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- Crash Course
As we’ve moved increasingly into mobile technologies, English teachers have been aghast at the trend of shorter, even micro communiques with questionable spelling and grammar that have all but made the elegant postal letter obsolete.Cinema studies grads may be the next to gasp. If When the Internet and Film Collide is the guide to the new film ouvre, ‘mobile cinema’ looks a lot like what we formerly called a “promo clip”. On mobile, attention spans are short and pixels are few. Even on laptops with giant 14″ screens, on services such as MySpace or YouTube, viewers… [more]
- Goin’ Mobile
Though statistics might suggest that Americans are just not terribly interested in watching movies on their telephones (Nielsen put the numbers for mobile video penetration at 3% in 2007), there may be some rather drastic changes on the horizon. Not only are more companies creating content specifically for mobile devices, more, like Sony, are targeting the full-length movie audience.What’s more, on June 9, Steve Jobs is set to announce a new iPhone- and if rumours prove true, this one will be a significant step up from the first model as well as a lot cheaper… [more]
