Word: foregrounds
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...picture is multidimensional, all right, but not always visually persuasive. In a simple scene, say, where people talk in the foreground with shrubbery behind them, the background seems like a process shot even when it isn't; the two planes don't blend to form a plausible movie reality. The process works niftily, though, in a scene where Sean must get across a bottomless chasm by climbing from one suspended stepping stone to the next. Sometimes a gust of wind blows a stone upside down, and he must hang on, as shards of the rock break off and fall into...
...point where you can almost see Bret’s solemn expression mouthing the words to the chorus. “Boom,” a song that wasn’t really all that funny on the show, is buoyed considerably by bringing the beat into the foreground, making far more noticeable the dancehall-reggae caricature intended by the instrumentals. “A Kiss is Not a Contract” and “The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)” also benefit from improved mixing, with the acoustic guitar coming through crisply in both...
...must remain cognizant of the trauma that a construction project will have on current House residents. As such, nearby swing space should be constructed to house students displaced by construction—space that could likely be converted into graduate student housing later. While long-term concerns occupy the foreground of the University’s housing concerns, the short term needs of students should not be forgotten. Since the renovation project will likely not be completed for many years, the immediate problems facing house residents such as overcrowding, sewage leakage, heating, and ventilation cannot be ignored. Fortunately, it seems...
...middle-aged man recalls a girlfriend whom he treated badly. Wolff brushes the actual drama into the shadows. By drawing seemingly obscure details—turning on the heater in a car, a curl of hair on someone’s nape, a remembered lunch—into the foreground, he manages to imbue the characters with a real emotional accessibility.Only two of the 11 new stories are letdowns. “That Room” comes right after Wolff’s old thriller “Bullet in the Brain” and sorely disappoints, precisely because...
...tilt more as the pictures build vertically, so that the furniture grounds the picture while the books and ceiling are jumbled to resemble a distortion created by rising smoke, suggesting the room’s dissolution into air. In other pieces, the distant planes are skewed more than the foreground, raising questions about the accuracy of depth perception. Some works, like “Long Room with current magazines on the 2nd Floor,” practically beg to be seen close-up. Only then can the viewer inspect the tilted smaller photographs that meticulously compose the larger whole.Kellner...