Sentences with phrase «dramatic character work»

Not exact matches

Melodrama: The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions.

So there were all these very interesting characters who were fascinated by neutrinos, working on neutrinos, but also had really interesting, in some cases dramatic, life stories.

An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one - act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Plus some parts just demand to be seen again, with excellent camera work, luxurious lighting and dramatic scenery and flawed characters with secrets to maintain while trying to «keep it all together» in the midst of crisis and remaining warm and human meaning they come across as human and real.

I loved the handheld camera work and how each salesman is depicted as a nuanced, dramatic character.

As well as Boogie Nights works as a drama — and it certainly gets dark and dramatic as things go bad for its characters — it's even more successful as a comedy.

In his works, Hartley expertly blends intelligent, ironic humor with dramatic incident, gripping his eccentric, usually obsessed, but always very passionate characters with deep philosophical quandaries.

Some characters die immediately, others get separated from the group, and all those dramatic threads work to give this monster story an emotional base.

«Pawn Sacrifice» certainly whips up a dervish of energy, and as a piece of dramatic entertainment, it's mostly engaging, and features character actors doing very good work.

Jackson tells me of how she had been advised at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art that she was a character actress and that she shouldn't expect to work before she was 40.

Some of the story gets very dramatic and heavy in the way of the dysfunctional character development which works well on stage as you sit on the edge of your seat watching and hearing these massive family fights.

He told me he always wanted to go ahead and get back to doing comedies again and just seeing the way Judd and Seth worked was really similar to the way David worked with his dramatic stuff which is making sure the actors had the characters down and they would just improv and let them do whatever.

Watching Birbiglia drive a wedge between this collection of funny people who feed off each other's energy for a living makes for powerful, character - driven work and the cast, including a standout Keegan - Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs, is more than game bringing dramatic gravitas, in addition to comedic jabs aplenty, to the table.

Here's a guy with a lifetime of excellent comedic character work under his belt, but a dramatic character arc — even a painfully obvious one — is still pretty far out of his reach.

And frontrunner Tommy Lee Jones turned in fine, fiery work in Lincoln, bringing complex life to abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, whose character arc is arguably the movie's most dramatic.

While critiquing and questioning the work against very traditional ideas of dramatic tension, structure, character, dialogue, and so on, other questions are continually asked: What do you want this film to say?

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

This Scheme of Work looks at language, dramatic techniques, characters, themes, etc..

Brill's book is a dramatic rendering of a few of the characters (friends like Democrats for Education Reform chief Joe Williams and Colorado State Sen. Mike Johnston) and the work undertaken to reform public education in this country.

And yet it all seems to work, thanks to some sparkling details, such as the crystalline backlights and headlamps, a dramatic rising character line above the rocker panels, and a neat chrome spoiler on the high deck lid.

I can view the big picture of a work, suggesting improvements in narrative pacing, scene - building, foreshadowing, backstory, theme, character motivation, and dramatic tension that will capture and retain your readers» interest.

Rendered in Boyle's accomplished, assured voice, with great period detail and utterly memorable characters, this is a moving and dramatic work from one of America's most talented and inventive storytellers.

To go with the three Super characters, Arc System Works also confirmed a special feature they call «Dramatic Production.»

Having several characters in a casting phase at the same time is incredibly dramatic, leaving you to stare at the little red zone, hoping beyond hope that you worked everything our correctly, otherwise a world of pain awaits.

It is possible to make meaningful stories with cartoony characters, but trying to turn Sonic the Hedgehog into something so dramatic just doesn't work.

The series features works that are collage - like and opulently filled with accessories and characters in dramatic mises en scène.

From the haunting visual stories that lie behind her Do Not Disturb series, to the mysterious characters that grace crumbling buildings in Room Stories, Cristina's work is dramatic, deliberately posed and plucked from an imagination drenched in nostalgia.

«Whether it be a classic Hitchcock mystery or a contemporary daytime soap opera, the dramatic interplay between characters in a make - believe world has strongly influenced my work as an artist.

Created in collaboration with his wife Nancy Reddin Kienholz, the work's dramatic parade of characters and objects at moments reveals Kienholz's influence on LA artists like Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.

Cli - fi has the potential to work in the exact opposite way, through compelling storylines, dramatic visuals, and characters.

The application of the majority's approach to extinguishment in relation to pastoral leases in Western Australia which became enclosed or improved has a «potentially dramatic impact» having regard to the magnitude of the areas which can be treated as enclosed or which have been enclosed in the past and the comparatively inconsequential character of the works which can constitute enclosure.