Sentences with phrase «handheld camerawork»

For video, that means enough light and a fixed camera (I'm not a fan of handheld camerawork, unless you really know what you're doing).

Spending much of it's running time in the dark, dank recesses of the sewage system, the film has a grimy look, but the cinematography makes the most of it, with handheld camerawork adding a sense of being there and low key lighting providing a beauty beneath the filth.

Power's guiding principle for the film seems to be realism, lighting it with flat, bright sunlight — no indie - movie blue and orange here — and shooting it with shaky handheld camerawork.

As opposed to the frantic handheld camerawork of Shiri, JSA makes full use of its widescreen frame (it was the first Korean film to use Super-35, the Hollywood big - budget standard), to create more deep - focus static compositions.

The direction, cinematography and editing is stunning (though perhaps there's a bit too much handheld camerawork for Mark's taste), and the 157 minute running time whizzed by, which is quite a rarity for someone like me who believes brevity to be the soul of wit.

These techniques are effective, although the reliance on handheld camerawork for the street scenes is its usual distraction.

There is a great deal of spectacle, though, that makes The Death Cure an enjoyable enough experience for fans or those with low expectations - but perhaps a bit too much handheld camerawork in certain sequences to see this film in 3D or IMAX.

spoke with Dod Mantle about handheld camerawork's relationship to dance and cinematographers» need for constant self - reinvention, at the 2016 Camerimage Film Festival where he won the Bronze Frog award for his work on

The icky overhead lighting and sloppy handheld camerawork by no means call for it, and cinematographer Ben Richardson always seems to be having the damndest, most unfortunate time trying to keep anybody in focus.

Fast editing, nimble handheld camerawork and POV shots mean there is no sense of distance between the viewer and the protagonists.

Writer - director Paul Greengrass's frenetic handheld camerawork, aspiring in its blue / green - tinged slickness to doc - like immediacy, and the faceless cast of unknowns, all of whom appear to be attending an actors seminar held on a Universal Studios theme park roller coaster, are in service of an ideologically muddled house of cards, which crashes to earth long before the plane does.

The soundtrack aids the visuals with a sense of unity that is rarely achieved, and the use of intermittent handheld camerawork never distracts as it so often can.

Between them they drafted a (n oft - betrayed) manifesto dedicated to «rescuing» motion pictures from artifice by forbidding special lighting and props brought in from off - site, by advocating handheld camerawork, and by urging an avoidance of recognizable genre definitions.

The impressive handheld camerawork often focuses on all the action outside as much as what's happening inside.

Stylistically, Mungiu's preference for long takes and rugged handheld camerawork remains intact, it's just that the slender facts in this particular case (since it's yet another film «based on true events») can't even begin to withstand the mammoth weight of a 150 - minute running time.

Copenhagen - based Anthony Dod Mantle burst onto the cinema scene in the late»90s with his frantic, transgressive handheld camerawork in Thomas Vinterberg ’s

Shaky handheld camerawork during raucous party scenes and an overwrought emotional score feel too prescriptive, and although there are a number of pithy one - liners that might raise a titter, it lacks the wit which made Wilde the toast of London in his prime.

Showcase lots of jittery handheld camerawork and couples whispering to each other so quietly that not even the audience can hear what they are saying.

Casting rakish rising star Jean - Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum on the run from the law and American ingenue Jean Seberg as the sly, pixieish girlfriend who ultimately betrays him, Godard was riffing on the American gangster picture, but with its revelatory handheld camerawork and frenetic jump cuts, Breathless is clearly more than homage: it launched a New Wave, rewrote the rules of cinema, and along the way became the definition of cool.

His touch is compassionate but cool, like the characters themselves — a feeling further echoed in the exquisitely composed, lucid handheld camerawork of «Frozen River» d.p. Reed Morano.

Michael Simmond's handheld camerawork evokes the French new wave with a genuine sense of discovery, following what is for the most part an unpredictable path.

Eschewing impartial reportage for visceral on - the - ground sensation, the Damascus - born Derki drops the viewer in media res with handheld camerawork, covering (among other things) shootouts that are as adrenaline - pumping as any Hollywood action movie.

The technique of frantic handheld camerawork and chaotic editing had been around for decades — first as an experimental film technique, then as a sort of action - movie shortcut — before Greengrass directed The Bourne Supremacy in 2004.

Film Comment spoke with Dod Mantle about handheld camerawork's relationship to dance and cinematographers» need for constant self - reinvention, at the 2016 Camerimage Film Festival where he won the Bronze Frog award for his work on Snowden.

It's no surprise that the least effective moments of Clouds of Sils Maria are the ones that seem most overly designed, like a Valentine's disorienting, boozy late - night drive up a mountain road, woozy with superimpositions, or a tone - deaf parody of a Hollywood superhero movie, a mess of handheld camerawork and references to characters named» Dr. Pretorius» and» Scarlet Witch.»

The handheld camerawork and bleached - out color palette suggest something more akin to combat footage, and candid moments recorded on the sly give Bloody Sunday a chilling realism.

[/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «Lost in Beijing» has some great shots of Beijing but the handheld camerawork gets a little tiresome.

There are great performances here and one major character arc that makes it somewhat compelling but for all its violence and handheld camerawork (can the shaky cam die already?)

His handheld camerawork has a quicksilver alertness.

With its fast editing and handheld camerawork, the film zips along lightly.

Much of the film's handheld camerawork is distracting rather than immersive, and his aversion to using dramatic music stymies the film's rhythms.

The film is shot with lots of close - ups and handheld camerawork, which — unlike Tom Hooper's much - condemned Les Miserables — is very effective at bringing us into Lore's perspective, and the film is littered with haunting imagery that will stay with you for days.

With its handheld camerawork (by Magnus Nordenhof Jønck), sparse music cues and affectingly naturalistic performances, A War employs quasi-documentary «realism» to powerful effect.

We even get handheld camerawork and beaches.

With its handheld camerawork, its use of natural light, and its keen, unaffected performances, the movie avoids being the saccharine earnestness of Hollywood movies about family.

Here, cinematographer Eduard Grau (A Single Man, The Gift) allows his handheld camerawork to shine — the jostle and panic, the desperation of moments in protest, the suffragettes against the police, captured well.

And someone needs to stop the combined use of shaky cam with handheld camerawork.

Ireland subs believably for New England this time around, and the handheld camerawork supplies a contemporary feel.

With its icy photography and handheld camerawork, Mungiu's film is shot in typical Romanian New Wave style, and certain scenes (the litany of sins, the police interrogation) may well lead Beyond the Hills to be seen as both a summation and an exemplary instance of the movement's aesthetic tendencies.

Carl dis / assembling w / self experiments with a performed language of handheld camerawork to play with and against the idea that gesture can be read as a transparent revelation of authorship.