Sentences with phrase «for narrative storytelling»

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Companies similar to Agolo include Automated Insights, which is using automation to analyze big data and transform it into stories, like sports reporting, while Narrative Science focuses on business intelligence for the enterprise, or «data storytelling,» as it puts it, enabling automated earnings reports created from data.

Some psychologists believe storytelling is actually necessary for human survival — we are hard - wired to respond to compelling narratives.

There's always a balance between trying to create a mood — at least for me — and to relay an impression, aside from just specific narrative or storytelling.

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

Is such an order the necessary presupposition for the radical discontinuities found in postmodern storytelling, or is narrative order something that we impose on an existence which is essentially and fundamentally chaotic?

Paul Tough has a sharp eye for the telling detail, a sure grasp of the literature, and a gift for storytelling that together make for a bracing narrative, hard - edged in its realism but also brimming with hope and possibility.

Storytelling and Data Visualization (HV - ImpACT Webinar) Transcript (PDF - 190 KB) This Home Visiting - ImpACT webinar explores use of compelling stories to construct a successful narrative, and contains an innovative four - step visualization process for effectively telling your story.

Bioshock 2 may have sacrificed storytelling for cleaner gameplay, but the story is still well written and better than your average VG narrative.

What makes this current, bastardized incarnation ruinous for Hollywood storytelling, however, is that it contributes to the entirely rote and disinterested detailing of narrative events.

One has to question just how formulaic this epic Roman drama is, because the formula was still fresh by the time this film came along, establishing certain tropes that would be shamelessly slammed into by future epics of this type time and again, and yet, outside of what would go on to become conventions, this film does most of what you'd expect, with a predictable narrative, storytelling style, dialogue, and, for that matter, portrayal of Ancient Rome.

The act of audience deception here is brilliant — especially as the film shifts gears from a traditional but warm storytelling approach to a subversive and dramatically vibrant narrative as it deconstructs the family and allows room for far more questions than what it seemingly starts with.

Thor: The Dark World left me wondering why for all its popularity and box office hype the superhero genre so regularly fails to ignite the faintest trace of excitement and imagination in its narrative and storytelling.

You either love him or hate him, but Baz Lurhmann has made a career for himself by creating pictures that reject the norm of narrative storytelling and goes for something less linear and more erratic.

Looking for Kitty feels like the first attempt at narrative storytelling by a young, inexperienced screenwriter who's just glad to have finished something.

He added, «The movie works so well for several reasons, and they don't all have to do with the spectacular special effects... [«Star Wars»] relies on the strength of pure narrative, in the most basic storytelling form known to man, the Journey.»

While this is justified from a storytelling standpoint, with Tyler's 19 - year - old Lucy arriving in Italy at the beginning of the picture and greeting her cohabitants for the summer, the film takes forever to achieve narrative momentum as a result.

It is just one in a series of moments where Young flexes impressive chops for visual storytelling, utilizing slo - motion, freeze frame, patient panning shots and carefully chosen soundtrack music to set the mood and advance the dreadful narrative without a spoken word.

That last point is particularly important, because although it's easy to admire Tarantino's bravura storytelling — not to mention his moxie in resurrecting a large - format anamorphic film process that's been dead for 50 years — the schematic structure and derivative narrative he employs makes The Hateful Eight about as nuanced as bloody bootprints in the snow.

I give Born in China credit for following the episode to its authentic conclusion — elsewhere the footage has been arranged to fit narratives of heroism and sacrifice that conform, suspiciously, to the demands of human storytelling.

They look back in the chest of this dead man called the classic narrative only to find it is filled with nothingness, and we all can do nothing but weep that the heart of storytelling beats for no one anymore.

Yet Goro lacks his father's storytelling richness and narrative sweep, and for all the gorgeous detail of the animation he fails to create much tension or energy.

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).

The result is not just a personal expression of Schrader's own sex - and - death preoccupations, but a sort of high - water mark for the quixotic attempt to meld visually sophisticated erotica with commercially savvy narrative storytelling.

Maybe it is easier to follow in the book but McEwan's non-linear storytelling for the first half of the film makes for a confusing narrative to follow.

