Sentences with phrase «as storytelling device»

As much as I love 4th wall breaking as a storytelling device for hand waving technical limitations on games (MGS2, Bioshock, apparently Panzer Dragoon Saga, etc.) most games should be approached in this manner, even without encouragement from the story.

But as a storytelling device it's really rather special, its companion app doing all the heavy lifting of a gamesmaster and thereby turning Mansions of Madness into a spectacular adventure that works not only with a group of friends, but also as a solo experience.

When that happens there's a real danger of disconnecting from the art as a storytelling device and devolving into a kind of cliche - driven visual idioglossia.

Macaulay employs four different fonts — one for each story — that are used as a storytelling device, along with the nonlinear plots.

You can think of it as storytelling device as opposed to just being some music that plays in the background.

Snyder appreciates what Dolby Atmos ® brings to the movie: «Dolby Atmos is instantly a game - changer as a storytelling device.

Time and time again, the film shakes and quakes for some dramatic effect that does not work as a storytelling device.

While I understand the reasoning behind this as a storytelling device, I grew a bit tired of his character.

Indeed, John Krasinski's horror hit is all about sound and makes brilliant use of silence as a storytelling device.

Do you want to meditate on what has happened to the American Dream using the symbolism of Elvis Presley as a storytelling device?

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

The piece is an ongoing series of sculptural works that function as storytelling devices.

Not exact matches

With Mark Zuckerberg predicting Facebook content will be driven by video in five years, storytelling through film and photography is set to be expected by visitors to your site as a complement to the written word, especially as we're using mobile devices so much to access information and entertainment.

No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.

Again, it's as if LvT is arguing with himself over narrative devices and the strength of his own storytelling.

The Kubruckian overtones of Interstellar make it an intriguing fit for Chris Nolan's storytelling style and mise - en - scène (re: visual composition); plus, wormholes present an obvious narrative device for jumping around in time (as he's inclined to do, regardless).

Ricky is not just stupid; he and his family are bar none the shallowest, most one - dimensional people you've ever seen onscreen, and even when they address this issue later on, it reveals itself as a plot device that only exposes more flaws in the storytelling.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

«Parkour: Defying Gravity» (1:48) gives a general view of the discipline this while «Parkour Legend David Belle» (2:00) lets the stunt coordinator explain how he uses it as a unique storytelling device.

In the case of cinema, slow motion has been widely used as a poetic device to accentuate and invigorate moments that need to be highlighted, whether for storytelling or purely aesthetic... Read more»

And Michael Pena threatens to steal the show as Scott's buddy with a penchant for storytelling, and the device director Peyton Reed uses to visualize that storytelling is wickedly funny.

Madefire Motion Books is a free comic app that delivers the most innovative reading experience for iOS devices as it pioneers the next chapter in storytelling; it has been 5 - star rated since launch, and was awarded an App Store's «Best of 2012».

«As books continue to reach consumers in various electronic forms, we strive to deliver the most advanced and innovative device options that embrace new forms of creative storytelling and content,» said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, IT & Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics.

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Madefire Motion Books & Comics — Madefire Motion Books & Comics is a free app that delivers the most innovative reading experience on devices with Motion Books and traditional print comics as it pioneers the next chapter in storytelling.

Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective communication.13 The intersection of legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.

The power of storytelling: The science behind the effectiveness of storytelling as a persuasion device is just now coming into view.

A storytelling device resume writers have been using for decades is the C - A-Rs approach, or Challenge — Actions — Results, also known by other acronyms such as S - T - A-Rs (Situation — Tasks — Actions — Results).