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Huh. I don't think we have this. Good one. Run it through YKTTW to grab some other examples.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
Gulp. OK, now I'm slightly "ascairt", I'm not sure I know how to do (or entirely understand) what I should do next, and I don't want to screw anything up. Do I have to think of a clever name and cite examples? I confess I've never added anything here (other than a few questions on this page), I just use the site religiously as a major source of information and entertainment. I love this site. Now you want me to, you know, do stuff to it? Help! :-) P.S. Just realised I posted this on the wrong page. Sorry about that.
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Basically, all you need to do is copy paste this question into YKTTW (though everyone would appreciate it if you cleaned it up to look more like a trope description first, you're not going to get yelled at for not doing that), then add the tags Description Needs Help, Already Have?, and Needs Examples (and probably Better Name, too). Then just pay attention to the comments and take their suggestions into account for how to improve the draft.
That help?
Thanks, Discar, your info is most helpful, but mercifully it turns out the Trope does exist after all, thanks to the guys at Lost and Found. It even already had one of my examples in it (I've since added the other). It's called "Interrogation Montage", I failed to find it because I was searching with the word "interview".
Thanks for all the advice!
A (hopefully) easy one for you: There's a technique I've seen used several times involving a single character who has to interview or interrogate several other characters. The interview appears to be a single, continuous meeting, but as the camera switches between participants the person being interviewed is revealed to have changed.
So, for example, the interviewer (usually someone hostile) will ask a question. The interviewee will offer a suitably sardonic or defiant reply. The aggressive interviewer will then follow up with another question but this time the reply comes from a different character without any change in scene or shot, showing that we're actually now watching a later interview.
It's a pretty seamless way of showing multiple interviews all at once.
As well as in some movies I've seen this done particularly well in the ST-TNG episode "Coming of Age", and also in Firefly, wherein an Alliance commander is doing the questioning and the recipient keeps switching between different Serenity crew members, to humorous effect (see "Terrible Interviewees Montage" on the Firefly page).
Does this technique have a name? And am I making any sense?! Any help is appreciated, as always.
EDIT: Thanks to User Fast Eddie, but I reposted this in Lost and Found where it should've gone in the first place, just in case. If it still fails there I'll look into YKTTW.
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