Extremely Short Timespan/Playing With

Basic Trope: A novel, film, or other work of fiction covers the events of a very short time period.
 * Straight: All the events in a novel take place during one evening.
 * Exaggerated: All the events in the novel take place during the same ten seconds.
 * Downplayed: Half of the events in a novel take place in the same 48 hours. (The rest of the novel covers a far longer time period.)
 * Justified: The story is in real time, and it shows multiple POVs.
 * Inverted: The events in the novel cover a thousand-year span.
 * Subverted: The first two-thirds of the book cover only one night's worth of events, but the pace suddenly picks up and by the end the story spans over two years.
 * Double Subverted: ...Except the last two-year segment was actually another character's imagining how that future might turn out as he takes his shower on that same night.
 * Parodied: An elf in the story had written a story about a period of a year which is described in this fashion.
 * Deconstructed: A character experiences time slower than other people, and the whole TV series is shot in slow motion to capture the agony he goes through; as a result, each episode only covers a few minutes' worth of events. This eventually drives the character mad.
 * Reconstructed: ???
 * Zig Zagged: Due to large amounts of time traveling, nobody's really sure anymore of the series' technical timespan.
 * Averted: The events in the series cover a few weeks or months of in-series time.
 * Enforced: "We can only afford to shoot at one location on this budget. Let's have the whole thing take place during one party, okay?
 * Lampshaded: "The last ten minutes feel like they've taken so long..."
 * Invoked: The police can only legally hold a clearly-guilty suspect without evidence overnight. Thus, the work takes place over a 24 hour period as our heroes seek out that evidence.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: The villain's plan takes several months to come to fruition, so that if something goes wrong, he has plenty of time to come up with a fix.
 * Discussed: "Ever notice how all our problems are solved within one or two days?"
 * Conversed: "I just wasted six hours of my life reading about... one day? Come on!"

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