Sentences with phrase «establishing shots as»

Ruben can be a very fine B - action director, and his decision with The Forgotten to set the preponderance of his establishing shots as undefined points - of - view that peer voyeuristically at Telly and eventual compatriot Ash through warped windows, open doorways, and extreme God's - eye, pays off in a general feeling of paranoid unrest.

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

Not exact matches

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.

Klass shot to fame as a member of Noughties band Hearsay before establishing herself as a solo celebrity.

Taylor and his fellow competitors, coaches, and shooting enthusiasts are hopeful that their young sport can gain even more traction and continue to grow while establishing trap shooting as a respected high school sport on level with football, baseball / softball, basketball, and soccer.

The French shot - stopper has established himself as one of Tottenham's best players in recent times, though he looked to have snubbed offers from bigger clubs by signing a new contract at White Hart Lane this summer.

The 18 - year - old has established himself as an indispensable part of the Rossoneri team over the last two years, proving his quality and maturity on countless occasions to emerge as one of the top shot - stoppers in Europe.

Much of Austin's offensive numbers went down this past season, but he established himself as one of the more dominant Big 12 shot blockers, leading the conference and finishing fourth in the nation with 118.

The Blues shot - stopper has been a loyal servant at Stamford Bridge, establishing himself as one of the finest keepers in the world in a highly successful career with the club.

The 17 - year - old has established himself as one of Europe's top shot - stoppers over the last 14 months, showing quality and maturity well beyond his young years.

Stoke City shot - stopper Jack Butland is also mooted as a possible option, but Oblak is regarded the No. 1 target in their report as the Slovenian international has gone on to establish himself as one of the best in his position in Europe over the last few years.

He finished with 16 points on 5 - of - 8 shooting from the field, forever establishing himself as a national championship folk hero.

I like Nate Diaz a lot, always have, but outside of McGregor, he has one shot post-McGregor to establish his own drawing power as being «major».

Petr Cech still has plenty of time to establish himself as number one but, at this moment, and with the Czech Republic shot - stopper showing signs of decline, Big Jens gets the nod.

The 25 - year - old has established himself as the North Londoners number one at the start of last season, but due to an array of mistakes saw him lose his place to the Colombian shot - stopper David Ospina as their first - choice keeper for the rest of the season.

The 25 - year - old shot - stopper appears to have established himself ahead of David Button as Slavisa Jokanovic's number one since the turn of the year and has rewarded his manager with a series of excellent performances while earning admiring glances from outside the Championship.

Messi quickly established himself as a future star within the Barca ranks and shot to stardom with his incredible dribbling skills, a silky left foot and his dynamic ability going forward.

Oblak has established himself as one of the finest shot - stoppers in the Spanish top flight since arriving in Madrid in 2014 from Benfica.

He joined in 2004, aged 20, after starting his career with Domžale and over the course of the next eight years established himself as one of the finest shot - stoppers in Italy, winning the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year in 2011.

It was during his time in Spain that the 22 - year - old established a reputation as one of the finest young shot - stoppers in world football.

Initial reports said Joseph was killed at a restricted area by soldiers on a raid, with his identity as a footballer only established after he had been shot.

By the time the shocking (yet not entirely unexpected) conclusion rolls around, Breathe has established itself as a promising effort from an exciting new filmmaker - with Laurent's stylish sensibilities setting her apart from many of her contemporaries (ie it's impossible not to be captivated by an outdoor tracking shot that follows a character through the rooms of her small apartment).

Manifesto was shot in Berlin, and the first scenes establish it as an aesthetic companion to Wim Wenders» Wings of Desire, that portrait of a walled - in metropolis.

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.

Going in step with the film's game vs. reality plot, several establishing shots have a tilt - shift effect, as if beginning as miniature diorama models on a game board, and a continuous shot of the group of friends playing a game of keep - away with a black - market Fabrege egg — a McGuffin — through every room of a mansion is a tense, energetic, elaborately choreographed bit of showing off.

Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.

This time, though the shots are chaotic, Nolan has learned what Paul Greengrass already knew: that as long as you establish certain physical elements, like space, time and weight, you can keep the action coherent in the audiences» mind even if it's not precisely clear on the screen.

