Sentences with phrase «shot on a low budget»

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He built his career on an ultra-efficient filmmaking style that demands low budgets and short shooting schedules.

Shot with an iPhone, this low - budget comedy that focuses on a transgender sex worker out for answers when she learns that her pimp boyfriend has been cheating on her is incredibly executed and the performances are top - notch.

These no - budget, low - quality postings — shot with his cell phone camera — have attracted more than 30 million followers on all his platforms — more than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

In fact, The Film House shot one low - budget movie on location in Central New York, «American Dresser.»

Much of the attention for the movie has centered on its preposterously low shooting budget and camera, an iPhone 5s with a $ 7.99 high - def app, a Steadicam rig, and the odd anamorphic lens.

Writer - director Ryan Coogler's debut feature Fruitvale Station was a low - budget drama based on the true story of the shooting of a young African - American man at a railway station in Oakland, California, on New Year's Day 2009.

Despite being a low budget game for casuals The Shoot gives the player a genuine feeling of old - style on - rail shooters.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

While Florentine and his longtime cinematographer, Ross W. Clarkson, manage to get a few»90s Hollywood - flavored Steadicam shots in, much of the movie is composed in an anemic, impersonal style that more closely resembles Florentine's past career as a regular director on various Power Rangers TV shows than the low - budget craft of Ninja (2009) or Undisputed III: Redemption (2010).

Given the extreme low budget (the film was shot on a shoestring in Budapest), the special effects look pretty credible, with Petty wisely deciding to spend most of the time with the creatures in the background or swathed in shadow, understanding that Sentinel is a picture of ideas — an unusually faithful recreation of Hitchcock's film possessed of a similar, mordant sense of humour, if an understandable surfeit of corresponding depth.

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

This deliciously taut, witty, intense neo-noir is lean and mean, produced on a low - budget but dripping with high style — shot in color but heavy on blacks, whites and blood red.

Beginning with «Easy Rider» (photographed by Kovács), they helped redefine the way movies looked, from grabbing shots on the fly for young directors making personal films on low budgets to using natural light to give a heightened realism to their studio productions.

Psycho is pulpy and sordid and perverse, shot in black and white on a low budget to give it the tawdry feel of a B movie, and directed with the impeccable craft of a master who knew how to shock the sensibilities and shake up the expectations of an audience.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

BANG This vital low - budget first feature, shot guerrilla - style on the streets of Los Angeles, is about a young Asian American woman who spends a day pretending she is a uniformed L.A. motorcycle cop.

Davis finds that shooting on location on a low - budget film requires a lot of coordination with the 1st AD.

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Shot on Super 16 and premiering at the 2001 SXSW film festival, Ryman's film shows great professionalism in its production, from the cinematography to the acting, ultimately belying its low budget reality.

Shot on 16 mm film, Fruitvale Station's low - budget look works to its advantage.

It's one of those movies that came and went and despite having plenty of big names in the cast, it feels like a low budget movie shot on the run.

For no discernable reason whatsoever, Happy Christmas was filmed on Super 16 mm, a hugely expensive and time - consuming process for low - budget pictures like this one which are usually shot on cheapo digital.

The transfer provides the movie with an apt look, e.g., that of a «70s low - budget sci - fi shot on cheap, fast stock.

The Canuxploitation rage throughout the 1980s and 1990s harbored a number of low budget schlockers, many shot on video, and all piled onto U.S. rental shelves with interesting or even outrageous VHS artwork.

Beautifully shot on 35 mm film, featuring, for a relatively low budget, an impressive amount of location shoots and multitudinous extras, this is an undertaking every bit as ambitious as the characters the film is about.

Shot on a low - budget often with hidden cameras and using a mix of professionals (like Johansson) and non-actors, «Under the Skin» feels dually creepy — it tells a strange story and, reportedly, the everyday Scotsmen she picks up didn't recognize the raven - haired, English - accented Johansson or know that a movie was being made.

The low - budget film was shot on digital and later transferred to 35 mm.

«Another Earth» was made on a low budget, and Cahill shot and edited it himself.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

The red band trailer promises a film full of frantic energy, sun - kissed visuals (Baker remarkably shot the whole thing on an iPhone, and even on a low budget he still nails the California look) and an earnest, humanistic portrayal of its characters.