Screen capture filmmaking

This article ‘Modern Family’s new episode never leaves the screen of a MacBook Pro’, on ‘The Verge’ looks at the concept of “screen capture filmmaking” with the program made using a laptop camera to record the show. Screen capture filmmaking is a technique that has become quite prominent in experiments in the mobile videography studio with students using airplay and other technologies like QuickTime to record the screen of the mobile interface/screen as it being used. If you used the screen capture filmmaking technique this semester you can now name it in your report as a particular type of practice.

MacBooks and iPhones pop up in movies and TV so often that it’s nearly a trope unto itself, but on February 25th ABC’s Modern Family is going a step further. A new episode called “Connection Lost” takes place entirely on the screen of a character’s laptop — and while it’s a fun new riff on the sitcom’s successful formula, it’s also one of the most glowing love letters to the Mac you’ll see this this side of an Apple keynote.