Sentences with phrase «framing device used»

Speaking of tenuous links, there is a particular framing device used throughout the game where you are interrogated whenever you make a significant step forward in the plot or forge a bond with a new Confidant.

The framing device used to introduce us to the different chapters is highly contrived, unless you believe someone would recollect their entire life to a stranger.

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Often videos shot on mobile devices have extraneous footage both before and after the post-worthy footage, and a simple video editing app can be used to crop out unwanted frames and shorten videos.

Some specialized devices can be used as early as eight weeks., though 12 weeks into pregnancy is a more normal time frame.

A baby jumper or doorway bouncer used to mean a device that included a seat, some straps, a spring and clamps that you attached to a doorway frame.

The company has not provided a more specific time frame or named the first consumer device (or devices) that will use the panel.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

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Players deadyeads older devices should reduce graphical quality using the Settings menu to ensure smooth frame rates.

First, they'll just be a couple of cameos used as a framing device, so that Professor X and Magneto are looking back at the events of the new movie.

For some reason, the V / H / S series persists in using a framing device that is, on its own, one of its shorts.

From the use of the framing device, insertions of historical footage and animated interludes, to the staging and blocking of the murder scenes, everything serves a purpose that helps build a narrative that's at once lucid and unspeakably nightmarish.

Instead, Miles Ahead uses a framing device that presents its story as if it's a piece of music that Miles is playing for Rolling Stone reporter Dave Brill (Ewan McGregor).

The music of Tupac is used as narration or some sort of thematic framing device.

Structure-wise, Leitch uses a debriefing between Lorraine and her senior Eric Gray (Toby Jones)-- together with extraneous Chief C (James Faulkner) and CIA representative Emmett Kurzfeld (John Goodman)-- as the framing device to tell the story in flashbacks.

-- matricide, using the conversation as a framing device to flash back to his youth and reveal the bond between Norma Bates (Olivia Hussey) and her son (played by Henry Thomas).

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The idea of a Scientology - like «religion» is used only as a narrative framing device — the film itself poses much more thought - provoking questions.

I actually didn't mind the framing device, although it was used a bit too often at times so the rhythm of what was happening at sea got broken up a bit too much.

In fact, it wasn't until tonight, when I was organizing some notes, that it occurred to me that all three Africa films use a similar framing device.

is the sort of film that uses interviews as a framing device and ends with title cards explaining what happened to its principal characters because of course it does.

Using Melville (Ben Whishaw) as part of a framing device — he calls on a survivor played Brendan Gleeson to recall the tale as research for his next book — the film goes out of its way to tell us that «Moby Dick» is probably a better story than the one that will be told here.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

The film uses Meyers» words, but they're read by voice actor Yuri Lowenthal in an animated framing device that has a laid - back martial - arts expert indoctrinating a young know - nothing into the world of Hong Kong action cinema.

Each also uses a different framing device, letting DICE experiment with narrative styles.

Others are certain the wrist devices are new versions of the B.A.R.F. (Binary Augmented Retro Framing) tech Stark used in Civil War to relive his youth.

Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters.

In a tonally bizarre framing device that never feels right, the film uses John Holmstrom (Josh Zuckerman), founder of Punk Magazine, as the audience proxy into the venue's happenings, and it also uses his publication's cartoonish aesthetic as narrative punctuation.

Adapted from the memoir of the same name by the real Jordan Belfort, the script by Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter uses voice - over narration as a framing device (like Goodfellas) in order to allow Belfort's story to unfold «in his own language,» so to speak.

Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce have tried to enliven Carraway's narration by using a clumsy framing device, set in a sanitarium in 1929, where Nick is instructed to write down his memories of Gatsby as some sort of therapy.

The film uses this as a framing device, and as an almost surgical means to dissect the psyche of its titular character.

Couple that with the choice of writer / director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) to use Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech as an awkward framing device — combined with shots of the Voyager spacecraft leaving our galaxy — and you get much hysterical ado about not much at all.

The arrest is used as primarily a framing device to allow for narration and, ultimately, the tragic ending of Turing's life.

The vastness and the wide angle lenses in certain moments, I think, intended to show the main character's sense of isolation within his community, so we tried at times to use framing devices and use camera movements to amplify that sentiment to have a very meaningful impact.

Had that photographer seen the documentary to follow, by the time this scene, used as a cyclical framing device, is returned to, he'd understand why a smile might not be so forthcoming.

Director Curtis Bernhardt uses the film's framing device to root the tone between clinical re-enactment and in - the - moment emotion.

Simpson's opening gambit is a «Note to Customer» from the publisher of Two Sleuths, the best - selling comic created by Miles and Hector, but she wisely uses this framing device lightly, allowing this exceptionally incisive, fine - tuned, and charming novel to unfold gracefully as she brings fresh understanding and keen humor to the complexities intrinsic to each stage of life and love.

Having written about whaling and the South Seas in both In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, I was fascinated by Mitchell's use of 19th century New Zealand and Hawaii as a framing device.

You can use it to protect your device when commuting or to use it as a kickstand to watch videos or use it as a digital picture frame.

Overall, these would be tremendously useful for stores to demo their products, watch videos, or use the devices as a digital photo - frame.

The other devices include netbooks, digital photo frames and personal navigation devices, as well as embedded devices used in telematics, home security and smart grids.

But using Windows as the operating system for tablets also implies that Microsoft will update the devices» operating systems on the Windows time frame, typically every three years.

Samsung re-engineered the Galaxy S6 series from the ground up — they used a solid aircraft grade aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass 4 for the display and as the back of the device.

The frame of the device uses aluminum in tandem with plastic, with rounded edges and corners and a front face that is also finished with the same glass that we find on the back.

The framing of the two halves of the device with the silver band reflects a design highlight BlackBerry have been using for a couple of years.

It is a new device from the ground up — a solid aircraft grade aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass 4 used for the display and the back of the device.

It has a much better display — the QHD Super AMOLED display is much sharper (577 PPI versus 403 PPI) and more brilliant, the processor is more advanced (20nm versus 14nm) and faster, it uses the new USF 2.0 much faster flash memory, faster DDR4 RAM, the larger FFC with f1.9 (5MP versus 2.1 MP), better placement of the loudspeaker (bottom versus backside), wireless charging and faster charging (4 hours in 10 minutes versus 60 - percent in 30 minutes) and the unique dual curve edged display with an all metal frame made from aircraft quality metals and Gorilla Glass 4 on both the display and the back of the device.

Using Air applications will now allow full frame rate HD video on all Apple mobile devices.

Both devices sport a metal frame, but use polycarbonates for the outer shell.