Sentences with phrase «into narrative focus»

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At Fiji, Robbins offered some insight into what Jones» daily email updates look like, saying, «he sends me a checklist of what we measure, everything from his NAV [net asset value] to his [portfolio] weights, what's happening in his body, to his focus, to ratios of risk - reward that we're measuring, and then he does a narrative for me.»

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.

However, my focus in this series is to intelligently discuss the real problems of bitcoin's unknown origins and the many problems with the mass media narratives that have been built and disseminated to not only cover up these unknowns but also to falsely turn these unknowns into knowns.

Thus, ancient apocalyptic brings into focus some of the issues that a narrative vision struggles with today.

And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.

But by concentrating on the lives being lived outside of the celebrations, and the personal narratives that led seven very different kids into the scene, Kiki keeps the focus on the value of a safe space, of a community that provides structure and purpose for youths battling homelessness, illness, and prejudice.

«Perhaps recognizing that the premiere might have been a little confusing to some viewers, the writers of «Las Vegas» keep it remarkably simple, dividing their narrative into two alternating plotlines, one in each timeframe... the focus allows for what's always been the strength of this show: Liev Schreiber.

It's clear, however, that Snowden begins its slow - but - steady nosedive into mediocrity as it moves into its seriously repetitive midsection, as scripters Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald shift the focus to an intense emphasis on the minutia of the protagonist's top - secret work - with the narrative's structure, past a certain point, doggedly following Snowden as he moves from one assignment to the next.

While romance may bloom with Le Notre, the focus of the narrative is firmly on her own abilities, and her determination to root herself, and her ideas, into the fabric of this astonishing garden — despite the resistance she faces along the way.

That Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, a third minor return from the original, is given short shrift, suggests that most of the characters exist merely as vain stereotypes given simplistic narrative focus that evaporates once the action comes into full focus.

Furman sacrifices a new narrative style for character focus, making each film into an underdog story with a clearly defined hero.

The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the film is that of an art - house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes into focus and one is subsequently drawn into the proceedings.

Attempting to strike a balance between all four, Taylor - Johnson focuses on the development of the emotional relationship between the protagonists rather than an exploration into the world of sadomasochism, which steers the source material's narrative.

The narrative kicks things off tending to focus on bringing the trifecta of new heroes (Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron, Daisy Ridley's Rey, and John Boyega's Finn) and villains (Adam Driver's Kylo Ren, Domhnall Gleeson's General Hux, and Andy Serkis» Supreme Leader Snoke) into the fold, while establishing the central conflict of two major factions at war, and the fact that Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is missing in action and has mysteriously disappeared for years.

While in San Francisco for the Mill Valley Film Festival, I spoke with Damien about pummeling audiences into submission with drum solos; Teller and Simmons» performances; films being too narrative - focused; what he's doing next, and more.

I would suspect that this narrative focus — in itself — would have the Yahoo! News crowd crying foul that the film is a left - wing hatchet job that seeks to turn Oscar Grant into a Jesus Christ figure.

Satantango weaves the collective interactions of Almanac of Fall and the pungent evocations of solitude of Damnation into the same narrative fabric; though the film focuses on a community, at least three of the most remarkable sequences follow the movements of an isolated individual.

And the unresolved romantic and sexual tension between Black Widow and Hulk creates a weird driving force to the narrative: even the absurdity is somehow recirculated into the film's internal economy as comedy and irony and the cast - of - thousands effect never seems to split the focus: Andy Serkis plays metal trader Ulysses Klaw and Julie Delpy has a blink - and - you'll - miss - it cameo as Black Widow's sinister former controller.

Ilyse McKimmie, Labs Director for the Sundance Institute FFP, said, «The Lab experience will begin a year - round continuum of support focused on providing each Fellow with the tools and experiences to realize their unique voices and visions as they delve deeper into creative expression through narrative filmmaking.»

With his 1959 narrative debut, Bernhard Wicki turned a «hymn to German courage» into an anti-war film by focusing on the boys behind the soldiers.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

The experience focuses on both places and stories that delve deep into the movement, lifting up the narratives that shaped the past and inform the present.

