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The film looks fantastic because of the gorgeous
overhead shots of the Irish geography and the waves crashing against the rocks as people surf down below.
I love that closer
up overhead shot of these on the wire rack — especially with that pretty pink glaze and all the sprinkles!
Though not always balanced, the grain and colour grading creates a relatively fitting 80s aesthetic, and the use of
overhead shots form striking compositions of tennis play.
This can be shown in full, or as seven different split - screen displays on the screen, including a
virtual overhead shot to make parking easier.
Then there is the unobtrusive cinematography by Sam Levy, which also has moments of fancy
in overhead shots but can also keep a distance in movingly dramatic scenes that allow the actors all the space they need to perform, which may be a bonus about having an actress at the helm of the film.
With his background in commercials, Snyder was either inured to Romero's point or too concerned with nailing the important technical details, such
as overhead shots of propane - tank explosions or the gooey sound of an unborn mutant sloshing around in amniotic fluid.
i thought they were wasabi peas at first when i saw that
overhead shot with them and the salmon on a baking sheet.
Fight scenes like the one between a yakuza and a predator are a fanboy's wet dream, and thanks to Antal's evocative, meticulous camerawork,
especially overhead shots of rippling tall grass, they look a lot better than they have any right to.
It's that it's laid out in such a way that news crews can
get overhead shots of an entire checkpoint, lines and all.
But there the dispatches leave off; not a word about whether the President is a snap shooter or takes his time and is content with one bird per flush; not a line on whether he works around between covey and woods to try the
tricky overhead shots; not a word as to whether he uses the swing - through system or the pointing - out system when he pulls the trigger.
Rosefeldt and cinematographer Christoph Krauss employ
many overhead shots (the angels» point of view for Wenders), frame modern architecture with formalist symmetry, and lovingly glide the camera over people engaged in everyday activities, all while maintaining an emotional distance.
The movie is stylized almost to a fault, its
distant overhead shots turning mountain roads into wavy lines cutting through stony landscapes like ancient sand paintings.
All its 89 minutes of fast cuts,
swooping overhead shots, sun, surf, song, sunburn and sex can not obscure the extent of its shallowness.
Jolie's direction alternates between intimate close - ups of hands and faces and extremely
wide overhead shots reducing huge crowds to human insects, further hammering home the dehumanizing agenda of the Khmer Rouge.
He does have decent taste in music, however: the film has a great, moody electronic score by Max Richter, and at times I found myself enjoying the soundtrack more than the visuals, which for the most part aren't that interesting, save for some brilliant
overhead shots at the beginning.
The tripod that most bloggers use
for overhead shots and videos is the Manfrotto with an extendable arm.
The film also won for Best Cinematography, and it opens with the
soaring overhead shots that soon become a motif.
This angle, thefish - eye
lens overhead shot (far right), wasn't thought to exist untilrecently.
It often occurs in throwing sports such as Javelin throwing, Baseball and Cricket as well as in racket sports when
playing overhead shots.
To forestall such questions, and distract us from the film's core emptiness, director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park) and his crew very nearly art - direct everything into the dirt: The wallpaper in ordinary apartment buildings is a catalogue of optical illusions, and one
fleeting overhead shot of a parking lot features an array of vehicles so expertly color - coordinated they could be photoshopped into a Kelly - Moore spread.
You
like overhead shots of someone kneeling by the body of a loved one and screaming up at the heavens?
But it's doubtful that any of this matters much to Kapur, whose primary attention is
sweeping overhead shots, massive CGI tableaux, and the distinctive warp and weave of Lizzy's wigs for all occasions.
In the same way, Walsingham is her link to the world of politics and diplomacy, where again she is seen as a dominant presence, a matter visually underlined by an
eloquent overhead shot of Elizabeth striding over a vast map of Western Europe discussing with Walsingham and her advisers the strategy to take on the Armada.
Hooper's strategy is to suggest the monumental (a handful of
overhead shots against massive 19th - century sets), but he also gives attention to the close - up intimacy of the performances.
A heap of bad history, the movie rewrites the one - sided feud between the early electric power moguls Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) into a clumsy public - domain mockbuster of The Prestige; you can almost hear director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl) trying to slap himself awake as he
inserts overhead shots, canted angles, zooms, and wide - angle Tom Hooper - isms into every scene.
The film adopts a whiplash pace, brimming with tension from the
first overhead shot of Tom walking hunched up to his lovers house, abandoned in the middle of a farmland nowhere, to a
It's extremely well done, and the use of
multiple overhead shots could leave people a little queasy if they have a fear of heights and falling.
The new Black Panther trailer, which teased the February 16 release, featured
gorgeous overhead shots of Wakanda, cuts of Chadwick Boseman's deliberate, kingly stride, and glimpses of Martin Freeman's sure - to - be-perfectly neurotic Everett K. Ross.
Amplified by muted palettes, some interestingly
canted overhead shots, and Banderas» stoic yet fragile performance, The Skin I Live In is a mediation on loss and our inability to handle it.
By film's end, Harry has solved the crime, splattered the villains, avenged his lost lover / partner, and walked away while the camera pulls up for a
final overhead shot of the carnage.
Director Ryan Murphy's expansion of the original play bears the burden of its staginess, despite a hyperactive camera that sometimes makes The Normal Heart feel like an episode of «American Horror Story» (this guy can make a scene showing a few men shaking hands feel like a goddamned Tilt - a-Whirl ride, and he seriously overvalues
ostentatious overhead shots).
Director Trish Sie offers some quickie edits of packing and touring and some
interesting overhead shots; otherwise, she phones it in.
He takes advantage of unnerving cinematography by Maxime Alexandre («High Tension»), who prefers inching zooms and
twisting overhead shots.
Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's go - to director of photography, opens with stunningly
beautiful overhead shots of richly green land and later crane shots on the battlefield that belong in a museum.
The big centre - piece for Busby was those classic kaleidoscopic chorus
girls overhead shots, that moved them into patterns on the screen.
The restless motion and bonhomie of the preceding 30 seconds gives way to a
static overhead shot of the girls in shock, for 20 whole seconds.
Consistent with most of Perry's films, craft contributions are adequate but undistinguished, with
occasional overhead shots of metro D.C. adding a dollop of location flavor to otherwise obvious Georgia soundstage shooting.
Whereas the Fox prologue used extremely wide crane shots, the MGM short intercuts various angles - several held in closer view on key soloists - and conveys the size of the orchestra through more dynamic angles (including a very
cool overhead shot) and tracking shots.
While Moaz employs some technical tricks that smack of over-direction —
dramatic overhead shots, swiveling cameras — the emotional core of his story sends shockwaves.
Finally, we get a
fading overhead shot of the center console, which highlights the traditional chrome Bentley shifter, alongside plenty of buttons and mode selectors.
I would say if you are
into overhead shoot em» up chopper games then get this, I highly recommend it, especially if you're up for a challenge.