The famous call—”Lights! Camera! Action!”—reveals the essence of movies: action! A movie without action is just a slide show. Audiences expect movies to move. But while Hollywood has conditioned us to expect explosions, battles, rampaging dinosaurs and other big actions, there can be delight in capturing subtle actions. As Jamie Fuller demonstrates in “Gloomy Day,” a filmmaker with a good eye can…
read more →One of the most rewarding mobile moviemaking projects is the smartphone video biography. This is hardly a surprise when we consider that people—not explosions and other big actions—make Hollywood movies memorable. After the smoke settles, we remember characters such as Dirty Harry,Thelma & Louise, Goldfinger, the Godfather, Dorothy, Rocky, and Tootsie. Plus characters that act like people, for example Seabiscuit, Jaws,…
read more →There is a new genre under the sun: the collective movie. Contrasting with traditional moviemaking that expresses the vision of a single filmmaker, collective moviemaking brings together images shot by a number of filmmakers. While the finished film may reflect the personality of the editor-director, the visual style has the diversity and richness of a patchwork quilt.…
read more →In the 1930s, long before MTV, Disney’s “Silly Symphonies” and “Fantasia” explored the relationship between music and moviemaking. Simon Presto’s “Waiting for the Ferryman” carries on that tradition, and extends it to the documentary genre. In the following interview, this UK-based filmmaker discusses the techniques he used in making his short film. MMM: Do you see “Waiting for the Ferryman” primarily as…
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 →Allen Bronstein is a professional videographer, the author of Make iPhone Movies Everyone Loves, and the director of content at MobileMovieMaking magazine. FacebookTwitter
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