Sentences with phrase «in static shots»

These real spaces are linked in static shots that are grouped thematically, as sound and subtle movement texture these decaying and calmly depeopled totems to civilization.

Then comes a solitary scene that lasts, perhaps, twenty to twenty - five minutes, and is held in a static shot for all but the last three to five minutes.

Don't talk at length in a static shot.

Not exact matches

There were three cameras in the studio but nobody manning them, so viewers channel surfing on the far shores of the city's cable system were treated to static shots of the whole panel behind a plain wood veneer desk — no cuts from one speaker to the next, and however ready the guests might have been, no close - up was available.

«A major factor in choosing this image as the winner is that it manages a seemly impossible task: to visualise an immensely long - term ecological process in a single static shot.

In the end, after giving them a real shot, I discovered that they: are super comfy (when there's no static build - up), don't wrinkle, have a cool cut, have functional pockets and dog hair miraculously avoids them.

Conversations are thoughtful, but shot in the most static way imaginable.

While the milieu of The Strongest Man might be overly familiar to those who watch a lot of indie films (lots of static, symmetrically composed shots, a cast of disaffected, ennui - filled characters), Riches invests enough humanity in the story to make it worth seeking out.

Pakula's compositions are even painterly in their appearance, where certain long static shots showcase hardly mobile characters surrounded by vast negative space.

Arranged and photographed in largely static but never dull fixed shots, the movie comes from Anna Muylaert, a former film critic turned writer - director.

The Latasters rarely put a foot wrong - from their static opening shot in the town of Hapert to the final frames of Miss Kiet in her classroom, this is a beautifully - judged piece.

Alternating between static shots that emphasize the decrepit landscape and traveling shots in which the camera is fixed to the front of the wheelchair, writer - director David Robert Mitchell finds a terrifying means of conveying necessary exposition.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In the last decade or so, beginning with Bryan Bertino's 2008 «The Strangers,» horror movies have increasingly built tension not through rapid editing but with static wide shots in which a flicker of movement portends the onset of danger — a technique institutionalized through the security - cam aesthetic of the «Paranormal Activity» serieIn the last decade or so, beginning with Bryan Bertino's 2008 «The Strangers,» horror movies have increasingly built tension not through rapid editing but with static wide shots in which a flicker of movement portends the onset of danger — a technique institutionalized through the security - cam aesthetic of the «Paranormal Activity» seriein which a flicker of movement portends the onset of danger — a technique institutionalized through the security - cam aesthetic of the «Paranormal Activity» series.

If you think static camera shots in Volume 2 were annoying, Volume 3's The Tale of the Chaffinches would do you in.

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.

Though Ozu was discovered relatively late in the Western world, his trademark rigorous style — static shots, often from the vantage point of someone sitting low on a tatami mat; patient pacing; moments of transcendence as represented by the isolated beauty of everyday objects — has been enormously influential among directors seeking a cinema of economy and poetry.

Certainly, his latest film exhibits many of his most characteristic features: an early static shot of a concert audience once again emphasises spectatorship as a primary concern; we meet, as so often, a bourgeois family about to experience severe suffering; Emmanuelle Riva follows Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Naomi Watts in giving an extraordinary performance in response to psychological terror; and violence, with its attendant guilt, comes as a shocking intrusion into this world.

In contrast, the island and its rugged, distinctive geography is shot in a static manner to depict Chuck's quiet desperatioIn contrast, the island and its rugged, distinctive geography is shot in a static manner to depict Chuck's quiet desperatioin a static manner to depict Chuck's quiet desperation.

But sometimes in the same scene I'm also doing the French [style], where there are extreme close - ups, and they are all static, and there is this tension between close - ups and wide shots.

Through highly ordered static images that unfold in a variety of shot distances, the film suggests that achieving a coherent perspective on any subject matter necessitates an innovative, and evolving, approach to constructing one's vision of the world.

The hallmarks of his rough - edged, location - shot style (gritty textures, slurred motion, blown - out source lights, and oversaturated colors) are analogous to the calculated use of distortion and feedback in commercial music: the surface static keeps the dance beat and pop melodies from seeming saccharine.

Barely updated from a relatively early Warner Blu - ray, the main disc here begins playback of the film right away and doesn't so much feature a traditional menu as a screen - sized list of bonus features (placed in front of a static Pacino shot) that pops up after the film is completed.

A Ghost Story unfolds in long, static shots, most of them without faces to hang onto.

Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters.

Camera movements are limited but fluidly executed, and Haneke is not afraid to keep the camera motionless and frame scenes in a static wide shot.

