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production values

n. (context film performing arts English) (plural of production value lang=en nodot=1)Category:English plurals; the combined technical qualities of the methods, materials, or stagecraft skills used in the production of a motion picture or artistic performance.

Usage examples of "production values".

The importance of the discovery entirely aside, the production values were brilliant.

And, whether you held that the footage was mainly live action or largely computer-generated, the evident production values had come increasingly to argue against the idea of a student effort, or indeed of anything amateur in the usual sense.

Something in the underlying code of the Walled City's creation induces a metaphysical vertigo, and the visual representation is tediously aggressive, as though one were caught in some art school video production with infinitely high production values.

The production values are top-notch: glossy, thick paper that lets the art shine.

In terms of production values, they could have used an editor in places, and the books' interior page design isn't always what it could be (larger margins, please -- the pages look cramped), but the cover designs are snappy (I especially like the one for Finn's book), and the stories, the words, the reason we buy books and read them, are as good as or better than much of what comes from the larger, perhaps more professional publishing houses.

With its superb production values, it's a real bargain at the price and belongs in the library of any lover of fantasy art.

And if you truly love Mozart, this is one Opera that you must experience with full production values.

SNEAKERS has some nice production values, a solid cast, some thrills and some laughs.

Hey, let Hollywood be Hollywood: SNEAKERS has some nice production values, a solid cast, some thrills and some laughs.

Brett had studied the contents list on the bridge computers, and then several of the crystals themselves, and had declared the alien porn to be of the highest quality, with quite superior production values.

The tape had all the production values of a feature-length porno tape.

I watched it as a terrifying collection of production values that mostly worked, sort of, but not quite the way I had imagined it, and, oh, dear, why did they use that take instead of the other one?

The production values are always top-notch -- heavy, slick paper, rich colors -- and the choice eclectic, ranging from the weird and strange to works of great and luminous beauty.