Action stacking action

 ... or what I learned from William Goldman.

I'm not much on the trend of casting your narrative in first person present tense. It's too much like theatre in the round. I like the distance availed by the proscenium, which gives the audience a wide-angle view--at the expense of immediacy, some will say. But a film that's all close-ups is claustrophobic as well as tedious. (Sorry about the mixed mediums.)

So when do I use close-ups, that is to say, when do I switch from past to present tense? (Which...