Katzenberg: Director Antoine Fuqua is conducting mobile camera tests for Quibi
Jeffrey Katzenberg · a16z Podcast | On Marrying Entertainment and Technology · Jan 2, 2019 · at 33:05
Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of Quibi, details filmmaker Antoine Fuqua's collaboration with Quibi's engineering team to test dual-orientation mobile video formats.
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“So, last week, Anton Fuqua got together with the product and engineering team and agreed on a series of tests that he's going to go out and Shoot here, dealing with all these issues around landscape and portrait and all the things that you are sort of natural opportunities for us to improve on the experience, but that is a perfect example, and he's excited about helping us author a new language.”
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