When so many fiction writers crowd their stories and novels with hundreds of characters and thousands of extraneous details, it's calming to settle into Lynch's rich, tightly focused narratives... The old and the new, the living and the dead: this collection of short stories is a trove of carefully observed lives.

Though before we even get into the narrative in Civil War II # 3 let's focus on the visual storytelling of David Marquez and Justin Ponsor.

They focus mainly on analog games with the occasionally venture into digital narrative games.

While Final Fantasy VII and Square's subsequent games were an assertion of the value of developing and designing a game with a story at the center of the experience, and using that story to assert ideas about politics economics, and philosophy, Dragon Quarter was a statement in return that similarly intelligent engagements of political ideas could be built into games of minimal narrative that still focused primarily on gamers» engagement with mechanics.

While previous games focused on the power fantasy and rage of Kratos, the addition of Atreus into the game alters the narrative tone, but there are gameplay implications as well.

It's a good thing that not much stock is being put into the game's narrative because a) The French Revolution as a setting pretty much comes with the narrative pre-installed and b) this means that the developers can focus on pants that make you faster gameplay.

The narrative can get heavy - handed at times, but if it manages to draw you into its conflict and the philosophical focus at its core, then it's a rewarding experience all the way through.

It is a welcome step back from the previous 3DS Fire Emblem games as it focuses on a tighter narrative while providing us with a glimpse towards the future as Shadows of Valentia ventures into new territory with its explorable areas and fresh gameplay mechanics.

Mad Max was decent enough for awhile, but the narrative has little focus and it quickly turns into a cookie cutter series of actions / events.

Even the narrative plays into this with a large focus on the characters and giving reasons for different forces to be facing each other.

We will also explore a variety of methods and best practices used to harness, focus and shape this powerful narrative component into your next product.»

The game falls snugly into the Metroidvania sub-genre, with a focus on exploration, narrative, and puzzle solving.

An eponymous new show, opening tomorrow at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, represents the first full North American survey of his practice, exploring Raad's focus on investigations into distinctions between fact and fiction, especially in relation to «the veracity of archives and photographic documents in the public realm [and] the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict».

The people who figure in it — among whom the studio photographer Madani is a major presence — always remain the primary focus, yet he allows the inevitable intrusion of the history they lived through to seep into the narrative.

An early focus on drawing, evident in murals and installations, evolved into large, narrative paintings clustered with bodies — and heads.

In fact, these two booths would fit very nicely into Thomas and Chevremont's curatorial vision, especially considering the curators» focus on the pitfalls of historicity and neatly ordered narratives.

Filmed and photographed in the dusty sound stages and film sets of Bombay, Into the Sun focuses on the frenetic activity of the 24 hour a day film making machine that is «Bollywood,» relentlessly churning out simple, escapist, formulaic narratives...

Moving beyond commonplace abstraction, he explores image making that goes beyond the one note and into more idea - focused narratives.

, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving into complex amalgam of narrative strategies, photographic images, music and spoken language.

While before she would focus on her adopted city, she began to extend it into her personal history, adding narrative tension to the newer work.

Her narrative urge and her need to express herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on drawing and the human figure.

The works that are on display at MAMbo consist of both monumental canvases which provide space for sprawling narratives of compositional complexity and smaller paintings which focus on the study of individual subjects, portraits that push the figures portrayed into the foreground, as if under a microscope.

You will get insight into the process of making our newest projects we worked on in the last months, such as the developing installation Felling Times targeting media narratives, and project Home in a Home focusing on the theme of domestic integrity we created during our recent ISCP Summer Residency.

Focusing on the (dangerous) intimacy of the organic and inorganic bodies — the leaking, the digesting, the resonant — the work grows into systems that take the likeness of a mycorrhiza, the symbiotic body of plant and fungi, and thus resists traditional narratives.

Moving beyond commonplace abstraction, he explores image making that goes past the one note and into more idea - focused narratives.

Sometimes distance is necessary to bring home into focus, and both artists have returned with exhibitions that explore the social, political and environmental narratives of the western landscape.

Her work focuses on sites specific to Africa and the African diaspora, examining how certain events expand and unfold into popular and folk narratives, and revealing how these stories take shape in objects and oral histories.

Lina's Selander films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge, the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.