While other rail shooters are content to basically serve up the same old formula, the ambitious Extraction aims to create something new, adding
a jittery camera and an intriguing story to the standard shooting gallery mechanics.
Then, of course, there is the aforementioned exorcism, which director Scott Derrickson and cinematographer Scott Kevan shoot with
a jittery camera and layers of strobe lights, as a cacophony of shouted prayers, unnatural screeches, and general rumbling fills the soundtrack.
Not exact matches
Powered gimbals use motors to automatically adjust a
camera's movement smoothly, as opposed to the
jittery way our hands do.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and
jittery.
Assumedly aware that he's making a movie about one of the less inherently cinematic of sporting events, director Janus Metz compensates with a lot of bombastic,
jittery style, amplifying the crunch of flashbulbs to a deafening roar, restlessly skittering his
camera around, generally taking notes from Ron Howard's Rush playbook.
It will feature an unlikely love story with a beautiful and constant woman (sort of a stultifying «beauty and king gimp» conceit), a few half - hearted attempts at portraying the world from the «special» protagonist's literal perspective (by using a
jittery handheld
camera or some similarly unenlightening gimmick), and end on a high note tinged with the bittersweet for that vital splash of lingering «importance.»
In 1999 ′ s startling drama Rosetta, the
jittery first - person
camera follows a young girl on her single - minded quest for a better life, putting you right in the middle of her awful situation.
These tricks include an Enterprise lift that goes nowhere, a five - year - old in a costume used to make a cave set look bigger than it actually is and (our favourite) how the
camera is shaken to create that
jittery effect during action sequences such as the skydiving jump.
You occasionally get, with
jittery hands like mine, some blur in the image due to the
camera sampling over a period of time, but generally the HDR mode takes crisp, vivid pictures.