Read the following scene from Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY. Here’s a nice mess. (The women draw nearer.) MRS. PETERS (to the other woman). Oh, her fruit; it did freeze. (To the Lawyer). She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break. SHERIFF. Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves. COUNTY ATTORNEY. I guess before we’re through she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about. HALE. Well, women are used to worrying over trifles. (The two women move a little closer together.) In a film production, where should the camera focus if the director wants to emphasize the men’s emotions?
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on close-ups of the womenD
on the characters’ costumesTo emphasize the men’s emotions, the camera should show their faces closely, where expressions can be seen. Close-ups of the men would make their reactions to the women’s concern about the preserves clear. The other choices focus on the women or on details that do not directly reveal the men’s feelings.
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