Description
Book SynopsisMax 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 museum
Trade Review
Max Schleser’s book exceeds the ‘how to’, placing smartphone filmmaking in an original framework, but linking it too to innovative and experimental film traditions. He draws on pioneers, theorists, innovators, artists, programmers and technologists offering up a fascinating look at a transformations in filmmaking. * Annie Goldson, Director of He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan (2013), University of Auckland, New Zealand *
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Filmmaking The Pioneers An Original Film Form MINA, Mobile Innovation Network and Association Curating the International Mobile Innovation Screening International Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018 Smartphone Filmmaking Modes Chapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film Festicals The Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival Scene International Mobile Film Festival (San Diego, USA) MoMo – Mobile Motion (Zürich, Switzerland) SF3 Smartphone Flick Fest (Sydney, Australia) African Smartphone Film Fest (Lagos, Nigeria) Karl Bardosh, NYU (New York, USA) Chapter 3: Focus on Smartphone Filmmaking Practice Independent Smartphone Filmmakers Gerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium) Felipe Cardona (Columbia) Camille Baker (UK) Conrad Mess (Spain) Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries 21st-Century Creativity and Storytelling LumaTouch (USA) Benoît Labourdette (France) Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific) Treehouse (Australia) Struman Optics (Australia) Chapter 5: Creative Innovation Experimentation Driving Innovation Transformational Creativity Smartphone filmmaking specific formations Smartphone Filmmaking Modes Mobile XR Bibliography Index
