The phrase
"narrative possibilities" refers to the different potential stories or scenarios that can arise from a particular situation or setting. It means that there are various paths or directions in which a story can develop, giving room for different outcomes or interpretations.
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Wordy games like Metal Gear will always have a place in both my heart and the industry, but if we want the general public to see the true
narrative possibility of games we need to show it through exemplars like Super Metroid, games that pull players into an emotional journey through gaming's defining characteristic: interactivity.
As well though, the works are rmly rooted in social and political conditions that inform the formal and
narrative possibilities at play.
Familiar kinds of debasement are at play here — think van Gogh's Self - Portrait With Bandaged Ear, or Francis Bacon's ravaged faces, or anything self - referential by Martin Kippenberger — even if they're made eerier by the unreality of the body, the possibility of instant regeneration, the paradox of choice that can go along with the
limitless narrative possibilities of CGI.
Because it is synchronized with the local time of the exhibition space, the work conflates cinematic and actual time, revealing each passing minute as a repository of alternately suspenseful, tragic or
romantic narrative possibilities.»
These words produced an aha moment of creative discovery for Lucas, revealing
unexplored narrative possibilities and suggesting new directions in future, yet unwritten episodes of the saga.
The sheer physicality of this installation, which includes the work being hoisted and thrown forcefully to the ground, viscerally blurs the distinction between figuration and abstraction, while furthering the formal and
narrative possibilities of sculpture.
I also wanted to interweave several historical stories into the novel, as China's history is so fascinating and rich
with narrative possibility.
On another level, we playfully explore
new narrative possibilities with the flat donut - shape (i.e. the new frame shape) moving image resulting from the use of the special lens.
because he does not have the tokens of language that would allow
him narrative possibility.
The narrative possibilities at this juncture seem endless, and the one that «Downsizing» settles on is both thoughtful and befuddling.
Consider
the narrative possibilities.
He perversely ignores the endless visual, conceptual, and
narrative possibilities of a world of tiny people.
After the promising first act, the jokes become more miss than hit, and there's no denying that
the narrative possibilities of Early Man are ultimately wasted on a formulaic plot.
Less clear are
the narrative possibilities offered by her life's story.
Guest blogger Courtney Boddie of the New Victory Theater offers a lesson plan to implement the Common Core ELA standards through creative play with
the narrative possibilities of reimagining a classic fairytale.
«This setting provides us with really great inspiration for the combat scenarios - not just the tactical situations that emerge from various battlespace geometries, but it also lets us explore a lot of interesting worldbuilding and
narrative possibilities that allow players to become even more immersed in the game.»
The issue isn't about being pro- or anti- shooter games; it's about how standard FPS design limits
the narrative possibilities of a game that clearly aspires to dig deep.
I agree that
the narrative possibilities you discuss will result in exciting and immersive new games.
The sheer physicality of the installation, which fills the entire gallery space and includes the work being hoisted and thrown forcefully to the ground, viscerally blurs the distinction between figuration and abstraction, while furthering the formal and
narrative possibilities of sculpture.
(Seattle, US) Featuring 14 contemporary artists from Latin America, including Adriano Costa, Marilá Dardot, Sonia Gomes and Erika Verzutti, the exhibition reveals the aesthetic and
narrative possibilities of the objects of daily life that typically go unnoticed.
More recently, artists such as Victor Burgin and Judy Fiskin (American, born 1945) have pushed
the narrative possibilities of the medium still further, using video to address the shifting meaning of art at different times and in different contexts.
Kurland remains a storyteller, and her new work combines engaged photojournalism with a sure feel for
its narrative possibilities.
A younger generation of artists working in the 1980s and 1990s has been influenced by Conceptual Art's use of words for
their narrative possibilities as well as Ruscha's attraction to the look of printed words.
If action painting is dying for a raison d'être, Blizard injected the genre with new
narrative possibilities.
Narrative: The exhibition also explores
the narrative possibilities of photography found in the interplay of image and text in the work of Robert Frank, Larry Sultan, and Jim Goldberg; the emotional drama of personal crisis in Nan Goldin's image grids; or the expansion of photographic description into experimental video and film by Victor Burgin and Judy Fiskin.
Through their documentary and fictitious interventions, Moon & Jeon navigate our imagination through the emotional capacities of the political present, where the recognition of our future is demystified by expanding a horizon of visual and
narrative possibilities.
Through an intuitive approach, which he compares to the rhythms of music, Costa composes shapes and textures that are often subtle, yet full of
narrative possibility.