Smartphone Filmmaking：Theory and Practice

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

While not every story is appropriate to be realized with a mobile device or smartphone, if working with communities, capturing locations or working in the domain of personal or first-person filmmaking, the smartphone, pocket camera or mobile device should be considered as the camera of choice. The mobile specificity is expressed through accessibility, mobility and its intimate and immediate qualities. These smartphone filmmaking specific characteristics and personal forms of crafting experiences contribute to a formation of new storytelling approaches.

Stylistic developments of vertical video and collaborative processes in smartphone filmmaking are evolving into hybrid forms and formats that resonate in other film forms. This book not only develops a framework for the analysis of smartphone filmmaking, but also reviews the contemporary scholarship and directions within the Creative Arts and the Creative Industries. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory & 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).