Theres no quicker way to make your film look old and dated than by including any form of technology in it, but texting seems to show up on a pretty regular basis both in movies and on TV.
It is, of course, hard to avoid technology these days, but when you look back at movies from the early 2000s, us snooty gadget owners of the 2010s laugh at their box-like computers and their phones that flipped open.
Still, filmmakers like to show us people texting, possibly because it's a pretty handy device to keep the story moving, but actually getting it to fit seamlessly into a movie is not always easy. No one wants to see a shot of a phone screen that's kind of blurry and has this weird glare, and then they have to leave it there long enough for you to read it, normally in the crazy text language that the kids are using these days.
You might have noticed that doesn't really happen anymore, so how are people doing it now? Tony Zhou has the answer, and in the next few minutes, he'll explain how both text messaging and the internet have changed in their on-screen representations over the past few years.
A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
As pointed out, House of Cards and Sherlock both do it well, mainly because it's so simple, but the internet remains a world left to be conquered.
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