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The Moment Invitational is back for Season 4. This is their largest season yet with $100K in cash and gear for filmmakers, fifteen finalists flown to NYC for the premiere, ten amazing sponsors, five categories, and one massive contest to determine the people’s choice. Made by the filmmakers at Moment, this is the festival they’ve always wanted to enter.
Make a film. Get invited. Fund your next project.
Read moreMobile Movies – Moment Invitational Film Festival – $100k Up for Grabs
In April this year we published news that Charlotte Prodger’s iPhone film had been added to the shortlist for the Turner Prize. Today, we are delighted to note that it has now gone on to win the Turner Prize and with it £25,000.
Prodger was born in Bournemouth, UK in 1974. She studied at Goldsmiths, London and The Glasgow School of Art.
Moving image has been at the core of Prodger’s work for two decades. Its ever-evolving formats are inextricably bound to the autobiographical content of her work. She has mined the material properties of numerous moving image formats, not just because they inherently get replaced over time, but because she is fascinated by their formal parameters and socio-political histories; the sticky relationship between form and content. Prodger’s recent videos set up complex tensions between the body, landscape, identity and time.
BRIDGIT is titled after the eponymous Neolithic deity whose name has had multiple iterations across different geographical locations and points in history. BRIDGIT was shot entirely on Prodger’s iPhone, which she approaches as a prosthesis or extension of the nervous system, intimately connected to time, social interaction and work. Body and device become extensions of each other, and the work becomes a unified meditation on shifting subjectivity.
Stoneymollan Trail is named after an ancient coffin road on the west coast of Scotland. A non-linear miscellany of visual material from her personal archive (shot between 1999 and 2015), it traces a history of recent video formats as well as the artist’s personal history. Much of Prodger’s work looks at what happens to speech and the self for which it is a conduit – as it metamorphoses via time, space and technological systems. For voiceovers she frequently asks friends to read out her own diaristic content, while she inhabits other subjectivities by re-speaking the words of people living and dead: friends, anonymous YouTube users and historical figures of influence. The material perpetually shifts around, but is locally grounded in its means of production – based in queerness, communality, technology, language and loss.
Read moreMobile Movies – Turner Prize Won by Charlotte Prodger with her iPhone
David Scott Leibowitz is precisely the artist that he wants to be, making precisely the types of mobile movies he wants to make, delivering them precisely on his own terms, which by no coincidence pair with our needs precisely. It is for this very reason that we unequivocally welcome him warmly with open arms into TheAppWhisperer family as our brand new Mobile Movies Editor. He’s not only scorching hot with intelligence to match, he’s also multi talented with this new medium. Leibowitz wanted to mark his entrance with a Weekend Article, naturally about mobile movies and here it is! Our weekend of mobile photography/art/videography is very popular, if you would like to review others that we have published, please go here. For now, enjoy! (forward by Joanne Carter).
“Moving visual art is not the same thing as still visual art. I love both. Since my film school education in the 70’s, weighted heavily towards experimental film forms, I’ve made moving visual images as often as I make still visual images. I’ve been making both types of mobile visual images using my iPhone for as long as iPhones have been around, now 9 years.
Retired now, I’m blessed that every day has a weekend vibe, so when Joanne asked me to share my “weekend” mobile image making process, I decided to share a moving visual image process.
Recently, Meri Walker and I took a short trip to the Ft. Bragg/ Mendocino area of Northern California to spend some quality time with some old friends of hers. Our plan for our return trip was to hug the coast and the northern most groves of protected Redwoods. Ripe with tons of visual possibilities, and traveling with another iPhone artist (iPhoneArtGirl) meant the creative juices would be flowing.
I cleared40 GB of free space on my iPhone 6sPlus for this weekend’s captures. Carrying a few Sandisk Xpand flash drives takes away my worry about running out of disk space, especially when shooting a lot of video.
Apps that make the most of my experimental film and old-school video art experience most relevant include FilMicPro, KinoGlitch, RollWorld, PaintedCam, Diptic Video, Videon, Imaengine, iMotion, Glitch Art, Dermandar’s Panorama, and Time Piles. (Legacy apps like Infinite Eye and Frame Delay still work on my 5s and 4s iPhones and I keep them for that reason.)
