Oscars’ iPad App: Useful or Not?
All of the actions and update on this year's 84th Academy Awards were captured by the Oscars app that are available for everyone's iPhone and iPad.
It is the time of the year when the brightest stars of Hollywood gathered for one of the most prestigious award-giving body in the entertainment industry. The Academy Awards again hailed some of the best actors and actresses and movies that show the prowess of creativity and talent of Hollywood filmmaking.
There are a lot of apps that helped people in tracking the event. First, the official Oscars app that is available in the Academy Awards website. The app featured a dozen of live stream videos for the Red Carpet and backstage on the awards nights as well as during the Governor's Ball.
The app gives people access to some videos that will never be shown on the TV telecast. This is like being treate for a backstage pass during the event. The app was available in the U.S. for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, but you really needed the iPad's larger screen to make the best use of it.
Other Oscars' apps such as The Hollywood Reporter's The Race to the Oscars iOS app and Chicago Tribune's Live From the Red Carpet app. The aforementioned apps provide updates, latest news and winners' list. Moreover, the latter will allow you to see Ryan Seacrest and Guiliana Rancic interviewing the stars and check out the fashions.
It seems that there are a lot of things that one will miss if they relied on the telecast of the event alone. Some of the things that you did not see that were available through the apps were:
- The winners giving a short "thank you" speech backstage for the friends and families they have failed to mention at the stage.
- Celebrities chatting and socializing around during breaks and when they were rushing to their seats as the event was about to resume.
- Stars getting their round of drinks at the "bar." Moreover, the stars who arrived late at the event.
App users are treated to all of these backstage passes. There could be some hilarious moments not shown on TV.