Sentences with phrase «audience expectations as»

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NBC is expected to draw a pretty sizable digital audience this year, as more and more people stream live content, and those high expectations are evident in the fact that the network's digital ad sales are up 33 % over the 2012 Summer Olympics.

This is true of many entrepreneurial endeavors, not simply women's ministry; but if the majority of female leaders are operating in the marketplace (as opposed to the institutional church), women's ministry as a whole can reach a point of critical mass where an audience - centric philosophy creates wider expectations about style, topics, and content.

Black and minority ethnic actors play the roles of the Founding Fathers, a casting decision that turns audience expectations upside down as soon as the musical starts.

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The Opposite of Sex works as both a wonderful, if cruel, character study, and a parody of audience expectations.

I spent a lot of my review (in all versions of it) addressing audience expectations of the film rather than reviewing the film itself, at least not as directly as perhaps I would normally.

Both Gyllenhaal and Adams stand out quite a bit here also as they seem to be stretching expectation: Gyllenhaal as a lovestruck but rejected writer and Adams as a woman who may be more guilty than it appears are not what audiences would normally see these two play.

A smart, clever and refreshingly self - aware film, Resolution found a way to craft a compelling mystery while breaking down horror tropes and audience expectations — think of it as a cross between Cabin in the Woods and Funny Games, except with less finger - wagging and more creepiness.

One of the joys of Asante's filmmaking is how she subverts audience expectations to make observations on politics, race and gender: As Sophie Mayer observes in her review for Sight & Sound, «in a clever twist on the Bechdel test, Asante shows that it is through talking about marriage and men that the female protagonists of costume drama are able to articulate a political philosophy.»

Not that it's a bad thing, of course, as audiences are likely experiencing blockbuster fatigue at this point in the year, but while there are some promising movies on the schedule, you probably shouldn't set your expectations too high.

I guess it's a good thing, especially given the marketing was seemingly trying to give away as much as humanly possible, that Ridley Scott has succeeded in mystifying audiences and, for some, confounding expectations.

The MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.

Often times, the writers play with an audience's expectations for an animal, such as the ruthless bunny Snowball or the French Poodle that likes to head - bang to hard rock.

In truth, 10 Cloverfield Lane may have actually played out more smoothly, as audiences wouldn't have gone in with any pre-conceived expectations.

Little Fockers represents the third in the lucrative Meet the Parents series, and its par for the course as far as intent and delivery, no better and no worse than the fulfillment of audience expectations.

I loved the way it upends audience expectations by starting out as one thing - a pick -»em - off, and - then - there - were - none style genre pastiche - but ends up in the realm of Stalker and Solaris.

It is also apparent that some major and last - minute editing was performed; one entire subplot involving Hunt and Mrs. Phelps is so obscured throughout the film that its sudden reappearance at the end of the film is as much a surprise as a clarification of audience expectations.

Tom Jolliffe looks at Ryan Coogler's career as a writer / director and the possibilities (and importance) of what comes next... When you breakout in a big way as an independent film - maker, in a small film that manages to hook in a fairly large audience, the expectation for what comes next, begins.

It's the Star Wars movie we deserve, not because it's some perfect piece of cinema, but because it's as good as a movie could possibly be with this many obligations — to fans and newcomers, old markets and new ones, with every variety of expectation laid at its feet by eager audiences worldwide — and then some.

As I saw it — and still do — movie theaters are modern day classrooms where audiences — youngsters of all ages — learn how to behave in arenas ranging from the bedroom to the battlefield, and where they form their standards for and expectations about life.

It's as if Refn is using her to play with the expectations of the audience — he makes her look a bit frumpy, and he only features her for a few (crazy) minutes.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

Audience expectations, nonetheless, will be continuously subverted as a series of shocking scenes constitute the remainder Laila and Aaron's hopeless odyssey.

So its not hard to read his latest offering Downsizing — an effects - driven, high - concept fantasy, no less — as a way of breaking the mould of industry and audience expectations.

The addition of Sharlto Copley as a mercenary turned advocate of progression for third world countries gives the proceedings good opportunities to toy with expectations of the audience (keep in mind that none of the swerves are anything mind - blowing, but logically reasonable shifts that propel momentum forward and shake the plot up), but again, his arc (along with everyone else's including Harold's) could have been better realized).

No other film on the list inspired such low expectations from me before viewing it, but celebrated Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has kick - started the played - out Brit gangster genre with a dose of existential neurosis, refreshingly languid pacing and ream upon ream of rapid - fire, ferociously literary dialogue that credits its audience with as much intelligence as its audience.

Our expectations (as the audience) are thrown off.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources prepare students for answering Q1 and Q2 and cover the following: - introduction to paper 2 - expectations and timings - identifying key information in 19th century and modern texts - identifying the point of view of a writer - inferring - exploring how language creates tone - complete true or false tasks (as per the exam) for the texts read - explore the term synthesis - synthesise information from 2 texts - work in pairs and groups - explore model answers - investigate these of connectives to synthesise - self and peer assess - develop vocabulary and analyse vocabulary in texts using inference - explore audience and purpose Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources prepare students for answering Q1 and Q2 and cover the following: - structure strip to help form better responses to question 2 (synthesis)- introduction to paper 2 - expectations and timings - identifying key information in 19th century and modern texts - identifying the point of view of a writer - inferring - exploring how language creates tone - complete true or false tasks (as per the exam) for the texts read - explore the term synthesis - synthesise information from 2 texts - work in pairs and groups - explore model answers - investigate these of connectives to synthesise - self and peer assess - develop vocabulary and analyse vocabulary in texts using inference - explore audience and purpose Regular assessments are included to assess students ability in true or false and synthesis tasks.

If done right, online collaboration can also boost your learners» engagement, as it can help align your audience's expectations with your learning objectives and provide a way to ask questions and exchange feedback via online discussions.

«Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members» minds and expectations,» according to TVTropes, a wiki that houses hundreds of these figurative concepts.

There, Dr. Steve Perry delighted the reformer - heavy crowd with his unique brand of high - octane, high - expectations roof raising, including referring to teacher unions as «roaches» and regaling the audience with tales of children who are literally dying from excuses.

This morning's Top Technology Trends (TTT) panel at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, attracted its usual large audience as speakers singled out topics like user expectations, analytics, systems integration, and data interoperability as areas for the library community to watch.

Is it difficult to not get too wrapped up, as the game's makers, in the audience's own expectations for it?

«That makes it more challenging, as you keep on ramping up the audience's expectations of the kind of stories you're going to tell.

FUN AND INTELLIGENT DISCOURSE «The success of this first edition of GAMEHOTEL's flagship event at GDC has confirmed the increasing expectations of industry players — as well as growing audiences - for light - hearted shows that point towards a rich and diverse future of interactive entertainment» said Bruno Beusch, director of organizing TNC Network, and host of the GAMEHOTEL extravaganza.

When I first spotted the game in the Nintendo Press Conference, I was a little skeptical that Kirby's newest outing have the cahones to take on the expectations of the hardcore fans, as it looked to appeal to a younger audience with the new art direction.

As is clear from the wild success of the game, Square Enix and Eidos - Montreal know how to exceed their audience's expectations by engineering incredible worlds.

At The End Before The Beginning is an experimental film on the topic of expectations — how we experience anticipation as social beings, individual person, and film audience.

However, in this portrayal, Ojih Odutola constructs space for the audience to reevaluate their perceptions and expectations of this wealth as an act of intentional creation.

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

As such, his pieces have always courted audience expectations while at the same time frustrating intellectual and emotional closure.