Sentences with phrase «narrative choices for»

is one of those movies that arguably plays fast and loose with its narrative, and could easily fall prey to making narrative choices for the sake of convenience.

Calvary is one of those movies that arguably plays fast and loose with its narrative, and could easily fall prey to making narrative choices for the sake of convenience.

If I was working in fiction publishing, then I would want a small unit dedicated to second guessing the future — be it multiple media, narrative choice for the reader, the future of smartphone as a narrative platform or any of the other emerging network options for telling stories to each other.

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Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

The narrative is clearly more important than the game's mechanics, and that shows at times, but the combination of mechanics, dialogue choice and acting help to push the message about how devastating depression can be for an individual suffering from it.

Shadow of the Beast might not be exactly what true fans were expecting, especially with a few strange gameplay and narrative choices, but there's still something here for everyone.

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We became friends during that year and we were friends on the first day of shooting, so all of the big narrative adjustments in the story, but also some of the choices that Daniel could have made and other characters, other actors, these choices were available for them to make as well.

If anything can happen, nothing is surprising — it is that struggle with the basic rules of narrative in narrative filmmaking that makes Howard a poor choice for fantasy (Willow, The Grinch) and an even worse choice for serious drama.

BFCA / BTJA also presents the Critics Choice Awards for narrative films that are released during that year and television programming.

The mechanics of balancing weapons fire with energy shielding make for an engaging fighting system and its narrative tries to surpass expectation with creative choices, but it ultimately lacks the environmental detail and moments of awe that would have made its adventure a memorable one.

Annihilation unfolds via potentially unreliable flashbacks told exclusively from Lena's point - of - view, a nod to VanderMeer's novel (journal entries), but an ill - conceived narrative choice, since it robs Annihilation of the present - tense suspense necessary to adequately sustain Lena's exterior and interior journeys for the better part of two hours.

The director Lee Daniels, whose film Precious I admired for its courage and grit, works well with his lead actors but makes some fatal narrative and casting choices.

In close voting, La La Land emerged as the critics» choice for Best Narrative Film.

Because your colony's development is connected to these choices, it also creates a powerful emergent narrative throughout, not unlike ones found in The Sims, for instance.

Don Miguel — the leader of a full - scale heroin production center — whether by choice or by narrative framing is someone who's ostensibly searching for peace and the ability to provide for his family in his chosen way.

The narrative's triptych, time - hopping structure makes The Help «s Tate Taylor a somewhat rational choice for directing another popular novel with three women at the forefront (our time is shared between Blunt, Bennett, and Rebecca Ferguson as Rachel's ex-husband's new wife).

Music and pop culture plays an integral role throughout in «setting the scene,» as it were, and Gerwig's choices for the songs that play in various key moments are almost always pitch - perfect (Dave Matthews Band's «Crash into Me» figures prominently in the narrative — and, as an aside, will be stuck in your head for days after seeing the film).

The Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

Through culturally relevant narratives, choice, autonomy, and time for collaboration, one award - winning school is modeling a pathway into STEAM for underrepresented minority groups.

Differentiation: yellow = higher blue = middle purple = lower Resources provide opportunities to: - explore target audience for advertising campaigns - explore existing advertising campaigns - explore the use of persuasive language - explore the use of presentational features - analyse the effectiveness of advertising campaigns - explore the narratives of advertising campaigns - design a new soft drink and develop the advertising production plan - peer and self assess - explore representation - justify own design choices These resources could also be useful as part of an enrichment day / activity.

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The activity positioned preservice and beginning teachers as storytellers of personal learning and growth and offered opportunities for them to experience «narrative reconstruction» as they reflected on their lives, their learning, their choices, their past experiences, and their goals for the future (as also in Hull, 2003, p. 232).

Through your advocacy for public education, you can help shift the national narrative from «public schools are failing and choice is the solution» to a counternarrative with broader appeal.

For their performance task, students will plan, draft, and revise the introduction and one choice ending of the narrative with the support of both peer and teacher feedback.

