I'm still getting caught up on reactions to the conventions, and some of the best analysis is coming from Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones. Here's his take on the relative scale of the Obama and McCain acceptance speeches:
Barack Obama's eloquent inspirational words sailed out into a stadium and danced with potentially dangerous independence on a huge, populist sea. The Republicans took the opposite tactic, focusing the viewer ever more inwards on McCain's gripping, heroic, explicitly personal story, which McCain told in quiet, direct, declarative sentences that grew only more intimate and confessional as the speech progressed.
Even when everything is reduced to flat-screen images, space and architecture can shape the message in potent ways.
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