Basic Trope: A character is screaming or singing, and the camera zooms into their open mouth.
- Straight: Bob finds out that he has just been fired from his job. He screams a Big "NO!", dramatic music blares in the background, and the camera zooms into his mouth, filling the screen with black.
- Exaggerated: Bob literally eats the camera.
- Downplayed: Bob screams a Big "NO!", but the camera stops at his mouth before it can zoom in any closer.
- Justified: Bob is acting in a movie, and the director calls for the camera to zoom into Bob's mouth as he is screaming.
- Inverted: The camera zooms out of Bob's mouth as he is screaming.
- Subverted:
- Bob screams, but the camera only zooms in on his face instead of into his mouth.
- Bob lets out a Little "No" instead of a Big "NO!", and the camera zooms in on his face.
- Double Subverted: The cameraman decides to zoom into Bob's mouth anyway.
- Parodied: "Okay, can you get this camera out of my mouth?"
- Zig-Zagged: The camera zooms into Bob's mouth as he screams, but pulls out after he is finished.
- Averted: Bob just screams a Big "NO!", and the camera doesn't do anything.
- Enforced:
- The writer clearly states in the script that the camera must zoom into Bob's mouth.
- The producers want to clearly establish that the 'food' is still alive. What better way, than to shoot the scene from his point of view?
- Lampshaded: ???
- Exploited:
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "You know that trick they do in cartoons, when the camera goes into somebody's mouth? Makes you feel like you're being eaten yourself. Freaky, huh?"
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