Sentences with phrase «all about character development»

Join the ongoing discussion about character development and leadership for students and educators here on the Youth Frontiers» blog.

Above all this is about character development; there isn't any, at all.

The picture is a little grainier and softer than some might like, but then viewers are more apt to complain about character development, itself pretty unlikely.

Pollyanna is not about plot as much as it is about character development, and thanksfully, it pulls it off well.

Director John Bruno, the visual effects guru from many James Cameron films (True Lies, Terminator 2, etc.) does a good job in making realistic robotic figures, but knows absolutely nothing about character development.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

For years, societies have recognized the need to educate our youth about character development and civic education.

University of Illinois Extension University of Illinois Extension offers training and resources about character development across the state to enable people to improve their lives and communities through learning partnerships that put knowledge to work.

Answering that question opens up more drop downs about the character development, the pacing, and more.

This is the stage after you receive an editorial letter that poses questions about character development, suggests adding scenes (or removing them), and encourages other «big picture» thinking.

-LSB-...] My most recent podcast and video with the wonderful Joanna Penn goes live today, talking about character development and my book 5 - Day Fiction Fix: Creating Complex Characters.

For your virtual book tour, you can share tips from your book, record a mini book reading, discuss aspects of your topic, share details about your character development, tell the story of your author journey, and much more.

Actually I never talked about character development in my comment.

Some of the chapters had no fighting and were all about character development.

With Uncharted 4, developer Naughty Dog took everything it learned about character development and narrative delivery from its previous game, The Last of Us, and applied it to treasure hunter Nathan Drake's potentially final tale.

Not exact matches

«It's all about confidence and character development.»

A lot of people talk about persona development, but tend to mean fictional characters that portray an ideal customer.

In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.

It's about learning proper skills, character development and a good moral compass.»

There are folks who have posted to this wonderful story about a group of youth who are working towards the Aims of Scouting: Growth in moral strength and character, Participating citizenship, and Development in physical, mental, and emotional fitness.

Hereâ $ ™ s some of the things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity; good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis wrote about.

Of course, there was no major character development or revelations about him during this episode but meh.

Leadership books used to be about the development of Godly character (J. Oswald Sanders), and now they mostly emphasize vision.

Bruce starts out at about 12 years old and goes through that shitty stretch of character development they call the male teen years.

So tell me a little bit more about why failure — productive failure — is so important to character development.

Annie talks with Phyllis about the myth of the Straight A student and how character development fits into success in the workplace and in life.

«I see the development as a good thing, but I want to make sure it does not affect the residential character of lower Manhattan,» Xie said, mentioning concerns about traffic, air quality and infrastructure.

It might have worked if you cared about the characters heading into Zoe's change, if you will, but there's next to no character development past Zoe and Frank being married, Zoe's recurring nightmare / childhood memory, Niko having a crush on Zoe, Clay being kind of a dick and Eva being the camerawoman.

The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

Character development is admittedly spotty, with some individuals getting little more than token screen time, but there is enough here for us to care about the core group of mutants.

And although Howard and Goldsman waste absolutely no time in thrusting the viewer into the action, the almost complete lack of character development makes it virtually impossible to actually care about Robert and Sophie's quest.

For someone who plays video games just to play and doesn't care about story lines and character development, this is a great feature.

Nobody cares about the story, because there is no plot, and the character traits and development are lost and pointless.

I loved everything about this but they should have had better character development for the new member and her douche brother.

Forget the lack of deep character development and insight into the human condition, that's not what this film ever promised to be about.

Between giving us a real feel for Paris and New York, Zemeckis gives us enough character development that we care about the main crew: Petit, Annie, photographer Jean Louis (Clement Sibony) and math guy (and sufferers of extreme fear of heights) Jeff (Cesar Domboy)-- and even New York addition JP.

Predators is well paced with a good build up and the right degree of character development you need to care about the fate of the human characters.

To be so meditative on characters going about their business, little is actually said by Matthews, as writer, due to very limited extensiveness, if not focal unevenness, that leave development to fail in distinguishing the characters all that much, making it harder to become invested in them.

Writing for a show about an extraterrestrial puppet could explain Stahl's compulsion for drugs, but this movie's paper - thin story isn't much interested in character development or insight.

We found out a lot about how character and music development happens while the story is being crafted by talking with the some of the filmmakers, animator Alonso Martinez, and score composers Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna.

A zany comedy stuffed to the brim with memorable characters, strange plot developments and absurd sight gags, Caddyshack freewheels its way from one silly scene to another, incidentally weaving a timeless tale about «the snobs versus the slobs» in the process.

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

, these quirks are hung on the character in lieu of real development; like Steve Carell's obsession with Proust, or Paul Dano's desire to be a pilot, they don't reveal anything meaningful to us about these people, it's just lazy writing.

Check out Sana Amanat, director of content and character development for Marvel and fellow executive producer Cort Lane talk about the creation of Marvel Rising and the voice cast.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, which covered everything from working with a green screen to putting more black people in science fiction, Tessa Thompson talked about the development of her character Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok — and one key moment that got left on the cutting room floor.

ET sat down with Mark Hamill in Ireland, where he opened up about his public criticism of Luke Skywalker's character development in «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — available on digital now, and on Blu - ray Mar. 27.

Nail - biting and riveting, with wonderful and insightful character development, it's a film that's also about greed and desperation, with terrific performances from Yves Montand and Charles Vanel.

ET sat down with Mark Hamill in Ireland, where he opened up about his public criticism of Luke Skywalker's character development in «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — available now on digital and Blu - ray.

One of the complaints about the first «Avengers» movie was the lack of character development for the women, so writer - director Joss Whedon changed this in «Avengers: Age of Ultron».

Before this, we're treated to trite scenes of them training and bonding, but we're offered little in terms of character development to actually care about any of them.