Another way he's like Bob Fosse is that he has a real sense of how motion-picture techniques can be used in the theatre — for example, how a face can appear out of nowhere with pinpoint lighting, or the fluidity with which he goes from one scene to another".
When the making of motion pictures became an industry more than a craft, a situation developed in which music was recognized as desirable by the manufacturers, who nevertheless made no claim to "understand" music in the way they would be expected to understand motion-picture techniques.
The film is even more powerful than the play because of the effects of motion-picture techniques - size, penetrating close-ups, film clips, variegated scenery, and simply more action.
The picture combined a multitude of new motion-picture techniques such as commentative music, voice-over narration, and slow-motion photography with a sense of when to speak for the images on screen and when to allow the images to speak for themselves.
Given access to state-of-the-art audio equipment, Serafine saw the picture as the chance to modernize outdated motion picture sound techniques with digital technology.
The process of trimming and piecing together lengths of film in order to make an artistically concise and complete motion picture is certainly the most obvious technique of film language and the one most often discussed.
Montage, in motion pictures, the editing technique of assembling separate pieces of thematically related film and putting them together into a sequence.
"The Birth of a Nation" was a landmark in motion picture history — full of technological innovations and new storytelling techniques, including flashbacks, crosscutting, dissolves, closeups, panoramic filming, and color tinting, all of which heightened the dramatic and emotional effects.
Refining a technique introduced some years earlier in the motion picture industry, Mr. Simon had Mr. Edwards record his show with three motion-picture cameras on 35-millimeter film and two-track audio.
Except in photographic technique, the lectures haven't changed much since he first started using the motion picture.
