The "Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers" narrative concept works well, while Cruise displays a vulnerability we haven't seen from him since Vanilla Sky.
It wasn't even that the narrative concept — toys come to life, with their own grudges, affections and hierarchies, when we aren't looking — was groundbreaking.
While "Illmatic," like Mr. Lamar's album, was primarily a document of observation rather than participation, it didn't reject the tastes of the day and wasn't a coherent narrative concept album.
Click here to watch video Why you should listen: Questlove and Black Thought and co have pulled together another narrative concept album – following 2011's Undun – that weaves between multiple-character tales of lust, destitution and the struggle to survive.
This is another exercise in slightly fey Cirque fantasizing, full of conventional circus acts mixed with generic choreography and bent to a flimsy narrative concept, accompanied by the sort of music mimes would make if mimes made music.
Drawing connections, one might argue that states appear in the stream of consciousness only in so far as we are aware of them, and thus forge a bond between the first meta-mental notion of a conscious state and the stream or narrative concept.
Classes range from "Narrative Concept Design" and "Motion Design," to "Main Title Design" and "UI and Data Design".
New History Warfare Vol. 1 was released in 2008 and had a narrative concept of a story of people who had been living at sea for generations.
That's already a pretty great hook, but one of the most exciting things is the way that Blizzard extends her narrative concept into her visual design.
