production values

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Noun

production values

  1. plural of production value
    • 1966, Ernest Callenbach, “Reviews: Short Films”, in Film Quarterly, volume 19, number 4, page 65:
      Now we are seeing animators putting all their attention into animation (with much complex internal movement of the figures, and movements carried out in full detail) as opposed to other production values like background painting or involved ink and paint work.
    • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 47:
      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.
    • 2004, Stacy Thompson, “Punk Cinema”, in Cinema Journal, volume 43, number 2, page 51:
      Aesthetically, Letts's film bears material traces of its low budget as well as the director's inattention to professional production values.