesShot (where the screen is split down the middle and shows half (half of two characters, creating the illusion of there being only one character) characters' sides are juxtaposed to or beside each other) and MediumTwoShot (a two-character shot that frames their heads and torsos)q.torsos). It often overlaps with NothingIsScarier, when emptiness is used to invoke fear by leaving it to the audience's imagination.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': Shots like this are used twice to show how alone Shrek and Fiona feel after their big fight. Fiona is shown sitting at an otherwise unoccupied table, with the table in the center of the shot. This is immediately followed by Shrek sitting at his table, on the opposite side (from the camera's perspective).

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* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': Shots like this are used twice to show how alone Shrek and Fiona feel after their big fight. Fiona is shown sitting at an otherwise unoccupied table, with the table in the center of the shot. This is immediately followed by Shrek sitting at his table, on the opposite side (from the camera's perspective). This shows that despite being apart and expecting to never see each other again, they are still very much on each other's minds. Fiona even begins to cry.



* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': When Brody is on the right side of the frame, flipping smelly chum into the water, mumbling irritably as he does it, the left side of the frame containing nothing but the gunwale of the boat and the ocean. This sets up one of the most famous {{Jump Scare}}s ever, as the shark comes leaping out of the water on the left side.

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''Film/{{Jaws}}'': When Brody is on the right side of the frame, flipping smelly chum into the water, mumbling irritably as he does it, the left side of the frame containing nothing but the gunwale of the boat and the ocean. This sets up one of the most famous {{Jump Scare}}s ever, as the shark comes leaping out of the water on the left side.side.
** ''Film/Jaws2'': When the shark attacks the helicopter, it is filmed from inside the cockpit, looking out past the pilot with the shark rising suddenly from the water in the background. (Not entirely unlike its use in the first film, actually.)
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990'': {{Subverted}}. Something does lunge into the frame but from the side that is already occupied by a character.
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* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': In [[Recap/WhiteCollarS06E06AuRevoir "Au Revoir"]], when Peter imagines Neal’s reflection in the window one year after his death, Neal’s reflection takes up the left half of the frame.
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* ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'': Used frequently for non-sinister reasons.

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* ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'': Used frequently for non-sinister reasons.
to keep Harvey in-frame.
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->'''Mike Stoklasa''': [[ObfuscatingStupidity Ohmigosh, Rich? Rich? Rich?]] Why is there so much space on the right side of the frame? Rich, why-why is there a distracting amount of space on the right side of the frame?!\\

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->'''Mike Stoklasa''': [[ObfuscatingStupidity Ohmigosh, Rich? Rich? Rich?]] Why is there so much space on the right side of the frame? Rich, why-why why--why is there a distracting amount of space on the right side of the frame?!\\

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