Sentence examples for calling action from inspiring English sources
It's as if Shelton brings the actors together, mainly in twos and threes, for scenes in which, instead of calling "Action," she seems to call "Act".
Ernest Dickerson sat in his director's chair and watched takes on the screen, calling, "Cut!" asking for another, calling, "Action!" again and again, 60 seconds of Bush's speech echoing in the large house, playing over and again: "To every person who has served and sacrificed in this emergency, I offer the gratitude of our country.
"She is directing me, while grabbing a hand-held mirror and putting her lipstick on, talking to the cinematographer, making sure the right vase is on the table, checking with the script supervisor about lines, making sure there's a location set up for the next day, calling action and then acting in the scene".
That visit and more is documented in This is Not a Film (Palisades Tartan, 2011, U), in which, despite being forbidden from plying his trade, assembling a cast or calling: "Action!", Panahi simply oozes cinema, conjuring moving pictures all around him like the magic lantern shows that bedazzled audiences more than a century ago.
Dash calls, "Action," and then, "Cut".
That is what we call action.
When he calls, "Action," it sounds like a prayer.
The first category is called action "intransitive".
The second category is called action "transitive".
To detect such actions, we use an auxiliary structure called "Action Graph".
