Aesthetics for mobile microcontent
A new article in the IHT notes that video creators can reshape tv-screen content to better take advantage of the small screens of cell phones, PSPs, video iPods, etc.
About 70 percent of the images he used were close-ups of actors, because panoramic shots appeared blurry. He said he used tiny speakers to hear what "the sound of a neck cracking" would be like on a cellphone after one of the episode's characters died from a snapped vertebra.
But for gunshot wounds, the director was forced to make the bullet holes extra large and to double the amount of blood so they could be easily identified on the small screen.
This reminds me of the PSP comics we blogged about recently, which also made formal changes to fit this format.
The article also mentions mobisodes. Very short, short-short video clips, I gather. Where's the social component that "mob-" indicates?
Added: Wikipedia has an entry on mobisodes.
(thanks, jim!)
I am not sure if the "mob-" in "mobisodes" indicates a social component. Doesn't it just point to the mobile nature of the clips? Or is there something inherently social in mobility?
Posted by: ana | October 24, 2005 at 01:05