With normal cameras,
crane shots require a heavy - duty support system due to the weight of the camera.
Whereas the Fox prologue used extremely wide
crane shots, the MGM short intercuts various angles - several held in closer view on key soloists - and conveys the size of the orchestra through more dynamic angles (including a very cool overhead shot) and tracking shots.
The best Peanuts special since The Great Pumpkin, seamlessly integrating the classic strips and characters into modern animation techniques (POV shots, computer - rendered
crane shots) while respecting and preserving the unique stylization of Charles Schulz's original drawings.
Linklater uses a steadicam to keep the focus on the conversation and some impressive
crane shots to open things up a bit.
The middle of the film is where the characters begin to relax into themselves, and in the last third it becomes very grand and cinematic using a lot of
crane shots.
Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's go - to director of photography, opens with stunningly beautiful overhead shots of richly green land and later
crane shots on the battlefield that belong in a museum.
Everything is done in annoying quick - cuts, ceaseless
crane shots, CGI - laden battle sequences, and glossy, artificial looking sets.
Luckily, Cianfrance and DP Sean Bobbitt have put together a visually sumptuous film, providing glorious tracking
crane shots of the woodlands of Schenectady, NY.
The camera work and cinematography are both well done, with very nice night photography scenes, great camera movement, and some memorable
crane shots in the drive - in.
Its most complex emotional transactions are staged in extended, meticulously choreographed
crane shots evoking Max Ophuls (La Ronde, Lola Montes), yet most American reviewers, if they bothered to write about it at all, dismissed it as a failed Kutcher sex comedy.
Summer Hours opens with children playing in the French countryside, observed by a calm camera in elegant tracking and
crane shots; there's a warm guitar / string quartet score playing.
We've seen sweeping
crane shots through swaying wheat fields before on screen in Terrence Malick films and his countless imitators, but not like this.
Savannah looks beautiful, with its sweeping
crane shots of the Georgia wilderness only slightly diluted by nonstop melodramatic music cues.
Director Matthew Saville gets in
some crane shots of the two wandering -LSB-...]
intone the prisoners in the opening musical number of Les Misérables, a scene that begins underwater and moves to
a crane shot of hundreds of inmates pulling ropes to haul an up - ended ship to dock.
The Panavision (Color by DeLuxe) cinematography by Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc is always solid, though it stumbles in its occasional efforts to be impressive: the opening helicopter shots leave no doubt that someone has been watching La dolce vita again; and an unnecessarily baroque
crane shot records the insignificant arrival of a taxicab delivering Roberts to the Simmons home.
The film employs sinuous, unobtrusive camerawork, laconic zooms, and even the odd
crane shot.
The crane shot up and away from Cooper preceding the final battle is as elegant as anything in the genre.
The New York location photography has nice detail and depth — you can see it in a bravura opening
crane shot that starts with a view of downtown, then tracks sideways as Swank emerges from a Chinatown subway stop.
The elaborate CG
crane shot from Bitter Sweets is analyzed (1:42), the production design is detailed upon (2:32), and Pace and Fuller comment on the appearance of Molly Shannon, Raúl Esparza, and Ned's revelation to Chuck (6:09).
He actually weaves the camera around smoothly in places and holds a few still wide shots to great effect in other spots; there is even a pretty good
crane shot thrown in.
From random anachronistic intoxicated dancing to Wally's bizarre stroll past bearded Jews and street musicians to a closing
crane shot that attempts to create significance for Manhattan's skyline, this film is a slow, puzzling journey whose greatest revelation is that even in the 2010s, no one is going to say no to Madonna.
Miles and I were doing this long shot where we have to walk across this huge quad and they have
a crane shot.
Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple
crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.
Not exact matches
Watch for the «timeslice» effect at 00:00:49; pre-GoPro, such a
shot would have required as much as $ 100,000, along with a
crane and hours of setup.
Dawn was also
shot with native 3 - D cameras, which are enormous and heavy, and have to be used on
cranes.
I forget her name but let's call her Legs, since that's the way Bay introduces her — with a
craning camera
shot that starts at the feet and ends at her panty - clad posterior.
If you have a one - minute
crane - mounted tracking
shot, you don't notice the minute passing!
Together, they created what's widely considered the first Steadicam
shot: an imitation, in reverse of a virtuosic handheld
shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's The
Cranes Are Flying (57).
At the end of the
shot, the operator gets into the «bucket» of a
crane — a seat placed where the camera mount usually is — and the camera lurches up into the air.
Along with the DVD comes an interview with Sally Potter and documentaries about filming in Uzbekistan (a stand - in for Constantinople) and Russia (where they
shot the Great Frost, when the Thames froze over) and hoisting Jimmy Somerville up by
crane to swing in the breeze while wearing angel's wings.
During the many lulls in the story, viewers can pick out elements from other films: The design for the Doberman evokes «Up,» one potential buyer imitates Edna Mode from «The Incredibles,» a tracking
shot through the engine of a wrecking
crane recalls a clockwork sequence in «The Great Mouse Detective.»
They live in these big social groups out in the open; you're not
craning your neck to watch someone up in the trees, or trying to
shoot him with a blowgun dart.
The game allows players to tag multiple enemies with the binoculars, along with potential environmental hazards such as explosive barrels and jerry cans (yes, they are red), flimsy beams and
crane joints that will drop their load when
shot.
To make the videos, the artist placed the flowers on a mirror that reflected the bright blue Los Angeles sky above and filmed them from above on a
crane using a day - for - night filter — which movie directors use to make scenes
shot in the day look like they occur at night — and had a rain machine pump rain between the camera and the flowers.
The artist often uses
cranes and even helicopters and pursues various legislation permissions in order to
shoot peculiar sights or people regardless of complex negotiations.
It will give you perfectly stable
shots from the short handle, or you can add some extensions to get perfectly stable
shots with your «arm
crane.»
The low - point of this show is the video You Made Me Feel Like This (2017), which dully records the artist writing and reading a letter, alongside some
shots of graveyards and
cranes.
One is a movie
shot from a remote controlled helicopter and the other is a film
shot on a
crane raised in the mist at Canary Wharf in London.
Jafa was the director of photography on Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), Isaac Julien's Darker Shade of Black (1994), A Litany for Survival (1995), Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson's biographical film on the late Audre Lorde, John Akomfrah's Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993), a cinematographer for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse (2000), Nefertite Nguvu's In the Morning (2014),
shot second unit on Ava DuVernay's Selma (2014) and was the director of photography for Solange's music videos Don't Touch My Hair and
Cranes in the Sky (both 2016).
In the Morning (2014),
shot second unit on Ava DuVernay's Selma (2014) and was the director of photography for Solange's music videos Don't Touch My Hair and
Cranes in the Sky (both 2016).
Tragically, these are the sixth and seventh
shooting deaths of reintroduced endangered U.S. whooping
cranes in 2011.
Both of these gangly, adolescent whooping
cranes were
shot and killed in Louisiana on Monday, and though two alleged shooters have been identified, the world of whooping
crane scientists, managers, caretakers, volunteers and birders is in mourning — once again.
A whooping
crane raised by federal biologists and known as L8, was one of two such birds
shot on Monday in Louisiana.
He describes the sixth and seventh
shooting deaths of whooping
cranes raised in this federal program and released in the United States this year.
The beginning is like an ad for rooflite ® — the truck on the closed street, the super sacks floating through the air on the
crane, the ease of unloading on the roof... Couldn't have
shot that much better myself.