Sentences with phrase «slow zoom»

The phrase "slow zoom" refers to a camera technique where the lens zooms in or out gradually, showing a slow and smooth change in the magnification of the image. Full definition
The evocation of that old film noir feeling is hugely effective here: Dad telling his freshly - bribed son «You can't buy dignity,» the fantastic slow zoom on a love scene reflected in a two - way mirror, even the beguiling torch singer.
Whatever charm the movie has comes mostly from its intermittent lapses into Z - grade filmmaking: a videotape bursting into flames after being tossed into a pot of boiling water, redundant explanatory titles, numerous interminable slow zooms into Portnoy's expressionless face.
As the eyeball is completed the frame begins a gut - wrenchingly slow zoom towards the artificial iris, the would - be window into the human soul, but under the circumstances and accompanied by Mica Levi's pulsing, otherworldly score the eyeball seems to glare back in an almost Orwellian fashion, thus setting the tone appropriately for this hypnotising observation piece.
There's a virtuoso sequence at a pool that opens with a subversion of Roberts and Samul's usually slow zooms.
The Michael Haneke of The Seventh Continent or Code Unknown might be a reference point, but just as relevant is that sense of mysterious undertow in Stanley Kubrick's 2001, particularly when Lanthimos makes such adept use of the oppressive tracking shots and pressure - tightening slow zooms which were such a key part of Kubrick's formal armoury.
He uses slow zooms and POV shots to put viewers inside the pitcher's head.
Taken individually, the halves of the split screen frame are unremarkable: plain - looking, pragmatic handheld shots with odd slow zoom thrown in.
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.
Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)
An example of this limit is that a document can not be smoothly zoomed without either extreme blurring during the transition or a very slow zoom.
Compositions will often be centered, as a slow zoom or pullback reveals the scene, little by little.
Many scenes utilize a slow zoom, so that we're far away when a scene begins, but up - close by the time something noteworthy happens.
We're treated to slow zooms and fades, and once one gets comfortable with this style they truly add to the film's more ethereal qualities.
Scenes between characters run on for minutes at a time, often in a slow zoom single take, allowing the words and their hidden meanings to take shape before our eyes.
There's a genuine heart to some moments, particularly a slow zoom in on Hope at a key moment when she's about to lose everything she's ever held dear.
Overall Hunt for the Wilderpeople also has quite a retro feel, there are slow zooms and fades similar to 80s films and the soundtrack is mostly synths.
A swell of music with a slow zoom into a wide - eyed face, and suddenly Spielberg has you sharing the wonder, horror, delight or bewilderment of the character on screen.
There is a slow zoom in to the back of Caul's head, and then the camera follows him.
The film's cinematography really makes it stand out in its bold camerawork, from an escape in a wheelchair the focuses solely on the face of the victim without much idea of what's pursuing them to a shot that pans 540 degrees and ends with a slow zoom.
Egoyan shoots it coolly and simply, with a slow zoom on the door of the bakery into which Matthew has disappeared, only momentarily, to buy something for dinner.
Camera motion is a slow zoom, direction z.
Installation views of group exhibit, Slow Zoom, with Arianna Petrich and Rose Sexton at Fernwey Gallery, Chicago.
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