Sentences with phrase «page than the screen»

It's a pleasant irony that, just as the first installments of Rowling's oeuvre were better suited to page than screen, the final installments have reversed the relationship.

In the epilogue centering on the fallout for her station coworkers and mother (J. Smith Cameron) that might work better on the page than screen, there's a lack of confidence in how to conclude her story.

For me, it's easier to spot errors on the white page than the screen, especially after a long period of working on a project.

Not exact matches

Adding great customization, search and curation capability positions Texture to reach beyond traditional magazine readers to a new audience of «people who almost exclusively consume their content on the screen, rather than off the page,» says Maich.

Interestingly, the character of Marianne is much less attractive on the pages of the script than the Marianne we both saw and heard on the screen: much more selfish, demanding, even cruel.

And instead of a storage device, the images (text or pictures) could be permanently displayed on these layers even with the power off, so that a document hundreds of pages long could be stored on the display screens themselves, and portable enough to carry around, no bigger than a small laptop computer.

«When reading, watching television, viewing the computer, or otherwise engaged, blink 10 to 20 times per minute, rather than staring at the screen or page without blinking at all.

Having not read the source novel, I take writer - director Alex Garland at his word when he admits his adaptation is a dream, of the memory, of the novel; rather than a literal page - to - screen copy.

The depth of the story he tells of Wiseau and his unusual relationship with the filmmaker — guided by co-writer Tom Bissell — is expectedly trimmed when transferring the movie to the screen, and, unfortunately, the background on Wiseau that Sestero details on the page is more interesting and fascinating than anything that made it to the screen.

Silver Linings Playbook is a joyous love story that becomes more than just that, thanks to Russell's ability to deliver comedy, drama, and pure emotion from page to screen.

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

I want to talk about how this structure perhaps worked better on the comic page than on screen.

With a raft of page - to - screen adaptations on the way, we try and predict whether the movie will be better than the book...

Amazingly, it is more than ten years since Diablo Cody hit all sorts of headlines making her screen - writing debut with Juno, that still highly regarded, bittersweet tale of unplanned teen pregnancy starring Ellen Page.

His rhyming dialogue surely lends itself to the printed page better than the silver screen.

But, overall, these characters and situations likely worked much better on the page than they do on the screen.

Page Eight, the new selection on PBS \» «Masterpiece Contemporary,» is more beautifully filmed than most movies on the big screen, and the gorgeous cinematography, especially of London draped with electric light at night, cinched it as a closing night selection at this year \'s Toronto Film Festival.

Who knows, maybe Kloves deliberately maintained a hands - off approach to the writing of the story with this installment, just so Rowling can learn the hard way that writing for the page is much, much different than writing for the screen.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

Her Katniss - on - the - screen is so much richer and more compelling than Collins's Katniss - on - the - page that it almost seems as though she's playing another character altogether.

In a visual device that may have worked better on the page than on the screen, Sfar has him imagining an anti-Semitic face with a huge hatchet nose, atop a small body in the form of a caricature.

In less than a page, and less than a minute of on - screen time, we immediately know how she feels about her.

Inherent Vice is the first time anyone has tried to turn Pynchon's notoriously thorny writings into a film; credit Anderson for ambition, but perhaps the author's style works better on the page than on screen.

Fans of Max Brooks» bestselling novel will undoubtedly be disappointed by how much was changed from page to screen, but «World War Z» is an immensely entertaining film that's smarter than your average summer blockbuster.

It's broken up into four quadrants, each of which can be drilled - down for further information or to change settings, but it's very easy to back out and the screen on its home page displays all the information you're likely to need at any given time, other than trip computer data, which appears in a display located between the major dials in the instrument binnacle.

Tiny screen doesn't fit much text on the page; E-books more expensive than competition; Can't share book passages or lend books; Very small periodical selection

There is less reflection off the screen than there is from a tablet screen or even the printed page.

However, we found this e-reader prone to ghosting of a previous page's words, rather than flickering of an entire screen as on the Kindle Paperwhite.

And in the future, as more comics are formatted for tablet screens rather than the printed page, a Guided View - like experience may become far more common.

With a resolution of 1872 x 1404 pixels, the screen offers crisp, sharp letters and high contrast with rich blacks and light whites.Even the smallest font size can be read perfectly, allowing you to display more text on a page than ever before.

It is a superior reading experience, much more convenient than traditional vertical page modes on bigger screens.

With more than 75 % of the screen's assets, the Illumina XL allows you to read more on one page or use larger fonts of 6 «normal e-readers.»

Interestingly, this title offers a bit more choice to the reader than The Kill Screen since you can choose whether to see the pages in their entirety, or double - tap the screen so it zooms into a single panel and then drag from panel to panel, or a combination of thScreen since you can choose whether to see the pages in their entirety, or double - tap the screen so it zooms into a single panel and then drag from panel to panel, or a combination of thscreen so it zooms into a single panel and then drag from panel to panel, or a combination of the two.

Format and font (if you're not using the print - edition layout, you might use a squarish page format to better fit a screen, and a larger - than - normal font)

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My last publisher used two designers and an art director who commissioned extra artwork from me so that each page now has a screened - back background and decorative features — it's a far better book than I would have created.

The all - new Kindle has an electronic - ink screen with 50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader, a new sleek design with a 21 percent smaller body while still keeping the same 6 - inch - size reading area, 15 percent lighter weight at just 8.5 ounces, 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life with wireless off, double the storage to 3,500 books, no glare even in bright sunlight and built - in Wi - Fi - all for only $ 139.

The texture of the screen is smoother and more pleasant to touch than the the Paperwhite screen, which is nice if you prefer swiping to turn pages.

«Even holding the Kindle screen up and pushing the page - button was more than I wanted to endure.»

Using functionality described in the specification, content can be formatted into a sequence of richly designed interactive pages, rather than being presented as a single scrolled container (as per the standard CSS formatting process for on - screen display) or as a scrolled container which has been simply split up into a sequence of pages (as per the standard CSS formatting process for printing).

I also need a bigger screen than the Blackberry I have to view 25 + page.

And the ability to reach farther into the midsection of the page lessened the disadvantage of working with such a deeply inset screen (Amazon says that the inset was necessary for its touch technology — but it's noticeably thicker, by millimeters, than the inset on the competing Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch and Kobo eReader Touch Edition).

Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G feature an easy - to - use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes - still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display.

A full - white screen (as seen on many we pages) taxes OLED considerably to the point where we suspect the battery drain would be more than on the LED - backlit panel you have on the Tab.

Pages they can flick through, rather than flat pages printed from your design document, or viewed on screen.

The screen on an e-reader is e-ink, making it more like reading from a printed page than a computer screen.

Oddly, Philby has inspired more great fiction, on the page and on - screen, than good nonfiction.

I don't find it any quicker to respond, in fact, I would say, apart from page turns which are quite quick, overall it feels more sluggish than the Sony, especially in touch - screen response.

The Kindle Graphite 3rd generation e-reader offers a slimmer, more compact design than previous Kindles; improved screen with higher contrast and faster page turns; native PDF support; large library of hundreds of thousands of e-books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs via Amazon's familiar online store.

Up till now, I have seen Guided View mainly as a way to make a print comic readable on a screen that's smaller than the standard page size: It allows the reader to pan across the page and zoom in on one panel at a time.