Sentences with phrase «storytelling device»

You can think of it as storytelling device as opposed to just being some music that plays in the background.

It is our love letter to video games as powerful storytelling devices.

It could be a more challenging and possibly more rewarding storytelling device than simply having two characters look back on their lives.

It introduced the notion that atmosphere can be a very effective storytelling device and create a world that really comes alive.

Probably the most interesting component of the movie is its signature storytelling device: the network news report.

The parallel reading to the children is one of the oldest storytelling devices but it still works to bond different characters.

The conversation between characters is the main storytelling device, and the voice acting is nothing short of stellar.

I love horror, because it's a great storytelling device.

Use your tone, language, anecdotes, stats, or any other storytelling device to help you communicate an emotion.

The piece is an ongoing series of sculptural works that function as storytelling devices.

Bungie is on track to course - correct its Destiny series through better usage of storytelling devices — and a story — combined with pixel - perfect PC controls.

Perhaps one of the more straight - forward of their collaborations, the photography in «Milk» was nonetheless a well - implemented storytelling device for the life of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk.

Covering the waterfront of Harding's life from when her domineering mother pushed her onto the world stage of figure skaters, through her emerging stardom on the ice to becoming a promising U.S. Olympian to the scandal where she tried to violently eliminate her main competitor Nancy Kerrigan and a marriage that involved domestic abuse — this film has it all but chooses a Rashomon - like storytelling device to play it all out onscreen.

Fans of the writer / director will probably eat it up, but any movie that seemingly relies so heavily on a lazy storytelling device like voiceover narration is setting itself up for failure.

This crew is pumping out the lovechildren of science education charts and graphic design — small, very helpful pocket references for when you're in a pinch for the perfect symbol or playful visual storytelling device.

It's a coming - of - age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them.

Flash forward 30 years, and they couldn't find a complete print or negative that resembled the original theatrical version, so they had to pull out some of the streamlined storytelling devices they had created, and go back to the remaining raw footage to rebuild some sequences.

This is the kind of storytelling and getting into a world and the reality that you can achieve by following a story over time and just telling it in a way that uses the same storytelling devices that a narrative feature would use.

«Parkour: Defying Gravity» (1:48) gives a general view of the discipline this while «Parkour Legend David Belle» (2:00) lets the stunt coordinator explain how he uses it as a unique storytelling device.

The doctor agreed to listen to McCarthy's account of what happened in Santa Mira, and the body of the story began with voice - over narration, which returned from time to time but was never an essential storytelling device.

American Ultra also benefits greatly from absolutely face - numbing cinematography, worthy of a big budget action flick, a kick - ass soundtrack, and some novel storytelling devices, and the emotional subtext between Phoebe and Howell.

With the exception of «The Blair Witch Project» and «Cloverfield,» the whole found - footage craze has generally failed to impress me as a viable storytelling device, usually because most of the movies in the subgenre are plagued by terrible scripts and bad acting.

Yes, we've seen this mad dash to get one's hands on a MacGuffin in many, many action flicks before (Hello, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, X-Men, and anything else with a Marvel / DC label), but it seems a bit excusable here since such storytelling devices are ingrained in what Star Trek is all about.

While Submerged is a platformer that stands out by being combat - free, it is riddled with unsatisfying storytelling devices and rote gameplay elements.

Rogue has long since departed from the commendable storytelling devices employed in the early games, instead relying on a vague, unobtrusive frame using a generic, incomplete «character» (known only as «numbskull») as the vessel.

With this new body of work, Prager realizes an ambitious formal approach to achieve the dynamic tension she previously created through more traditional storytelling devices.

This isn't just a smart storytelling device.

The graphic system that Marina Willer devised for the exhibition is inspired by the dynamic storytelling devices associated with Manga comics: the iconic storyboards, composed of panels that vary radically in angle, size and scale; and cinematic framing, achieved through a rapid alternation between long shots and close - ups, montages and scene changes.

[2] Macuga's work is commonly made for the specific institution in which it will be shown, her place - based installations involve many months worth of historical research and have been considered rich storytelling devices [3].

No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.

It's not a great start, reeking of desperation to eek some extra money out of a finished trilogy through a lazy storytelling device that essentially brings everybody back to square one.

When used corretly, they are a powerful storytelling device.

Isn't the myster after the fact the storytelling device of the less - than - edgy - but - occasionally - funny «Dude Where's My Car?»

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Particularly over the first night, the back story becomes tedious and the storytelling devices used to make it seem engaging only turn it into a soap opera.

Indeed, John Krasinski's horror hit is all about sound and makes brilliant use of silence as a storytelling device.

Do you want to meditate on what has happened to the American Dream using the symbolism of Elvis Presley as a storytelling device?

I think about it in those moments, of course, but I also think about it in movie theaters, particularly when I'm at a movie that uses race as a narrative vehicle — a movie that uses black people as part of a storytelling device, but doesn't cater to black people or show the faces of (m) any black people onscreen.

Those hooks can be a number of things: a compelling premise, the narrative and storytelling devices, relatable characters, an addictive gameplay mechanic, you name it.

When that scene of action reaches its conclusion, the results are more of a storytelling device — a «gotcha!»

While I understand the reasoning behind this as a storytelling device, I grew a bit tired of his character.

Time and time again, the film shakes and quakes for some dramatic effect that does not work as a storytelling device.

Snyder appreciates what Dolby Atmos ® brings to the movie: «Dolby Atmos is instantly a game - changer as a storytelling device.

Consequently, they use storytelling devices to deeply engage audiences for extended periods of time.

Macaulay employs four different fonts — one for each story — that are used as a storytelling device, along with the nonlinear plots.

With at least two titles dedicated to food, and several others that make food a central element or a storytelling device, her love for food would seem obvious.

When that happens there's a real danger of disconnecting from the art as a storytelling device and devolving into a kind of cliche - driven visual idioglossia.