Focus and Setting

Focus

Focus verb - To fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective.

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Setting and focus are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Setting" with "Focus", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: focused, focal, focusing

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Focus and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Focus" instead a verb "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

good	good focus	good setting
high	high focus	high setting
full	full focus	full setting
particular	particular focus	particular setting
Other adjectives: typical, usual, specific, original, initial, single, actual, entire, real, main, new, major, general, military, unusual, primary, alternate, central, different, magical, overall.

The early urban fantasies by Mercedes Lackey were set on the West coast, mainly in LA, but she later moved the setting and focus to New York City.

Source: Big Applesauce
Various other visual details and even a few snippets of conversation make the transition exactly, which is actually kind of surprising considering the change in focus and setting the series underwent, and besides which shows the attention to detail of the crew involved.

Source: Anime / Gankutsuou
The exotic location and colorful locals are just there to give a feeling of foreignness, and all the focus characters are from the target audience's culture or others not native to the setting.

Source: Exotic Backdrop Setting

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