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Definition of off-screen in English: off-screenadjective 1Not appearing on a cinema, television, or computer screen. he drawls to an off-screen interrogator Example sentencesExamples - Streep is very good as Joanna, though she's off-screen so much that her character almost seems to be even lower than supporting.
- In such scenes, the director leaves the therapist as an off-screen presence, thus openly inviting the audience to consider the questions that Harvey raises.
- Scene after scene I kept imagining some off-screen trainer with a grub in his hand, prodding Link to do his bidding.
- As with the example from Jurassic Park, the camera movement in this long take creates a structural relation between on-screen and off-screen space.
- With surround sound, filmmakers are able to explore not only what lies immediately to the sides of the screen but in the entire off-screen space.
- In as far as the body of the actor remains off-screen, the performance is rendered at a purely vocal level.
- It gains intensity and volume as the sound of Julie's shoes disappear, fading out in the off-screen distance.
- For me, the comparison would seem to be most valid when it comes to the two auteurs' preoccupations with off-screen space.
- Sampredro, wearing large dark sunglasses and sitting in his hotel room, addresses someone off-screen, and it's implied that Jarmusch is behind the camera.
- There are too many moments in the film during which Barb seems to overtly threaten, or at least mock, her off-screen viewers.
- By keeping the specter of the father's death off-screen, he deepens each scene.
- Throughout the film, Amenábar effectively plays out the dynamics of onscreen / off-screen space to constantly promise the visualization of gory imagery to frustrate it invariably.
- It is generally considered good form for actors to perform their lines even when they're off-screen as it helps motivate their on-screen co-star.
- The cartoon short that proceeded the film, Cracked Ice, also featured a self-reflexive joke, an off-screen heckler that we can hear on the soundtrack.
- In contrast to Ingmar Bergman's massive close-ups of the face in which the subject stares straight out at the viewer, here on- and off-screen subjects gaze ahead at the same vista.
- Set in a monastery where Pellegrina lies dying late in the story, the first scene shows Marcus telling her story to Lincoln Forsner and others off-screen.
- As visual elements are introduced, brought from off-screen and into on-screen space, their sounds, too, appear - even if, logically, those sounds are already there in the space to be heard.
- Thus, his memory of Lisa is mediated by this black-and-white videotape recording which includes significantly the off-screen presence of Christina.
- Haggar displays fine use of mise-en-scene, and the film-maker/academic Noël Burch has emphasised his effective use of off-screen space.
- No less impressive is the sound design, which is seemingly standard, but upon closer examination reveals a developed awareness of off-screen space and spatial relations.
- 1.1attributive Happening in reality rather than fictionally on-screen.
they were off-screen lovers Example sentencesExamples - Test your knowledge of their on-screen and off-screen triumphs, tragedies, and occasional tackiness by matching a dozen fun factoids with the correct diva.
- She is about to be ogled on-screen by her off-screen husband, erotic novelist and master photographer Georges.
- Only, years of yearning to become an on-screen hero has made him the off-screen pain-in-the-neck.
- He claims he is able to compartmentalize his relationships with on and off-screen lovers.
- However volatile their off-screen relationship may have been, on screen they complement each other rather well.
- According to the actor, their on-screen banter is mirrored by his off-screen friendship with his co-star.
- In spite of her off-screen antics, she remains the darling of Disney remakes, with her on-screen innocence and charm.
- Although he has been in the news more for his off-screen activities rather than on screen dynamics, this is clearly going to be an eventful year for the actor.
- This on-screen team became an off-screen team on New Year's Eve, 1947.
- The popular television show has generated off-screen controversy.
- There are no visible joins to Kelly's on-screen and off-screen personas.
- The on-screen relationship seems to have cultivated some off-screen affections as well.
- Publicity for the film made much of the way in which the off-screen affair between the two actors mirrored the relationship they now played out on screen.
- The photo caught a clash between off-screen reality and her on-screen image.
- Her agent wanted to salvage her career, and capitalize on the duo's on-screen and off-screen chemistry.
- They have enjoyed a long and fruitful on-screen and off-screen collaboration, but this may be their swansong.
adverb 1Outside what can be seen on a television or cinema screen. the girl is looking off-screen to the right Example sentencesExamples - Although the violence in the film mostly occurs off-screen, its implied glass-eating scene got the film in trouble with the Hollywood Code watchdogs.
- There is an internal struggle between him and his superiors that takes place almost entirely off-screen and results in a ridiculous, violent finale.
- Most of the ‘big’ scenes take place off-screen, and while that approach avoids melodramatics, it also avoids dramatics too.
- The extreme violence takes place off-screen, and very little is shown of the aftermath.
- While gazing off-screen left, she talks to Sam behind her screen right.
- As she dresses off-screen after being with a client, she smiles, as if satisfied, but gradually her guard drops and a searing sadness transforms her face.
- The scene ends with a medium shot of Mr. Dennis casting a desiring look in the direction of Wanda off-screen.
