Total Mobile Filmmaking! If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling the world (or your neighborhood) while making movies with just a phone or tablet, you may just be in luck.
Total Mobile Filmmaking! If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling the world (or your neighborhood) while making movies with just a phone or tablet, you may just be in luck.
Here’s my brief review of several video editing apps for iPad/iPhone.
I’m soliciting feedback on a screenplay I’m working on. Today I’ve got a consultation with a guy who is a reader in LA. I really do want to know what people think, even if there is a lot still undeveloped at this stage of the process.
Storytelling is about communication. If I’m not communicating, then I want to fix it.
But receiving critique on creative work is usually difficult. As wonderfully wise and mature as I am, I still get defensive and frustrated on occasion. I honestly think that it’s not so much that I don’t think the advice is valuable (it might even be correct), it’s just that I am secretly afraid that I may not have a solution. And my story will be a dead end.
My experience has shown me that is usually not the case.
What’s your experience?
If you are wondering which camera apps are for you, I’ve just posted an article where I review 6 filmmaking camera apps for the iPhone.
Most video content is consumed on small screens. My team is working on tools to help visual storytellers in developing countries tell better stories. Big stories. Small screens.
Most video content is consumed on small screens. My team is working on tools to help visual storytellers in developing countries tell better stories. 
Here’s my first self-portrait with my new DIY iphone rig. We’ll be putting together a how-to video for building this rig out of PVC, (not including the Phocus Accent iPhone lens system or the shotgun mic.)
I am also writing a comprehensive review of iOS cameras and editing apps.
Big stories. Small screens.
I’ve been pondering the options for a vertical aspect ratio for narrative films if the intended delivery is primarily mobile devices.
I’m preparing to do some teaching in Eurasia this fall to train young filmmakers to work with mobile devices in places where they have phones, but other resources are extremely limited.
And this past week I spent at a debate tournament with my daughter and noticed lots of parents shooting videos of events with their smartphones, held vertically in portrait mode. It got me wondering about the options for a vertical aspect ratio for narrative films if the intended delivery is primarily mobile devices.
Here’s a link to an article that also asks that question, along with a link to a cool little film shot vertically.
The Way We Watch: Cell Phone “Portrait” Aspect Coming To A Video Near You.
This clip works very well embedded on this particular blog site because of the white background field. It’s a bit odd on Vimeo on a laptop or desktop. However, when I view it on my iPad, using the Vimeo app and holding in vertically, it looks great and I like the composition possibilities a lot. When I’m in the story I don’t really notice that it’s vertical. Of course, if the film is viewed everywhere else it will seem odd – talk about letterboxing!
What kind of film story can you tell with the limitations of six lines of random dialogue and a three-minute time limit.
What kind of film story can you tell with the limitations of six lines of random dialogue and a three-minute time limit. This film was recently shared with me, from a contest a couple of years ago. (Ridley Scott chose this winner.)
The contest, which received over 600 entries from around the world, invited aspiring filmmakers to create an original short film using the same six-line dialogue as the Cannes Lions award-winning Parallel Lines short films directed by RSA talents Carl Erik Rinsch, Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, Jake Scott and Hi-Sim.
Commenting on his choice of winner, Sir Ridley Scott said: “I chose Porcelain Unicorn to be the winning film as it had a very strong narrative; a very complete story that was well told and executed.”
Learn to love limitations!
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