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Screen size

- The size of screens is one component in a range of issues we face as transmedia producers. Small screens are challenging not only because of the screen size and varying audio quality of devices, but because of varying streaming rates and their impact on those images and sound. Small screen viewers can often be in spaces with lots of ambient noise and light just to make things even worse. Large screen viewing also has its challenges. If a group are watching a video in a hotel together, who knows the last time the A/V folks calibrated those monitors and upgraded that speaker system? And midsize screens like desktop monitors have their own challenges, such as browsers that are not set up to view color accurately. One thing we do know about viewers is they move between surfaces depending on the length of the content. A viewer might watch a one-minute trailer for a film on a mobile device but then download that full movie to watch on a larger screen with good headphones or nice speakers.…

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