Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A still image in a cinematic work made by showing a series of identical frames or by stopping a film or video at one desired frame, usually representing the suspension of action or time.
- noun A vivid, motionless scene or image.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word freeze-frame.
Examples
-
The mothership clearly had the strongest opening, with that stellar freeze-frame shot that traveled all through the lab, water droplets floating in the air, bullets rippling by.
-
“My suggestion is to see it in 3-D in surround sound this weekend and download it next week and feel free to freeze-frame and analyze,” Kosinski said.
-
The release of motion discovers a kind of calm; the film's closing shot, a freeze-frame of Doinel running by the ocean, grasps him in a moment of hopefulness.
-
Director Carmen Jakobi produced some wonderfully fresh ideas, including an excellent freeze-frame tableau from Sampiero and Domenico, engrossed in their gambling like a living embodiment of Cézanne's The Card Players, while the contemporary music ensemble Lontano played with needle-sharp precision under the decisively assured direction of Odaline de la Martinez.
Così fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop – review 2012
-
Minutes later, the buyer of the $61.6 million Still paid another $19.6 million for the painter's orange "PH-1033," which evokes a freeze-frame fire.
Sotheby's Sells Group of Clyfford Still Paintings for $114 Million Kelly Crow 2011
-
God, if I could get my hands on a freeze-frame shot of my face at that moment.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
-
It was as if the trial, and that climactic moment at the end was all a long-form video for him, and the “dance” was the spinning, multi-cut flourish just before the freeze-frame ending.
-
It was as if the trial, and that climactic moment at the end was all a long-form video for him, and the “dance” was the spinning, multi-cut flourish just before the freeze-frame ending.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
-
God, if I could get my hands on a freeze-frame shot of my face at that moment.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
-
Step 2: Deconstruct this violent action into its three, four or five most distinct visual pictures, the stills that freeze-frame the sequence.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Lorin Oberweger, Part 2 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.