SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking

The Art of Experimental Mobile Storytelling with Max Schleser Episode 41

We talk about storytelling a lot as part of this podcast when we talk about filmmaking. Our guest explains how experimental filmmaking with smartphones, taking advantage of the visual challenges of pixels fits into the storytelling discussion. Max Schleser has been working in the mobile filmmaking space as a filmmaker since 2006. Let’s take a trip through the history of smartphone filmmaking from his perspective.
Episode 41 of the SBP Podcast: The voice of mobile film™ is an in-depth discussion with an old friend and mobile film pioneer, Max Schleser. We met Max in 2011 and due to our passion for the mobile film industry, we have succeeded in hosting a film festival for mobile filmmakers every year as a live venue where filmmakers can attend and grow the community. Our conversation takes us into the history of experimenting with mobile phone cameras to the experimental artistic opportunities of smartphone cameras today with VR and 360 video.
Listen to a unique conversation with Max to get a first-hand insight into the world of mobile storytelling through experimental and innovative mobile camera technology.
Max is the cofounder of the Mobile Innovation Network about to hold it’s 8th International Mobile Innovation Screening at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia on November 16. “MINA creates interactions between communities, content and the creative industries.”
Max explores innovative mobile tools to create visual mobile storytelling through creativity. Max also holds workshops to teach VR (virtual reality) 360 and 3D video.
His first mobile film, Max with a Kaitei was filmed in Japan, circa 2006 and used an early cell phone camera.
SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones.
Watch Max with a Kaitei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jc2iLI5Mx0
Watch MINA’s Show Reel Trailer:
https://youtu.be/SxStz2Rw3Vc
Guest Links:
Get Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/mina-gtgt-mobile-innovation-network-and-association-14092876384
Full program online:
https://www.scribd.com/document/390639132/8th-International-Mobile-Innovation-Screening
www.schleser.nz
http://www.mina.pro
www.mina.pro/screenings
Show reel trailers:
http://www.mina.pro/screenings
Max on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mobilementary
Max on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/maxschleser
or Max on Behance https://www.behance.net/maxschleser
Contact eMail: Max@mina.pro
Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxmobile
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxschleser
Article about FILMOBILE - Schleser M., ‘FILMOBILE’ NODE.London Reader II (2008) Published by NODE.London, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 England & Wales License.
https://monoskop.org/images/1/1e/Node.LondonReaderII.pdf
Article about MINA - Schleser, M. (2018) ‘MINA – Mobile Innovation Network Australasia’ MediaNZ Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand Digital Communities – Volume 16 Issue 1. https://medianz.otago.ac.nz/medianz/article/download/200/190
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Mobile Film Community Website: http://mobilizestories.com
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Smartphone Filmmaking Publication on Medium: https://medium.com/smartphonefilmmaking
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iPhone Filmmaker Inspires All Ages to Make Movies Episode 40

Imagine that you have made over one hundred films in your lifetime, because who keeps count over a hundred, and you are now working on your third film shot with your iPhone. Meet Mickey Harrison: 83 years and still making movies!
Episode 40 of the SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ introduces you to a filmmaker who has spent over 32 years making films. Her film crews came on set with all the big gear and equipment and cameras you find in a typical film set. She has mentored students from High School to Universities who have become successful participants in the film industry from New York to LA. Imagine that you get to have a lifetime experience working in the industry and attending film festivals and then are told that making movies with smartphones is a thing you can do and so, you do. You just do it.
Mickey grew up in New York and her Uncle and Father were actors. Although Mickey was interested, they discouraged her from joining “the family business” and suggested she do something else. So Mickey became a nurse practitioner and volunteered to help in Vietnam, during the war. Yes, she was in the middle of the Vietnam war, but that’s another story for another day.
She then came to San Diego and worked at Kaiser Permanente, which is a hospital and insurance company. It was then that she began to look into a career in acting and theater. That’s how she met DJ Sullivan who had a great reputation as an acting coach in San Diego. It was DJ who ultimately advised her to look into working on student films to get more experience. In 1989, shortly before retiring, she volunteered to act in student films and that led her to start her own production company, LuLu Films. Mickey is a writer, a producer, a director, an actor and also had a great reputation as a casting agent. While she worked on films with filmmaking crews, including her own films, in San Diego, I reconnected with her again in late 2015. That’s when she found out about the International Mobile Film Festival, where only films shot with mobile phones qualified. She laughed. But as I explained it to her, she became more and more interested in it by the minute.
Her first film competed in IMFF 2017 and was shot with her iPhone. By the second film, Aunt Tillie’s Kitchen, she and her crew Shaun Donelson and Richard Tews, were more experienced. Her comedies are written, directed and produced by her and her company LuLu Films. She also acts as the protagonist in her short films. Comedy is not easy to do and it takes a bit of skill to pull off. However, her films have been successfully funny and they get many laughs.
Watch Aunt Tillie’s Kitchen below. You won’t find Mickey on Facebook or Twitter but you can find her on her website. Oh, and you can most likely find her being a charm in our film festivals inspiring everyone. Her motto is “If I can do it, anyone can do it.” And that is truth!
SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones.
Mickey’s Website:
https://lulufilmsproductions.wordpress.com
Watch Aunt Tillie’s Kitchen:
https://youtu.be/J6MF1baZCcs
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Smartphone Mobile Filmmaking Community Unites Episode 39

