Those ViFF and PocketCine guys are way ahead of the curve...
Submitted by Richard Smith on October 31, 2006 - 7:58pm.
A recent post over at RCR Wireless News provides details of a recent industry meeting, the Third Screen Festival in Los Angeles, CA. The tenor of the meeting seems to have been very welcoming to so-called "made-for-mobile" video clips. Here is a quote:
"The overwhelming majority of wireless users continue to view the phone simply as a platform for voice conversations. For a handful of aspiring filmmakers, though, it's a potential ticket to Hollywood."
"Entertainment industry executives and wireless types gathered last week at the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills at the Third Screen Film Festival, described as the first such event for films made specifically for mobile phones. Todd Spence's "The Lost" beat out the nearly 1,000 submitted short films garnering the festival's top prize of a $10,000 filmmaker grant. Spence's clip will also air on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s GoTV Super Channel."
This format, of course, is the premise behind pocketcine (http://www.pocketcine.com), and the ViFF project sought to use mobile video to promote theatre video, so they too had a great interest in distributing clips (unfortunately the distribution prices to consumers are prohibitive in Canada for this sort of thing unless you form an alliance with the carriers and give them a large part of your revenues).
Read the full article here: http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=27640
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