film language

There are many writers who find film language poor.

I think the time is right for that kind of film language, because it's the way media is going."

Astonishing use of camera-really a revolution in film language, don't you think?

At his best, these convictions allow him to create films that speak in their own witty, provocative film language.

Years from now, the movie will be remembered as a freshening, even a reinvention, of film language.

While not experimental films per se, they contributed to the film language of the avant-garde.

This is an efficient and easy way to work out your story ideas in advance by translating them into film language before shooting begins.

In order to achieve this a cinematologist was employed to teach editing, camera and film language techniques.

The power/powerlessness angle's universal meaning is an example of film language code, interacting with the appropriate context.

The original film language is Russian but very little speech is used (usually interjections or at most several sentences per episode).

Next the development of film language from a crude system of connected shots to full-length features had to be grasped.

In film language, the alternatives to a cut are fades in and out from one shot to another, or dissolves (mixes).

Screenwriters need to develop creative writing skills, a mastery of film language, and a basic understanding of filmmaking.

"Forgive the lapse into film language."

Mr. Wenders's films combine an American film language with a European approach, pace and style.

Most Latin American films can only achieve success in the international market if they emulate hegemonic models and borrow from mainstream film languages.

Yet Mr. Medem's complex, allusive film language also makes him an anomaly among his contemporaries.

But Nureyev's ideas about what film could do for dance extended beyond his own personal use, in part because he developed a sophisticated knowledge of film language.

He detested the stranglehold of plot on narrative because it overdetermines the interpretive possibilities of film language.

"But there's no reason you can't also explore new techniques in film language as well as new ideas that are not normal subject matter for most movies."

Cuban and Latin American films were successful in the international market even though they did not always fit the hegemonic models or use mainstream film languages.

Other film-makers then took up all these ideas, which is the basis of film construction, or "film language", or "film grammar", as we know it.

This not only made the film longer, but demonstrated that advances in film language could be made in editing as well as shooting.

The Battleship Potemkin was noteworthy for its innovative montage and metaphorical quality of its film language.

Mizoguchi and the Evolution of Film Language in Cinema and Language, eds.