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52 examples of Shoestring in a sentence

They work on a shoestring budget.
And you can see just what a shoestring operation this really was, because we cast these 16 blue LEDs in epoxy and you can see in the epoxy mold that we used, the word Ziploc is still visible.
The production values demonstrate that this was either filmed on a shoestring or by truly inexperienced filmmakers-- I suspect the latter, unfortunately.
Easy on its easy to tell this is a budget on a shoestring affair; filmed independently in Bulgaria.
The fact that it was done on a virtual shoestring ($1.8 million or so they say on the DVD:they infer that they ended up with even less financing) makes it all the more impressive.
The acting is very wooden, but at least they had a better "display" than some films in the shoestring budget category.
This is one seriously cheesy movie, and the whole thing was obviously done on a shoestring budget, although the alien isn't too bad (I've seen far less convincing men-in-rubber-suits at any rate).
I'm not aware of a really good rendering of the story, however - the best effort being Orson Welles's vigorous shoestring version.
There are some confusing and slow parts, but all in all, an excellent example of what a small crew with brains and talent can do on a shoestring budget.
Shot on a shoestring in Manhattan and in his acting workshop on ad hoc sets, Shadows was the culmination of months of improvisational rehearsals, in which the (mostly amateur) actors developed bonds with one another, invented their characters, and polished their techniques to give their filmed performances just the right tenor of spontaneous familiarity.
Shot on digital in black and white, the film is well directed with production values that belie its shoestring budget.
John Cassavette's decided as his first film, obviously as one shot on a shoestring in New York, to not even have a script with dialog, and delivers a 1959 feature equivalent of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm- all the actors know what to do and say and even have the right look in their eyes when they talk.
Along with the cinematography and the ingenious ways the director makes do with his shoestring budget, the other highlights of this film are the monologues.
Craig Bowlsby, Linden Banks, Sophie Banks, and Brian Oberquell came out to show the video and give a couple of panels on making TV on a shoestring budget.
I've seen some wonderful work done on a comparative shoestring ("Soldier and Saints" is a recent example).
I can't say I'm all that experienced in misty Mundae flicks having seen only a handful, but it's obvious that this was made on a shoestring, and while it might have been respectable that the filmmakers were able to make a Tomb Raider rip-off inside a garage, it isn't because it's completely obvious that this is what they were doing.
Watching this again recently, I found it heartwarming to see the way they sincerely tried to bring the book to the screen, even if the shoestring budget and hammy actors meant inevitable failure.
Shot on a shoestring budget, yet had the flavor of the early Coen brother's film Blood Simple ... and throw in some Monty Python flavorings to boot! Needs to seen more than once to appreciate all the elements that carry one scene to the next.
Shot in B & W on a shoestring budget, this film is hilarious.
Knowing that it was made on such a shoestring budget over 7 years it is amazing that such a story can be told, especially with such style and substance.
However, because it has John Cleese as Sherlock Holmes it manages to be hilarious even on a budget that couldn't afford a shoestring.
The shoestring budget the small studio (this was even before Kaufman and his friend and partner for over 30 years now, Michael Herz, formed Troma) had to work with is so well handled that the film looks a lot more expensive, indeed does not have a "low budget" look at all.
10 ITEMS OR LESS was made in two weeks on a shoestring budget by writer/director Brad Silberling, just a little film shot in Carson, CA that feels like the entire story was improvised...in the best sense of the word.
Obviously made on a shoestring budget by mostly unknowns.
made on a shoestring, we dive headfirst into the seedy sleazy underworld of London life, the pimps, hookers and general lowlifes that crawl through the gutters of this world... we meet a downtrodden prostitute and an 11 year old girl (a fabulous performance by Georgia Broome) on the run, which is not obviously clear why at first.
It's just a B picture from Columbia, clearly made on a shoestring budget, and what comedy there is in the film is pretty forced and obvious, exemplified by a tedious gag in which Brian Aherne has trouble opening a door.
It has a meandering and unrealistic plot and was shot on a shoestring budget but, man...I love this film.
Made on a shoestring budget and within a tight time-frame, these factors only seem to add to the rough and ready quality of this film.
DELIVERY definitely falls into the low-budget, done on a shoestring, splatter flick category that seems to be all the rage these days.
As I had never heard of the film before, and taking into consideration that this was a British, (And therefore shot on a shoestring budget!), post-apocalypse film, I had an idea that it was going to be a pretty poor excuse for a film.
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