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a. Of or pertaining to things in near proximity or a situation involving nearness. n. (context photography English) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.
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A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots and long shots ( cinematic techniques). Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Moving in to a close-up or away from a close-up is a common type of zooming.
Close-Up (, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. It features the people involved, acting as themselves. A film about human identity, it helped to increase recognition of Kiarostami in the West.
Many critics consider Close-Up a masterpiece of world cinema; in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, it was voted by critics onto " The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list.
Close-Up is the eleventh album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1961 (see 1961 in music). (The Capitol Years gives the release date as September.) It was the first release by the group after the departure of founding member Dave Guard. The Trio now consisted of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Guard's replacement John Stewart. Close-Up peaked at number three on the Billboard charts. The lead-off single was "Coming from the Mountains" backed with a non-LP track, "Nothing More to Look Forward To". Close-Up was nominated for a Grammy award in 1961 for Best Performance by a Vocal Group.
Close-up is a cinnamon flavored brand of toothpaste which is marketed by Unilever.
Launched in 1967, it is the first gel toothpaste in the world. In 2003, Unilever sold the exclusive licensing rights of Close-Up in United States and Canada to Church & Dwight. This sale did not affect the brand in other countries, like India where Unilever and its subsidiaries continue marketing Close-Up. The brand is positioned to target the youth segment with a lifestyle appeal in its advertising campaigns.
'Close Up' is a 1948 film noir directed by Jack Donohue from a screenplay by John Bright. It stars Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore and Richard Kollmar.
Usage examples of "close-up".
The small viewer on his right armrest, where he would see close-ups of the soloists, was still dark.
Even now the onlookers were being amused by blacklight close-ups of the couples on the dance floor.
Ryder send me out to get close-up blowhole pictures of a gray whale who had a hideous head cold?
I had purchased at the Mississauga theatrical supply establishment recommended by Halimeda Opper was elaborate and expensive, intended for human actors impersonating Joru in close-up holo performances.
It was a crisp shot, a close-up showing Leyton in civilian clothes and sunglasses.
The close-up showed a knobby brown seedcase as it disappeared with a sharp bang.
I told them, as Aileen frowned in close-up and then went after the pear again.
She was sent to fetch samples of the dead plants from the top of the dam, while Byra set up a microscope to examine them with, and Awb followed Thilling to the best points of vantage for general images, before descending to the lake for close-ups of the bare mud and ruined cutinates.
La Plata lay at the foot of a bright blistered hill forty clicks inside Landslip, and it seemed to Moura typical of what she had seen of that zonerather tumbledown and unprotected, and close-up deranged.
An Earthside image hank had marketed his famous close-up of lightning flashing among the dust devils.
Close-ups of men, half-naked, armed with spears and knives, dark skins stretched over staring rib cages, faces drawn and shrivelled looking, of dead elephants, of tusks and meat, of Kirby-Smith, the great white hunter, firing at a warrior with his red cloak flung back, his sleek ochred hair coming loose in coils like snakes and his knife flashing.
Toby and Flynn had grown used to recording sudden death in close-up on the battlefields of Technos III, but nothing there had prepared them for this.
European with an unplaceable accent, turning to present Perry with a close-up view of the back of his wrinkled linen jacket, his ragged gray ponytail.
The camera zoomed in to try to get a close-up, but the bushes were in the way, and only small glimpses of human forms through gaps in the foliage indicated that they were still there.
The scene shifts dramatically, from the close-up world of Gentoos, Kings, Emperors, Rock-hoppers, Macaroni, and Adelie, to a sunburnt panorama of colors dipped in the frigid glaze of this southern continent.