SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking
The Voice of Mobile Film™ is for everyone who ever wanted to or is curious about making movies and videos using smartphones. S. Botello Productions (SBP) is a pioneer in the mobile filmmaking industry. Hosted, produced and edited by Susy Botello without AI.
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Sunday Dec 31, 2017
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
A special New Year’s Eve edition of our podcast recaps 2017 with our friend and co-host Aaron Nabus, of the Hall H Show podcast in San Diego. The Hall H Show began in 2016. Aaron shares how he stumbled into mobile filmmaking as he attended the Mobile Filmmaking Panel with founder Susy Botello during Comic-Con International in San Diego in July 2016. Aaron asked me to be a guest in one of his first podcasts and that is when we officially met. Soon after, we were inspired to create “The Voice for Mobile Film” with the SBP Podcast. Aaron also attended our panel in the 2017 Comic-Con International in San Diego and filmed our panel event video using his smartphone. Aaron is also the founder of San Diego Comic Con Fit and a professional Graphic Artist.
Our end of the year podcast talk with Aaron discusses the magic of mobile film and it’s connection to the art scene. This is a fun and informative podcast geared for mobile filmmakers and cosplayers. In our opinion, Aaron is a hard-core and professional comic-con guru so we learned a lot from him.
We discuss Aaron’s podcast which focuses on comics celebrities attending comic-cons. Hall H is not affiliated, connected or associated with Comic-Con International. Hall H is a news and media blog covering the Comic Book Culture universe – providing exclusive interviews with artists, writers and other creatives as well as introspective commentary about comic books, pop culture, movies, television, anime, manga, collectibles, poster art and more! Aaron is a Artist Alley Evangelist. Aaron’s co-host on the Hall H Show Podcast is Alex Benedicto.
We published a special bonus podcast on our Patreon page where Aaron shares the best and mot in-depth tips anywhere about how to be Comic-Con ready. We also add some creative tips for sharing your experience at Comic-Con with smartphone videos without loading your bag with filmmaking gear. Subscribe to be our patron to listen to the exclusive bonus episode with Aaron and others from our previous guests.
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Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Episode 10 of the SBP Podcast Mobile Film was recorded December 18, 2017. Mithran Maharajan’s film, Figment was his first film shot with a smartphone and it recently won the Best Film Award in 2017 by Global Mobile Film Awards on December 10. We catch up with Mithran in Canada, and discuss the mobile filmmaking. Mithran shares many tips and some advice with our listeners. Some of the topics we discuss are:
Mithran’s next project, a feature-length film shot with a smartphone, will be 90 minutes long
We discuss the best film lengths for film festivals to keep in mind
Challenges for shooting with smartphones such as audio, phone memory and phone camera setting tips to shoot one film using separate phones
Documentary filmmaking with smartphones as a means to share intriguing stories and events
His mobile filmmaking experience with the child actors in his film
High quality films and the director’s vision
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Global Mobile Film Awards: https://globalmobilefilmawards.wordpress.com/awards/
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Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Sunday Dec 17, 2017
Aris Tyros lives in Toronto, Canada. He was one of the filmmakers who traveled to San Diego for the 6th annual International Mobile Film Festival. He flew home with the trophy for Second Prize with his film shot with an iPhone 6S: How I Became A Movie Theatre Murderer. Aris’ film was the first film submitted to the festival. The film was also nominated for Best Director award at the Global Mobile Film Awards, which is an Awards Ceremony dubbed as the “Oscars” of the mobile film industry. Two days before the recording of this podcast, Aris won the award for Best Director.
Episode 9 of the SBP Podcast interviews Aris about how his film began with a concern about what to do in a situation, such as the incident which took place in 2012 where a man shot and killed people inside a movie theater. His concern travelled from inside his mind into his pocket as he reached for his smartphone and used it to turn his concern into a story and then crafted a movie to share with the entire world.
Aris shares his feelings about winning the award and then he shares how he developed the film from start to finish. We talk about acquiring the location, a movie theater, for his movie and why he insisted in using a real movie theater even after being turned down, due to the nature of his film. The app he used to film it. How he achieved the sound for his film, and why he made the decisions he made. We discussed lighting and gave some tips on achieving good lighting for a smartphone film.
Aris shared his VR (Virtual Reality) film project and we discussed the VR trend as well.
Since we are leaving 2017, we asked Aris what his plans are for 2018 and he shares another idea which he may turn into a movie next year.