Writer and director Sarah Adina Smith cleverly skirts objectivity, opting for storytelling that operates in moody abstracts, whose core is more about emotionally resonance than narrative distractions.

While this film certainly does break some new ground from a cultural level, this entertaining action flick also feels a little too big for itself at other times because as well done as the narrative and storytelling aspects of this film are executed, occasionally the action sequences don't...

From a purely narrative standpoint, it has to be admired for its sheer audacity and sense of assuredness in recreating the kind of intricate, multi-modal, long - form storytelling that comic books have been utilizing for decades; a wrong step at any point could have brought the whole thing down, as we witnessed last summer with Universal's «Dark Universe» non-starter The Mummy (2017) and, to a lesser extent, rival DC's fitfully successful, but mostly disappointing attempt to do the same thing with its stable of comic book characters.

In fact, Cooper argues that aesthetics, especially beginning with Deep Red (1975), become a replacement for both psychoanalysis and narrative in Argento's films, leading him toward an interest in visual excess, which would culminate in Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980), films that «in their combinations of wild visuals and storylines that challenge storytelling itself, were unlike anything the world had ever seen.»

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird forgoes traditional narrative structure for episodic storytelling — each episode a seemingly low - key event that together add up to a monumental year in Lady Bird's (Saoirse Ronan) life.

Our heroine, Parvana, inherits her father's gift for storytelling, and when the narrative reverts to an ancient fable she recounts, Twomey effortlessly transitions to cut - out animation.

But here, they are the pay - off for nine hours of storytelling: because the narrative has been so stretched out, they are part of the film's character development.

This is a film of labyrinthine storytelling and cinematic weaves of character and narrative that stretch across countries and time itself, rewinding for elaborate flashbacks that redefine everything we know and understand, and of compassionate insight into human nature and the contradictions that define us.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Your next challenge, then, is to make your content more engaging, and there are many tools you can use for this purpose, including but not limited to: storytelling (weave your compliance content into a series of narratives), video (we are visual creatures), humor (throw in some jokes), and interactivity.

Lucas also serves on the board of The Film Foundation, the USC School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors and will build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 150 years.

The Modern Story is a not - for - profit educational organization that bridges the technological and narrative divide by introducing digital skills and storytelling practices to youth and educators around the world.

In addition, I offer professional development for staff in the areas of tableau, storytelling, oral narrative and connections to writing, arts integration, and music.

The front of her website politely requests that you choose your own adventure: click left for the home page of Sayantani DasGupta, MD, a physician - scholar with a background in pediatrics and public health who now teaches in Columbia University's master's program in Narrative Medicine — a program that focuses on the role storytelling plays in medicine in healing.

Tom Clancy's Into the Storm, written with armor and infantry General Fred Franks, Jr., won unanimous praise for its masterful blend of military history, biography, you - are - there narrative, insights into the practice of leadership, and plain old - fashioned storytelling.

Point of view describes not simply a type or aspect of storytelling, but the single most potent technique available for realizing your narrative goals.

The historical narrative includes supernatural scenes and creatures whose presence adds suspense — even terror — and vividly deepens and enriches the novel's themes about the vital need for storytelling, the strength of memories, the strong pull of family connections, and the catastrophic personal and social costs of war.

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

Desmond's natural storytelling style easily moves from engaging narrative (at times a touch florid when retelling events he was not present for) to straight reporting.

And for every new publishing platform, every new storytelling innovation, every new storyteller - audience interaction let us strive to reinvent and reinvigorate the narrative craft.

He looks for driven narratives and sharp storytelling, with themes that transcend their primary audience.

My storytelling fix comes from watching TV, which, for my money, is where the best narratives are told these days — Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, many others.

«The next step is for that technology to enable new forms of reading and writing — digital fiction that pushes the boundaries of how we think about narrative and storytelling.»

Turbomedia What digital comics pioneer Balak collectively calls «Turbomedia» is a method of graphic storytelling that uses narrative tools from comics, animation, and video games adapted to tell stories made specifically for digital reading.

It's a promising beginning that's for sure, but things begin to fall apart far to quickly, mostly become the narrative rushes through the things, creating some jarring storytelling.

Bastion and Transistor both introduced me to narrative concepts that reinvigorated my love for quality storytelling, and I expect Pyre to be no different.