Editing for mobile devices

Film Stuff podcast

Our friend Mickey had a simple question about audio mixing. The answer isn't quite so simple, and led us to have a full on film stuff episode about the ways that making films for mobile devices isn't the same as making films for televisions, computers, or projectors. We talk all about it in this episode, including: audio mixing, screen real estate, and why you should never watch Maze Runner on a plane. Extra special thanks to Mickey for inspiring this one! • Frequency distributions on recent iPhones are surprisingly good https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/5kdvnv/iphone_7_plus_audio_measurements/ • We talk about Christopher Nolan's most recent sound mix issues, which have come to light again with the release of Tenet. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/16/tenet-up-listen-christopher-nolan-interstellar-sound-mixing • Roy Anderson's films came up too, particularly his use of background action and detailed framing that's best left to a large screen size https://youtu.be/bLCtJkGKefU • The Dead Girls Detective Agency is one of Snap's originals, one of the only examples of made-for-vertical programming out there https://story.snapchat.com/p/cb699648-66fd-4483-8269-8b3c1511951d/5888840593047568 • We also alluded to a vertical music video we loved. We meant YELLE's Interpassion https://youtu.be/Neqp_R-xAYs • Screen real estate isn't just a film concept. It's also used in website design. One Utah Valley University class had a quick primer on graphic safe spaces and dynamic screen real estate http://desource.uvu.edu/dgm/2740/IN/steinja/lessons/04/l04_02.html?m=1 • Also John Wick! We love John Wick and think it's one of the greatest action movies ever made, from the actual fight choreography to the subtitle styling. Apparently other people also love it as much as we do https://www.reddit.com/r/JohnWick/comments/g6b2m0/john_wick_subtitles/ • If you make videos with subtitles, you should definitely read up about captioning standards. The one we follow is CEA-608, which we export to .scc files and upload straight to YouTube.