Mobile Film

Shoot the Summer (Shoot, shoot the summer) I have to sing it to that tune every single time, I can't resist it. If you have no idea what I mean, I am talking about the song Shoot the Runner :D Now I came across this purely by accident on the BBC website, I had no idea something like this had been done and that it was being done whilst I was at Reading last year!

Basically the BBC handed out mobile phones to the audience and to some artists at a range of festivals over the summer. They then gave these people one instuction, "film whatever you want". The film you watch on the site is basically these films edited together to show us the summer.

Some points are very funny, like the drunken ramblings of some festival goers as they sing at their tents. Others are down right bizzare, like the couple who try to sell the phone they are given. Then some are just genius, like the Scroobius Pip rhyme near the end.

Watching it through, some parts you can really tell that it is made with a mobile phone, yet at other places you forget. The shots are steady and the sun meant they are well lit, it really amazed me. Showing people this just really emphasises the idea that everyone can now create media, no need for a fancy camcorder, a simple mobile phone, which nearly everyone now has, is all you need to create a film.

It has even got me thinking about making my own short film, all captured on my little (well fat) Nokia. Ideas have been floating around my head, and hopefully over the Easter period I will have made something to show you all. The BBC have even posted an article about how to film with your mobile phone and some tips for beginners.

But can this really be a feasible way forward in film making or is it furthering social media with more 'youtubers'? Mobile phones and the cameras within them are becoming more and more advanced every month, who knows what will be available to us next year? A mobile with a HD camera? It would not surprise me if it did come that far.

What do you think? Will mobile phones become a major thing amongst social media, like youtube, or even with film-makers, even if it is just experimenting?