Sentences with phrase «narrative focus from»

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The intermission marks more than just a shift in narrative focus from Rana to Kochadaiiyan but in Ashwin, who then takes what works best to the next level by completely embracing both the story's inherently exaggerated nature as a «legend» and, more importantly, the fantastical unreality of and the unbridled creative freedom granted by her chosen filmmaking approach.

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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.

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

There is zero chance that Cody Rhodes will wrestle at Starrcade, but Hayes was clever to shift the narrative away from the WWE and instead put the focus on Rhodes» response.

But results from focus groups show that such disaster narratives are good at attracting attention, but not so good at motivating genuine personal engagement or behaviour change.

The prevailing narrative of the rise of West, which focuses on the importance of the revival of Ancient Greek knowledge following the Dark Ages in paving the way for the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, has a tendency to portray Europe's rise in self - contained euro - centric terms, often failing to acknowledge debts from further afield.

This polemic against the American healthcare system benefited from a far more focused approach than his previous films, which covered so much ground they sometimes lost any sense of narrative or coherence.

The demand, from one of the most significant and influential voices on the left of the Labour party, marks a departure from the usual narrative on responsible capitalism, which usually focuses on handing shareholders more power.

The authors present a narrative of the events from that fateful November day, focusing on the medical steps taken to resuscitate President Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

They identified the key people involved using a narrative approach to interview in focus groups formed from those who were early adopters of process improvement methods.

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.

Though carefully rendered from a historical perspective, this powerful account of female friendship and bonding under the most cruel conditions lacks the narrative focus and dramatic shapeliness to generate emotional excitement.

Rosemary Myers» Girl Asleep (2015) is preoccupied with crossing borders, from its medium and genre to its narrative focus on the dreamlike...

Based on the world - renowned manga and anime series Berserk by Kentarou Miura, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk closely follows the events of the most well - known story arcs from the iconic manga's narrative, focusing on the violent and heroic adventure of Guts, Casca, the Band of the Hawk, and Guts» Traveling Party throughout their perilous conquest against a sinister realm of demonic fiends.

Braid pulls the rug out from under players by focusing on the narrative conventions of the genre.

Recent years have seen a new level of black art that's intertwined sociopolitical commentary with high - caliber artistry: from Beyoncé's Lemonade and Kendrick Lamar's DAMN to Atlanta and Queen Sugar, there's been a renewed focus on telling stories that broaden and sharpen the range of black narratives.

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 4 out of 4 stars Set in wintry Montana, Certain Women — the sixth full - length feature from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff)-- offers a narrative scope as majestic as the mountains we glimpse in the distance, with a focus as narrow... Continue reading →

While Troy's combat won't feel particularly foreign to fans of the Warriors franchise, its setting and narrative offer a refreshing departure from the Three Kingdoms and Feudal Japan focus of previous games.

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.

With an expert cast that includes Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll as the adult siblings; Jane Fonda as their mother; and Kathryn Hahn, Rose Byrne, Dax Shepard, Connie Britton, and Timothy Olyphant in supporting roles, «TIWILY» focuses on the bigger picture of the Altman family, offset with specifics from each of the characters» vastly different narratives, in a way that feels intimate and truthful.

Logically the narrative focus should be on Christopher Plummer's character but Heath Ledger's and the side - characters» presence distracts from this.

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

A League of Their Own isn't a musical, but the narrative layout resembles one in many ways, from the recruitment of players / performers to training / rehearsals to individual games / shows to bus rides between engagements, and there are similar shifts of focus between the leads (in this case Geena Davis and Tom Hanks) and the second bananas (Madonna and Lori Petty) and various comic turns (Jon Lovitz, Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh, Rosie O'Donnell).

Max Landis's screenplay meanders hither and yon without the slightest focus, from circus to laboratory to ball to medical college to isolated castle without a clear narrative path or sense of purpose.

While The Lost Legacy has an obvious narrative focus, you can diverge from this regularly, searching for picturesque vistas to reflect upon, treasures to gather or groups of enemies to eliminate, either stealthily or with guns blazing.

Surely this is an element of the overall feeling of detachment from the movie, and the lack of narrative focus drags the front - loaded first act (A subplot involving the identical, bumbling Inspectors Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) and a pickpocket (Toby Jones) only provides some stilted comedy; something is off about the physics of this animated world).

However what is clear from playing the past two games is that the developers need to have a much stronger focus on the story and narrative, and this is unfortunately one of the area which is still lacking in their new game.

The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida — the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW — who are revolutionizing farm labor.

A focus on play over narrative may not feel right for every fan, but I came away convinced from this engaging proof of concept.

Regardless of whether this recasting works or not — and for the most part it does — it ultimately detracts focus from the narrative, as Solondz transcends sequeldom and enters the spectrum of the part - remake / part - variation.

Mixing visceral, documentary - like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.

Hopefully, this will be improved as the gameplay is focused on simple puzzle solving and eliciting narrative cues from the other characters.

But after a pacy early scene in which courier Lara leads a wild bike chase through East London, the action reverts to the tried - and - true as the narrative focuses once again on tomb raiding, ruthless mercenaries, mad races through the jungle, much hanging from precipices, secret chambers being penetrated and dormant curses being unleashed after two thousand years.

More than half the films of my list share stories that focus on women or girls: Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, Inside Out, Room, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Far From the Madding Crowd (Additionally, I would argue that Ava's narrative in Ex Machina also drives that film and that Domhnall Gleeson's character primarily functions as a stand - in for the audience).

This pure and unfiltered «African gaze» is one that Hollywood is not used to; many projects based on the vast continent have focused on problematic storylines, illogically centered around white characters or narratives told from a distant, cold vantage view.

A biopic about controversial cartoonist John Callahan, the film's narrative is taken from his autobiography, focusing mostly on his alcohol addiction and recovery.

In telling this Day of the Dead - inspired tale, the Emeryville - based studio takes a needed narrative step forward in diversity, venturing away from the lily - whiteness dominating so many other animated features and focusing on a family from Mexico.

The main focus is how to write an extended narrative - with each skill building logically on from the next.

Lesson: Students...... spot language features in the extract... consider typical features of a a spy novel resolution... consider different structural techniques... find shifting narrative focus... read model paragraph on shifting narrative focus... analyse own portion of extract with specific question This lesson uses the»39 Steps» extract from the AQA website.

To help the students personally connect to writing, Mount Desert uses the Reading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension ability.

This is an outline of week 1 of 4 focused on identifying details from a narrative.

In his classes students focused on one slave narrative and examined it from a variety of angles.

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.

Many of these narratives focus on experiences in school and in youth groups where teenagers received powerful messages from teachers, peers, Nazi officials, and parents about the proper way to act and think.

Significant work from recent years focuses on the narratives that preservice and in - service teachers tell to make sense of, as well as facilitate their development (e.g., Draper, Puidokas, Schoafsma, Tendero, & Widmer, 2001; Fleischer, 1996; Vinz, 1996;).

Drawing from Vinz's work (1996) with critical incidents, students identify one key moment from their week of teacher - assisting and compose a present - tense narrative focused on description.

These writing - to - learn strategies can include freewriting, focused freewriting, narrative writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff, 1989).

During the same conversation, Runcie said: «I'm not going to allow a shift from what our focus needs to be to a fictitious narrative that's being made up about a successful program that we have in Broward County that has no connection to the shooter or the situation at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.»