One aperture, two disciplines — the evidence frame and the art frame share the same patience.
Every scene opens where any scene does: a wide shot of the whole — orientation before detail. North marker. Scale card. The frame could be a courtroom in a year.
Each item gets its own numbered frame, then a scale reference, then a continuity shot tying it to the scene. The camera is a witness under oath — it never editorializes.
Downtown after rain, that discipline relaxes into composition — the grid of the Short North skyline, shadow as subject. Same patience, different assignment.
One frame at a time. The scene tells you what it is — if you're willing to be told.
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