- I think in some cases it's better to have something occur off-screen, just like in a lot of drama - it looms larger that way.
- Makowski's framing is consistently laughable - several times we sort of see characters do things, but not really, because the key part of the shot occurs just off-screen.
- Several of the murders, which would be the centerpieces of similar American films, occur off-screen.
- However, after Haynes shoots Pugh off-screen in a cornfield, the film transforms into a road movie where character development supersedes action.
- Marissa's disclosure to best-friend Summer happened off-screen, denying her character the opportunity to speak about her experience directly to the viewer.
- Key events sometimes occur between scenes, or just off-screen; our only access to them then comes through competing accounts, each with their own partial perspective and wily agenda.
- The camera frames Cui and Zu'er arguing; Cui exits off-screen, and Zu'er calls out to him.
- Though the film hints at the mighty struggle the Kers went through building Coorain, too much happens off-screen and too much is given short shrift.
- 1.1 In real life rather than fictionally in a film or on television.
happy endings rarely happen off-screen Example sentencesExamples - But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
- The brother's share a great rapport off-screen and the equation on the sets was no different.
- The whole effort to deglamorise the use of tobacco on-screen to reduce its consumption off-screen seems futile.
- They are rumored to be piecing it together off-screen, but onscreen it's all about calling it quits.
- Competition to be the thinnest off-screen reflected the edgy relationship between female characters on-screen.
- So what if the chemistry between the actors spilled off-screen from their on-screen pairing during the film?
- He's got some new projects for the silver screen and his work off-screen is truly golden.
- Since I know little about Eastwood's life off-screen I was happy to sit down for a retrospective on his career.
- But it was just as much what Harris did off-screen as what he did on-screen that made him famous.
- His stay was entertaining on-screen and uneventful off-screen.
- He has carried on playing his music off-screen, appearing on Top of the Pops in 1994 with the Irish band the Pogues.
- The actor may be best known as the unshakeable, and unstirrable spy, but off-screen he is modest to the point of shy.
- I have understood that one needs to move beyond star-status and do good things off-screen.
- Jeter's experience with the critically acclaimed film has provided him with some fairly miraculous moments off-screen as well.
- Was the chemistry between you and Téa Leoni as strong off-screen as it appears on it?
- The first series of Lost finished in the UK a few days ago, and we can safely say that anything happening to the cast off-screen is infinitely more interesting than their on-screen exploits.
Definition of off-screen in US English: off-screen(also off screen, offscreen) adjectiveˈɔf ˈˌskrin 1Not appearing on a movie or television screen. he drawls to an off-screen interrogator Example sentencesExamples - Sampredro, wearing large dark sunglasses and sitting in his hotel room, addresses someone off-screen, and it's implied that Jarmusch is behind the camera.
- No less impressive is the sound design, which is seemingly standard, but upon closer examination reveals a developed awareness of off-screen space and spatial relations.
- For me, the comparison would seem to be most valid when it comes to the two auteurs' preoccupations with off-screen space.
- It gains intensity and volume as the sound of Julie's shoes disappear, fading out in the off-screen distance.
- It is generally considered good form for actors to perform their lines even when they're off-screen as it helps motivate their on-screen co-star.
- By keeping the specter of the father's death off-screen, he deepens each scene.
- There are too many moments in the film during which Barb seems to overtly threaten, or at least mock, her off-screen viewers.
- In as far as the body of the actor remains off-screen, the performance is rendered at a purely vocal level.
- Scene after scene I kept imagining some off-screen trainer with a grub in his hand, prodding Link to do his bidding.
- Set in a monastery where Pellegrina lies dying late in the story, the first scene shows Marcus telling her story to Lincoln Forsner and others off-screen.
- In such scenes, the director leaves the therapist as an off-screen presence, thus openly inviting the audience to consider the questions that Harvey raises.
- In contrast to Ingmar Bergman's massive close-ups of the face in which the subject stares straight out at the viewer, here on- and off-screen subjects gaze ahead at the same vista.
- Haggar displays fine use of mise-en-scene, and the film-maker/academic Noël Burch has emphasised his effective use of off-screen space.
- As with the example from Jurassic Park, the camera movement in this long take creates a structural relation between on-screen and off-screen space.
- Streep is very good as Joanna, though she's off-screen so much that her character almost seems to be even lower than supporting.
- Thus, his memory of Lisa is mediated by this black-and-white videotape recording which includes significantly the off-screen presence of Christina.
- Throughout the film, Amenábar effectively plays out the dynamics of onscreen / off-screen space to constantly promise the visualization of gory imagery to frustrate it invariably.
- The cartoon short that proceeded the film, Cracked Ice, also featured a self-reflexive joke, an off-screen heckler that we can hear on the soundtrack.
- With surround sound, filmmakers are able to explore not only what lies immediately to the sides of the screen but in the entire off-screen space.
