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Smartphone Filmmaking

Theory and Practice
By Dr. Max Schleser
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Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice examines the rise of mobile and pocket filmmaking as a distinctive global art form. Dr Max Schleser explores various styles and techniques, supported by interviews with international smartphone filmmakers, festival directors, and creative technologists. The book highlights the unique qualities of smartphonesβ€”accessibility, mobility, intimacyβ€”and how they enable new storytelling approaches, including vertical video and collaborative creation. It also discusses the impact of smartphone filmmaking on creative industries and emerging media like Mobile XR.
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This book is ideal for professional and emerging filmmakers, educators, media scholars, and anyone interested in the creative possibilities of smartphone cinema and new media innovations.

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Mobile, smartphone, and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers, and creatives defining an original film form. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice explores diverse approaches towards smartphone filmmaking and provides an overview of the international smartphone filmmaking community. Interviews with smartphone filmmakers, entrepreneurs, creative technologists, storytellers, educators, and smartphone film festival directors offer inspiration and insights for professionals, emerging filmmakers, and rookies who wish to join this creative community.

While not every story may be suited to be realised with a mobile device or smartphone, when working with communities, capturing locations, or creating personal or first-person films, the smartphone or mobile device should be considered the camera of choice. The mobile specificity is conveyed through accessibility, mobility, and its intimate and immediate qualities. These characteristics unique to smartphone filmmaking, along with personal forms of crafting experiences, contribute to the formation of new storytelling approaches. Stylistic developments, such as vertical video and collaborative processes in smartphone filmmaking, are evolving into hybrid formats that resonate with other film forms.

This book not only develops a framework for the analysis of smartphone filmmaking but also reviews contemporary scholarship and directions within the creative arts and industries. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice initiates a conversation on current trends and discusses its impact on adjacent disciplines and recent developments in emerging media and screen production, such as Mobile XR (extended reality).

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Acclaimed by Annie Goldson, Director and academic at the University of Auckland, the book transcends typical β€˜how to’ guides by placing smartphone filmmaking within an original theoretical framework. Schleser connects this emerging practice to experimental film traditions and offers insights from pioneers, artists, and technologists, providing a compelling look at transformations in filmmaking.

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ISBN: 9781501360329

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 184 illus

Audience: Tertiary education

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Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 264

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About the Author

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adobe Education Leader, Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. He has co-edited Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014) and Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones (2019), and edited journals for Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media and the Journal of Creative Technologies. He conceptualised and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies.

Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcast on TV and online (https://www.behance.net/maxschleser).

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