Sentence examples for standing sets from inspiring English sources
About 20 miles outside of Bucharest, where newly built suburban developments give way to farmland, is the Castel Film Studio, a vast complex that houses the largest soundstage in Europe, a 200,000-gallon tank for underwater filming and standing sets like city streets, a full-size wingless jet and the mountain hamlet from "Cold Mountain".
The program would consist of an A picture, with stars, conspicuous production values and a running time of 80 minutes or more, and a B picture, with minor stars or none at all, produced on standing sets and often using scripts and stock footage recycled from older films, with a length that hovered around an hour or so.
Rather than take the time and trouble to actually build and film on location for a shot that may last less than a minute, filmmakers can make the shot using standing sets on the studio backlot, with skyscrapers and freeway traffic visible in the distance.
The first three days of filming took place on the Enterprise standing sets.
The standing sets were used for the first three days of filming.
The remaining sets used were either standing sets, or those which had been constructed for the previous two episodes.
Some existing sets were used to save money; sickbay was a redress of the same location from Voyager, while the USS Defiant scenes used Deep Space Nines standing set.
The Ring of Brodgar is a henge and stone circle 104 m in diameter, originally made of 60 stones (of which only 27 remain standing) set within a circular ditch up to 3 m deep and 10 m wide.
This is counter-intuitive, because implicit in the idea of 'self-determination' is the idea of a self who makes decisions about her actions on the basis of some standing set of convictions, plans of life, intentions, and the like.
But at the same time many of the film's shades of feeling seem to have been painted by numbers, and the small town itself is as rickety and worn as a standing set on a studio back lot.
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