Sentences with phrase «set of a low budget»

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

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Where farm gate prices traditionally are set conservatively low, and rise as the season progresses with step ups paid to farmers as the budget is refined based on actual sales, dairy farmers that supply these companies are now facing the prospect of retrospectively paying back 10 months of «overpaid» milk.

The Chicco Capri though low budget comes with a good set of wheels.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

The unfinished progressive priorities Cuomo set for himself after negotiating the state budget and in the State of the State were mere afterthoughts in the last week, when lawmakers instead focused on some lower - hanging fruit: a package to combat the heroin epidemic, a pause on Common Core - based teacher evaluations and a bill to let New York City reduce its speed limit to 25 m.p.h.

The disaster of March and the omnishambles budget meant the bar was set low for George Osborne's autumn statement.

The Conservative national leader William Hague attacked the Labour council as he said they lowered the education budget while setting one of the highest metropolitan council taxes in the country.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

The Senate insists that those are the budget targets for this year, but the House decided to pass a different, lower set of spending numbers to guide its appropriations process.

Director Roger Corman, master of cheesy SFX and low - budget sets, was able to recruit talent, including charmingly wicked Vincent Price, bug - eyed Peter Lorre and an aged Basil Rathbone as a villain.

Duournau has set up an aesthetic of European low - budget art - house film, a sense of verisimilitude, to further drive home the allegory, and this extends to the effects and sound, with a score by Jim Williams that evokes both the generic French countryside, and the ongoing discord of Justine's mental and emotional state.

The trailer seemed very different than the source material, but over-proliferation of zombie - related content obscures how much of anomaly this picture really is: zombies have always roamed through low - budget settings, but what if someone had some serious dime to throw down on a zombie film?

Writer - director Sean Baker uses observational realism to look at hidden poverty and the struggles of millennials trapped in that world with this gritty film that's set among the low - budget motels near Disney World in Orlando.

No one is there, maybe, in «The Pact,» a tightly controlled low - budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense.

Arnold was a prolific director of low - budget sci - fi spectacles in the fifties and it would have been nice to see a set devoted to his films.

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

Hadi Hajaig follows his low - budget, noir thriller Puritan with Cleanskin, a tense tale of terrorism set in London, which pits two individuals from either side of the terror war divide against each other.

Belfast is the setting of this low - budget thriller, though with nary a reference to the Troubles in the film's screenplay or geography, the two - hander drama could plausibly take place just about anywhere.

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

’96 was the year of the indie where 4 of the 5 nominees were «low budget,» «non-studio» films and the 5th was a contemporary - set rom - com.

His previous work, the low - budget indie breakout «Tangerine,» explored the world of transgender women in Los Angeles, while his earlier «Starlet» was set on the fringes of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley.

It's a superb - looking transfer of the CinemaScope production and shows Corman's talent for repurposing standing sets and stretching resources to make a low - budget look far more expensive.

The budget is noticeably lower his time around, with the majority of the action set in one central location, here the Century City Shopping Center in Los Angeles, plus other exterior shots around the UC Irvine campus.

Leaving it in London with its terraced rows of houses streaking past the train windows would have made it grittier and more thrilling; moving it to the glorious upstate New York setting ironically only added to the low budget appearance of a film that could have been one of a dozen others that look the same.

Junebug is a character study in every way that «character study» used to be the gold standard instead of an overworked catchphrase used to describe boring, predictable low - budget movies set in the 1970s.

Clearly the movie is being set up to keep the budget low, but it sounds like it will have a lot more mainstream potential than some of his experimental films.

Of course, coherence is in short supply in contemporary action films, but I refuse to set the bar that low, especially for a movie with a $ 150 million budget.

At this time Welles invented his own unique method of low - budget independent filmmaking that set the template, for better and worse, for most of his career thereafter.

Taymor utilizes the sparse landscape of her volcanic Hawaiian milieu in a powerful manner, yet at times the set looks blatantly fake and low - budget.

Working with a low budget, and only a basic, though well executed, set of special effects, writer / director David Robert Mitchell has done a superb job of scaring the bejeezus out of us with such subversive filmmaking.

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

Fuller's personal favorite of all his movies was this lusty low - budget period film, set in the 1880s, about newspapering in New York.

The shock Oscar win of the low - budget drama about a black gay man's life has set in motion a year that might finally provide a substantive view of sexuality

As adapted and shot by writer - director Leslie Greif, Funny Money suffers from a low budget look that has this one tagged as a straight - to - video or basic cable release, with video textures, spotty use of the generic soundtrack, and sets and props that give off that «we found this stuff lying around, so let's use it for the movie» quality to them.

Ryan was a four - year college boxing champion at Dartmouth, and later, when he became a Hollywood star, one of his finest roles and movies came in Robert Wise's low - budget gem «The Set - Up, «where Ryan played a seemingly washed - up prizefighter named Stoker Thompson — he's been set up to lose what will probably be his last figSet - Up, «where Ryan played a seemingly washed - up prizefighter named Stoker Thompson — he's been set up to lose what will probably be his last figset up to lose what will probably be his last fight.

Given the currency of contained horror films and psychological thrillers — «low budget horror films set within a single location» appears on every «Screenwriters Wanted» list in Hollywood — it it's no surprise that the above breakdown sounds so familiar.

The typically lower budget director, uses an excellent score to set the mood of fear, but the shock is that inside the house is a gruesome scene where the owner's brains are splattered on a mirror in a bathroom.

When you set out to work on something with a big price tag on it in terms of production cost, I'm aware that it needs to do certain things that lower - budgeted films don't do.

It's perhaps something of a triumph that after years of standing in for every other place in the world, Bulgaria gets to play Bulgaria in the low - budget, Sofia - set thriller «Assassin's Bullet.»

Rookie director Joshua Weinstein emphasizes authenticity in the film's setting, which benefits this low - budget if uneven examination of how rigid customs sometimes conflict with basic human emotions.

There's a familiarity in both the setting and the structure of this low - budget ensemble drama, which intercuts five stories of relationship troubles among New Yorkers, from an eager journalist (Abbi Jacobson) tracking a murder case to a jazz aficionado (Bene Coopersmith) chasing down a rare vinyl record.

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

Along with the budget, the governor proposed a set of policy changes — based on a report co-written by former Stanford education professor Michael Kirst, currently the president of the California State Board of Education — that would grant additional funding to schools with a high concentration of low - income and English learner students.

Sponsored Products AMS ad campaigns can be set up with a budget for as little as $ 1 per day, with bids per click as low as $ 0.02 (as of this writing).

If you have a low budget and you're looking for an Android Touch Screen Phone with a great set of features, then this is surely a phone to look forward to.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos initially set an internal price tag goal of $ 50 for the company's Kindle e-reader and Fire tablet, with the low prices seen as an important factor in luring budget - minded users.

From data compiled from over 2 million users» search behaviour and project posts, TrustedPros.ca, a site that helps homeowners find and rate home reno contractors, found that homeowners consistently set unrealistically low budgets for a few of the most popular renovation projects.

Otherwise, you might want to revisit your budget or set your sights a little lower in terms of how much house you should buy.

There are plenty of 5 - star hotels in the area, but plenty of low budget hotels and guesthouses that are ideal for the backpacking set.