Posts Tagged ‘mobile content’
Flaneur iPhone Film Festival calls for entries
Jul 06 by admin | No CommentsThe Flaneur iPhone Film Festival is upping the ante on cell phone cinema film festivals. The Flaneur is running the first indie film festival held entirely on iPhones. The selected films will be viewable as a downloadable Film Festival app from the Apple app store (subject to the usual acceptance by Apple). “This is a proof-of-concept attempt to bring film and video to a whole new audience,” says organizer Jonathan Powell.
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Web Stars Talk About Hit Content: Create, Don’t Wait
May 05 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsCo-located with Digital Hollywood, Variety held an all-day Entertainment & Technology Summit. One panel focused on Web Video: The New Content Creators” with an all-star panel including actors Illeana Douglas and Kevin Pollak as well as Chris McCaleb from Big Fantastic, Brian Firenzi of 5 Second Films and Jason Goldberg, co-founder of Katalyst. McCaleb nailed the relevance of a panel on web series for the mobile platform, noting that media was evolving into transmedia, a platform-agnostic variety of content.
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Mobile Entertainment and More at NAB 2010
Apr 23 by Bart Weiss | No CommentsAt NAB 2010, MobilizedTV produced two panels on mobile: one on mobile entertainment and another on mobile as a marketing tool for Hollywood. Bart Weiss–founder of Videofest and a professor at University of Texas at Arlington who teaches mobile movie-making–was on the entertainment panel and talked about his experiences on the show floor and on the panel.
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Is Mobile Video Ready for Primetime?
Apr 14 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAt NAB 2010, Saul Berman, partner and global executive of IBM global business services, a kind of big blue think tank, gave a keynote address on the readiness of mobile video for “primetime” viewing. “Mobile video usage is in its early stage, but adoption has grown steadily since 2007,” said Berman, who showed a graph that represented that usage increasing from 5 percent in 2007 to 17 percent in 2009.
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The Brewing Battle Over Spectrum
Feb 24 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentWhy should you care about the TV spectrum? In short, because the battle that’s brewing over it will impact TV, broadband and mobile. The argument from the wireless industry is that most people watch TV over cable or satellite, making OTA (over-the-air) a decreasingly important means of TV watching. The broadcasters are circling the wagons.
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Mobile Tools for Producers: Do You Need an App?
Jan 29 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsIn a NATPE 2010 panel sponsored by the Producers Guild of America and its New Media Committee and Mobile Committee, moderator and producer John Heinsen of Bunnygraph Entertainment and a group of panelists talked turkey about some of the real life tools required to produce mobile content.
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Documentaries Go Mobile with CINELAN/Babelgum Deal
Dec 28 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsIf you like documentaries and mobile content, life is about to get much more interesting. CINELAN, a library of 3-minute films by award-winning filmmakers, just signed a mobile/Internet distribution deal with Babelgum. CINELAN documentary filmmakers include Steve James (Hoop Dreams), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Ross Kauffman (Born Into Brothels), Spurlock and Jessica Yu (Breathing Lessons), who also serve on CINELAN’s Advisory Board
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Mobile Content and the Future of Film
Dec 10 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe Future of Film Summit in Santa Monica considered mobile content in a panel “Dialing up the Fourth Screen–Next Wave of Mobile Film and Video Entertainment.” There are 4 billion handsets in the world, and 40 to 45 percent of them are video-capable. Is anyone making money? And, if so, how? Read on for what these mobile executives had to say…
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NATPE & Writer’s Bootcamp to Indie Producers: It’s a Creator-Centric World
Dec 04 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsFind where your audience lives…and take your show there, whether it’s online, on mobile or on TV. That was one of the emphatic messages delivered by several new media experts to an overflow crowd of independent filmmakers. The event, which was organized jointly by the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) and Writer’s Bootcamp, was an effort to get creatives–be they screenwriters or directors–to think creatively about multi-platform distribution.
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Mobile Monday LA Panel Looks at Content
Nov 05 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobile Monday Los Angeles tackled the topic of mobile content, opening the evening with remarks from MobiTV’s Jack Hallinan, who was named Mobile Ambassador at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards. He listed some astonishing statistics about the growth of mobile TV, quoting InStat’s estimate that wordwide viewership will expand from today’s 54 million to 300 million by 2013. “We’ve seen a migration in the last year or two shifting from a focus on advertising towards a focus on content,” he said. “In the early days, content was minor league. Now you have a tremendous uptick in mobile content players, including big players like ESPN, CNN, Comedy Central. Sports, news, comedy and entertainment are the big drivers. Everything will happen on mobile.”
