production values

A form of production value — A method, material, or stagecraft skill used in the production of a motion picture or artistic performance; the technical quality of such a method, material, or skill.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of production value

    Aesthetically, Letts's film bears material traces of its low budget as well as the director's inattention to professional production values.

    2004, Stacy Thompson, “Punk Cinema”, in Cinema Journal, volume 43, number 2, page 51
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    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.

    1966, Ernest Callenbach, “Reviews: Short Films”, in Film Quarterly, volume 19, number 4, page 65

    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.

    2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 47
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