Overview

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice explores diverse approaches towards smartphone filmmaking and interviews an overview of the international smartphone filmmaking community. Interviews with smartphone filmmakers, entrepreneurs, creative technologists, storytellers, educators and smartphone film festival directors provide a source of inspiration and insights for professionals, emerging filmmakers and rookies who would like to join this creative community. While not every story might be appropriate to be realized with a mobile device or smartphone, if working with communities, capturing locations or working in the domain of personal or first-person filmmaking, the smartphone or mobile device should be considered as the camera of choice. The mobile specificity is expressed through accessibility, mobility and its intimate and immediate qualities. These smartphone filmmaking-specific characteristics and personal forms of crafting experiences contribute to a formation of new storytelling approaches. Stylistic developments of vertical video and collaborative processes in smartphone filmmaking are evolving into hybrid formats that resonate in other film forms. This book not only develops a framework for the analysis of smartphone filmmaking but also reviews contemporary scholarship and directions within the creative arts and the creative industries. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice initiates a conversation on current trends and discusses its impact on adjacent disciplines and recent developments in emerging media and screen production, such as Mobile XR (extended reality).

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Author:   Dr. Max Schleser (Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9781501360329

ISBN 10:   1501360329
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   04 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Filmmaking The Pioneers An Original Film Form MINA, Mobile Innovation Network and Association Curating the International Mobile Innovation Screening International Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018 Smartphone Filmmaking Modes Chapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film Festicals The Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival Scene International Mobile Film Festival (San Diego, USA) MoMo – Mobile Motion (Zürich, Switzerland) SF3 Smartphone Flick Fest (Sydney, Australia) African Smartphone Film Fest (Lagos, Nigeria) Karl Bardosh, NYU (New York, USA) Chapter 3: Focus on Smartphone Filmmaking Practice Independent Smartphone Filmmakers Gerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium) Felipe Cardona (Columbia) Camille Baker (UK) Conrad Mess (Spain) Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries 21st-Century Creativity and Storytelling LumaTouch (USA) Benoît Labourdette (France) Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific) Treehouse (Australia) Struman Optics (Australia) Chapter 5: Creative Innovation Experimentation Driving Innovation Transformational Creativity Smartphone filmmaking specific formations Smartphone Filmmaking Modes Mobile XR Bibliography Index

Reviews

Max Schleser's book exceeds the 'how to', placing smartphone filmmaking in an original framework, but linking it too to innovative and experimental film traditions. He draws on pioneers, theorists, innovators, artists, programmers and technologists offering up a fascinating look at a transformations in filmmaking. * Annie Goldson, Director of He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan (2013), University of Auckland, New Zealand *

Author Information

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adobe Education Leader, Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. He has co-edited Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014) and Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones (2019), and edited journals for Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media and the Journal of Creative Technologies. He conceptualised and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies. Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcast on TV and online (https://www.behance.net/maxschleser).

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