Sentence examples for cinematic structure from inspiring English sources

"I had the story, but I was really struggling with the cinematic structure of it, because I'd never actually written a full screenplay," she says.

When a film's subject is a real writer, the truth must be bent into a cinematic structure; romantic intrigues are recreated or expanded into life-changing events.

In "Scotch on the Rocks," her cinematic structure (with sharp cuts away from a repeated scene in which a man slaps a woman) builds shrewdly into a nonlinear narrative about an unhappy couple living behind a social facade.

Berg, however, surely remembered Schreker when he wrote "Lulu"; he had prepared the vocal score of the second and third acts of "Der Ferne Klang," and in the process made a close study of its luminous orchestration and cinematic structure.

These include the Austrian director Max Reinhardt's film of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), which varied the cinematic structure to incorporate the complete suite of Mendelssohn's incidental music originally written for the play.

It's one of the most distinctively philosophical and disturbingly political movies of recent years, and its remarkable realm of ideas is built into its cinematic structure, even as it remains a lucid, wise, intimate, and deeply compassionate drama of characters in action, crisis, and pain.

Both Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, British films released this week with an eye to catching the next Oscar wave, artfully resist the rigid cinematic structures – short scenes, three acts – that are taught in film-making and screenwriting classes around the world.

Yes, after all, were one of the biggest rock bands of the 1970s, and in this, their first nomination, the group seems likely to bring their complicated time signatures and cinematic structures into the hall.

But the complicated, quasi-cinematic structure — the play is composed of a long string of brief scenes and images — keeps the various minidramas from being satisfyingly explored.

When I reviewed The Da Vinci Code ten years ago, I found the feature adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel beset with glacial pacing and a decidedly un-cinematic structure.

One thing that struck me about both your plays is that in an age when plays are becoming more cinematic in structure, yours are not.