Descriptively vivid, richly inventive and shot through with perfectly timed wit, they charmed adults and children alike.
Deftly scored for a pared-down chamber orchestra, it is the finest of Rorem's many concertos, consistently inventive and shot through with piercing melancholy.
But Boomerang is very inventive: it shoots 10 photos quickly from your front or rear camera, then turns them into a GIF-like looping clip.
Gone are the all-over lighting and static cameras of the old made-for-TV movie, to be replaced, often, by superbly kinetic and inventive film-making, shot on film, often in wide-screen formats and on location, using big budgets (Lost's opener, for example, cost a record-breaking $10m), special effects and hit-parade soundtracks.
Raimi had to get increasingly inventive during production, often coming up with "bizarre" ideas while shooting scenes.
His eye for striking compositions was allied to strong narrative skills, with a preference for shooting on film; his use of camera angles conveyed an inventive and sometimes mischievous spirit.
One of the most fun and inventive of those practioners has been artists Reed + Rader Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader whose fashion stories have featured everything from stuffed animal GIFs to models shooting hoops.
Rainer Rother, the author of an authoritative filmography published five years ago, points out that the closing sequence of Carl Junghans's documentary on the Winter Games — a slow-motion montage of ski jumpers — was shot by the same inventive cinematographer, Hans Ertl (one of Riefenstahl's former flames), who shot the slow-motion montage of divers that ends "Olympia".
It was a cleverly mongrel sound – inventive and infectious, part hip-hop, part grime, shot through with snatches of world music, but underpinned with an emphatically street aesthetic – making MIA wildly cool, if not hugely commercially successful.
Described by its producers as "inventive and chilling", the eight-part series will be shot separately in both Welsh and English, with the actors repeating their scenes in the alternative language, the first dual language production of its kind.