- As visual elements are introduced, brought from off-screen and into on-screen space, their sounds, too, appear - even if, logically, those sounds are already there in the space to be heard.
- 1.1attributive Happening in real life rather than fictionally on-screen.
they were off-screen lovers Example sentencesExamples - The photo caught a clash between off-screen reality and her on-screen image.
- Publicity for the film made much of the way in which the off-screen affair between the two actors mirrored the relationship they now played out on screen.
- Although he has been in the news more for his off-screen activities rather than on screen dynamics, this is clearly going to be an eventful year for the actor.
- She is about to be ogled on-screen by her off-screen husband, erotic novelist and master photographer Georges.
- Only, years of yearning to become an on-screen hero has made him the off-screen pain-in-the-neck.
- There are no visible joins to Kelly's on-screen and off-screen personas.
- However volatile their off-screen relationship may have been, on screen they complement each other rather well.
- This on-screen team became an off-screen team on New Year's Eve, 1947.
- The popular television show has generated off-screen controversy.
- Test your knowledge of their on-screen and off-screen triumphs, tragedies, and occasional tackiness by matching a dozen fun factoids with the correct diva.
- They have enjoyed a long and fruitful on-screen and off-screen collaboration, but this may be their swansong.
- The on-screen relationship seems to have cultivated some off-screen affections as well.
- According to the actor, their on-screen banter is mirrored by his off-screen friendship with his co-star.
- He claims he is able to compartmentalize his relationships with on and off-screen lovers.
- In spite of her off-screen antics, she remains the darling of Disney remakes, with her on-screen innocence and charm.
- Her agent wanted to salvage her career, and capitalize on the duo's on-screen and off-screen chemistry.
adverbˈɔf ˈˌskrin 1Outside what can be seen on a movie or television screen. the girl is looking off-screen to the right Example sentencesExamples - Most of the ‘big’ scenes take place off-screen, and while that approach avoids melodramatics, it also avoids dramatics too.
- Though the film hints at the mighty struggle the Kers went through building Coorain, too much happens off-screen and too much is given short shrift.
- However, after Haynes shoots Pugh off-screen in a cornfield, the film transforms into a road movie where character development supersedes action.
- Key events sometimes occur between scenes, or just off-screen; our only access to them then comes through competing accounts, each with their own partial perspective and wily agenda.
- Although the violence in the film mostly occurs off-screen, its implied glass-eating scene got the film in trouble with the Hollywood Code watchdogs.
- Makowski's framing is consistently laughable - several times we sort of see characters do things, but not really, because the key part of the shot occurs just off-screen.
- Marissa's disclosure to best-friend Summer happened off-screen, denying her character the opportunity to speak about her experience directly to the viewer.
- I think in some cases it's better to have something occur off-screen, just like in a lot of drama - it looms larger that way.
- Several of the murders, which would be the centerpieces of similar American films, occur off-screen.
- As she dresses off-screen after being with a client, she smiles, as if satisfied, but gradually her guard drops and a searing sadness transforms her face.
- The scene ends with a medium shot of Mr. Dennis casting a desiring look in the direction of Wanda off-screen.
- The extreme violence takes place off-screen, and very little is shown of the aftermath.
- While gazing off-screen left, she talks to Sam behind her screen right.
- The camera frames Cui and Zu'er arguing; Cui exits off-screen, and Zu'er calls out to him.
- There is an internal struggle between him and his superiors that takes place almost entirely off-screen and results in a ridiculous, violent finale.
- 1.1 In real life rather than fictionally in a movie or on television.
happy endings rarely happen off-screen Example sentencesExamples - The first series of Lost finished in the UK a few days ago, and we can safely say that anything happening to the cast off-screen is infinitely more interesting than their on-screen exploits.
- The brother's share a great rapport off-screen and the equation on the sets was no different.
- The actor may be best known as the unshakeable, and unstirrable spy, but off-screen he is modest to the point of shy.
- The whole effort to deglamorise the use of tobacco on-screen to reduce its consumption off-screen seems futile.
- Jeter's experience with the critically acclaimed film has provided him with some fairly miraculous moments off-screen as well.
- Was the chemistry between you and Téa Leoni as strong off-screen as it appears on it?
- So what if the chemistry between the actors spilled off-screen from their on-screen pairing during the film?
- Competition to be the thinnest off-screen reflected the edgy relationship between female characters on-screen.
- But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
- He has carried on playing his music off-screen, appearing on Top of the Pops in 1994 with the Irish band the Pogues.
- I have understood that one needs to move beyond star-status and do good things off-screen.
- They are rumored to be piecing it together off-screen, but onscreen it's all about calling it quits.
- Since I know little about Eastwood's life off-screen I was happy to sit down for a retrospective on his career.
- His stay was entertaining on-screen and uneventful off-screen.
- But it was just as much what Harris did off-screen as what he did on-screen that made him famous.
- He's got some new projects for the silver screen and his work off-screen is truly golden.
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