Sentences with phrase «establishing shots»

The film begins with atmospheric establishing shots of the town and its titular lake.

To make for a most interesting trailer in a point and click adventure game, include as much animation and as many establishing shots that you have.

Each setup starts with a leisurely and gorgeous establishing shot.

Some of the early overhead establishing shots of the forest have that same vibe.

The dynamic duo also do a tremendous job utilizing every inch of the widescreen frame to tell the story, with sweeping vistas and establishing shots giving the actors room to play.

The director's capable of taking a simple moment or a standard establishing shot and making it into something of pure beauty.

This Eastern version also lacks at least one establishing shot of a house.

That is why you often see the Chrysler Building in establishing shots of New York.

The film is an exhausting collection of airplane CGI Firefox - style and heroic slow - motion establishing shots with shutter - staggered sprints through minefields, tripwires, and large - calibre gunfire that would be more at home in a chop - socky Van Damme opera.

A single note over establishing shots.

The documentary, far from a glorified making - of featurette, is fittingly cinematic, with spectacularly wide establishing shots and studio - portrait - like testimonials.

Mahoney has signed onto J.J. Abrams» Star Wars: Episode IX as second unit director, putting her in charge of overseeing the direction of the movie's supplementary footage like establishing shots, stunts, and cutaways.

There's also a surprising amount of obvious compression in the opening establishing shots as the sky flickers with interference.

Banewl begins with several establishing shots: the sky, a tree and meadow, the barn and stable of a farm, and an old stone farmhouse.

While the 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation did not suffer from any particular calamity (although certain establishing shots exhibited shimmering on my television), the softer, less vibrant video noticeably lacked the detail and clarity I was used to.

The trailer opens with sweeping establishing shots of a fairly depopulated Hyrule (we assume it's Hyrule), and Link riding through on a horse.

It is an impressive feat, as Spring often seems on the brink of flinging itself into orbit at any minute, but the soulful and engaging turns from leads Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, and beautiful Italian vistas (fully taken advantage of through some gorgeous top down helicopter establishing shots) and some real confidence from Benson and Moorhead to stick to their guns makes Spring a unique and satisfying twist on both classic romance and old school body horror.

The movie begins before van Lawick arrives, using establishing shots of Goodall alone that he took to set up the original Miss Goodall film.

Throughout the movie, Emmanuel Benbihy, who also conceptualized the feature, and Frédéric Auburtin provide such establishing shots to show the location and time of day in which the next short occurs, and they are lovely images.

2 DAYS IN PARIS has one of the nicest establishing shots in cinema.

Director and co-writer Jose Nestor Marquez eschews most establishing shots, exacerbating the sense of disorientation and mystery.

The movie's establishing shots make the real world look like a model - railroad diorama, but up close, the movie's performers — including Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan, who turns up as Magnussen's improbably smart and non-twentysomething date — are too ingratiating to work as satirical stand - ins.

OK, and thanks for those really interesting and useful exterior establishing shots, phew!

Hooper establishes this shooting style early and sticks to it, making it quite easy to adjust.

An early establishing shot of the sludgy Gowanus Canal looks positively Venetian, a tremendous achievement given that it is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States.

Rogue Nation was shot on film — with a few digital exteriors / establishing shots mixed in — and the image has an organic look that helps ground the outlandish action.

It is only in Flight's final scene that the painting appears — in details, obscured by light and reflections, never in a full establishing shot.

And while director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy) orchestrates multiple high - octane set pieces — the most harrowing is an ambush that takes place in a traffic jam at the U.S. - Mexico border crossing — he also manages to make ostensibly mundane establishing shots seem ominous.

In fact, «they» don't really come like this: a movie almost without establishing shots or hand - holding narrative cues, aggressive with its weird ambient sounds and literally eccentric frames.

There are even levels of comedy here that only hardcore Soderbergh fans will get — like a throwaway establishing shot in the movie - within - a-movie that features Terence Stamp as his character from «The Limey» (who shows up again later in another layer of the film).

A hint: One establishing shot features something that looks like a clothesline or a cable of some kind that may be... something else.

The film flatters us by leaving exposition and backstory to our knowledge of anthropology — in fact, Animal Kingdom is best indicated by its unwavering reserve — a reluctance, almost — to say too much when slow, fluid tracking motions and static, medium - distance establishing shots may suffice.

After breathtaking establishing shots over Paris and landscapes, the trailer rushes into the gist of the problem.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

Cue the 1990s - era bus for the appropriate establishing shot.

To Gerwig's credit, she doesn't use conventional establishing shots of Manhattan landmarks to sell NYC as a mecca.

The show excels at sharing the same emotional perspective as its leads, something that's evident from director Mike (Broadchurch) Barker's gorgeous establishing shots flying over the countryside at the start — revelling in the freedom of the open air after the interiors of France and, in particular, Episode 7's trauma.

In one pointed establishing shot, we get a billboard for AOL that reminds us of just how much our communication methods can change in a decade.

Director Rupert Sanders» sci - fi actioner comes off like a pained imitation of genre jewels «RoboCop» and «Blade Runner,» unduly proud of its gamut of glitzy establishing shots, airtight in its disinclination to charisma.

Detractors be warned, this is vintage Wes, from the fancifully picturesque establishing shots to Alexandre Desplat's quaint score to the impeccable (but predictable and slightly overcrowded) supporting cast.

The effort was to look at my favorite movies of the year (inspired, to begin with, by the opening of «No Country for Old Men») solely through establishing shots, architecture, landscapes, inanimate objects... and a few glimpses of extras and motionless actors who don't speak.

The main menu shows a montage of establishing shots redone with a flickering sepia filter that gives it an antiquated look.

The film's technique is as simple and effective as the conceit, with Mitchell and cinematographer Mike Gioulakis using long shots and takes, as well as spinning establishing shots, to keep us searching for the entity hunting the protagonist.

Resnais fully embraces the artificiality of theatre in his adaptation, using sound stages with painted backgrounds and hand drawings for establishing shots among several other distinctive visual styles throughout.

The film begins with the obligatory establishing shot of our protagonist walking through city streets, parks, and the like on her way to work.

The fidelity of the artwork is eye - watering in places; a narrow alley in a shanty town can be just as breathtaking in its detail as the vertiginous, aerial establishing shot that runs under the credits.