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production value

production value noun: 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.

Noun

production value (plural production values)

  1. (plural-normally, performing arts) 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.
    • Soon the novelty of all-talking pictures wore off and incidental music began to make a comeback. It was, after all, an added production value.1969, Toby Haggith, “Face the Music”, in Film Quarterly, volume 22, number 4, page 11
    • The New York publicity people asked the studio people if the films were to be shot in colour or not so as to decide if whether to feature that production value in the promotional campaigns.1994, Mark S. Miller, “Helping Exhibitors: Pressbooks at Warner Bros. in the Late 1930s”, in Film History, volume 6, number 2, page 189

Forms of production value

pluralproduction values

Questions about production value

What does production value mean?
Production value means 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.
What part of speech is production value?
Production value is a noun.
What is the plural of production value?
The plural of production value is production values.

Words near production value in the dictionary

  1. production possibility curves
  2. production record
  3. production records
  4. production team
  5. production teams
  6. production value
  7. production values
  8. productionable
  9. productional
  10. productionalisation
  11. productionalise

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