Creative Mobile Media

A Complete Course

Creative Mobile Media provides a guide to the creation, production and display of media with mobile technology at its heart. Split into two parts, the first gives a practical how-to guide on producing and exhibiting different forms of mobile art including photographs and films. From taking the perfect selfie to creating a short film, there is advice on how to produce, sell and market the products created on your phone. Also included are exercises designed to build technical skills and improve creative thinking, meaning you are able to practice the creation of media and engage with a global community through new digital technologies. The second part uses case studies to look at the effect of these new digital technologies within areas such as journalism, advocacy, ethics and social participation. Mobile and cellular phones are now ingrained within all aspects of life, and investigated here is how 21st Century society is adapting to these changes.

With both theoretical and practical guidance, this book is perfect for media students and mobile users interested in how creative mobile technology can be used professionally and commercially, and why it matters in our digitised world.

Contents:

• Part One:

  • Getting Started
  • Mobile Aesthetics and Criticism
  • Promotion and Exhibition

• Part Two:

  • Always On: Mobile Culture and Its Temporal Consequences (Helen Powell)
  • May Days: An Examination of Mobile Filmmaking, Family and Memory
  • Who are Ya?: Football, Masculinity and Mobile-Documentary
  • The Selfie and Media Advocacy
  • Mobile Journalism: Reflexive Storytelling in the Co-Produced Public Sphere (Max Schleser, Gabriel Moreno Esparza and Anandana Kapur)
  • A Question of Ethics

Readership: Media students and mobile users interested in how creative mobile technology can be used professionally and commercially.
Key Features:

• There are either theoretical books or practical manuals currently on the market. This book bridges the gap as one of the first integrated theory/ practice mobile media courses for the undergraduate student
• Practical examples for project work are given. Theoretical ideas are explored through the case study
• The text is written in an accessible style. Complex ideas are discussed in a language undergraduate students can follow. My students wanted something that would get them thinking but wasn't full of dense academic jargon. This book offers a critical reflexive approach and exciting practical projects that can be adapted to most locations and situations
• As the main author I am an academic and a practitioner. I have created mobile films and critically engaged with the subject matter. I set out an approach for critical creative practice and how to research production projects that move from the personal and autobiographical to public distribution