No matter what kind of movie you’re making, camera movement can add energy and interest to a shot. Examples include: panning (pivoting the camera to the left or to the right), tilting (aiming the camera up or down), and coming closer to—or pulling away from—the subject. However, to be effective, a moving-camera shot must satisfy two criteria. First, there should be a…
read more →If Picasso had owned a smartphone, he might have made a time-bending mini-doc like Simon Presto’s mesmerizing “Waiting for the Ferryman.” Shot in Dar Es Salaam on an iPhone 5c, the experimental video follows the lives of people waiting for the Kigaboni ferry. Presto–is there a better name for a movie magician?– uses a variety of simple techniques to turn everyday motions…
read more →Movies entertain and instruct. But perhaps even more important, the medium enables us to see things that we never noticed or see things we willfully ignored. Making the invisible visible is the premise of Brompton Bicycle’s “My Unseen City” competition. The challenge is to shoot a 15-second video contest that brings into focus something special about urban existence. Prizes include a Brompton bike plus…
read more →The Toronto Smartphone Film Festival (TSFF) founded in 2012, will be accepting submissions from now until April 17, 2016. This is a juried festival, with the winners showing at the Festival and also on Korean TV. There is no submission fee. Entries must be shot using a smartphone or other mobile device. While Samsung is…
read more →Mobile Motion Film Festival has received 478 films for this–their second annual festival. The number is twice the total in last year’s competition! Such phenomenal growth is yet another proof of the rapidly growing popularity of mobile moviemaking. This year, the entries came from 68 countries. The U.S. was the top contributor with 97 submissions. India was next…
read more →It is a report on a group of vocational scholars in Germany. They engineered a portable box to charge e-Bikes and are building their first prototype. The video is all in German, but with English subtitles (press CC-Button)” I’ve developed my idea of what I call #oneshot video reports. This is the newest one in…
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