MacBooks and iPhones appear so often in films and TV that it is almost a trope for itself, but on February 25 ABCsModern familygoes one step further.This is this side of an Apple key.
"Connection Lost" belongs to a budding subgenre of what "screen shelter films can be called."You've seen it before, go back to themHeart Storage Tugging of Google -AdvertentiesFrom a few years ago: "The Camera" catches a computer screen and follows the mouse, web pages and other apps that the unseen operator uses that tell everyone a story along the way.The technology has also done intervention in longer projects.I 2013 ACall calledNoahUsed the style of great success and later in the year it is universalFree a whole horror filmBuilt around prisoner.
Apparently everyone in this universe -IPHones have
IModern familyEpisode We look at the computer screen for Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen) while she waits for the airport.Modern familyUniverse uses Apple products for practical facetime and iMessage sessions).
It is the type of GAG that can grow old very quickly, but thanks to a smart writing and fast direction it works fairly well (CommunityAlum Megan Ganz wrote the episode together withModern familyMaker Steven Levitan, who directed) .Ganz uses the Facebook pages of characters to use gags and references to earlier episodes of the series, and contrasts what a character SMS in a window with what they say in a Facetime call, callsJokes that that would do not a feasible competition are a standard episode.
Does anyone really use a reminder app?
"I have two daughters at the university and we do a lot of facetiming," he said during a recent press event in Los Angeles.His daughter appeared.On the screen he saw his work, his daughter, himself and his wife do something behind him at the same time.from there."
Levitan has not made his love for gadgets and Apple products secret - an earlyModern familyEpisode is inspired by his own obsession with iPad - and he quickly points out that there is no conventional product location in "Lost Connection".Advantages to record video chats.(Apple has also borrowed a Mac Pro for post -production work.)
The entire Mac interface had to be manually duplicated and animated
To get the concept of the computer screen, Levitan and his team were dependent on motion graphic artist John Brown.Raw mock -up of Claire's computer screen with the work assumption that the delivery could then be made using screen catch software, just like the filmmakers on the backNoahdid.However, in consideration of the decision, the image would lose clarity if they pushed into different elements, as Levitan wanted.
"I built the assets for Yosemite when Yosemite was still in beta," he said.Your fine tune or exchanged the interface of a new building like Apple."It was frustrating to be as a 'act one, totally locked' and then to come on Monday and the Facetime message has been changed."
This is not your usual facetime
Although cutting the episode that is shown was not the final version, Brown's work is impressive.Facetime: Ganz and Levitan decided to increase his possibilities, so that their fictional version can handle different discrete video chat (it is not logical in the episode, but it gives a certain manic energy).
The other is the heavy use of Yosemite of Transparency - something that Brown says he had to find a way to limit the name of practical, but still justifies in terms of character."It was such a thorn in my side!"The message rolls up, you can see it a bit through the top of the message.snarling.
