Sentences with phrase «on static shots»

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.

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 city.

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.

But this static shot from Turn 11 was captured by a fan — Reddit user rrobertsstanley — on their phone and proves just how fast F1's new era really is.

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.

The naff, pop - up book 3D employed on these movies render the ultra-sharp images artificial but simpler, more static shots look beautiful.

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.

Each disc uses a static cast shot (a poster image) and score on its main menu.

At times it's shot like theater: long, static, dialogue - heavy shots with characters moving on and off screen.

If Lady Bird is, as Gerwig asserts, a «love letter to Sacramento,» then this montage of everyday, easy - to - take - for - granted sights is the big S.W.A.K. on the envelope, an unmistakable declaration of affection; the static shots throughout the movie of old neon signs from Gunther's, the Tower Theatre and Club Raven could be considered the missive's heart - shaped punctuation marks; and the purposeful use of light, about which Gerwig was particularly exacting (she dutifully studied the Sacramento landscapes of renowned contemporary painters Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud to make sure the color and intensity were just right), is suitably analogous to the fine mist of perfume that will linger after the pages have been folded away.

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.

Not that anyone could have made much with such a talky script, and directing so static, a camera might as well have been mounted on a tripod by Pacino to shoot most of the scenes.

He can't decide how realistic he wants Parents to play — the film opens with a series of home video shots and there's some Steadicam later on, but it's mostly static.

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.

The closest thing to problems you can spot are minor: some static shots seem to ever so slightly jostle (probably a filming issue), grain weighs down on a few shots, and the pale - skinned cast make colors seem a tad bit pale.

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.

The tense tracking shots interspersed with static point - of - view sets the scene more than any line of dialogue could - it's two years on from events of 2014 film Dawn and the battle between humans and apes, fuelled by the traitorous Koba (Toby Kebbell), has rendered the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Writer / director Hallie Meyers - Shyer gives the movie a wacky and unlikely premise, the easily resolved conflicts that drag on to fill time, and, at times, a visual aesthetic of static shots of rows of over-lit actors.

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.

Static's always hovering off the ground due to standing on his electro - magnetic saucer platform thing, which he can use to dropkick into enemies when he isn't outright shooting lightning bolts their way.

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.

Regeria Hope is comprised of still images, many of them being action shots, on top of static backgrounds.

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.

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.