Sentence examples for backdrop set up from inspiring English sources

So were innumerable actors (including Mr. Millepied's wife, Natalie Portman), artists, models, designers and glitterati, many posing, Hollywood-style, against a garland-draped backdrop set up for photographers.

There's loads of swarthy vibrato in Dumay's solo lines, as if a gypsy singer would only declaim her song in capital letters – but that sounds at odds with the rather placid backdrop set up by Kent Nagano.

She was often the warm backdrop that set up the zingers flung out by her on-screen brother Danny, played by Danny Bonaduce.

So "The Lace Reader" unfolds against a backdrop where entrepreneurial witches set up a booth for selling Celtic jewelry to tourists.

If you're filming somewhere where there are other distractions in the background, you may want to have a set background to film or set up some sort of backdrop to help the viewer focus on you.

Street photographers, usually wielding Polaroid cameras, set up backdrops airbrushed onto bedsheets, hung those sheets from the gates of shuttered storefronts and invited passers-by to pose in front of them in exchange for small donations.

Film crews scrambled in the heat looking for footage while we set up our backdrop out of the way.

Ms. Werthein and Mr. Erlich, who are married, were inspired by the biennial's theme, "Communication in Difficult Times: One Close to the Other," and were allowed to set up their backdrop and large Polaroid camera in a building at La Cabaña, a colonial fort above Havana Harbor that is a historic site.

Thus, irrigation water quality is a key environmental issue faced by the agricultural sector (Shahinasi and Kashuta 2008) and it is against the backdrop that this study was set up to examine the suitability of three streams of different agricultural practices for irrigational purposes in the context of their alkalinity (sodium content) and salinity.

Jessica Piazza of Los Angeles didn't have a budget for the popular photo booth in addition to her photographer; instead, she set up a backdrop, a tripod and an iPad and let guests take pictures of each other via the Hipstamatic Incredibooth app.

Twice a month, Ramos set up a backdrop with one simple light and a chair inside of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at PHC.