On the contrary, Stardust is extremely well - made despite an opening half - hour that boasts of a few too many long establishing shots, directed with real snap by Guy Ritchie's former producer Matthew Vaughn (who did the same with Layer Cake) and executed by a stellar cast that includes a literally incandescent Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hideous bitch goddess, which, given that Stardust follows on the heels of Hairspray, appears to be the vehicle of her late - career comeback.

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.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

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.

As a critic, he writes on his website The Establishing Shot and hosts the «Page 2 Screen» podcast on the Curious About Screenwriting Network for the International Screenwriters» Association.

While some interview subjects are filmed using a shot / reverse shot strategy, establishing the director's presence and point of view in conversation, others, such as his sister and mother, are shot straight - on, with the camera serving less as interrogator than objective receptor, letting each of them narrate events in her own manner and style.

Civil War was also partly filmed with IMAX cameras and the movie in general tends to feel big, visually - speaking, in - between its action sequences and many establishing shots of locations around the globe (as well as the massive title font that's used to identify each individual change in location)- making IMAX the preferable viewing format for Civil War.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

The worst moments are ported complete from the Tolkien source material (and the theatrical version of The Two Towers): the convenience of a fortuitous in - battle as little Sam storms an enemy keep by himself, the deus ex machina of giant eagles arriving at moments of crisis (in fairness, it seems as though the scene establishing their summoning has been jettisoned), the curiously limp money shot of Aragorn's grasping of his legacy, and a general narrative choppiness that defeats pacing and deadens interest for all but the most invested.

And how in the world did that bizarrely low - res helicopter footage pass as an establishing shot?

In establishing this matrix of border crossings, Touch of Evil «s celebrated opening shot — mercilessly parodied in Robert Altman's The Player and sometimes vilified as mere Wellesian exhibitionism — is in fact an entirely appropriate bit of audacity, and one that earns its place, more so than such progeny as the opening shot of John Carpenter's Halloween, the tracking shot from the sidewalk to the stageside nightclub table in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The Player.

Boldly shot in Academy ratio, it immediately established Blauvelt as a talent in his own right, and some impressive work followed, not least in Ry - Russo Young «s underrated 2012 Sundance picture «Nobody Walks.»

Everyone here transcends their typecasting, including slacker balladeers Mark and Jay Duplass, who make a bid for mainstream success (two words: car chase) without precisely abandoning their idiosyncrasies, such as their camcorder - honed / derived aesthetic — which establishes a cinematic grammar that allows for shabby but essential angles like a shot of Segel's hair poking up from behind a vending machine.

The film begins with a series of shoot - outs, killings, and barroom fights that establish him as emotionally tortured before prolonged bouts of sulking and brooding.

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

From the film's opening passage, Lubitsch demonstrates his new facility with the norms of Hollywood editing: following a humorous inter-title stating that «Lady Windermere faced the grave problem — of seating her dinner guests,» Lubitsch opens with an establishing shot of a voluminous interior with the woman seated at a desk; the director dissolves to a medium - close - up of the woman arranging her placards; and then to point - of - view close - up as she places Lord Darlington's carefully beside her own, her fingers softly tapping the folded paper.

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.

The ship is a grand, imposing mass of haunting decrepitude, as we see in establishing shots that use decent computer effects.

Also as in that film, she shoots those characters early on at a beatific backyard barbecue, pushing in for idyllic close - ups of wholesome sights like ribs being basted and kids on rope swings to establish a family in the context of its community — a lively congregation led by the friendly, funny, and wise Pastor Scott (John Carroll Lynch).

Shot as a 1980s period piece, the show presents itself as a Romanian cop show — complete with established Romanian stars Florin Piersic Jr. and Corneliu Ulici as the detectives — which has then been dubbed over by...

Director Lawrence Sher, making his feature debut after a career as a cinematographer, brings the skills he established shooting movies for Todd Phillips (including the Hangover trilogy, with Helms), which is to say he uses better lighting and more textured visuals than a typically overlit studio comedy while still neglecting to frame, cut, or pace scenes for actual laughs.

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.