Along the coast, I shot three clips I knew would be well used as bases for moving visual art. When I’m shooting, I’m looking for simple events that I can convert into digestible slices of moving visual meditative art. These kinds of simple events are contained by static frames containing either nature’s movement or movement caused by the presence of human beings.
I enjoy transforming these simple events into various permutations, each with its own meditative qualities”.
Lightricks, one of the leading developers of premium creative tools for mobile, launched today their first ever video editing app, Enlight Videoleap. A ground-breaking video editor that is poised to revolutionize the creation and editing of today’s digital video content, Videoleap brings unprecedented power and impressive desktop editing features never before seen on mobile for users of any skill level.
After developing two of the App Store’s top paid apps, Facetune and Enlight, and leading the shift to subscription model with Facetune 2 and Enlight Photofox, Lightricks are now bringing their expertise to change consumer expectations of what they can do with video on mobile. Designed with a similar workflow as Enlight – winner of the prestigious 2017 Apple Design Award – Videoleap has inherited the easy-to-use interface users love and is introducing features formerly reserved to sophisticated software that could only be navigated by skilled professionals.
There’s even more to be excited about if you’re an avid VSCO X subscriber because VSCO have launched a video editing tool to enable those subscribers to edit videos. Currently this is only available to VSCO X (iOS) subscribers but there are plans to release the same tools for VSCO X members on Android soon.
The instructions below demonstrate how to create using the new early release feature:
Read moreVSCO brings Video Editing Tools to VSCO X (iOS) Members
LumaFusion Pro has just been updated to version 1.3.7 with some great new fixes. LumaFusion Pro is a powerful multi-track video editor used by mobile journalists, filmmakers and professional video producers to tell compelling video stories. If you are a professional or aspiring producer, journalist, or filmmaker, if you have a video story that’s begging to be told, if you want to use the latest technology for iOS; LumaFusion Pro is the premiere professional video editing and effects app for you.
We have attached a quick start tutorial for LumaFusion Pro below, to help you get started.
We are very excited today to offer (courtesy of the LumaFusion developers) some promotional codes to share with our loyal readers, each one is worth $19.99£19.99. Would you like one? If so, please join our Twitter followers here and like us on Facebook here and post a comment to this post on our website (so we can obtain your email address) and hopefully, we will then be able to send you a code. All winners are selected at random.
We are delighted to launch a new challenge to our Mobile Movies Column. We would love to see your floral captures and have featured ‘The Art of Flowers’ by Image Artistry for inspiration. Take a look at this! Please submit your mobile moves to our Flickr channel here with this hashtag #Floralcaptures Apps used in … Read moreMobile Movies – Challenge – ‘Floral Captures’
Welcome to our seventy ninth showcase in our Mobile Movies Column, curated and edited by Giulia Baita. All of the entries were either shot or created on mobile devices. Many congratulations for being highlighted and featured to: Liliana Schwitter, Miguel Angel Camero Martinez, Tom and Sukru Mehmet Omur.
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LumaFusion is a truly epic video editing and effects program. Its latest update 1.3 has just been approved and is now sitting proudly on the iOS App Store. LumaFusion is a powerful multi-track video editor used by mobile journalists, filmmakers and professional video producers to tell compelling video stories. If you are a professional or aspiring producer, journalist, or filmmaker, if you have a video story that’s begging to be told, if you want to use the latest technology for iOS; LumaFusion is the premiere professional video editing and effects app for you.
LumaFusion is produced by the original creators of the award-winning Pinnacle Studio App, and this time they’re created arguably, the most powerful tool ever for mobile video editing.
Read moreMobile Movies/Videography – LumaFusion Update Version 1.3 Now Available
In this epic tutorial you’ll learn how to use the Aspect Ratio settings in FiLMiC Pro v6 to work with cinematic aspect ratios such as 2.59:1 (Cinerama), 4:3 and 1:1 for Instagram and other square video formats.
Not only that but you’ll learn how to use FiLMiC Pro’s aspect ratios as a framing guide only allowing you to compose shots that work equally well in both widescreen (Youtube, Vimeo etc) and 1:1 (Instagram).
If you don’t yet have FiLMiC Pro yet, you can download it here