Too many songs are shot in long, single - shot close - ups of the actor singing; the intent may have been to further showcase the performance (and to keep the actors from running out of breath — witness Redmayne's dodgy vocal performance while forced to walk and sing during «In My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movinin long, single - shot close - ups of the actor singing; the intent may have been to further showcase the performance (and to keep the actors from running out of breath — witness Redmayne's dodgy vocal performance while forced to walk and sing during «In My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movinIn My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movinin practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly moving.

Haneke either depicts Erika's torment with distant, static takes or sequence shots, an approach that embraces sensationalism, as when cinematographer Christian Berger captures Erika vomiting in close - up at the end of a long take.

It combines her trademark static set - ups and tracking shots - in this case of New York streets - with Akerman's monotonous voice - over reading letters from her mother in Belgium.

Perhaps this is intentional, to underline Greenberg's inertia; the majority of the shots in the film are static and observational — but without much action to observe it starts to feel very lethargic.

For the DVD, Image used a decent widescreen print that has a few wear marks, and some static patterns in some daylight shots, during the couple's tour of gorgeous Rome.

The Filipino writer - director Lav Diaz is the definition of a «not for every taste» filmmaker: His movies are stark, long (like, four - plus hours long), and patience - testing, filmed mostly on black - and - white digital video in static master shots.

Oldroyd films the impassive Katherine and terrified Anna's subsequent silent meal in a long, static shot that's as chillingly detached as Katherine herself, soundtracked only by the old man's agonized offscreen death throes.

Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Onslow Stevens, Don Shelton, Fess Parker Length: 93 minutes Distributor: Warner Bros Cinema: 1954 SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the Scenes, trailer, image gallery Region: 2 Ratio: 1.33:1 (fullscreen - film shot in 1.66:1 and cropped slightly on disc) Sound: Dolby Digital 1.0 (mono) Audio Tracks: English and multiple languages Subtitles: English and multiple languages Captions: English and Dutch Menus: Static with music Special Features Subtitles: None of the special features come with subtitles.

With the dialogue mostly snide and the direction largely comprising slow push - ins and static two - shots, the most interesting thing about the film is the florid variety of its performances.

While many of their shared scenes might have easily resulted in a stagy two - hander, Stearns» reliance on static shots, complemented almost exclusively by slow zooms and pans (Pakula's paranoia thrillers of the «70s come to mind) and subtly dated production design (the 1980s, perhaps) put a very deliberate focus on the players, who all rise to the occasion.

Gameplay in Wild Guns Reloaded involves around your character shooting at any threat on a static screen where you see the enemies keep popping out left and right, either hidden in the background, or rushing to attack you directly on screen.

Broadcast quality b - roll of the new MINI Clubman including interior and exterior static shot and vehicle in motion footage.

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Gameplay in Wild Guns Reloaded involves around your character shooting at any threat on a static screen where you see the enemies keep popping out left and right, either hidden in the background, or rushing to attack you directly on screen.

In execution, story mode strives for variety, mixing animated cut - scenes with static stills, more conventional fights with at least a dozen epic boss battles - and even the unexpected on - rails shooting sequence where players can take control of characters like Susanoo.

• Electricity Powers — Players can now utilize the new Electricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static and much more.

Often filmed as static shots in single takes, Bucak's video performances appear as durational photographs, exploring the beauty and otherness of borderlands and the fluidity and contingency of borders themselves.

Standing apart in gallery 7, Animitas (2014) by Christian Boltanski consists of a real - time film using a single static shot in the Atacama Desert in Chile and a bed of flowers.

The recently completed TRAVELOGUE: CAIRO EGYPT crosses long takes and static shots captured via smartphone in a four - part composition exploring surveillance, chance composition, tourism, and politics.

Action shots, in which cows walk around and eat, are interspersed with static shots of the monochromatic sky.

Editing to the narrative of time, Dean frequently employs long takes and static camera shots, focusing on recording mood and atmosphere in her cinematic work.

In New York the camera move continuously through three landscapes; in L.A. the camera cuts between two urban landscapes and ends on a static shot of the citIn New York the camera move continuously through three landscapes; in L.A. the camera cuts between two urban landscapes and ends on a static shot of the citin L.A. the camera cuts between two urban landscapes and ends on a static shot of the city.

A one - screen version of the work that premiered last year at Dia: Beacon in upstate New York, it features an extended static shot of the choreographer — like a living sculpture — sitting in a chair.

Ah, bobdroege reappears, after being repeatedly shot down on the recent thread with his ludicrous «theory» that a static, closed, laboratory gas cylinder in equilibrium is somehow analogous to the dynamic, open, not - in - vertical - equilibrium 100 km atmosphere in a gravity - field, and his false claim that NASA used «circular reasoning» in deriving the «NASA Fact Sheet» physical values for Venus.