Sentences with phrase «story points jump»

Scenes, characters, and story points jump out of nowhere and hobble themselves together to bring various plot lines to a head.

Not exact matches

If you are here reading this right now you are jumping into our story at the point where we are — 100 % out of debt — free from our 9 - 5 jobs and have one that lets us live on our terms — homeschooling our girls — looking for our sailboat.

If you are here reading this right now you are jumping into our story at the point where we are — 100 % out of debt — free from our 9 - 5 jobs and have one that lets us live on our terms — homeschooling our girls — looking for our sailboat.

The film follows five separate stories, completely unconnected but for the far reach of the Neapolitan Camorra (the Mafia organization that runs Naples), and it jumps back and forth between them at seemingly random points.

The story is just a jumping off point to getting into the game.

Yes there is a gimmick of being shrunk but wisely Payne chose not to focus solely on this but used it more as a jumping off point for the more important themes this story brings about.

The best part of One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 is that the game starts from the beginning which means if you have missed out on the last 15 years of stories, this makes the perfect jumping on point for new gamers.

Shakespeare himself remains a rather minor character, which is further evidence that Emmerich and Orloff see the whole Oxfordian Theory as a mere jumping - off point for a great story, rather than the crux of their movie.

When: January 6th Why: The story of the Amityville haunting has been pretty well documented in movies, including last year's «The Conjuring 2,» but this film looks like it's using the original case as a jumping off point for a new source of terror.

This is the basic setup, but must be viewed as a jumping - off point for almost constant twists and turns and outward growth of the story.

Fans have pointed to the clip from Solo: A Star Wars Story, which sees Lando tell Han to «buckle up, baby» before making the jump to lightspeed in the Millennium Falcon, as evidence of sexual tension between the pair.

The story of a 16 - year - old girl who gets pregnant could easily be the jumping point for broad social satire, but Cody respects her characters too much to mistreat them so.

Gradually, the pictures, mainly portraits, take on more and more touches of color; at the turning point of the story, when Masako leaves her parents» home for the city of Osaka, the bright red of her dress practically jumps off the page as staid passersby in brown and gray traditional clothing look at her in shock.

«A team of documentary filmmakers began following affected families and educators, policymakers, and advocates as the closures unfolded — and their stories became a jumping - off point for exploring so many urgent questions facing public education today.»

Why do you think Jordan chose The Scarlet Letter as a jumping - off point for her story?

Your first draft should be just that, a first draft or jumping off point for your perfect story.

Build Creative Writing Ideas includes a collection of over 2,000 free writing prompts that you can use as story starters, journal prompts, poetry jumping off points or for any writing areas you may be into.

The spectacle is the jumping - off point; the story is the aftermath.

This week's issue of 2000AD, Prog 1850 (issues are called «progs» in their world), is a good jumping - on point for new readers, with four new story arcs launching at once.

In my industry, pictures shaped story, and pictures were my jumping - off point.

Though the plot description («a Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents» marriage falters») and setting (Washington D.C., where Foer himself grew up with two brothers) makes the novel sound autobiographical, Foer has long used the personal as a jumping - off point for stories that end up being completely original (see Everything Is Illuminated).

Let's jump forward to the point where we have 10 novels, some novellas, and a few short stories out (that's me right now, after three years of self - publishing).

There are still hurdles to jump, like gaining approval from U.S. and U.K. regulatory agencies (although, as many news stories point out, those agencies have allowed the music business to shrink to three major companies).

The only problem I had with it was how it jumped to completely different times and story points and I was like «What the -?

«Nobody seems to have cracked the code in terms of everybody jumping on and saying «This is the one,» but there is a lot of experimentation, and that's a good thing from my point of view because eventually some of these experiments are going to be successful and then we will have new ways of telling comics stories,» Griepp said.

I didn't agree with every suggestion my editor made, but I used them as jumping - off points where I could improve my story.

The story, while jumbled, is a great jumping off point to get into the Warhammer tabletop game.

