Showing a Text message in our films.
As technology increases the uses of text messages in film is increasing. There has been lots of different attempts of portraying these text messages on screen. This is a technique we want to use in our film I'm going to look at different way it has been and work out which would be best for our film.
The most basic way of showing a message in our film would to film the screen of a phone letting the audience read it. This is easy to do as all you'll need to go if film onto the phone or screen long enough for the audience to read the messages. This can be very boring for the audience as the shot has to be long enough for for the audience to read so destroys the flow if the film.
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| This is an example of what the shot would look like if we were to show the messages on the phone. You would have have have the camera on this shot for 10-15 seconds |
Another way of showing this could be using a hologram effect. This make the message pop out of the screen on top of the phone. Although this is a cool effect it has the same draw back as filming on the phone, you still have to have the camera pointing at the phone for a long period of time.
The most popular way of showing the messages on screen is to have them appear either in text bubbles or just by the phone this lets the action continue of screen and the audience to see the messages.
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| An example of this can be found in the film The Fault in Our Stars here the text messages appear on screen so we can see their conversation. |
The most successful TV show to do this is BBC's Sherlock, It was one of the first TV to do this. It Appears on the screen but sometime has a 3D effect and fits in with the background.
This would be the best way for use to do this in our film as the action continues but we still see the messages.
This Video talks about it in more detail.
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