Entries to MMM’s Travel Video Contest must be received no later than August 31 at 11:59 PM California time. The challenge: Use a mobile device to shoot a movie that celebrates wanderlust. It could be a travelogue, a documentary about a place visited, or a fiction movie about “hitting the road.” There is no entry fee. You…
read more →Susy Botello, founder of the Mobil Film Festival, has just announced the launch of Mobile Film School. The goal is to enable participants to create films and videos like professional mobile moviemakers. The School’s initial project is a workshop to be held in San Diego on September 12, 2015. Celebrated mobile moviemakers Conrad Mess and Robert David…
read more →Do you care about the environment? Do you want to show off your mobile moviemaking skills? If “yes” and “yes,” then you might want to submit a video to the Mobile Film Festival. The challenge: make a one-minute movie on the topic “Act on Climate Change.” The deadline: September 28, 2015. You can see a…
read more →Xavier Satorra’s “Calling Soon” has won the “Best Web Series Trailer” at this year’s International Movie Trailer Festival (IMTF). The achievement is notable because “Calling Soon” is a mobile-shot movie trailer. Most of the other entrants in the web series category were shot using conventional cameras. IMTF also held a competition exclusively for trailers shot using mobile…
read more →The smartphone makes it easy to shoot video vertically (portrait mode) rather than horizontally (landscape mode). But is easy “good”? Until recently, just about every video expert has recommended shooting horizontally. Proponents of this wide orientation present many reasons. These range from “it’s natural” (our eyes being laid out side by side)–to “it’s traditional” (there’s never been a single great movie shot…
read more →Film journalists rarely interview a film’s cinematographer. The attention almost always goes to the director and the actors. But in a sense the camera—an iPhone 5—is one of the stars of ” Tangerine,” a feature getting rave reviews. In an IndieWire interview, the film’s cinematographer Radium Cheung lists a variety of pluses shooting with a smartphone:…
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