MAKING MOVIES FOR THE SMALL and MOBILE SCREEN workshop
As part of this years Darklight Symposium we are running a three hour workshop on creating moving image content for the small and mobile screen. This workshop will cover issues involved from both a technical and creative perspective. We have invited two people engaged with this brand new discipline to share their insights with you. Tutors: Lisa Roberts, Pocket Shorts. Raymond Cunningham, TCD
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Raymond Cunningham will present a seminar providing background information on wireless communication, introducing some of the main wireless communication standards/protocols in current use, such as Bluetooth, WiFi (802.11), GSM, 3G, MMS, WAP, etc and cover some of their strengths and weaknesses, what the differences are. Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of wireless networking standards and protocols being specified and deployed that are having and will continue to have a profound effect on peoples lives.*
Lisa Roberts, Director of Pocket Shorts, will present the best films from the first year commissions, and will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of making work for mobiles. With tips on how to exploit the platform to engage the audience, Lisa will share that creating something truly innovative in less than 60 seconds isn't simply a matter of shrinking ideas to fit. Mobile phone filmmaking offers creatives of all disciplines a chance to be a pioneer in a genre demands new kind of creative thinking that can keep up with the pace of technology.
Lisa's presentation is called, ‘Moving Pictures For Mobile Audiences: Restriction stimulating creativity'.
With over 65 million video enabled phones already in use, chances are you may already be carrying the means to shoot, edit, screen and distribute a new kind of film. Videophones deliver films on the move, simple and quick distractions anytime of the day or night. For filmmakers, this new platform can reach a new and diverse audience beyond the realms of the traditional cinema. Mobile phones present such a huge potential for play and inbuilt locative technologies such as Bluetooth can cut out the middlemen and distribute films from creative to audience.
Workshop Tutors
Lisa Roberts is the Director of Pocket Shorts. Pocket Shorts, the UK 's only independent mobile phone film production fund, will be commissioning again in November. With support from NESTA, Pocket Shorts provides production funding of up to £2000 and mentor support for creatives in the North of England and Scotland . www.pocketshorts.co.uk
Raymond Cunningham is a Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College . He holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from Trinity College Dublin. Generally, his research interests cover the area of mobile distributed systems, self-organisation and adaptive middleware. As part of his Ph.D. research, he has focused on dependability/predictability in mobile ad hoc networks. He has also published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the distributed systems area related to research carried out during both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. |
