All Aspects of Mobile Cinema. How to Shoot Professional Movies on a Smartphone

«...a mobile phone allows any public space to become a shooting location, without the need to block streets and without thousands of extras. Ordinary people become a natural part, a living background for the events of the film, organically include and embrace the heroes, professional actors. When you need only 2–3 people for shooting, equipped without bulky equipment, not distorting reality, and not attracting excessive attention, then the surrounding reality responds in kind.»
M. Mussel «All Aspects of Mobile Cinema. Tips for Beginning Directors»
Not only large film companies can make good films, today to shoot real cinema, it is enough to arm yourself with a smartphone and this book! The times of huge film apparatus and bulky film cameras are rapidly passing. Modern gadgets allow for truly high-quality video creation, and this is already being fully utilized by famous directors. For example, the thriller by Steven Soderbergh in 2018, «Unsane», was shot entirely on a smartphone camera. Why not give it a try yourself?
• What is high concept?
• What are the differences between American and Russian screenplay formats?
• What are the pros and cons of different smartphone operating systems?
• What distinguishes a web series from a feature film?
• How to monetize your creativity?
«All Aspects of Abundant Cinema» is a witty and practical guide for aspiring filmmakers that will leave no question unanswered and help take the first steps in cinema.
Maxim Mussel is the creator of the MobileFilmmaker project, a mobile cinema director, co-organizer of the all-Russian mobile cinema competition «Film-Mobile 2016», curator of the first professional course «Basics of Mobile Cinema Creation» at HSE, and a prizewinner at the International Mobile Film Festival 2014 (San Diego, USA).