Glen Mulcahy

New Path to Mastering Mobile Moviemaking Skills

File this post under “New Things Under the Sun.” Two highly experienced mobile journalists—Mark Egan and Glen Mulcahy—have developed an original program—Mobile Creators Academy (MCA)— designed to enable participants to master the art of producing quality content. The following interview gives the basics. If you want to know more, you’ll find a link (below) to…

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“The Migrant Bus” Wins Thomson MoJo Competition

With her first smartphone news report, Gisella Rojas Rodriguez has taken the top prize at the Thomson Foundation 2018 Mobile Journalism Competition. An Ecuadorian studying investigative journalism in Mexico, Rodriguez used an iPhone 7 to shoot “The Migrant Bus,” a four-minute mini-doc about migrants seeking a safer place to live. Edited with the Kinemaster app, the movie combines traditional doc shots, such…

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MojoFest Plans to Celebrate and Promote Mobile Journalism Worldwide

Mobile journalist Glen Mulcahy announces the launching of MojoFest. To be held in Galway, Ireland, May 29-31, the festival bills itself as “The International Content Creation Gathering.” The focus will be mobile journalism, photography, filmmaking, marketing, branded content, AR (augmented reality), and VR (virtual reality). Mulcahy, an Irish mobile journalist who earlier created MojoCon, was…

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“Brendan O Se – iPhoneographer”: a video profile by Glen Mulcahy

One of the most interesting things you can do with a mobile camera is to profile someone with a skill, a passion, or an experience. It could be a friend, a relative, a colleague, or–as demonstrated here–a stranger whose work you admire. While you can take a course on how to do it, perhaps you’ll…

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