Chef 2014 - Twitter Usage

I finally got around to seeing Chef (2014) last night. A feel good movie about a Chef who finds creative satisfaction through a food truck. A cute movie but what I really came away with was how they showed social media usage.

In the past, portaying texting, social media, or other phone based activities has been boring and anticlimactic to me. Now filmmakers are not only making the display of these devises more engaging to the audience, these intangibles are playing more of a central role in stories. In Chef, it could be argued that social media itself is a character in the film and had to be portrayed somehow. All that to say, I was really impressed how twitter was used.

Elegant texting workaround

I know that I have certainly had clients want to include emails or texts in their filmic stories. If you have ever heard something like "yeah just have this manager send out an email saying XYZ and show it!", then this is for you.

House of cards came up with a very classy way to do show this very boring yet very real mode of communication in an elegant fashion with simple graphic overlays. I'll certainly be adapting this method in the future.