Hollywood-level productions in the palm of your hand. That is what this combination of lectures, screenings, demonstrations, and practical production workshops will offer to the students in this course. There will be several professional guests making presentations and Q&A sessions from the mobile phone filmmaking industry. In addition to the historical and critical overview of the emergence and exponential growth of global cell phone cinema, students will shoot all footage on cell phones and download it for computerized editing. The final project will be a three-minute short film.
Projects are open to any genre of film and television including animation, drama, mini-documentaries, music videos, narrative, and news. Completed student projects will be posted to the class website, screened as a final project, and be eligible to enter into domestic and international mobile phone film festivals. Past Bollywood-style music videos shot on cell phones by students in this class were screened in a theater at the Tribeca Cinemas as part of the New York Indian Film Festival.
In 2017 our class partnered with students in Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music to add elements of sound design and music to their final projects. Many of which may still be seen here.
Cellphones capable of recording video and laptops are required for every class.
Class website (students only) • Final Projects, Fall 2017
Past student projects:
