> Every time I see a 555 number in a movie, I'm reminded that it's a movie and am dropped out of immersion.
What about a cut? A camera zoom? A title screen? Sub-titles? I am intrigued about how you experience films.
What about a cut? A camera zoom? A title screen? Sub-titles? I am intrigued about how you experience films.
Book misspellings have changed over the years. Since people use spell checkers now, they are of the form:
He arrived at the top of the stairs painting heavily.
With films, I drop out of immersion when seeing things like reflections of the camera crew, anachronisms, etc.
Misspellings in books, foreign objects or people in a show or film, obviously fake phone numbers and things like that fall into that category.
On the other hand, things like paper quality or font choice (and lens angles, cuts, video resolution, color) tend to not break immersion if the story is right.
I cannot recommend enough a book called In The Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch.
Scenes and cuts, like letters on paper, are the medium. A phone number OTOH is part of the story. Immersion is broken by a badly told story, not the medium.
It's like that for video games for me. I used to program them for a job when I was in college. Ever since, when I see a video game, I don't see the game so much as how it is constructed and programmed.