We also asked him to share tips and tricks for anyone planning to make a VR film which is available as a bonus episode exclusively on our Patreon page for subscribers who support us as a token of gratitude. www.Patreon.com/sbppodcast
The movie Aris won the awards with is 5 minutes long because in order to qualify for the International Mobile Film Festival’s short film competition, the films have to be no longer than five minutes. However, we told Aris during the interview we would share his original version. Here is the direct link to his film. Beware, it’s entertaining!
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Monday Dec 11, 2017
Monday Dec 11, 2017
Smartphone Cinematography Without A Budget with Chris Stollery Episode 8
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A film shot with an iPhone won First Place at the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, April 2017. At the time this podcast was published, Chris’ film was awarded Best Experimental film at the Global Mobile Film Awards ceremony, the evening of December 10, 2017.
This podcast is a series of questions about the cinematography of the film. It was shot over many months but it appears to have been shot in a few minutes in many different locations.
Chris shares some of the techniques he used but was hesitant to give away too much of the “magic” tricks he performed in order to give the film a fluid and natural appearance.
He also shared that he and his actor friends come from stage theater and therefore, they were able to monitor themselves. We discussed using great audio without microphones as well.
We asked Chris to share some tips and techniques with cinematography for our patrons on our patreon page.
Catch the bonus exclusive episode for patrons at www.patreon.com/sbppodcast and the website for the film festival is www.internationalmobilefilmfestival.com
The Global Mobile Film Awards website is www.globalmobilefilmawards.com
*NO BUDGET *
No script, no characters, no story – but this little film is going places
Cast:
Cineaste One: Richard Pyros Cineaste Two : Josh McConville Cineaste three (and “DOP”) : Yalin Ozucelik Wannabe One: Hugo Weaving Wannabe Two: David Wenham
Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor/Sound Editor
Christopher Stollery
Post Sound
Steve Toulmin
*SYNOPSIS: *
Shot and recorded entirely on an iPhone and, as the title suggests, made with no money, this short film follows the debate of two cineastes as they argue the merits, pitfalls and the opportunities now afforded by new technologies to emerging film makers.
Enthusiasm and cleverness can get you so far, but is it possible to take the audience on an epic journey when you have No Budget?
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Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
12/04/17
Brian McLane is the founder of Splash Video & Palm Aisles Pictures
He shot a full length feature film with his iPhone:
The Killer’s Requiem
The story revolves around Sonny Calabrese, a loving father and devoted son who spirals into madness after becoming the subject of a bet between angels and demons.
During the first part of the podcast, we share an important announcement about the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego next April which includes our guest.
Brian McLane talks about his film being a feature length film and shooting it with an iPhone 6S. Brian shares how he backtracked into the film because it started as he was experimenting with his phone and making a film and how he was building the story as he went along. He then decided to make a feature film as other options for the story were not as exciting.
Brian’s film is a musical because he is a musician and he had a video on MTV in the late 80’s and he wanted to have all his music in one place but not on a CD, he said that was outdated.
He then came across the actors because he already knew them. Lloyd Kaufman is the founder of Troma Entertainment and his fame goes back to Rocky, The Karate Kid and a few other films. Jean Beauvoir of the band Plasmatics has a history that includes The Ramones. Tim Russ of Star Trek Voyager was also in the film and very helpful as a professional and a businessman. He also mentioned George Hardy.
He then told us about the sound for his film and syncing for a full length feature film. He called his film a “Back Pack Production” and his guerrilla approach to filming with the iPhone. He talks about the H264 codec and it’s challenges to look great on the big screen which affected the syncing on the sound. He shared which part of the post-production process should be done before another and how sound should be the last part of post.
He talks extensively about how he got creative to pull off filming with his phone without permits and how he still had to work with SAG (Screen Actors Guild) to get the actors approved. Brian shares many entertaining stories about how he pulled of shooting his film in different locations. He said, you want to “shoot by the pound.”
The advice from Brian are well worth listening to regarding not only shooting and film production tips and techniques, but he also shares advice for planning how to import your footage and quality control in post production. He shot in 4k and the files were huge and the processing on his Macbook laptop was a challenge.
He talks about lighting and the challenge when you shoot guerrilla style and you depend on natural light. He also mentions the rights of people in his shots and logos and such because you can get sued when you don’t have permits and are using locations with people who happen to be there.
He learned that planning helps overcome some of the challenges of guerrilla filmmaking in post production. A lot of the challenges seemed to be with locations and lighting because when you put your film on a big screen it affects the resolution if the lighting is poor.
Brian shares the musical aspect of his film because it’s a subtle rock musical supernatural film and the message of his film’s story.
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