Some actors try to rely on playback (where a shot is played back on monitors), but this is not always available and, where it is, it is usually up to the director to decide, rarely the actor.
This paper is based on data from the European Sentinel GP Networks Monitoring End-of-Life CarEUROURO SENTI-MELC) study, a mortality follow-back study on monitoring end-of-life care in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy.
Rolls Royce aircraft engines contain sensors that send real-time data on the engine's function back to monitoring stations on the ground.
It records a ping pong match between two people, which is then played back on two monitors on AV carts positioned in front of a "real" ping pong table.
We rehearsed it through a couple of times but really we learned it by doing it, and after each run-through we would chill for an hour or two and then watch it back (on four monitors) and refine it some more.
These people found that the games they bought permanently disabled their DVD recorder drives, or that their travel books couldn't be read while travelling, or that the videos they purchased wouldn't play back on their monitors or in their classrooms.
What's to say a recorded video (or even better: a GIF) of someone played back on a monitor or another phone wouldn't be enough to let some persistent stranger into a device?
Have the courage to turn your back on your monitor and put your smartphone away.
When we played the shot back on the monitor, he just dropped his head in his hands, and said, 'I'm 50 years old...
So to enhance the retro feel, they used an old Hi-8 camera to film the animation playing back on a monitor, which explains all that old-school static fuzzing up the screen.