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Mobile Content Panel Tomorrow at Createsphere
Nov 03 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIf you’re in the Los Angeles area tomorrow (Nov. 4), head over to the Burbank Marriott for Createsphere (formerly known as HD Expo). From 3 pm to 4:30 pm, I will be moderating a panel on Mobile Content, with a stellar group of panelists: Mike Wallen, VP, creative, Fox Mobile Studios; Steve Amato, founder of Omelet (which created Brainstorm covered here by MobilizedTV); Frank Chindamo, founder of Fun Little Movies (read MobilizedTV coverage here); and Hayden Black, British comedian and creator, most recently, of The Occulterers (yes, read MobilizedTV coverage here).
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Fox Mobile Studios’ Brainstorm: Branded Entertainment Part 2
Sep 29 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentBranded mobile entertainment just got a wintergreen punch with Fox Mobile Studios’ Brainstorm, an eight-episode scripted comedy series for mobile and online platforms that revolves around Altoids, “The Curiously Strong Mints.” MobilizedTV spoke with both Michael Wallen, vice president/creative director for Fox Mobile Studios in Part I, and now, in Part 2, with Steven Amato, a partner in Omelet, a hybrid creative and entertainment agency that produced Brainstorm.
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Sep 28 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentBranded mobile entertainment just got a wintergreen punch with Fox Mobile Studios’ Brainstorm, an eight-episode scripted comedy series for mobile and online platforms that revolves around Altoids, “The Curiously Strong Mints.” The entire series launches today ( Monday, September 28). In the series, FMS created a storyline that integrates Altoids; Yoghurt, a struggling advertising agency works on the Altoids account, with a cast of quirky characters including the agency’s new freelancer- self-proclaimed ad-wizard Rock Shanz.
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iPhone App: Magnify Mobile Enables Free Video Upload and Sharing
Sep 23 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentToday, Magnify.net released Magnify Mobile, an iPhone app designed to make video uploading and sharing fast, easy and free. The iPhone app enables iPhone 3GS users to shoot, upload, store, and share personal videos on a Magnify-hosted channel for free. Users can instantly submit videos to channels that they create on Magnify.net and create playlists, make comments, reviews, and integrate design templates, content controls, site reporting, and monetization tools.
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RAGE: First Made-for-Mobile Feature Debuts Today
Sep 21 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsRAGE. You’ve no doubt read some of the press about this first-ever made-for-mobile feature film. The story of a young blogger who shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell phone, this feature–distributed by Babelgum–is notable for many reasons. MobilizedTV had a chance to speak with Karol Martesko-Fenster, GM & Publisher of Babelgum’s FILM Division and producer Andrew Fierberg.
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footagehead MARQUEE Mini-Movie Contest
Sep 02 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsVery little online/mobile content has taken advantage of the creative possibilities of using stock footage, and an inexpensive solution such as footagehead could change all that. First, filmmakers have to explore the creative possibilities of using stock footage, and that’s something that the footagehead MARQUEE Mini-Movie Contest aims to solve.
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Generating Revenue from Mobile Content & iPhone Apps
Aug 27 by Debra Kaufman | No Comments“Generating Revenue from Mobile Content & iPhone Applications: Mobile Market Opportunities for iPhone, Advertising and Video Innovative Strategies for Mobile Apps that Make Money” was the topic of the Tech Supper Club held in Hollywood last night. The panel was moderated by SNL Kagen analyst John Fletcher, with panelists from Endemol, Viva Vision, and MIndmatics. The conversation quickly turned to iPhone apps.
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MOFILM’s New Mobile Content Competition
Aug 19 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMOFILM, a pioneer in creating tailor-made content for online and mobile operators around the world as well as sourcing user-generated content for TV, online and mobile channels, just announced a new competition to create content for Internet and mobile platforms. The competition closes October 5, 2009 at Noon GMT.
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New York Times Weighs in on Mobile Competition
Jul 22 by Debra Kaufman | No Comments“It is gratifying to see that the leviathans of mobile telecommunications in the United States are finally drawing the attention of regulators and Congress,” begins today’s editorial in the NY Times. This editorial is a must-read for anyone interested in the mobile eco-system in the U.S. The editorial posits some of the questions related to exclusivity and the dominance of the Big Four: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.
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The Future of Online and Mobile Video: Where’s the Money?
Jul 13 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsIn Los Angeles, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA) discussed the future of online and mobile video with Metacafe’s Scott Bushman, adknowledge’s Brett Brewer; Lionsgate’s Curt Marvis; GRP Parnters’ Mark Suster, and Fun Little Movies’ Frank Chindamo.
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