Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - What is a close-up?

What is a close-up?

Close-up is a reportage that reflects social life. Photographic terms: portraits and partial shots of the main face. The literary form of social life is reflected in the film art through the performance of "close-up", which is characterized by grasping a certain characteristic part of people or things in real life, making a concentrated, meticulous and prominent description and portrayal, with high authenticity and strong artistic appeal.

Close-up is a genre of news reports, which uses literary techniques to write the reported characters, reproduce the scene and atmosphere, and make it have strong appeal. But the requirements are completely in line with the facts, and fiction is not allowed. It is also one of the reportage forms of literary genre, which describes people and stories, and can be properly artistically treated in details, but it must be highly authentic.

A Ying's "Rong Xing and Yi Yan Shi Wen": "Soon I saw a close-up in the newspaper, which described in detail the process of building dikes in Fudong." Yang Shuo's preface: "This collection is mainly some essays I have written in recent years, including travel notes and close-ups of people."