When storytellers come together they inspire each other. It happened the evening of Wednesday, September 19, 2018 in San Diego. Hashtag MobilizeStories was presented by the International Mobile Film Festival to inspire people to use the camera on their smartphones to share stories.
The event was aimed at filmmakers, bloggers, small business owners, solopreneurs and others who were interested in creating video content and sharing their stories. Founder of the International Mobile Film Festival, Susy Botello, led the discussion through a presentation which featured a video interview and short film by Aris Tyros, How I Became A Movie Theatre Murderer. Watch the video below. Aris Tyros from Toronto, Canada won Second Place during #MFF2017SanDiego and took the Best Director Award at the Global Mobile Film Awards™ with his film shot with an iPhone, last year.
The presentation included a talk about some of the tools, apps and techniques available to filmmakers and video content creators can use to create their films and videos using smartphones. The goal of the discussion was about empowering everyone regardless of experience and/or budget limitations. After the presentation, an open forum gave attendees an open forum to discuss the movement and democratization of the film and video industry.
As the host of the SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™, Susy Botello interviewed some of the attendees for the podcast which will publish next week on iTunes, Spotify and other podcast apps and platforms. You can listen to the podcast interviews at 16:04 minutes in.
Everyone who attended the event was excited and motivated but most importantly, everyone stated they were truly inspired by the presentation. They said they were ready to create something right away and a challenge was set. The challenge was to create a short film or video, any genre of 1 to 3 minutes and bring it to the next event to share and critique.
Later, everyone moved the discussion to a restaurant a few feet away from the meeting space and shared their ideas and impressions. Everyone had a good time and felt very comfortable sharing stories and ideas, techniques and their passions. Some people connected on social media as well and genuinely connected. Watch the videos and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss the interviews and listen to previous podcasts to learn more about the global mobile filmmaking community.
SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones.www.sbppodcast.studio
If you are in San Diego, make a point of coming to the next Connect & Meet Up San Diego Mobile Film #Mobilize Stories Community Event happening October 25, 2018 at 7:30PM. Details on the website: www.MobilizeStories.com
Join the MobilizeStories Community on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @MobilizeStories
You can also submit a short or feature mobile film at www.InternationalMobileFilmFestival.com
Watch a short video from the first Connect & Meet Up event in San Diego: https://youtu.be/YLSexKG1xaY
Video presented during event of interview with featured filmmaker: https://youtu.be/-dxdWoeWk3A
Featured filmmaker’s mobile film during event:
https://youtu.be/19nMa9y3L3s
Event Article on Medium.com
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Hashtag: MobilizeStories Mobile Film Community website: http://mobilizestories.com
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Smartphone Filmmaking Post Production and Color Grading with FilmConvert Episode 38

We begin Episode 38 of the SBP Podcast by updating our listeners and followers with how to submit mobile films to the International Mobile Film Festival and how we spent the summer, including our Mobile Filmmaking Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International and a few more news updates. But just a few minutes after that we introduce Senior Marketing Manager of FilmConvert, John Parker.
FilmConvert has been a sponsor awarding mobile filmmakers from our film festivals in San Diego. We introduce you to how their software application for color grading supports mobile filmmakers in the industry. John shares his experience in filmmaking along with advice for mobile and other filmmakers using the software and general post production tips.
Our conversation with John is informative and in depth. It emphasizes the importance of a good story for filmmakers while explaining how good aesthetics can add to the value of your film shot with any camera but includes tips on how to give your mobile film a more cinematic look.
You can download a full featured trial version of FilmConvert right now and begin experimenting. It can be used as a stand-alone application or as a plug in with the most popular editors like Final Cut Pro and Avid.
John shares a video contest with our listeners and you can follow FilmConvert and enter the contest using the links below.
SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones.
FilmConvert Website:
https://www.filmconvert.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/FilmConvert
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https://www.instagram.com/filmconvert/
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https://twitter.com/filmconvert
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Fearlessly Brand Yourself with Smartphone Video with Amani Channel Episode 37

It’s been a while now since Instagram launched IGTV but it’s been quite sometime before people began to use their smartphones to record themselves to share it on social media. Our guest on the SBP Podcast is Amani Channel who has been creating tutorials to help people how to get in front of a camera and represent their brand. What if the brand is you? It’s called Self Branding and everyone needs to brand themselves to stand out in the big ocean that is social media and video is the trend.
In this episode we discuss the empowerment video provides everyone on social media. We discuss the advantages and nuances of vertical versus horizontal video and provide great advice on to plan your videos before you go live or start recording. Amani has a lot of experience in this area. He is currently working for a local news station in Georgia and has been in the broadcasting industry for some time.
Amani created Fearless Video as a platform to share what he has learned about getting in front of a camera with confidence and sharing stories through the this medium. Listen to the discussion which will inspire you to get started or get better at recording or going live with video using your smartphone camera to brand yourself, your company or even your message, through storytelling.
Watch How to Make Great Videos with your Phone
https://youtu.be/ZCfL3NJ8zOo
Video Fearless website
https://www.videofearless.co
Learn why Amani Channel was featured on Forbes.com!
http://onforb.es/qH3T4B
Download Amani Channel’s new book: "60 Second Plan to Speak with Confidence on Camera"
www.videofearless.co/ebook
Video production 101: How to tell a story - hero's journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqKU8-ToqGk&t=120s
Video Fearless on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/videofearless/
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