The story is said to be really deep and involving as it twists and turns through time; intersecting plot points where you see yourself or witness the setup to an event from a prior time jump will play heavily.

However, season 3 will be very accessible for new players as well with the story giving a good jumping off point.

The main campaign follows the story of season one of the AoT anime and as such serves as a perfect jumping on point for both old school fans and people new to the franchise.

The levels were as interesting as any other Halo campaign but due to the better graphics and the ability to climb up a ledge rather than having to jump above it's height it made it great to explore for skulls and collectables, within the 9 hour co-op game both myself and Russ found ourselves venturing off and climbing up different parts of the maps to see how high we could get or what was hidden away, we came across a few Easter eggs on the way and found some rare or «special» weapons, Halo has always been a FPS which you have to explore to find Easter eggs etc. but Halo 5 just seemed better than the rest for this, the game flowed well between each level bouncing from blue team and team Osiris following the story to show where paths cross and what each team is doing in between, I feel like all of the trailers kind of pointed the story into a different direction to the way the campaign developed which was surprising and confusing at the same time but none the less it was a great campaign and one of the best Halo games I have played in many years, I was never a fan of Halo 4 I thought it lacked everything a Halo game should be but Halo 5 has surprised me and was well worth the wait.

The Junction Point team jumped at this chance to play a part in Disney's history, creating a world and a story that honored the past while resolutely looking toward the future.

Table Talk is a game by Nina Freeman that uses a single painting as a jumping - off point for a story about friendship and puberty.

Not entirely a down point as I didn't expect to jump into Minecraft Story mode for the action.

LEGO Jurassic World is based off all four Jurassic series movies; if you haven't seen them then maybe you will feel a bit lost, because this game jumps from level to level in regards to the actual story from the movies — mainly focusing on key points or famous scenes from in the movie.

Up to this point, players have always been able to jump into the shoes of many of the characters and just get going in huge sandbox levels that brought many a unique story.

Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity features a standalone story that draws upon the renowned franchise's 20 years of lore to characterize its two playable protagonists, while providing an excellent jumping - in point for series newcomers looking for a fresh adventure.

The story really falls short and does not provide a reason to stick with the game, but at least at this point the gameplay jumps in and really gives you a reason to keep playing.

Although most of what is presented in the game is now commonplace in the industry Bioshock's world, story and ideas still stand out as fun and unique making a great starting point for those jumping into the collection.

The game's art director, Jason Connell, stated in a recent PSX panel for the game that the team are taking an «inspired by» approach to the game with the setting serving as a «jumping off point» for a completely original story.

Well, a rpg story is just like a book, if you jump pages it won't make sense.It has a prelude, a mid and an end.I saw LR in english and well, I finally got some of the more fuzzy points in the story, like who the «Maker» from XIII was, what was Chaos and the cycle of souls.The story to me is worth an 8.0... they could have explained more of the mythos on the original XIII and left less unexplained plot points to be filled later..

The implied stories in Meatyard's work can be used as jumping - off points for various productions that can broaden the ways in which his images are understood and appreciated.

The point is that in the story of life when more resources become available, in this case warm temperature and higher CO2, life will jump in to take maximum advantage of it and do it quickly.

Oh, I'm itching to jump into the renewables debate, perhaps by pointing out that the US DOD is testing (expensive) non-fossil jet fuel already — but David B. Benson's impassioned plea is still in my mind, so I'll refrain from tootling off to find a link to that particular story.

Blaney McMurtry podcasts Blaneys lawyers talk about a variety of legal topics, often using news stories and recent cases as their jumping off point.

Every single interview I received whether it was over the phone or in person, at some point during the process the interviewee said when they saw my resume they loved the way it jumped out and wasn't an avalanche of facts or statements, but rather a short story about myself leading up to the situation I am in today.

At this point, Ciardelli jumps from his conference room chair and bounds out through an open door — an open - door policy in the headquarters is a constant reminder about transparency — to get John Johnson to help tell the rest of the story of Guaranteed Rate's beginnings.