For many, it creates a negative reaction resulting from the divisiveness that the school choice narrative has created in Indiana.

Secondly, this paper will attempt to paint a fuller picture of the way the Archdiocese of Chicago's schools can be thought of as part of the school choice system for, regardless of the date, the narrative thus far perpetuates a very limited view of the relationship between Chicago's catholic schools and school choice.

I think the presence of an adult POV, or other narrative choices that haven't been common in YA, is less a tactic for shifting the focus from kids than it is a way to broaden engagement by offering other vantage points.

The choice of the first - person narrative is just right for the story, which above all, can be read as a special twist on the coming - of - age narrative.

The short, focused writing of personal narrative poetry makes it ideal for teaching the trait of word choice.

You should convince your professor that the choice of the topic you have selected for your narrative personal story essay is worth to being read.

If social responsibility isn't the driving narrative to your investment practices, Swell Investing may not be the best choice if you're in the market for a robo - advisor.

There's choice system which refuses to show any consequences, a narrative which doesn't allow for enough subtlety to completely work and a fascinating world that's only actually fascinating on the surface.

I'm ruling out Azrael not from a lack of evidence but because from a narrative perspective I believe him to be a poor choice since he was featured so little in the game, and it's entirely possible for players to never even bother completing his missions, making it an even poorer plot twist.

It's simple left or right choices struggle to keep you engaged for more than a couple of hours, but it doesn't need to because in that time you'll have played something rather special with a fun overarching narrative that most people will find themselves driven to uncover.

Brilliantly building a hub world of sorts into an oddly entertaining narrative — which was a rarity for a game about karting — it even boasted boss races and vehicle choice, taking you into the skies as well as the water.

Though this is not a new idea for video game narratives, what stands out in Cave Story is that these choices may not be apparent to the player, who may just go along with a specific choice because it is expected from them based on previous years of experience playing other games.

At the time, games were pushing aside challenge and difficulty for story, narrative and dialogue choices.

When Naughty Dog set out to make a huge, open - ended area for «Uncharted: The Lost Legacy», they had to adapt their usual «wide - linear» narrative techniques to allow for more player choice, while still keeping the development of Chloe and Nadine's relationship consistent and natural.

Dropping Dynasty Warriors 5 and 6's character based narratives, in which each general had his own campaign, Dynasty Warriors 7 had four campaigns, one for each factions, and gave the player no choice in which character to play — a system much closer to earlier games in the series.

Narrative is printed out like a receipt, pausing for the player to make choices via four buttons.

The Old Republic is a massively multiplayer online role - playing game that blends traditional MMO gameplay with the rich, choice - driven narrative that BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic was known for.

All of this month's critical appeal is in Tales from the Borderlands, but if you're not down for some narrative choices, it was an eminently skippable month.

For fantasy and role - playing game fans, the game can occupy hundreds of hours, even after they finish the main campaign and the narrative associated with the expansion, because there are so many possible character builds to explore and an even bigger number of tactics that their interactions can lead to based on party choices.

Winner of the indieDB Editor's Choice 2015 award for «Best Visuals» and Game Connection Paris 2014 award for «Best Narrative,» The Town of Light is a first - person, story - driven adventure game set in the Volterra Psychiatric Asylum.

Whilst you shape the branching narrative as Connor, an Android Cop employed by the human police force to seek out deviant Android such as Markus, a leader of the android group seeking freedom for his people, you will be making choices that will not only determine your own fate, but that of the entire city and possibly beyond.

The third entry into the series will be its first full - fledged triple - A title, featuring open - ended wartime environments and a non-linear narrative to give snipers the freedom and choice necessary to execute the advanced missions that tactically - minded gamers yearn for.

These in game moments provide context for what you're doing, and there is even an element of «moral choice» sprinkled into the plot, but none of the narrative hooks held my interest long.

It's got many components of a standout game - stylish graphics, captivating atmosphere, a compelling narrative hook, mysteries that beg to be investigated, and heavy consequences for player choices.

Once more, the game received praise largely for allowing players freedom to make their own narrative and gameplay choices.